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and in religion is affiliated with the St. Bar- tholomew Protestant Episcopal Church.

-\Ir. Watts married, October 20, 1909, Elisabeth Huntington Wolcott Jackson, of New York, who is a member of the Colonial Dames of New York, and the Mary Wash- ington Colonial Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and numbers among her ancestors seven colonial govern- ors, two of these being: The first governor of Massachusetts and the first governor of Connecticut. Children : Martin Seymour Huntington, born December 26, 1910; Schuyler Wolcott Jackson, born January 25, 1912.

The Wolcott line, from which Mrs. \\ atts is descended, is clearly traced. Henry Wol- cott, of Toland, England, was the progenitor of the Wolcott family in America. Simon Wolcott, his son, and seventh child, was born in 1624. Governor Major Roger W'ol- cott, son of Simon Wolcott, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, January 4, 1679, and he and other members of this family have been unusually prominent in the develop- ment of America. He married, December 3, 1702, at South Windsor, Connecticut. Sarah Drake. Roger Wolcott died at South Windsor, May 17, 1767. One of his sons was Governor and Alajor General Oliver Wolcott, born November 20, 1726, at East, now South, Windsor. Connecticut, and died December i, 1797, at Litchfield, Connecti- cut, on the homestead built by him. He married Loraine (Laura), the child of Cap- tain Daniel and Lois Collins. His son was Lieutenant Governor and Judge Frederick Wolcott, born November 2, 1767, at Litch- field, Connecticut, at the homestead. He married Betsy, daughter of Colonel Joshua and Hannah Huntington, of Norwich, Con- necticut. Their daughter, Elizabeth, born March 6, 1806, died October 15, 1875, mar- ried Hon. John P. Jackson, of Newark, New Jersey. Their son, General Joseph Cooke Jackson, was born August 5, 1835, at New- ark, New Jersey, and married, October 12, 1864, Katherine P., daughter of the Hon. Calvin and Catherine Seymour Day, of Hartford, Connecticut, and they had a daughter, Elisabeth H. W., who married Martin Sheeler Watts, as above mentioned. At the time of his death, in 1913, General Joseph Cooke Jackson was the oldest living descendant of the Henry Wolcott, men- tioned above, who. with his wife, settled in Massachusetts in 1637.

Hudgins. He who reads the following record of the Virginia line of Hudgins from the founding of the family in the colony by John Hudgin, of Gloucestershire, England, to the present day, will be impressed by two characteristics that predominate throughout, the valor of its members in war, their useful activity in peace. The sterling cjualities that make of them citizens of the highest worth, ever reaching the noblest ideals in citizen- ship and manhood, are those which, respon- sive to the call of country and patriotism, caused them to go into battle strong and unafraid, rejoicing in the defense of the right. Such is the line founded in Glouces- ter county by John Hudgin, and Virginia has derived from it much of devoted service and has numbered its members among her most loyal sons.

Robert Hudgin, son of John Hudgin, was born in 1772, and died March 27, 1821. He was a private in Captain Henry Diggs' com- pany, Sixty-first Virginia Militia, in the sec- ond war with Great Britain, his period of service two hundred and fifty days, from March 9, 1813, to March i, 1815, his activity at intervals between these dates. In 1808 Robert Hudgin married Susan Buckner, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Buckner, at which time, by common con- sent, the terminal "s" was added to the name Hudgin, this orthography persisting to the present time. Robert Hudgins is buried in Mathews county, Virginia, and upon his tombstone appears the following inscrip- tion ;

With heavenly weapons he hath fought

The Battles of the Lord. Finished the course and kept the faith

And gained the great reward.

Issue of the marriage of Robert and Susan (Buckner) Hudgins: \\"illiam, Sarah E., Lucy A., Robert King, of whom further, and John.

Robert King Hudgins, son of Robert and Susan (Buckner) Hudgins, was born in Mathews county, Virginia, January 4, 1812, and died at his home in Norfolk, September 7. 1903, being buried in that city. On the breaking out of the war between the states, Robert K. Hudgins resigned his commis- sion as captain in the United States revenue cutter service and offered his services to his native state, Virginia, which were accepted and he was assigned to duty at West Point, on the York river, Virginia, reporting to