sentences:  John Watkins (mayor)
  
  John Watkins, also shown in early records as "Jean Watkins" (died 1812), was the fourth mayor of New Orleans as an American city.According to Kendall's "History of Louisiana", Watkins was appointed by Territorial Governor William C. C. Claiborne to the position of the city's recorder or assessor on March 11, 1805, and sworn in that day by Mayor Pitot.