General Notes

 "Henry Watkins of Henrico City" by J M Allen, 1985: Gateway Press.
1-Henry Watkins [1585-?}  2-Henry Watkins [1637/8-c1714/5] m Katherine Pride  3-Edward Watkins [c1665-c1771]  4-John Watkins [c1710-1765] m Phoebe Hancock  5-Henry Watkins [1758-1829] m Elizabeth Hudson Clay>>  6-John Watkins [1785-1845] m Catherine T Milton  7-Thomas Bodley Watkins [1835-1903] m Annie Bell McMurty  8-Jane Worley Watkins [1885-1964] m George Marcus Allen. Henry I Watkins was overseer of Dale Plantation.  He had brothers Peregrin and Daniel.
Issue:  1-John who lived in Lower Norfollk  2-Lewis b 1640 lived in Henrico and descendants in New Kent  3-Thomas was of Mattiponi R, King Wm Co  4-Henry II [1637/8-1714/5] m Katherine Pride c 1658>> Issue of Henry II 1-Edward  2-Henry III [1660-Nov 1714/5 , Mary Crisp
     issue: 1-John m Elizabeth Sullivant or Daniels
              He died 1743-I need information on this family
            2-Benjamin m Jane Watkins
            3-Joseph m Mary Farrar
            4-Henry IV
            5-Stephen [d 1754+] m Judith Trabue
            6-Mary [1682]  3-Mary m 1701 Nickolas Hutchins>  4-William [1667] m Elizabeth ?  5-Elizabeth [c1669] m 1692 John Bottemly  6-Rachel [c1670] m Robert Woodson-his 2nd wife  7-Thomas of Swift Creek [1680-1760] m Elizabeth Pride 8-Joseph d c1725

This early presence in Virginia of Henry I is further supported by "The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660" by Peter wilson Coldham.  On page 46, the text indicated that on 28 February 1624, a Henry Watkins signed a report from the Governor and Council of Virginia at James City to the king rebutting the accusations against the plantations made by Captain Nathaniel Butler, Six thousand, not ten thousand, persons have been transported to Virginia who, for the most part, were wasted by the cruelty of Sir Thomas Smyth's government.  Henry Wattkins, Peregree Wattkins, and Daniell Wattkins were living (in 1624) at the Eastern Shore.

According to Jane Allen's text "Henry Watkins of Henrico County", Henry Watkins was in Accomack County, Virginia, before 1621 and settled on the Eastern Shore.  Henry was the overseer of the Dale Plantation.  Sir Thomas Dale had died in 1619 and Henry made a claim against his estate for six barrels of corn.
Henry Watkins of the Old Plantation was one of the first two Burgesses to represent the Eastern Shore at the 1623 Assembly.  He was one of the listed burgesses on laws and orders concluded by the General Assembly 5 Marcy 1623/24.
On 3 July 1624 he was one of the signers of a petition of the Governor and Assembly of Virginia to the King as to the true state of the plantation.
In 1625 John Taylor made a disposition about a transaction which happened when Henry Watkins had been oversser for Lady Dale "about the tyme of our Lord 1620".