Not sure I shared this. “HISTORY OF THE WATSON FAMILY IN AMERICA 1760-1914” by Clayton Keith A quote from the autobiography of Rev. Cyrus Lewis Watson, a Presbyterian minister well-known in his day in MO and IL. He was the son of James Watson. Cyrus Lewis Watson says: Soon after the battle of the River Boyne (1690) , owing to religious intolerance and dissension, the Watson family moved from Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland: How long they remained there I have no means of knowing, but perhaps not many years, for in the early part of the Eighteenth century (presumably in the year 1729, when the great tidal-wave of emigration crossed the Atlantic from Scotland and Ireland) , they came to America and located for a season in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, near where Chambersburg now stands. This was before the old French wars (1740 to 1750). Here they were greatly harassed by the Indians, during that war. One of my grandfathers was subjected to a long and painful captivity among them. A few years later they removed to the Carolinas; the Watsons settling in York district, South Carolina. .
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