Other Betts in New England

Other Betts In New England

Betts in New England, by New England Dictionary, by Savage:

BETTS, JOHN, Cambridge 1640, prob. came 1634, aged 40, in the Francis from Ipswich, when the custom ho. officer spell. his name Beetes. See Boston News Letter of 1826, I. 266. In 1642 he had sh. in " the farms," now Lexington, and d. 21 Feb. 1663, leav. I presume, no ch. Of his est. only œ67. 4. 8. by inv. the wid. Eliz. had admin. and she d. 2 Jan. 1664, in her will of 10 Dec. preced. givn ho. to John Bridge, and legacies to more than 50. Bridge, wh. d. above a yr. later, in his will speaks of his sis. Betts. This man seems to me the same as he wh. made propos. to our Gov. and Comp. in London, July, 1629, of divers things for the good and advancement of the planta. and the benefit of the comp. See Col. Rec. I. 48, or Young's Chron. of Mass. 84.

JOHN, Wethersfield, bef. 1648 had John, wh. d. at Huntington, L. I. 1697, a d. Abigail, and perhaps others, by w. Abigail, from wh. he obtain. a divorce in 1672. Prob. he was s. of a wid. Mary at Hartford 1640, and sev. yrs. after.

JOHN, Charlestown 1678, had w. Mary, wh. d. 5 Feb. 1679; and sec. w. Eliz. and he d. 22 May 1684. His wid. m. John Fosdick.

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; Eliz. wh. was first w. of Joseph Sackett; and Sarah, wh. m. Edward Hunt.

RICHARD, Newtown, L. I. s. of the preced. d. 4 Nov. 1711, leav. Richard, Robert, Thomas, Sarah, Eliz. Joanna, Abigail, and Mary, beside wid. Sarah, wh. may have been mo. of all these ch.

ROBERT, Watertown 1636, but Bond can tell no more.

ROGER, Milford, 1658, had then gr. of ld. but had been of New Haven 1644, where he took o. of fidel. and of Branford 1646, and d. 31 Aug. 1608. By w. Ann, he had Samuel, Peter, and Mercy all carr. from Branford to New Haven for bapt. 1 June 1651, of wh. Peter d. in tw. yrs. beside Hannah, prob. eldest of all; Roger, b. 20 Feb. 1602; and Mary. The wid. m. John Cabell of Fairfield, and d. 1683, giv. all her prop. to s. Samuel, with order to pay legacies to the other ch. without nam. them. ROGER~ New Haven 1680, s. of the preced.

SAMUEL, Branford, br. of the preced. was a propr. 1679.

SAMUEL, Norwalk, s. of Thomas of the same, m. 16 Dec. 1692, Judith, d. of John Reynolds, had Mary, b. 10 Sept. 1693; Samuel, 28 Oct. 1695; Stephen, 1 Aug. 1698; Nathan, 5 Nov. 1700; Hepzibah, 29 Oct. 1703; and Judith, 25 Aug. 1714.

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.

THOMAS, Newtown, L. I. s. of Richard the first, m. a. 1683, Mercy, d. of Daniel Whitehead, d. 1709, and his wid. m. 1711 Joseph Sackett, as third w. He left Richard; Thomas, b. 14 Aug. 1689; Daniel; Mercy; Abigail; Joanna; Mary; Eliz. and Deborah.

WILLIAM, Dorchester, turner, had, I think, been at Barnstable, but first at Scituate, there had join. the ch. of Lothrop, 25 Oct. 1635, and m. Feb. 1639, Alice, a maiden of the Bay, and rem. with his min. to B. there had Hannah, bapt. 26 Jan. 1640; Samuel, 12 Feb. 1643; and s. Hope, 16 Mar. 1645. In the list of those able to bear arms 1643, Geneal. Reg. IV. 258, it ap-pears Beetes.

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