Watson, Otis	88c	1-1-4-0-0  
Dover Town, Strafford County  

OTIS BAKER WATSON, bp. in Dover 30 Sept. 1753, s. of Dudley and Christine (Baker) Watson [First
Parish Records, 1:36]; d. in Sandwich 11 March 1816, aged 62y [Sandwich Historical Society,
17(1936):12]; m. ca. 1786 CHARITY HORNE, b. in Rochester 1766 [calc.], bp. there 13 Dec. 1772, dau.
of James and Esther (Copp) Horne [Horne Mss, 16], d. in Sandwich 22 July 1848, aged 82y [Sandwich
Historical Society, 17(1936):12].  Otis Baker Watson was a farmer; he lived in Dover until 1808, when he
moved to Alton, where he had bought land the previous year.  After living there for three years to 1811, he
sold his land in Alton and bought in and moved to Sandwich, where he lived to his death in 1816.  His
widow Charity Watson lived there for the rest of her life, to 1848 [Jonathan Watson, 106].  Otis Watson
served as a private in Col. Stephen Evans' Regiment from 8 September 1777 to 20 October 1777 [NHSP,
15:295; 16, 627]. 

Children (with Charity Horne, all except Eleanor b. in Dover) [NEHGR, 5(1851):199]:  
	i.	CHRISTINE WATSON, b. 1787; d. in Dover 7 Jan. 1791, aged 4y [Dover Mortality, 15].
	ii.	POLLY WATSON, b. May 1789 [calc.]; d. in Sandwich Feb. 1877, aged 87y 9m [NHVR]; m. ca.
                1815 DAVID ETHRIDGE, b. in Sandwich 1789 [calc.], s. of Stephen and Jane (McDuffee)
                Ethridge, d. there 24 Nov. 1861, aged 72y [NHVR].  
	iii.	CHRISTINE WATSON, b. 23 June 1791 [Wentworth Genealogy, 1:700]; m. in Sandwich 4 Sept.
                1814 [NHVR] PAUL HORNE, her second cousin, b. in Dover 10 May 1785, s. of Paul and
                Hannah (Smith) Horne [Wentworth Genealogy, 1:700; Horne Mss, 22].  
	iv.	JAMES HORNE WATSON, b. 1794 [calc.]; d. in Sandwich 24 Aug. 1877, aged 83y [NHVR]; m. in
                Groton, Mass., 7 Feb. 1822 SARAH KEAZER [Groton VRs, 2:178], b. there 14 Sept. 1794, dau.
                of Jonathan and Bathsheba (____) Keazer [Groton VRs, 1:xxx], d. in Sandwich 22 Sept. 1876,
                aged 80y [NHVR].  
	v.	JONATHAN WATSON, b. ca. 1795; d. in Dover May 1853, "aged about 55" [Exeter News-Letter,
                XXIII:6, 16 May 1853]; m.(1) in Dover June 1825 ADELINE TIBBETTS [N.H. Republican, 3:26,
                12 July 1825], b. in Dover 1800 [calc.], d. there 20 Feb. 1842, aged 42y [Dover Burial Plots, 2];
                m.(2) in Dover 31 Oct. 1842 ELIZABETH BURNHAM [NHVR], b. ca. 1808.  
	vi.	DAVID WATSON, b. 1796 (calc.); d. in Sandwich 25 Dec. 1861, aged 65y [Sandwich Gravestone
                Inscriptions, 135].  
	vii.	SOPHIA WATSON, b. 1803 (calc.); d. in Sandwich 30 March 1884, aged 80y, single [NHVR].  
	viii.	ESTHER WATSON, b. 1804 (calc.); d. in Sandwich 4 April 1872, aged 68y [Sandwich Gravestone
                Inscriptions, 135].  
	ix.	ELEANOR HORNE WATSON, b. in Sandwich 6 May 1812 (calc.); d. there 28 March 1882, aged 69y
                10m 22d, single [NHVR].