J. J. Reford and J. J. Chaffee...who were they?...Really??

[John Stanton]

Re Post #17. Not too long ago, I dug into the Watson family at Clifton, MD, and was fortunate to find a descendant - who is an Air Line Pilot, So he is not home very often. He helped me, and I did some work for him. Thus, Major Roderick G. Watson was the father. Roderick Dhu Watson was his son and was the Confederate agent in NY. The Major's daughter was Mary Augusta Watson, (PIC) and a participant in the spying. She married a Dr. CARVELL, and moved to California. Before long she came back here and lived in Colonial Beach, VA. (Her nephew, Roudolph was Mayor of Colonial Beach.) She is buried near here, since Colonial Beach has no cemeteries (Laurie / Betty O.)- her grave is one of the stops on the Charles Cawood No Escape Tour.) I have her Obit, but they mispelled her name as CARVILLE. Roderick Dhu's letter to Surratt March 19th was an effort to find an escort for Sarah Slater who was on her way to NYC alone. She had left Canada March 17/18 after the "This makes it all right" meeting. Surratt knew that Booth was already in NYC, so Booth picked up Slater in NYC and took her to D.C., where Surratt met her and took her to Richmond. (As an aside - this series of events ties Booth, Surratt, and Slater to the Water Street Address and apparently they checked-in there, when in town.)