Person:Martha Betts (2)

m. Est 1621
  1. Mary BettsAbt 1622 - 1684
  2. Martha BettsAbt 1625 - 1701
  3. John Betts1627 - 1690
m. 16 Jan 1655/56
  1. Sarah Graves1656 - Bef 1700/01
  2. Mary Graves1658 -
  3. Rebeckah GravesAbt 1660 -
  4. Nathaniel Graves, Jr.Abt 1662 - 1681
  5. Martha Graves1667 - 1740
  6. Abigail Graves1668 -
Facts and Events
Name Martha Betts
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] Abt 1625 England
Marriage 16 Jan 1655/56 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Nathaniel Graves
Death[2][3] 13 Apr 1701 Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 141.

    'John, supposed to have been her youngest child, was in 1636, when the settlers removed from Cambridge to Hartford, nine years old, Martha, about eleven, and Mary, probably thirteen.'

  2. 2.0 2.1 Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 143.

    'Martha Betts, second daughter, so far as appears, of John and Mary Betts, was born in England about 1625. She married, Jan. 16, 1655, Nathaniel Graves of Wethersfield, son of Thomas and Sarah Graves of Hartford and Hadley, born in England in 1629. ... The deaths of himself and wife, as recorded in Wethersfield, are :
    "Nathaniel Graves, Sen. aged about 53 died Sept. 28, 1682."
    "Widow Martha Graves deceased Apr. 13, 1701, ... a 75, as some think." '

  3. Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Wethersfield Vital Records:130 (typescript).

    'GRAVES,...Martha,wid.,d.Apr.13,1701,AE about 75'

  4.   Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    pages 138-39.

    Two deeds of gift from John Betts of Wethersfield in 1662, which give "one half of my moveables about my house" to each of "my kinsfolke the children of my Brother Borman" and "my brother Nathaniell Graves" identify the wives of Samuel Boreman and Nathaniel Graves (whose wife was Martha) as the sisters of John Betts, and daughters of "the Widow Mary Betts, one of the first settlers of Hartford."

  5.   Goldthwaite, Charlotte. Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1895: The English Home and Ancestry of Samuel Boreman, Wethersfield, Conn.; Thomas Boreman, Ipswich, Mass. : With Some Account of Their Descendants (Now Called Boardman) in America. (Hartford, Conn.: William F. J. Boardman, 1895)
    page 143.

    'CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARY BETTS. ...
    Martha, b. [about] 1625, m. Jan. 16, 1655-6, Nathaniel Graves; d. Apr. 13, 1701.'