Thomas watkins (B: around 1740 D: 1809 Mecklenburg va, age 69) Married to Elizabeth
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- THOMAS WATKINS
- Thomas Watkins Sr was born abt 1740 and his son Joseph died in 1839.
- Religion - Buffalo Baptist Church
- The original Buffalo Creek building, erected in 1778, was of log construction.
- Our Watkins Family connection to President Thomas Jefferson
- Colonel Thomas Farrar (son of George and Judith Jefferson Farrar) who commanded in the Revolutionary War
- Soldier in Revolutionary War-John Baynes
- He and his family lived on 450 acres purchased in 1768 in Mecklenburg County VA, about two miles south of Clarksville VA
- 410 land owners in Mecklenburg in 1764