Thomas Betts

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Thomas Betts

|office=Deputy of the
General Assembly
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&dq=James+Olmsted&pg=PA77 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]

|term_start=May 1692

|term_end=October 1692

|predecessor=John Belding,
James Olmsted

|alongside=Samuel Hayes

|successor=John Platt,
James Olmsted

|term_start2=October 1694

|term_end2=May 1695

|predecessor2=Matthew Marvin, Jr.,
Samuel Hayes

|alongside2=John Platt

|successor2=Samuel Hayes,
Jakin Gregory

|office3=Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk

|term_start3=May 1704

|term_end3=May 1705

|predecessor3=Samuel Hayes,
Samuel Keeler

|alongside3=Samuel Keeler

|successor3=John Belding,
Joseph Platt

|term_start4=October 1705

|term_end4=May 1706

|predecessor4=Joseph Platt,
John Belding

|alongside4=Samuel Hanford

|successor4=Samuel Keeler,
John Copp

|term_start5=May 1707

|term_end5=October 1707

|predecessor5=Joseph Platt

|alongside5=Samuel Hanford

|successor5=Joseph Platt

|birth_date=June 3, 1650[https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&dq=thomas+betts+norwalk&pg=PA226 Norwalk vol. 1]"Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/MZM2-6KP : accessed 2014-05-02), entry for Thomas BETTS; [JR.].

|birth_place=Guilford, Connecticut Colony

|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|death_date=between September 5 and December 24, 1717

|death_place=

|restingplace=

|religion=

|spouse=Sarah Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, Jr. (m. January 13, 1680, Norwalk)

|children=John Betts, Thomas Betts, Sarah Betts (m. Joseph St. John, 1695; Samuel Keeler, 1712), Matthew Betts, Mary Betts Bartlett (m. John Bartlett), Elizabeth Betts (m. Captain Thomas Seymour)

|occupation=miller

|rank=

}}

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Thomas Betts (June 3, 1650 – between September 5 and December 24, 1717) was a deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1692, and October 1694, and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the sessions of May and October 1704, October 1705, and May 1707.

Biography

He was born June 3, 1650, in Guilford, Connecticut Colony, the son of Thomas Betts (1615–1688) and Mary Raymond. He was the brother of Samuel Betts. He moved to Norwalk with his parents in 1664.

On December 15, 1709, the town granted, by majority vote, to Joseph Birchard, Thomas Betts, John Betts, and John Gregory, Jr., permission to build a dam for the purpose of a powering a grist mill.[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwYCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Thomas%20Betts&pg=PA103 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut]