Andrew Watkins

Notes:

The History of Woodstock [Connecticut] states that Andrew Watkins had 20 acres granted him there on 3 Sep 1686 on the westward hill; and in 1710, Jonathan Bugbee held the rights of Andrew Watkins (Vol. 1, pp. 23, 25, 30, 58). No evidence has been found that Andrew took his family to New Roxbury [Woodstock] with him, nor that they at any time joined him there. As evidenced by the following quotation from the History of Needham, Massachusetts, by George Kuhn Clarke [ ] (1912?), it is evident that Andrew Watkins was dead before 9 March 1710/11:

"On March 9, 1710/11, Edward Cook deeded to Andrew Watkins, 'Husbandman', son of his wife, Elizabeth Cook, by an earlier marriage, all of his land in Needham, including his home. The land consisted of ten acres at Maugus Hill, and six acres in the Natick Divident, 'my Common Right' as a Proprietor of Dedham. See grant to Edward Cook in 1696. In 1720 Andrew Watkins, 'Yeoman', and Mary , his wife, sold the ten acres, and also four acres 'near to the Damm in Rosemary Meadow', for 40 pounds, to Josiah Kingsbury and Hezekiah Broad, reserving the life rights of 'Our Loving Mother Elizabeth Cooke the Relict Widow of Edward Cook.' Mr. Watkins removed from Needham."

From:Bickford's Watkins a Beginning Genealogy, vol. 1, p. 230.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Griffin. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh Griffin and Elizabeth Upson Andrews) was born in 1640 in Colchester, Essex, England; died on 8 Nov 1688 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Andrew Watkins, II was born in 1675 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1735 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Samuel Watkins was born in 1680 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Apr 1686 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Elizabeth Watkins was born in 1682 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Apr 1686.
4. Sarah Watkins was born on 6 Mar 1685 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Samuel Watkins was born on 11 Feb 1686 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 5 May 1759 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.
6. Abigail Watkins was born in Aug 1688 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 9 Sep 1688.

Edward married Sarah Warren. Sarah was born in 1600 in , , , England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]