Samuel and Easey Watts Family History of Acworth, New Hampshire
From: tumbleweed@lisco.net  - Sharon Franklin

Surname: COCKLE
Source:  History of Acworth with the Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical 
Records and Register of Farms by Rev. J. L. Merrill, Town of Acworth, 1869,
Page 280

The maternal grandfather of SAMUEL AND EADEY WATTS was John Cockle, an 
Englishman by birth. When only sixteen he was seized in a ballroom by a press-gang and put 
into the army. Although foiled in their attempts to make him take the required oath, they 
nevertheless enrolled him, and in process of time he was sent as a soldier to Boston previous to 
the Revolutionary war. He deserted, and married, and when the war broke out, he left his wife 
and child and enlisted in the American army. Preferring a soldier's life he remained in the army 
nine years after the war ceased. 

John Watts - married Polly, daughter of John Cockle, and two of his children, 
     Samuel and Eadey settled in Acworth.

SAMUEL WATTS - married Susan Williams - children,
I.   Mary M. - married George w. Neal (see Neal family).
II.  George F.
III. Charles E.
IV.  Martha E.
V.   Emma A.
VI.  Stella E.
VII. Flora A. 

EADEY - married Aaron Brown (see Brown family).

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