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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Thomas Betts |
| Alt Name |
Thomas Bettes |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[1] |
3 Dec 1615 |
West Peckham, Kent, England |
| Emigration[1] |
Bef 17 Aug 1640 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 1644 |
Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Mary Unknown |
| Residence[1] |
1644 |
Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1658 |
Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[1] |
1660 |
Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Will[1] |
10 May 1688 |
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| Death? |
Bet 10 May 1688 and 4 Dec 1688 |
Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
4 Dec 1688 |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 4. Thomas Bettes or Betts, in Coddington, John Insley. Betts Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, July 1938)
92:300.
4"Thomas Bettes or Betts (John, Alexander, Robert), of West Peckham, co. Kent, and Guilford, Milford and Norwalk, Conn., baptized at West Peckham 3 Dec. 1615, died at Norwalk, Conn., between 10 May and 4 Dec. 1688, 'aged 72'. He was the 'Cousin Thomas Bettes, son of Aunt Mary Bridger' mentioned in the will of Smalehope Bigge, 3 May 1638, and he was at that time apparently still in England. He was the 'Cousin Betts there' (i.e., in New England) mentioned in the will of John Bigge, 17 Aug. 1640. As 'Thomas Beatts' he received a bequest of 20 shillings from his aunt by marriage, Rachel (Martin) Bigge, 17 Nov. 1646. He is said to have been at Milford, Conn., in the summer of 1639, and he was certainly at Guilford, Conn., before the first allotment of land in that town, in 1644. He removed to Milford once more in 1658, and to Norwalk in 1660. He was a founder of the new settlement at Wilton (then a part of Norwalk) in 1672, but continued to dwell in Norwalk until his death in 1688. His will was dated 10 May 1688, and an inventory of his estate was taken 4 Dec. 1688. Thomas Betts married, presumably in Connecticut, about 1643, Mary _____, who survived him, and who was still alive 16 March 1723/4 and 16 April 1724, when the town of Norwalk voted lands to 'Mary Betts and company'"
- ↑ 1. Thomas Betts, in Betts, C. Wyllys (Charles Wyllys), and Frederic H. (Frederic Henry) Betts. Thomas Betts (1618-1688) and his descendants. (Washington [District of Columbia]: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984)
3-20.
- Thomas Betts, in 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.
THOMAS, Guilford 1650, Milford 1658, Norwalk 1664, in Hall's valua. Hist. of N. p. 62, is favor. with larger num. of ch. in 1672, than any other person, of wh. eight were b. bef. he rem. to N. viz. Thomas; John, b. 30 June 1650; Hannah, 12 Nov. 1652; Stephen, 10 May 1655, d. young; David, 4 Oct. 1657; these at G. Samuel, 4 Apr. 1660, at M. and James, Mary, and Sarah, b. at N. He d. 1688, aged 72, in his will of 10 May in that yr. nam. the five s. wh. in 1694 were all proprs. As no ment. of Hannah is seen, tho. she had m. 13 Nov. 1672, she may have d. Mary is call. w. of John Raymond; and Sarah was unm.
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