Evan WatkinsSex: MBorn: 1710 in New Castle, DelawareDied: 1764 in Frederick County, VirginiaNotes:From the book "The Great Wagon Road"by Parke Rouse, Jr.page 68-69:"Titled "A Map of the Inhabited part of Virginia, containing the whole Province of Maryland, with Part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North Carolina," it showed the Great Wagon Road from the Pennsylvania crossing, the Potomac at WATKINS' FERRY (later Williamsport) into Virginia.""The Virginia Assembly in 1744 ordered a ferry kept...

ABOUT 1700 Estimated date of birth. Exact date and location unknown. LDS Ancestral File ver H 4.12, 10 Dec 93 shows birth "about 1700". LDS ver 4.11 of 10 Feb 94 shows birth as l7l3, but this seems late in view of age of sons. Parents thought to be Peter and Mary Griffith Watkins, listed in 1716 will of her father, David Griffith but definite proof not yet established.ABOUT 1725 Estimated date of marriage to Mary (?). Exact date and location unknown. Estimate based on birth dates of...

Evan Watkin WillFrederick CO, VA, May 1764, Aug 1765. w Mary. SonsEvan, Peter, David. Grson Evan Watkins, son of eldest son Thos,dec'd,Dau Jean Watkins, Ann Lewis wife of Roger Lewis,EleanorFreaks w of Henry Freaks, Exe son Evan Watkins. Wit : John Paul,Thos. Adams, John Champion.The will is also mentioned here:The following is from "Pioneers of Old Frederick County", by Cecil O'Dell-- Evan Watkins was first recorded in the Orange County, Virginia Records 27 August 1741 as having a ferry on...