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- "Henry Watkins was 'an elegant, accomplished gentleman of good blood and goodly wealth.'
He was a patriot during the American Revolution and was the 43rd to sign the Hanover County petition, June 6, 1783.
In an indenture 7 October 1790, 464 acres, the land devised by will of George Hudson and formerly in the occupation of John Clay, was sold to the highest bidder 4 December 1788 -- Henry Watkins -- for £432, 13 shillings and a penny half penny, County of Hanover, Parish of St. Paul on Machump Creek. Money paid Nathaniel Wilkinson, surviving executor of John Clay, desceased, John Watkins, and Mary (Hudson) Watkins in accordance with decree.
Around 1792, he and his family moved to Versailles where his brother, John Watkins, was firmly established, making the trip in wagons and bringing with them twenty slaves. In Versailles, he and Elizabeth Watkins ran Watkins Tavern until their retirement to their farm on Mortonsville Pike, three miles outside of Versailles. Henry predeceased his wife by ten days and both were buried near their farm.
On 27 Octover 1851, Elizabeth Hudson Clay Watkins was reinterred by her son, Henry Clay to the Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky.
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