Jacob Watts 
Jacob was born on July 19th, 1730 in Jamestown, James City, VA, USA.1 He had seven brothers and four sisters, named Edward, John, Robert, Thomas, David, William, Francis, Elizabeth, Sarah, Frances and Esther. He died at the age of 90 on April 14th, 1821 in Orange, VA, USA.1 General Notes
1. Note listed on back of Family Group Sheet compiled by Mrs. W. W.
McDonald Jr.: Owned consciderable amount of land grants 1100 acres
and slaves, property in Ablemarle. Owned land North Fork of Rivanna
River near Piney Mountain. Jacob Watts later became a Methodist
Minister.
2. Source listed on Family Group Sheet: Family records of Robert
Harrison Watts; Diary of Wallace Ford (Rel) Letters; Fram Rel
1894-1896; and Charles B. Heinemans - Watts Families of Virginia
compiled 1943.
3. Durrett Family - By Mrs. Bert Harter, Key West, Florida &
published in the Virginai Genealogist. Pages 96 - 99. Volume Date &
No: Unkown. Jacob Watts who was born 9 July 1730 and died 14 April
1821. He left a will dated 26 Jan 1821. He was an early Methodist
minister and owned over 1100 acres of land near Piney Mountain on the
Albemarle-Orange county line. The children named in his will were: a)
Mildred Watts; b) Williiam Watts; 3) John Watts; 4) Elijah
Durrett Watts.
Footnotes from article: a) Archiblakd F. Bennett, Finding Your
Forefaters in America (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1957), P. 77, which
quotes from Jacobe watts' Bible and both give death date as 1824;
Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia (Charlottesveille, VA.,
1901), pp. 340-341, which gives the correct death date of 1821. b)
Orange Co., VA., Will Book 5, p.394, which names his children. David
is not listed by Woods. loc. cit.
4. The Rev. Jacob studied for the minitry in Glasow, Scotland, and
was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church but became a
methodist minister in later years, serving widley as a circuit rider
through the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. During the
Revolutionary War Jacob provded food and provisions for the American
military and additionally he guarded Tories at Albemarle Barracks near
Charottesville. He owned over 1100 acres on the North Fork of Rivanna
river near Piney Mountin in Orange and Albemarle Counties; in his last
years he lived on his plantation "Homesstead" in Orange Co. Jacob and
wife Elizabeth on 29 mar 1801 made a trusst deed to their son Elijah
D. for the provision of Elizabeth and their children, ut the trut
property was released by son Elijah D. on 4 Apr 1803 (Albearle Co.
Deeds, 13:459, 14,229). In his will dated 26 Jan 1821 and probated on
27 Aug 1821 in Orange Co. Jacob provided for nine named childen and
the five children of Frances Smith by her first husband. Charles
Parott was appointed exector (Orange Co., Wills, 5:394) Source; The
Roberts-Orme Ancestry, Page 148 -149.
1. Note listed on back of Family Group Sheet compiled by Mrs. W. W.
McDonald Jr.: Owned consciderable amount of land grants 1100 acres
and slaves, property in Ablemarle. Owned land North Fork of Rivanna
River near Piney Mountain. Jacob Watts later became a Methodist
Minister.
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