In brief

Born about 1633/1634/1644. She married April 23, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut. She died April 18, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticut.

Family

Children

  • Mary Gillett
    b. April 5, 1665, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. Abt. 1666
  • Jonathan Gillett
    b. February 18, 1670[1671]
    d. September 1, 1683
  • William Gillett · in this line
    b. December 4, 1673
    m. Mary Saxton, September 14, 1699

Siblings

  • Mark Kelsey
    b. Abt. 1634
    m. Rebecca Hoskins, March 8, 1658[1659], in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. Abigail ____, December 26, 1683, in Windsor, Connecticut
  • Hester Kelsey
  • John Kelsey
    b. Abt. 1638
    m. Hannah Desborough in 1668
    d. July 22, 1709, near Killingworth, Connecticut
  • Priscilla Kelsey
    b. c. 1632
    m. Cornelius Gillett (brother of Jonathan Gillett (1551)) around 1658
  • Abigail Kelsey
    b. April 19, 1645, in Hartford, Connecticut
    m. John Hull, December 3, 1668, in Killingworth, Connecticut
    d. May 12, 1717, in Killingworth, Connecticut
  • Stephen Kelsey
    b. November 7, 1647, in Hartford, Connecticut
    m. Hannah Ingersoll, November 15, 1672, in Wethersfield, Connecticut
    d. November 30, 1710, in Hartford, Connecticut
  • Daniel Kelsey
    b. July 6, 1650, in Hartford, Connecticut
    m. Mary Stevens, March 27, 1672, in Killingworth, Connecticut
    m. Jane Chalker
    d. June 5, 1727

Life story

A Kelsey Daughter

Mary Kelsey was born around 1633–1644, daughter of William Kelsey, and married Jonathan Gillett in Windsor, Connecticut, in April 1661. She died there on April 18, 1676.

Sources (3)
  1. 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).
  2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:1117-1119; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158319-00442 : accessed 4 August 2026).
  3. 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).