Thomas Waters - Please find him a good home!

So would you speculate whether his son Aaron on this tree born in VA IS his son or could he be of the VA Waters you are talking of that WIlliam does not belong to? i.e. has he been assigned to the wrong father?

It seems the error has been perpetuated or originated on the Wiki Tree.
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Aaron Thomas Waters may belong on Thomas Waters' tree, but he's not one of the Waters line I've been tracing (no Aarons).

I'm not sure they didn't get dragged in by way of Rose "Wicklitt", Rose Waters , who has been so bizarrely merged that she has two fathers, one of whom has been regendered to female.

Findagrave says:
Elisha Wickliffe was born abt 1660 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of David Wickliffe (1636-1693) and Elizabeth Pope Hawkins Wickliffe (1636-1699).

**Don't know the name of Elisha's wife**, but he did have one known daughter, Rose Wickliffe who was born in Prince William County, VA in the same year that Elisha died in Westmoreland County, VA, in 1692.

Elisha died in 1692 in Washington, Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. He was 32 years old.

I think they may possibly be Walters rather than Waters. (And I'm not sure about that "Valley Forge" reference either - can't find

oops - can't find references to any person or place in the area prior to about 1750.

Carole Pomeroy is working on this line. I'm pretty sure Valley Forge PA, which no longer exists, didn't exist in 1648 either, and you'll find he's actually in Stafford VA (or what became Stafford VA). But let's see what she does with actual source data.:)

We've still got the problem of who his parents were. If he really was born in Northumberland County, VA (Northern Neck, on the mainland), then he doesn't belong to the Edward Waters line at all (they're Accomack/Northampton County on the Eastern Shore). Marriage and death in Stafford, VA tend to support this view.

If on the other hand "Northumberland" was an error for "Northampton" (which can't be ruled out) then he may be an undocumented son of Margaret Clarke Waters and either her first husband, Dr. George Clarke, or, more likely, her second husband, William Waters. But there is nothing to support this view whatsoever.

I am temporarily accepting him as an undocumented son of Margaret Clarke Waters and second husband William Waters I, based on account in findagrave.com (which, however, may be based on inaccurate intormation). It's as good a place to put him as any.

After Jacob Waters reported his Y-DNA results as haplogroup I (he is a direct and mostly documented descendant of John Waters of "Waters Lotte", Anne Arundel County, MD, and thus a cousin of mine), any male-line connection between Edward Waters and this Thomas Waters is probably sunk. Thomas belongs to, and probably founded, the Philemon Waters line (haplotype R).

While he *might* still be a fosterling of Col. William Waters, that's pretty much a long shot. There were several other, unrelated Waters families on the Western Shore, and it may be he really belongs to one of them.