Katherine Watkins's Conduct: Deposition Summary

Depositions Regarding Katherine Watkins

• Deposition of William Harding (Age $35$ years)
  • Witnessed Katherine Watkins (Henry Watkins's wife) lifting Negro Dirk's shirt and making suggestive comments.
  • Challenged her actions as unbecoming of a Quaker.
  • Incident occurred on or about Friday, August $12$
• Deposition of Mary Winter (Age $22$ years)
  • Observed Katherine Watkins drinking cider with Mr. Thomas Cocke's Negroes.
  • Katherine led Mulatto Jack into a room, stated she loved him for his father's handsomeness, then hugged and kissed him.
• Deposition of Lambert Tye (Age $26$ years)
  • Working at Mr. Thomas Cocke's on Friday, August $12$
  • (The deposition ends abruptly, providing no substantive details about Katherine's actions from his perspective in the provided text.)
• General Observations (from initial unnamed deposition)
  • Katherine Watkins engaged in suggestive and physical interactions with multiple enslaved men: Dirke, Mulatto Jack, and Mingoe.
  • Actions included lifting shirts, touching codpieces, hugging, kissing, and lying on a bed with Mingoe.
  • Witness believed she was heavily intoxicated.
  • Events occurred in and around Mr. Thomas Cocke's house, near a garden pale, and in a fish room.