Display Patriot - P-314758 - Joseph WATERS/WATTERS
Joseph WATERS/WATTERS
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P-314758
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Author: Michael Strauss Moore
Joseph James Waters was born May 22, 1759 in New Jersey, and died between August 03, 1813 - May 03, 1814 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. He married Sarah Collins About 1782, daughter of William Collins and Sarah Butler. She was born November 17, 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia, and died After March 15, 1800 in Perry County, Alabama.
Joseph was born in New Jersey in 1759, he is believed to be the oldest son of William and Naomi Watters. The colony of New Jersey was very active in the revolt against England. The predominant Quaker Population were peaceful people, but they were determined not to be controlled by English rule.
Though not a Quaker, Joseph caught the patriotic fever, and joined the Continental Army. He was a Private in the Revolutionary War, his service being from the state of New Jersey. Authority for this statement is a certified record from the State of New Jersey, Department of Defense:
Joseph Waters served in the active military forces from New Jersey during the period of the Revolutionary War, 1775 - 1783, as a Private in the Burlington County Militia. Received Certificate No. 133, dated May 1, 1784, signed by James Fenimore, for 16.8, for the depreciation of his Continental pay for services as Private in the Burlington County Militia. He received two land draws in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, as a reward for his service to his country.
He married Sarah Collins, daughter of William and Sarah Butler Collins, in Culpeper County, Virginia, in about 1782, while he was still in service. After the war was over, they lived in Culpeper County, and then moved to Oglethorpe County, Georgia between 1785 and 1788.
Joseph and Sarah with their three children, at the time, moved to a location on Big Creek in Oglethorpe County. His father and mother joined him there. Overall, it’s thought he had at least nineteen children.
After Joseph died, many of the Waters children moved to Perry County, Alabama in 1818 and onward into Mississippi and beyond.
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