According to Margaret Strozier's affidavit, John Whatman was a Protestant minister in Rowan County, North Carolina who performed the marriage ceremony between Margaret and her husband Peter Strozier in October 1758. Any other record of their marriage has not been located. Reverend Whatman may have been an itinerant preacher who moved on from Rowan County, or his name may have been spelled slightly differently from Strozier's recollection over eighty years later.