Colonel Samuel Watson

Colonel Samuel Watson, who lived from 1731 to 1810 and whose wife Elizabeth McDowell lived from 1738 to 1817, had his home and commissary near this spot. He served as 1st. Liuet. of Rangers, was a captain and a delegate to the South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1776, was colonel of militia in the New Aquisition, and was an elder in Bethel Church. In consideration of his uprightousness, his Whig neighbors made him commissary, and his house was a depository for supplies.

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