This blog will catalog the story of the expansive family that descended from Wheeler Watson and Sarah Taylor Peckham of Newport, Rhode Island. They married in 1799 and moved to Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York where they raised their family of 8 children. Wheeler and Sarah had a total of 17 siblings --- so the list of cousins is long indeed.
My link to the Watson clan is through Wheeler and Sarah's oldest daughter, Harriet, who married Dr. Adam Clark and had 8 children of their own. The family includes lawyers, judges, doctors, extremely prosperous leather tanners and the intriguing character of Zadock Pratt who (sequentially) married two of the Watson daughters. Their tales will unfold along with bickering of most families, references to cousin George Peckham, the spider-expert in Wisconsin, along with the happy farmers who never moved far from home.
Stay tuned !
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