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| | A Document Concerning Gunmaker Asa Waters |
 | | They were descended from James Waters, an iron monger and citizen of London who died in that city and was buried in St. Botolph's parish, February 2, 1617, leaving a widow, Phoebe, daughter of George Manning, and a son, Richard. |
 | | A grandson of Richard Waters was the Nathaniel who bought Sutton land, and a grandson of the latter, and son of the first Jonathan, was the Asa Waters who was born in the north parish of Sutton, January 27, 1742. |
 | | Asa Waters, the second, was born in Sutton, November 2, 1769, probably in the house of his father, the first Asa Waters, at the southeast corner of West Main and Rhodes Streets. |
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