Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth WATHEN
Spouses
Misc. Notes
In 1778, John Simms took the Patriot’s Oath of Allegiance and furnished wagons and oxen teams for the War of Independence… In 1790, he left the home plantation, ‘St. George’, and joined the third league of Catholic families moving westward. With his wife, Elizabeth Wathen and ten children, he journeyed to the new country [Washington County, Kentucky]…”