William Watts (colonial administrator)

William Watts was a British colonial governor, a sea captain under the Commonwealth sent to the Caribbean shortly after the English Restoration.[1] He was Deputy Governor of Anguilla from 1660 to 1666,[2] and also governed St Kitts.[3]

Watts was an appointee of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham.[4] On St Kitts he ran a profitable sugar cane estate using slave labour.[5]

As an act of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Watts sent an expedition against Saint Martin. It brought French retaliation on St Kitts.[6]

References
  1. C. S. S. Higham, M.A. CUP Archive. pp. 34–5. GGKEY:ATDPR6GCKJ8.
  2. "Anguilla". World Statesmen. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  3. Rachel Selbach; Hugo C. Cardoso; Margot van den Berg (2009). Gradual Creolization: Studies Celebrating Jacques Arends. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 154 note 6. ISBN 978-90-272-5256-2.
  4. Louis H. Roper; Bertrand Van Ruymbeke (2007). Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750. BRILL. p. 203. ISBN 978-90-04-15676-0.
  5. David Watts (22 March 1990). The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492. Cambridge University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-521-38651-7.
  6. David Watts (22 March 1990). The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492. Cambridge University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-521-38651-7.


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