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

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

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

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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