Henry Watson, 1700s, Maryland, Virginia, London, wife Lucy
I am looking for some kind of a family connection between my Watson family in the late 1600s or early 1700s and a Sykes or Wright family. My ancestor, Henry Watson of Prince George County, Maryland, moved to England for a time for an unknown reason, roughly about 1750. He and his wife Lucy (maiden name unknown) had six children in Prince George County, Maryland, most of whose births are recorded in Prince George's Parish between 1732 and 1742 (Alithea, Nancy Ann, John, Henry, Mary and Lucy). It is unclear if his wife and children came with him to London. While in London, Henry Watson wrote a will, dated 1752, in which he named a Peter Sykes and a Peter Wright, sugar refiner, as executors. It mentioned land in Prince George County, Maryland, and Prince William County, Virginia. His daughter Lucy, who married William Beckwith, subsequently named a son SYKES Beckwith (b. ca. 1775), and his son John named a son John WRIGHT Watson, so I suspect a family connection. Possibly Henry Watson's wife Lucy was a Sykes or Wright, or his mother?
It appears Peter Sykes and Peter Wright were in London when the will was written. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury subsequently noted in 1767, when probate of the will was granted to Henry's son John, that Peter Wright had died and Peter Sykes had renounced the appointment as executor, so Sykes was apparently still living in England close to that time.
Henry Watson did not die in England, apparently, because he (identified as "of Prince George's County, Maryland, Gent.,") and wife Lucy sold land in Northumberland County, Virginia in 1758. Lucy left a 1765 will in Frederick County, Maryland, probated in 1773. (This is a descrepancy with the probate record of Henry's London will, which recites that Lucy had died by that time, 1767, unless it took a really long time to probate Lucy's will).
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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