Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

BETTS.
WILLIAM BETTS,
Aged twenty years, came over in the Thomas and John,
Richard Lombard, master, from Gravesend, 6th Jan'y 1635.
He joined Mr. Lothrop's church Oct. 25, 1635, married
Alice, Goodman Ensign's maid in the Bay (Massachusetts),
Nov. 23, 1638, removed with the church to Barnstable in
1639. Mr. Savage says he was a tanner by trade, and that
he was afterwards of Dorchester. In the list of those who
were able to bear arms in 1643, his name is written Beetts.
Perhaps the name is Bills. There was a family of that name
early in Barnstable. The children of William Betts, born
in Barnstable, were
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Hannah, bap'd Jan'y 26, 1639-40.
II. Samuel, bap'd Feb. 5, 1642-3.
III. Hope, a son, bap'd Mar. 16, 1644-5.
After the date of the birth of his son Hope, his name
disappears on the Barnstable records. His lands are not
recorded ; probably they were transferred to another without
a formal deed, as was the custom at the first settlement.
He, perhaps, settled in the westerly part of the plantation,
near John Crocker.