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Venango County Genealogical Club

The Acknowledgement section is taken from the book The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons, Lytles, Morrisons, Watsons and Henderson; therefore it contains people who helped me with all lines.

Robert W. Watson’s parents, to my knowledge, are not yet known with certainty, nor where Robert W. Watson was located before coming to Venango County, Pennsylvania. Robert W. was in Venango County by the early part of the nineteenth century, but apparently other Watsons, who may or may not have been related to our Watsons, were also in the area by that time. Robert's wife Margaret Henderson was born in Pennsylvania, probably present-day Mifflin County. Probably both our Watsons and Hendersons were from the north of Ireland, with the Watsons perhaps first living in Delaware after coming to North America.1 and the Hendersons in eastern Pennsylvania

In 1999 I wrote The Oil Creek Flemings of Venango County, Pennsylvania, with related families McClintocks, Culbertsons, Jamisons, Lytles, Morrisons, Watsons and Hendersons, Volume 1, 586 pages, and Volume 2, 466 pages. I also treated several families that were associated with the eight surname units by marriages or family history events: the Shreves, Smalls, Stewarts, McCaslands, Neills, McFates, Hunters, Holmdens and Storys. The two volumes are now out of print. With the completion of the Morrisons and Watsons, all eight ancestral lines are updated and online. See the Watsons Introduction for the addresses of all web sites.