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. Perhaps it was his descendants who carried on in Albany through the end of the eighteenth century!

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.