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Stephen Watts

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The child of an Air Force family, multiple award-winning author Stephen Watts was born in West Germany. He is a direct descendant of Charles Watts.

Stephen began organizing his family's archive of genealogy files, tracing his lineage, and transcribing the Charles Watts correspondence in 1996. He has since found his family's ancestral home, some of the descendants of Charles's other family members, and the final resting place of this ancestor.

Stephen grew up to serve in the Air Force himself. After nine years, he left to begin a three-decade career in the insurance industry before retiring in Georgia, where he lives with his ever-tolerant wife, Karin.
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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin
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Joseph Martin's book was published in 1830, nearly fifty years after the time period covered in his book ended. It remains as one of the most frequently used primary sources of American Revolutionary War history. His narrative provides an immensely i ...more
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Breaking Midnight by Lynn  Walker
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Lynn did a great job pulling together her father's story, which is fascinating in its detail and because of the perspective of a pre- and post- Miami Vice era Miami undercover narcotics detective turned drug smuggler. Along with all that, we see the ...more
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The Battle for New York by Barnet Schecter
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As much as I've read of the American Revolution, I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't realize (or very possible forgot) that Washington personally prosecuted the war almost entirely in and around New York City. His primary objective was always to retake ...more
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Through a Howling Wilderness by Thomas A. Desjardin
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A terrific, detailed and informative telling of the heroic yet tragic attempt by Benedict Arnold to take Quebec City during the early days of the Revolutionary War. A quick read at about 200 pages, but you get quite an education along the way. Highly ...more
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A Struggle for Power by Theodore Draper
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I first read this book in 1997, and have just finished it a second time. Excellent take on the causes of the American revolution, which wasn't fought strictly over taxes, or British autocracy, but rather over power . . . who had the power to set taxe ...more
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1776 by David McCullough
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David McCullough and Nathaniel Philbrick have perhaps been two greatest writers of Revolutionary War historical nonfiction. In his book 1776, McCullough cuts through the haze of time to help us understand the improbability of the revolution's success ...more
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“I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.”
Stephen Watts, Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

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