WATTS, John, loyalist, born in New York city, 16 April, 1715; died in Wales in August, 1789. He married Ann, daughter of Stephen De Lancey, in July, 1742, represented New York city in the assembly for many years, and was a member of the council in 1757-'75. He was one of the wealthiest land-proprietors of the colony, one of the original founders and trustees of the New York society library in 1754, presented its first clock to the New York exchange in 1760, and the same year was elected the first president of the New York city hospital. He was opposed to the Revolution, and in 1775 removed to England. His estate was confiscated, but part of it was repurchased and reconveyed on 1 July, 1784, to his sons, Robert and John. His wife, Ann De Lancey, died two months after leaving New York. His daughter, Ann (died in 1793) married Captain Archibald Kennedy, of the royal navy, who became eleventh Earl of Cassilis. Their son, the twelfth earl, was born in this country.--John's son, John, born in New York city, 27 August, 1749; died there, 3 September, 1836, was the last royal recorder of the city of New York. He served three times as speaker of the New York assembly, was a member of congress in 1793-'6, and from 1802 till 1808 was judge of Westchester county. John G. Leake, a wealthy resident of New York city, dying childless, left his extensive properties to his relative, Robert J. watts, on condition that Mr. Watts should assume the name of Leake. The gentleman, the only living son of John Watts, Jr., accepted the property on the terms mentioned, but very soon died. Mr. Leake's will being defective as to the real estate, that escheated td the state of New York, and the personal property went to his father, who, being grieved that his only male representative should have consented to change his name, and deeply afflicted by the loss of his son, determined that he would not benefit personally by the money thus acquired, but apply it to the purpose designed by Mr. Leake in ease Robert J. Watts had not assumed his name. John Watts then founded and endowed the charity entitled the Leake and Watts orphan-house. In 1887 the institution was removed to Westchester county, New York, the property having been purchased as a site for the Protestant Episcopal cathedral. Mr. Watts married his cousin, Jane De Lancey, and they were considered the handsomest couple of the day.