Watts family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Watts family papers
- Date
- circa 1790-1871
- Extent
- 0.23 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Commerce--Kentucky
- Deeds.
- Land titles--Kentucky.
- Land titles--Registration and transfer--Kentucky.
- Lexington (Ky.)--Genealogy
- Real property surveys
- Receipts (Acknowledgments)
- Slave records--Kentucky.
- Slaveholders--Kentucky
- Slavery
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject and format.
- Preferred Citation
- 1997MS479: [identification of item], Watts family papers, 1790-1932, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Both born in Albemarle County, Virginia, David Winston Watts (1761-1835) married Ruth Twymann (1757-1837) in Albemarle County, Virginia. They had nine children. Their sixth and seventh children were Garrett Watts (1796-1873) and David Watts (1800-1854), respectively. Garrett Watts married Martha Terrell Twyman (1801-1842) from Albemarle, Virginia. They had seven children. Their sixth child was David Twyman Watts (1831-1854). He married Talitha Quisenberry (1824-1885), of Clark County, Kentucky on November 17, 1849. They had two children: William David Watts (1851-1943) and Garrett Watts (1853-1952). William David Watts married Ella Chenault (1861-1918), from Madison County, Kentucky, on February 10, 1880. They had three daughters: Lillian Watts (1880-1953), Ethel Watts (1882-1961), and Aileen Watts (1887-1970). Garrett Watts married Minnie Gay (1863-1957).
- Born in Madison, Virginia, Joel Quisenberry (1784-1847) married Elizabeth Haggard (1784-1847), from Albemarle, Virginia, on August 21, 1804 in Winchester, Kentucky. They had thirteen children. Their tenth child was Talitha Quisenberry (1824-1885) who married David Twyman Watts in 1849.
- Scope and Content
- The Watts family papers (dated 1790-1932; 0.23 cubic feet; 1 box) comprise correspondence, legal documents, financial papers, slave deeds, ledgers and account papers, land surveys, and envelopes, which document the Watts family of Fayette County, Kentucky, their land interests, their involvement in slavery, and their financial dealings.
- The papers include material related to the purchasing and surveying of land; detailed land surveys with diagrams; correspondence debating legitimacy of land surveys in Fayette County, Kentucky; and land deeds, both hand written and preprinted. The financial papers include correspondence about title bonds, Garrett Watts’ (1796-1873) personal ledger, and numerous bills of sales regarding the purchasing of slaves (Box 1, Folder 3). The will of Jonathon Parish, where Garrett Watts (1796-1875) acted as the will executor, is part of this collection. The legal documents include an indenture of land between David Watts (1761-1835) and Jacob and Catherine Laudeman and an indenture of land for Randall Noe signed by Charles Morgan and Susanna Morgan. The material relating to William David Watts (1851-1943) consists of 10 envelopes addressed to him; bank receipts; account invoices from blacksmiths, wood workers, doctors, gas fitters, plumbers, frescoers, grocers, horse shoers, tile layers, shoe stores, proprietors, art mantel and hall clock dealers hardware stores, lumber stores, carpet and wall paper stores, galvanized iron and copper cornices, coal and heating companies, furniture stores, grain and hemp businesses, window and paint stores, and fence companies. Finally, there is a typecript copy of the will of Joel Quisenberry.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Garrett Watts (1796-1873) correspondence, 1848
Garrett Watts (1796-1873) Jonathon Parish will executor, 1828
David Watts (1761-1835) indentures, 1805
David Watts (1800-1854) concordance, 1849
David Watts (1800-1854) surveys, 1831-1848
Robert Boggs survey, 1828
Robert Boggs slave deed, 1828
George Boon slave deed, 1839
Charles Morgan indenture to Randall Noe, 1790
J. T. Slade receipt, 1871
T. R. Bryant envelope, 1932
H. G. Edwards invoice, 1917
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