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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Find-a-Grave cites that the burial location is based on a family tradition. No known stone.
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Author: Frederick Douglas Learned
David Watson and Mary Hamby were married in Wake County, North Carolina, on 3 April 1784.
His Last Will and Testament, recorded in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1821, names his twelve children in the following birth order, to wit:
Elizabeth Hamby, wife of Simpson Hamby
Gilly Mitchell, wife of Jonathan Mitchell
Bedie
Polly Mitchell, wife of Wheeler Mitchell
James
Thomas
John;
Sarah
Lihue;
David
Willis
Daniel
A small biography included in A History of Watauga County, North Carolina: with sketches of prominent families by John Preston Arthur, pub.1915, lists the same twelve children and states that they all were born in Wake County.
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Newspaper with Find-A-Grave reports: Born 13 May 1760 in Saint Cuthberte, Edinburgh, Scotland