Person:Richard Watts (7)
Richard Watts
b.Bef 1593 England
d.Bet 20 Oct 1653 and 20 Mar 1654/55 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
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  • H.  Richard WattsBef 1593 - Bet 1653 & 1654/55
  • W.  Unknown UnknownBef 1598 -
m. Bef 1618
  1. William WattsEst 1618 - Bef 1668
  2. Captain Thomas WattsEst 1620 - 1683
  3. Elizabeth WattsEst 1622 - Est 1702
  4. Eleanor WattsEst 1625 - 1703
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  • H.  Richard WattsBef 1593 - Bet 1653 & 1654/55
  • W.  Elizabeth (add)
m. Bef 20 Oct 1653
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Richard Watts
Gender Male
Birth[4] Bef 1593 EnglandBased on estimated date of first marriage.
Marriage Bef 1618 to Unknown Unknown
Emigration[1] 1639
Residence[1][2][3] 1639 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 20 Oct 1653 Before date of his will.
to Elizabeth (add)
Will[5] 20 Oct 1653 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[2][3] Bet 20 Oct 1653 and 20 Mar 1654/55 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Estate Inventory[5] 20 Mar 1654/55 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States£114-17-06. Taken by Richard Butler, Nathaniel Browne and James Ensign.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richard Watts, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    361.

    "Watts, Richard: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1639; [Resided] Hartford [HaBOP 345; TAG 22:159-61; Manwaring 1:160-61; 247-48; Stevens-Miller Anc 335-37; Moore Anc 579-83]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richard Watts, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    643.

    "Richard Watts died 1655 mar Elizabeth who died 1666. Early member 1 Ch. … Hartford 1639; one of the inhabitants who received land 'by courtesie of the town'; his home lot was on the west side of the 'road from George Steele's to the Great Swamp'; …"

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard Watts, 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)
    4:439.

    "Richard (Watts), Hartford, one of the first sett. tho. not orig. purch. liv. on the S. side of the riv. bef. 1640; was f. of William and Thomas. He had also ds. Eliz. wh. m. George Hubbard of Middletown; and Eleanor, wh. m. 23 Dec. 1647, Nathaniel Brown. His wid. Eliz. d. in H. 1666, was sec. w. made her will in Feb. of that yr. and her h. had been d. some nine yrs. or more."

  4. ↑ The Watts Line, in Holman, Mary Lovering; Winifred Lovering Holman; and Helen Pendleton Winston Pillsbury. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife, Frances Helen Miller: Compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1948, 1952)
    335-37.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Watts, Richard, Hartford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:160-61.

    "Probate Records. Vol. II, 1650 to 1663. Page 72.

    Watts, Richard, Hartford. Invt. £114-17-06. Taken 20 March, 1654, by Richard Butler, Nathaniel Browne and James Ensign.

    October the twentieth day, In the year of our Lord one Thousand Six hundred fifty three. I Richard Watts of Hartford, upon the River of Connecticut, beaing weak and ill in my body but in my perfect memory and understanding, Doe make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament in manner and form as ffolloweth:

    Imprimis. It is my will that my wiff Elizabeth Watts shall possess and inioy my whole estate during the term of her natural lif. And alsoe I will and give unto my wiff fful power and Authority toe giv & despose at her own will & pleasure Twenty pounds off the estate I leave behind mee. The Resedu of my estate That Shall be remayneng after The death of my wiff It is my will that it be Equally Divided amongst the Children of my Daughter Hubbard & the child of my Daughter Browne, I mean the children now born & that then shall be living. Also I will & give to my Daughter Browne the whole Charge of her board & the board of her child, her husband & servant, ffrom the Time that her husband went ffrom her toward England Toe the Day of my Death, with all other moneys or charges that I have Disbursed ffor her use. That Thes my last Will and Testament be truly & ffaithfully performed, I make & ordayne my wif Elizabeth my Soal Exectrix, And intreat my loving friends Richard Butler and James Ensign to be overseers to this my will.

    In Witness hereunto set my mark the day & year first above written.

    RICHARD X WATTS.

    In the presence of us: Richard Butler, James Ensign.

    Wee whose names are heer underwritten doe witness that Richard Wats in his last sickness whereof he dyed did express that it was his will that Hana, the Daughter of his Daughter Browne, should have a duble portion off the estate that is to be divided to the children expresst in his will.

    Further we witness that it was his will that his son Thomas Wats, after the Death of Elizabeth the wif of the said Richard, should have & inioy as his fforever his three acre upland lott at the Town's End.

    Richard Butler. James Ensign."

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