Richard Watts Genealogy
Record modified: 2010-09-15
This is my direct ancestor 12 generations back.
Born: 1595-00-00
Died: 1654-00-00 Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut USA
Marriages:
1. 1618-00-00 Elizabeth Duck
Children of Richard Watts and Elizabeth Duck:
Notes:
death date from a RootsWeb entry, which also gives his children as
1. Elizabeth WATTS c1622
2. Eleanor WATTS c1625 ENG
3. William WATTS
4. Thomas WATTS
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a genforum message:
Richard WATTS 1558-1635 m. Agnes MACKWORTH
*Richard WATTS 1584-1655 m. Elizabeth DUCK 1594-1676 (Hartford CT, Banbury Oxon
UK)
Elizabeth WATTS 1622-1702 m. George HUBBARD II (Dorset, England, Middletown CT,
Hartford CT)
Nathaniel HUBBARD 1652-1738 m. Mary EARLE 1663-1732
Thankful HUBBARD 1698-1771 m. Joseph MILLER II 1702-1779
Smith MILLER 1730-1759 m. Ann PARSONS 1734- (Middletown CT and Middlefield CT)
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another genforum posting says Richard emigrated to the US in the very early 1630s.
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"A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records"
p72
Richard Watts
Location: Hartford
Invt. L114-17-06. Taken 20 March 1654 by Richard Butler, Nathaniel Browne and James Ensign.
20 October 1653
I Richard Watts of Hartford, upon the River of Connecticut, beaing weak and ill in my body but in perfect memory and understanding, Doe make and Ordain this my Last will and Testament in manner and form as ffoloweth:
Imprimis. It is my will that my wiff Elizabeth Watts shall possess and injoy 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. In the presence of us: Richard Butler, James Ensign.
Richard Watts (his mark)
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 & injoy as his fforever his three acre upland lott at the Town's End.
Richard Butler. James Ensign.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 2551
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