Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State - Nephew of Hon. James S. Watson

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According to several articles, Colin Powell, 65th US Secretary of State is the nephew or cousin of Hon. James S. Watson, Judge, one of the first two Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York. I can't seem to find the connection myself though.

Tagging Private User, Erica Howton and Kenneth Kwame Welsh, (C).

Can you link an article? Certainly the locations seem plausible.

Private User is also really talented at investigating possible connections like this.

Maybe Erin Ishimoticha, you have some better skills at Jamaican records? I think the key would be finding Violet Mae Watson's parents as they're reputed to come from a prosperous Jamaican family.

Unfortunately, I don't. I wish I did. My most important dead-end is in the Bahamas.

Victar I was thinking there might be some good Facebook groups that might help. I haven't worked much outside "the usual suspects" on this kind of connection.

Kenneth Kwame Welsh, (C) is our Jamaica expert. I am still learning from him.

I would agree about Facebook. That is where I have the most success with my Afro-Jamaican ancestry. I'll post in a couple and see if anyone can help.

(Side note: Should I start a dedicated thread for "Help find the connection between..." requests? This comes up often and we have many community members who loves this type of research. Or maybe a "Connect the Dots" project?)

I had some luck and found parents. Turns out to be more complicated -- surprise, surprise -- but the connection must be through Matilda Johnson d'Aguilar, assuming it really exists.

I wonder if it's not a blood connection, but rather through his wife, Private.

Ashley and Erica, you are right! I have found some Facebook groups extremely helpful. The first one we should contact about this problem/wall is the Saint Elizabeth Genealogy Jamaica group.

Feel free to post away!

David Alexander Bromfield is Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State's great grandfather (https://www.geni.com/path/Colin-Powell-65th-United-States-Secretary-of-State+is+related+to+David-Bromfield?from=6000000011792109528&path_type=blood&to=6000000043799191053)

Ethnicelebs does a good genealogy job, but they have an entry I don’t understand here:

https://ethnicelebs.com/colin-powell Colin’s paternal grandmother was Rosina Bromfield (the daughter of David Alexander Bromfield and Louisa A./Elizabeth Gordon). Rosina was born in Saint Elizabeth Parish. David was possibly the son of Sybil Phillips. If his mother was [Sybil (Phillips) Tew Sybil (Phillips) Tew] then his grandfather was [Darius Phillips, Sr. Darius Phillips, Sr.]

I can find no evidence that this lady in southern Massachusetts had a first marriage with a man from Jamaica, and changed David’s parents on Geni to alternates on offer:

Priscilla Elizabeth (Banton) Bromfield & Nathaniel John Bromfield

It would be nice to fill in sources.

The parents offered I don’t understand are Sybil Tew & NN Bromfield They’ve been disconnected from David Alexander Bromfield

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State is my 16th cousin once removed.
You
→ Mary Lee Davis
your mother → Arthur Vearl Foor
her father → Eva Viola Foor
his mother → Luella B Ingram
her mother → William Henry Harrison Rush
her father → David Rush
his father → Jeremiah Rush
his father → Michael Rush, Sr.
his father → Peter Rush, Sr.
his father → Elizabeth Letitia Rush
his mother → Elizabeth Lewis
her mother → Mildred Warner
her mother → Col. George Reade, Esq., Acting Gov.
her father → Mildred Reade
his mother → Frances Windebank
her mother → Lady Anne Dymoke
her mother → Elizabeth Tailboys
her mother → Anne Fairfax
her sister → Sir Nicholas Fairfax, of Gilling Castle, MP
her son → Mary Curwen
his daughter → Mabel Fairfax
her daughter → Katherine Burton
her daughter → Capt. Francis Burton
her son → Benjamin Burton, Sr
his son → Benjamin Burton, Jr
his son → Ruth Rochester
his daughter → Anne Agnes Bent
her daughter → Susannah Eleanor Falconer
her daughter → Ann Frances Gordon
her daughter → Larchin Gordon, Jr.
her son → Louisa Gordon
his daughter → Rosina Powell
her daughter → Luther Theophilus Powell
her son → Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State
his son

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