Searches are presented for heavy gauge bosons decaying into a top and a bottom quark in data collected by the CMS experiment at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV that correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 and 2.6 fb$^{−1}$ in the leptonic and hadronic analyses, respectively. Two final states are analyzed, one containing a single electron, or muon, and missing transverse momentum, and the other containing multiple jets and no electrons or muons. No evidence is found for a right-handed W′ boson (W′${R}$) and the combined analyses exclude at 95% confidence level W′${R}$ with masses below 2.4 TeV if $ {M}{\mathrm{W}{\prime}{\mathrm{R}}}\gg {M}{\nu{\mathrm{R}}} $ (mass of the right-handed neutrino), and below 2.6 TeV if $ {M}{\mathrm{W}{\prime}{\mathrm{R}}}<{M}{\nu{\mathrm{R}}} $ . The results provide the most stringent limits for right-handed W′ bosons in the top and bottom quark decay channel.