Philemon Waters I and Mary's known children are:

1. Mary Waters born c 1709. She married Edward Askins and had a child by 1730 when Philemon Waters I deed to her & her child, Philemon. There were probably other children. This family needs more research.

2. Philemon Waters II was born 8 October 1711 in Stafford County, Virginia. He married c 1730-31 Sarah Bordroyne. She being called a French Huguenot, but I have been unable to find her family. See next chapter.

3. Thomas Waters born c 1714. He appears to have been married twice. The child Philemon Waters born 1739 was born to Thomas Waters per Overwharton Parish Records. By 1748 his wife is Elizabeth and he has a son born 10 March 1750/51 that he names Philemon Waters. The 1739 Philemon must have died as a child. This Philemon born in 1751 was a Kentucky hero as was his first cousin, Col. Philemon Waters of South Carolina. Thomas & Elizabeth moved into Frederick County, Virginia by 1748 when they sign a deed with Brother Philemon II and his wife Sarah Bordroyne. Thomas Waters appears on the 1744 Tax List for Frederick County, Virginia. The deed will be be given under " Lands of Our Fathers" Thomas died 1760 in Frederick County, Virginia.

4. John Waters -- born 1717 -1727. John married Christian ____?. He first appears in the Pr. William County Court Records in 1753. John died by 5 September 1763 when wife Christian in named his admx. See deed later. The only known children of John & Christian Waters were:

              1. John Waters, Jr. moved to Estill County, Kentucky where he filed for a R.W. Pension in 1732. 2. Robert Waters who married Margaret Galloway and died in Pr. William County, Va. in 1805. He left a will. There may have been other children in this family that are unknown to us at this time.

5. Sarah Waters was born c 1722 . She married William Tacquett before 1744 and both were witnesses to the will of Philemon Waters I and were the ones who presented the Waters will into court in June 1753. Sarah died in November 1756. She and William had 3 children who lived to be grown.1. Elizabeth Tackett born c 1744. She married Lewis Reno. 2. William Tackett, Jr. born c 1746. He married Fanny Reno. 3. Mary Tackett born c 1748. She married Mr. Hodges. William Tackett, Sr. married 2. Elizabeth Stamps. They had one child Lewis Tackett born c 1768. Below is the will of William Tackett, Sr. Sarah Waters Tackett left a will when she died in November 1756, but it was among the many papers lost or destroyed in Prince William County. 

Will Book G, Page 197---Prince William County, Virginia-- 30 June 1782

In the name of God Amen. I, William Tackett of Pr. Wm. County & Parish of Dettingen being in perfect health of body & perfect mind and memory Thanks be given to God calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed once to die and after that the judgement, do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament. First of all I desire & commend my soul to the care & protection of the Almighty God my worldly goods as follows.

Item---I desire that my wife Elizabeth Tackett have one half of the house I now live in. The third of my land and orchard, one feather bed and furniture, one sorrell mare, one cow and two ewes, one pot, one large chest & large table during her life & after her death to belong to my son Lewis Tackett.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son Lewis Tackett all my land after my wife has the third of it & half the house I now live in, one negro girl named Pat, one feather bed & furniture, one bay mare and colt, one cow & calf, fore sheep, one sow & pigs, one ____, one desk & six plates to be delivered to my son Lewis when he arrives to the age of Eighteen years & my desire is that my son Lewis Tackett shall have a --(Affrica?) boy by the name of Joseph Buchanan to his own use at my death--further my desire is that I leave one negro woman named Mary and as the rest of my estate except one heafer, one gel ( gelding ?) & ewe I give to my Grandaughter Mildred Reno for the maintance of my wife & my son Lewis Tackett and at the death of my wife the whole to fall to my son Lewis Tackett & the whole I have left him to him & his heirs forever & if he dies without heirs lawfully begotten of his body to be equally divided between my son Wm. Tackett, Mary Hodges & Elizabeth Reno. I further devise that the part of the estate of Thos. Stamps dec'd due me at the death of Mary Stamps his wife I having some part be properly settled by my executors & his and the balance due me to be equally divided between my fore (4) children Wm. Tackett, Lewis Tackett, Mary Hodges & Elizabeth Reno & I likewise ordain, constitute and appoint William Tackett, Jr. & Lewis Reno my sole executors of this my Last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this thirtyeth day of June one thousand seven hundred eighty two.

6. Lydia Waters was born 16 April 1720 in Stafford County, Virginia. She married Martin Hardin. They left Prince William County and moved into the Monogehelia Valley. Martin died here. Their descendants moved on into Kentucky and from this family came 3 governors--2 of Kentucky and one a governor of Louisiana. 

Order Book 1753 -1757
25 June 1753
Prince William County, Virginia

The Last Will & Testament of Philemon Waters, dec'd was presented in court by Catherine Waters, the Executrix therein named who made oath thereto and being proved by the oaths of Sarah Tackett, John Metcalf, and William Tackett the subscribing witnesses is admitted to record and the Executrix having performed what is usual in such cases. Certificate is granted her for obtaining a Probate thereof in due form.
So Philemon Waters I died ca June 1753. By 1768 Catherine is listed as Catherine Smith and makes the following deed.
Deed Book Q, Page 617 -619
Prince William Co., Virginia
2 March 1768

Katharine Smith of Pr. William County to Thomas Homes for 5 pounds, 172 acres given to me by my loving husband Philemon Waters the elder---land bounding on the land of Philemon Waters ( II ).
Witnessed by Aaron Fletcher, William Askins & George Earls. Signed: Katharine X Waters.
( Note that the first part of the deed calls her Katharine Smith, but she signs the deed as Katharine Waters.)

Deed Book R, Page 63 - 65
Pr. William Co., Virginia
29 October 1768

From Bertrand Ewell to Lewis Renoe for 12 pounds, 10 shillings, all that piece of land bought of John Waters, dec'd and purchased in 2 deeds by Ewell for 25 acres, including a water griss mill formerly built by Philemon Waters on Philemon's Branch east side. ( This deed indicates  that John was a son of Philemon Waters I. )

Deed Book L, Page 19 - 25
Pr. William Co., Virginia
26 & 27 Feby. 1748-49

This indenture made the 26th & 27th day of June in the year of our Lord 1748 between Thomas Walters & Elizabeth his wife of the County of Frederick & Philemon Walters & Sarah his wife of the County of Prince William of the one part and Thos. Wood of the County of Stafford of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Thomas Walters & Eliz. his wife & Phill. Walters & Sarah his wife for the sum of Four Thousand pounds of good tobacco have granted unto the said Thomas Wood ( in his actual possession  now by a virtue of a Bargain & Sale for one year & by force of the statute for transferring uses into possession) and to his heirs & assigns forever one hundred seventy five acres of land being in Pr. William, being part of a greater tract of land taken up by Philemon Waters Senior and by him conveyed to his son Thomas, party to these presents which patent lies in the Proprietors Office and deeds in the office of Prince William, relation being had which said 175 acres of land is bounded beginning at  (A ) and two box oaks corner trees to the land granted Morrice Lynah on a ridge and extending from thence along that line that divides this from the land of Gabarcle (Gabriel) Muffit, thence along that line south west to the line of the said tract of land which this is a part.------adj. Morrice Lynah. In witness whereof Thomas Walters & Elizabeth his wife, Phill. Waters & Sarah his wife have set their hands & seals in presence of John Peyton and Charles Harding. Signed by Thomas Waters, Elizabeth X Waters, Phill. Waters, Sarah Waters. ( Note that Thomas, Philemon and Sarah Waters could all write, also that they signed Waters, not Walters as it was written in the deed.