Jonathan Gillett
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
In brief
Born about December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married April/233, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut. He died February 27, 1697[1698] in Windsor, Connecticut.
Family
Children
With Mary Kelsey
- Mary Gillettb. April 5, 1665, in Windsor, Connecticutd. Abt. 1666
- Jonathan Gillettb. February 18, 1670[1671]d. September 1, 1683
- William Gillett · in this lineb. December 4, 1673m. Mary Saxton, September 14, 1699
With Miriam Dibble
- Thomas Gillettb. May 31, 1678d. June 11, 1678
- Ebenezer Gillettb. October 27/28, 1679d. 1680
- Samuel Gillettb. December 17/18, 1680
- Hannah Gillettb. September 18, 1682m. ____, April 23, 1702, in Hartford, Connecticut
- Miriam Gillettb. 1687
Siblings
- Cornelius Gillettb. 1633, in Dorchester, Massachusettsm. Priscilla Kelsey (sister of Mary Kelsey (1551)) around 1658d. June 26, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Mary Gillettb. c. 1635, in Dorchester, Massachusettsm. Peter Brown, July 15, 1658, Windsor, Connecticut
- Anna Gillettb. December 29, 1639, in Windsor, Connecticutm. Samuel Filley, October 29, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticutd. November 18, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Joseph Gillettb. Abt. July 1641 near Windsor, Connecticutm. Elizabeth Hawks, November 1663, in Windsor, Connecticutd. September 18, 1675, at Bloody Brook/Battle Creek when killed in action fighting indigenous people in King Philip’s war under Captain Thomas Lothrop’s command
- Samuel Gillettb. January 2, 1642[1643], in Windsor, Connecticutd. May 9, 1676, in Hatfield, Massachusetts while fighting in King Philip’s War
- John Gillettb. October 5, 1644, in Windsor, Connecticutm. Mary Barber, July 8/18, 1669, in Windsor/Simsbury, Connecticutd. November 1682 in Simsbury, Connecticut
- Abigail Gillettb. Abt. June 1646 near Windsor, Connecticutd. 1649
- Jeremiah Gillettb. February 12, 1647[1648], near Windsor, Connecticutm. Deborah Bartlett, October 15/16, 1685, in Windsor, Connecticutd. March 1, 1692[1693], in Windsor, Connecticut
- Josiah Gillettb. Abt. July 1650 near Windsor, Connecticutm. Joanna Tainter, June 30, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticutd. October 29, 1736, in Colchester, 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.
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).