The Founders of Hartford
Mary Betts, widow, “the School Dame.” She owned land “by the courtesie of the town,”
and received four acres in the division of 1639-40; her homelot was on the highway, on the north side of the Little
River, near what is now the corner of Trumbull and Wells streets. She d. in 1647.-Ch.: 1. John, Wethersfield 1648;
m. Abigail -; she was tried for blasphemy, in 1662; he was divorced from her, Oct., 1672, and went to
Huntington, L.I.
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