Anthony Watson
b 1633
d 1705 Allendale buried Burnfoot Quaker House
father Hugh Watson 1600-1674 - son of William Watson 1580–1638
Mother Jane Watson 1603-1675
married 1663 Elizabeth Nevin (Watson) 1637-1679
children
Jane (1663 – after 1691),
Elizabeth (1665 – after 1694),
Ann (1666/7–1702),
Hugh (1670/1–1692/3),
Joshua Watson (1672–1757),
Sarah (1675/6 – after 1727),
Joseph (1678–1724)
Quaker House
A meeting house was built at Burnfoot, Allendale in 1688 and conveyed to trustees in 1692. The plot was used for burials. The 1688 building was replaced by a new meeting house in 1735; according to Butler, this was placed on a different site on the burial ground. By 1868 this was reported to be ‘in a very bad state of repair’, and by 1870 it had been rebuilt, along with cottage, stables etc., at a cost of £319.
Anthony Watson lived in Allendale in 1660. In that year, with others,he was "taken by Wm. Errington, papist Justice & other papists, and by them Carried to Hexham, and put in a Stinking Dungeon, and by the Gaoler there kept several dayes, who would scarce suffere anything to come to them; but walled up the window where severall of them were kept severel weeks, and then Carried to Morpeth Gaole, and there Continued Prisoners till the King's proclamation. They were taken at a meeting at New Shele, being there met together to Worship God, and Committed to Gaol for no other cause. All cleared at Quarter Sessions." It is not quite clear which proclamation of the King's is alluded to above, as he made two, ostensibly in favour of the Protestant Dissenters, but it is probably that of December, 1662,which was not sanctioned by Parliament.
In 1682 "Anthony Watson, of Huntwell, yeoman, was fined five shillings for himself for being at a meeting at Burnfoot, and fifteen shillings for the supposed poverty of another Friend for being at two meetings,one of which meetings A. Watson was not at, for which was taken a heifer worth £1 10s. 0d." On the 28th November that year he was fined 10s for being present at a Conventicle on the 11th Nov at the dwelling house of Francis Shield at Bournefoot. 2A
In 1694 he lived in Huntwell; he and three others "in scorn called Quakers, were commit to prison ye 1st day of ye third month, 1694, and so continued prisoners about a year and six months, till freed at the assizes, upon pleading the statute called the Act of Grace after the death of Queen Mary." "The Gaoler was moderate, and gave them liberty sometimes to go home and there abide until he sent for them, which made their imprisonment pretty easie."3
He died in 1704/5, at which time he was living in Swinhopesheel, Allendale. He was buried at Allendale on 5th February 1704/5. His inventory shows him possessed of the following:
£ : s : d
His horse purse & apperral
10:00:00
The household goods
10:00:00
Four kine & three hiefers
14:00:00
A kow & a hiefer
3:00:00
Four Mares
8:00:00
68 English sheep
15:00:00
34 hogs
6:00:00
66 Scots sheep
13:04:00
The husbandry geer
1:10:00
The hay
6:00:00
The Apprizal amounts to:
86:14:00
He was owed £16:13:06, but had debts of £227:13:09. After deduction of funeral expenses of £7:05:00, his estate was £131:11:03 in the red.
b 1633
d 1705 Allendale buried Burnfoot Quaker House
father Hugh Watson 1600-1674 - son of William Watson 1580–1638
Mother Jane Watson 1603-1675
married 1663 Elizabeth Nevin (Watson) 1637-1679
children
Jane (1663 – after 1691),
Elizabeth (1665 – after 1694),
Ann (1666/7–1702),
Hugh (1670/1–1692/3),
Joshua Watson (1672–1757),
Sarah (1675/6 – after 1727),
Joseph (1678–1724)
Quaker House
A meeting house was built at Burnfoot, Allendale in 1688 and conveyed to trustees in 1692. The plot was used for burials. The 1688 building was replaced by a new meeting house in 1735; according to Butler, this was placed on a different site on the burial ground. By 1868 this was reported to be ‘in a very bad state of repair’, and by 1870 it had been rebuilt, along with cottage, stables etc., at a cost of £319.
Anthony Watson lived in Allendale in 1660. In that year, with others,he was "taken by Wm. Errington, papist Justice & other papists, and by them Carried to Hexham, and put in a Stinking Dungeon, and by the Gaoler there kept several dayes, who would scarce suffere anything to come to them; but walled up the window where severall of them were kept severel weeks, and then Carried to Morpeth Gaole, and there Continued Prisoners till the King's proclamation. They were taken at a meeting at New Shele, being there met together to Worship God, and Committed to Gaol for no other cause. All cleared at Quarter Sessions." It is not quite clear which proclamation of the King's is alluded to above, as he made two, ostensibly in favour of the Protestant Dissenters, but it is probably that of December, 1662,which was not sanctioned by Parliament.
In 1682 "Anthony Watson, of Huntwell, yeoman, was fined five shillings for himself for being at a meeting at Burnfoot, and fifteen shillings for the supposed poverty of another Friend for being at two meetings,one of which meetings A. Watson was not at, for which was taken a heifer worth £1 10s. 0d." On the 28th November that year he was fined 10s for being present at a Conventicle on the 11th Nov at the dwelling house of Francis Shield at Bournefoot. 2A
In 1694 he lived in Huntwell; he and three others "in scorn called Quakers, were commit to prison ye 1st day of ye third month, 1694, and so continued prisoners about a year and six months, till freed at the assizes, upon pleading the statute called the Act of Grace after the death of Queen Mary." "The Gaoler was moderate, and gave them liberty sometimes to go home and there abide until he sent for them, which made their imprisonment pretty easie."3
He died in 1704/5, at which time he was living in Swinhopesheel, Allendale. He was buried at Allendale on 5th February 1704/5. His inventory shows him possessed of the following:
£ : s : d
His horse purse & apperral
10:00:00
The household goods
10:00:00
Four kine & three hiefers
14:00:00
A kow & a hiefer
3:00:00
Four Mares
8:00:00
68 English sheep
15:00:00
34 hogs
6:00:00
66 Scots sheep
13:04:00
The husbandry geer
1:10:00
The hay
6:00:00
The Apprizal amounts to:
86:14:00
He was owed £16:13:06, but had debts of £227:13:09. After deduction of funeral expenses of £7:05:00, his estate was £131:11:03 in the red.
