Person:William Watts (16)

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William Watts
b.Est 1618 England
d.Bef 1668 England
Parents and Siblings
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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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Name[1][2][3] William Watts
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1618 England
Death[1][2][3] Bef 1668 England
Estate Inventory[4] 2 May 1668 £13-10-00. Taken by Richard Butler, Nicholas Olmsted, Paul Peck.
Probate[4] 7 May 1668 Administration to brother Sergeant Thomas Watts.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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)
    336.

    "William (Watts)2, b. about 1618, d. before 1668, England, prob. by 1666, as his step-mother does not mention him in her will. He had some property in the colony and his brother Sgt. Thomas Watts was made his adm.; his inventory mentions a legacy of 40s., now in the hands of his brother, Thomas, given him by his mother."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 William Watts, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    643-44.

    "William Watts s of Richard & Elizabeth. Hartford 1639; one of those who received land 'by courtesie of the town'; his home lot adjoined his father's on the south; was granted two acres of land at Hockanum 1641; he m in Hartford but returned to England and died there before 1668."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 William 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.

    "William (Watts), Hartford, is by Porter rank. among first sett. yet not orig. prop. bef. 1641, was s. of Richard, certain. not among freem. 1669; but he had gone home, and d. bef. 1668, in Eng.

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Watts, William, in England, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:248.

    "Probate Records. Vol. III, 1663 to 1677. Page 52.

    Watts, William, in England. Invt £13-10-00. Taken 2 May, 1668, by Richard Butler, Nicholas Olmsted, Paul Peck, of some Lands in Custody of Thomas Watts, being 3 acres of wood land and half an acre house lott, £11; some tools, 10 shillings; also a legacy from his Mother now in the hands of his brother Thomas Watts, 40 shillings. Per James Ensign.

    Court Record, Page 77—7 May, 1668: Invt. exhibited. Adms. to Sergt. Thomas Watts."

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