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]