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John
Waters
 Traditional sources state that John Waters was a native of Flushing, Long Island. He probably was born during the 1690s.
He
married Albany native Sara Winne in October 1721.
By 1735, four of their children had been baptized
in the Albany Dutch church where he was an occasional
baptism sponsor. However, John Waters was a member
of St. Peter's Anglican church.
He
was known as a schoolteacher and was sometime identified
as a vintner.
In
1742, he was listed as a freeholder in the third
ward. Two years later, he was ordered by the city
council to surrender a portion of his land for use
for fortificatons.
John
Waters died in August 1752 and was buried from the
Albany Dutch church. He descendants carried on in
Albany through the end of the eighteenth century!
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Sources: The life of John Waters is CAP biography number 6823.
This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based
resources. We seek defining information on
his background. Provincial probate records point
to a Waters family of Queens.
Portrait
in the collection of the Munson Williams Proctor
Institute, Utica, New York. The existence of the
portrait perhaps signifies that we are missing an
important part of his story.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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