Family:John Betts and Abigail Elderkin (2)
Parents: John Betts and Mary
Sergeant John Betts
chr. 5 May 1627 Claydon, Oxfordshire, England
d. 1690 Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, United States
Parents: John Elderkin and Abigail Kingsland
Abigail Elderkin
b. 13 Sep 1641 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
 
m.
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Divorce[1][3][2] 14 Oct 1672 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
    page 66.

    'BETTS, John (?1627-1690) & 1/wf Abigail [ELDERKIN] (1641-); ca 1660/65, 24 Oct, div 1672; Wethersfield, CT'

  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)
    pages 145-47.

    'Sergt. John Betts of Wethersfield and Huntington, L. I. ... married, date unknown, Abigail, daughter of John Elderkin, born at Dedham, Mass., Sept. 13, 1641. The Dedham church record reads: "Abigail ye Daughter of our sister Elderkin, being a member of ye church at Linn, at hir request was bapt. 19. 7. 1641." ... There was estrangement between him and his wife [about 1662], ... John Betts attempted to live again with his wife, but the records of the Court from 1669 to 1671 show that she was incorrigible, and he was granted a divorce, Oct. 14, 1672.'

  3. ↑ Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:98.

    'Though Sgt. Betts attempted again to live with her as his wife, she proved incorrigible (see Ct. Rec.) from which it appears that for "lascivious conduct"--she was with 4 (named) partners, of Weth., she was "whipped upon the naked body," and finally, 14 Oct., 1672, he was gr. a divorce from her.'

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