(3 more Acres to Brother, Silas) in the year 1809 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: paid $30 to Freeborn for three acres of land that likely abutted his own (7:97)..
(Deeded land to Brother, Silas Watson) April 1792 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: paid £3 to his brother Freeborn Watson for an undisclosed amount of acreage (4:159) in Pownal. The land included “appurtenances” and abutted property belonging to John Stanton..
(Deeds land to John Stanton) in the year 1788 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: In 1788 he deeded land to John Stanton (3:67).
(10 Acres from Stephen Harrington) January 1789 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: ten acres near Silas Watson in January 1789 from Stephen Harrington (3:65).
(20 Acres from Minajah Bennett) April 1788 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: twenty acres in April 1788 from Minajah Bennett (3:55).
(Bought land from Anthony Goff) on February 18, 1786 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: “part of Lot 34” in the 4th Division, from Anthony Goff of Little White Creek, NY, for £90 (Pownal land evidence, 2:382).
(Relocated to Vermont (Possibly New York or Canada)) about March 1777 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: ... where his brother, Silas, lived. Was Freeborn Watson a Tory/Loyalist? Could he have been in Canada between 1777 - 1786 ?.
(Legal Guardianship of Hazard Wilcox, Jr) in the year 1789 in Pownal, Bennington, Vermont, USA: Freeborn and Sarah gave Sarah’s youngest brother a home when they lived in Pownal.
1800 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1800; Census Place: Pownal, Bennington, Vermont; Series: M32; Roll: 51; Page: 133; Image: 83; Family History Library Film: 218688 / Ancestry.com
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