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.
[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.