Person:Richard Betts (1)

Name	Capt Richard Betts
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	11 Apr 1613	Hempstead, Essex, England
Alt Birth^[1]^[2]	Abt 1613	Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England"of Hemel Hempstead"
Marriage	Est 1647	Englandto Joanna Chamberlain
Alt Marriage	Bef 27 Jan 1648/49	Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, Englandto Joanna Chamberlain
Death^[1]	18 Nov 1713	Newtown, Queens, New York
Burial`^?`		English Kills, New York

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Watkins, Walter Kendall. Some Early New York Settlers from New England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul, Oct 1901)
55:300.

Richard Betts, who was in Ipswich, Mass., in 1648, is said to have come from Hemel-Hempstead, Herts, Eng. He removed to Newtown, L. I. in 1656, and died there 18 Nov., 1713, aged 100. By wife Joanna he had: Richard, Thomas, Joanna who married John Scudder, Mary who married Joseph Swasey, Martha who married Philip Ketchum, and Sarah, wife of Edward Hunt.
↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:173.

RICHARD, Ipswich 1648, said to have come from Hemel Hempstead, Co.
Herts, rem. to Newtown, L. I. 1656, there was in high esteem many yrs.
and a. 18 Nov. 1713, at the age of 100, to render wh. great number
of yrs. doubtful, the stupidity of tradit. adds, that he dug his own gr.
By w. Joanna, Riker says, he had Richard; Thomas; Joanna, wh. m.
John Scudder; Mary, wh. m. Joseph Swazey; Martha, wh. m. Philip
Ketchum; Elizabeth wh. was first w. of Joseph Sackett; and Sarah, wh. m.
Edward Hunt.