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John Watts (New Mexico secretary and commissioner of deeds)

b. 1840-05-11 d. 1925-01-10

New Mexico secretary and commissioner of deeds. Indiana native. Son of John Sebree Watts and Elizabeth A. Watts. Lived in New Mexico Territory in 1859. Returned to Indiana for a brief period. Served as private secretary to Governor Henry Connelly of the New Mexico Territory in 1864. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in New Mexico in 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Indiana, Monroe County, Bloomington, p. 93; "Proclamation," Santa Fe Weekly Post (Santa Fe, NM), May 7, 1864, p. 2; John Watts, Adios, Nuevo Mexico: The Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859 (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2015); Find A Grave, "John Watts (1840-1925)," Memorial #116467881, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=116467881&ref=acom (accessed May 11, 2017).

Citation

Watts, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211599 (November 12, 2026).

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