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Alfred Augustin Watson (August 21 1818-April 21 1905) was first bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Following education at New York University he was ordained to the diaconate by Benjamin T. Onderdonk on November 3 1844; and to the priesthood by Levi Silliman Ives on May 25 1845. During the Civil War he was chaplain to the Second Regiment of North Carolina State troops.