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1656 Richard Betts and Thomas Betts were listed among the residents of Newtown, Long Island. [1]

1662 On 3 July, Richard Betts and other inhabitants of Middleborrow and Mespath Kil, signed an agreement that they would not sell goods without paying the rent to the Dutch director-general. [2]

1665 Richard Betts and John Coe, as representatives of Newtown, Long Island, met with the governor of New York at Hempstead for a three day conference. The deputies signed a letter to the Duke of York expressing gratitude for being given a share in self-government. [3] [4] [5] [6]

1667 On 6 March, Governor Nicoll granted a patent for Newtown. Patentees included Richard Betts. [7] [8]

1669 Richard Betts was a Justice in Long Island, New York. [9]

1679 Richard Betts was High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Long Island, New York. [10]

1680 Richard Betts was High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Long Island, New York. [11]

1684 On January 16, Richard Beets of Newtown gave lands in Long Neck and Newtown to son Richard, to son Thomas, and to son-in-law John Scudder and Scudder's wife Johanna. [12]

1686 Richard Betts and Thomas Betts were listed among the residents of Newtown. [13]

1689 On 11 June, "it was voated and agreed that Capt. Richard Betts and Lieut. Samuel Moore go to the countytown to meet the deputys of other towns, to vote for too men out of the county to go to Yorke to act with the rest of the counsil as a committee of safety." [14]

1693 On May 13, Richard Betts Senr. of Newtown and Johanna, his wife, sold land to John Scudder. [15]

1698 Richard Betts senior was listed as an inhabitant of Newtown, Long Island with a family of 4 persons and 1 negro in a census taken in August. [16]

1713 On 20 November, Richard Betts, age 113, was buried at "ye kills". [17]


Footnotes:

[1] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 2nd edition, Vol. 2 (1843), 138, [GoogleBooks].

[2] B. Fernow, Documents relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements principally on Long Island (Albany, 1883), 514, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New York, 1691-1743 (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1861), V, [HathiTrust].

[4] Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, Vol. 1 (1902), 64, of 64-65, [GoogleBooks].

[5] Silas Wood, Alden J Spooner, A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island (Brooklyn: Alden Spooner, 1828; Reprint 1865), 175, [InternetArchive].

[6] B. Fernow, Documents relating to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements principally on Long Island (Albany, 1883), 565, [GoogleBooks].

[7] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 338, [InternetArchive].

[8] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 343, [InternetArchive].

[9] Silas Wood, Alden J Spooner, A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island (Brooklyn: Alden Spooner, 1828; Reprint 1865), 155, [InternetArchive].

[10] Silas Wood, Alden J Spooner, A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island (Brooklyn: Alden Spooner, 1828; Reprint 1865), 154, [InternetArchive].

[11] Silas Wood, Alden J Spooner, A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island (Brooklyn: Alden Spooner, 1828; Reprint 1865), 153, [InternetArchive].

[12] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_393, QR229, Liber B1-21, 22, 24, [AncestryImage].

[13] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 336, [InternetArchive].

[14] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 341, [InternetArchive].

[15] Charles T Gritman, Historical Miscellany (NY?: 1920?), 1_402, citing QR293, Liber B1-200, [AncestryImage].

[16] Charles Caroll Gardner, "Census of Newtown, Long Island, August, 1698," The American Genealogist 24 (1948), at 134, [AmericanAncestors].

[17] Henry Onderdonk Jr., copied by Josephine C. Frost, Record Kept by Rev. Thomas Poyer, Rector of Episcopal Churches at Jamaica, Newtown & Flushing Long Island (New York: 1913), 50, [InternetArchive].