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Jonathan Gillett

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Mary Eno ← Mary Gillett ← William Gillett ← Jonathan Gillett

Born

Abt. December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Died

February 27, 1697[1698] in Windsor, Connecticut

Married

April 22/233, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut

Family

Father

Jonathan Gillet

Mother

Mary Dolbiar

Child in this line

William Gillett

Children

Mary Gillett
b. April 5, 1665, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. Abt. 1666
Jonathan Gillett
b. February 18, 1670[1671] · d. September 1, 1683

Siblings

Cornelius Gillett
b. 16331/16352 in Dorchester, Massachusetts · d. June 26, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Priscilla Kelsey (sister of Mary Kelsey (15516)) around 1658
Mary Gillett
b. Abt. 1635/1636 in Dorchester, Massachusetts
m. Peter Brown, July 15, 1658, Windsor, Connecticut
Anna Gillett
b. December 29, 1639, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. November 18, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Samuel Filley, October 29, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut
Joseph Gillett
b. Abt. July 1641 near Windsor, Connecticut · d. September 18, 1675, at Bloody Brook2/Battle Creek1 when killed in action fighting indigenous people in King Philip’s war under Captain Thomas Lothrop’s command
m. Elizabeth Hawks, November 24, 16631/16642, in Windsor, Connecticut
Samuel Gillett
b. January 2, 1642[1643], in Windsor, Connecticut · d. May 9, 1676, in Hatfield, Massachusetts while fighting in King Philip’s War
John Gillett
b. October 5, 1644, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. November 1682 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Mary Barber, July 8/18, 1669, in Windsor/Simsbury, Connecticut
Abigail Gillett
b. Abt. June 1646 near Windsor, Connecticut · d. 1649
Jeremiah Gillett
b. February 12, 1647[1648], near Windsor, Connecticut · d. March 1, 1692[1693], in Windsor, Connecticut
m. Deborah Bartlett, October 15/16, 1685, in Windsor, Connecticut
Josiah Gillett
b. Abt. July 1650 near Windsor, Connecticut · d. October 29, 1736, in Colchester, Connecticut
m. Joanna Tainter, June 30, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticut

In brief

Born Abt in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married April 22/233, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut. He died February 27, 1697[1698] in Windsor, Connecticut.

Life story

A Windsor Inheritance

Jonathan Gillett was born around December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, son of the elder Jonathan Gillett, and settled in Windsor, Connecticut, where he was admitted to the church in 1662. In his August 1694 will, Jonathan carefully divided his considerable property in Windsor and Simsbury between his son William, his son Jonathan, and his wife Miriam, providing that Miriam would hold much of the estate until her death or remarriage while smaller cash bequests went to his daughters Mary, Hannah, and Miriam. Jonathan died in Windsor in February 1698; his estate was appraised at over 360 pounds.

At a glance

Lived

Windsor, Connecticut

Sources (3)

Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, Gillette Families including some of the Descendants of the immigrants Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet (Victor, New York (Bertha Bortle Beal Aldrige, 1955); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/gilletgillettgil00aldr : accessed 23 July 2026).
John Insley Coddington, “Jonathan Gillett of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., and Mary Dolbere or Dolbiar, His Wife,” The American Genealogist 15 (1938): 208-217; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11822/208/23575367 : accessed 24 July 2026).
Edward A. Claypool, Azalea Clizbee, and Earl Leland Kelsey, A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey, 3 vols. (New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1928), 1; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/10330/images/dvm_GenMono000167-00001-1 : accessed 4 August 2026).