Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Watson, Thomas
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


THOMAS WATSON of Strawberry, now parish of Cockermouth, 
county Cumberland, England, came with his wife, Rebecca 
(Mark) Watson, and children to America in 1702, and settled 
on a farm of 357 acres, near Oxford valley; a part of which 
tract is now owned by J. Harvey Satterthwaite, and on which 
is the old stone graveyard, known then and always since as 
the Watson graveyard.  The children that came over with them 
were:  Mary, who married William Paxson; Nathan, who married 
Sarah Biles; Amos, who married Mary Hillborn; and Mark, who 
married Ann Sotcher.  Two others, born in America, were:  
John, born in 1703, who married Ruth Blakey, and Joseph, 
born in 1705.  They were members of the Society of Friends, 
and their certificate was read and approved in Falls 
meeting, 3rd month, 1702. Thomas Watson was a justice of the 
peace for many years, perhaps until his death (in 1738), and 
a prominent man of that time.  From him are descended most, 
if not all, of the Watsons in the lower part of Bucks 
county, and his descendants have entered into many families, 
among which are the names of Fell, Palmer, White, Paxson, 
Hough, Satterthwaite, Davis, Blakey, Burton, Stackhouse, 
Jenks, Ely, Parry, Richardson, Gilbert, Wildman, and others.