Jonathan Gillet
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In brief
March 20, 1630: Departed from England with his brother Nathan in the ship Mary and John. He married March 29, 1634, in Colyton, Devonshire, England. He died August 23, 1677, in Windsor, Connecticut.
Family
Children
- Cornelius Gillettb. 1633, in Dorchester, Massachusettsm. Priscilla Kelsey (sister of Mary Kelsey (1551)) around 1658d. June 26, 1711, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Jonathan Gillett · in this lineb. Abt. December 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusettsm. April 22/233, 1661, in Windsor, Connecticutm. December 14, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticutd. February 27, 1697[1698] 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
Siblings
- Nathan Gilletd. Abt. 1688 in Simsbury, Connecticut
- Habiah Gillet
- Mary Gillet
- William Gillet
- Jeremiah Gillet
- Elias Gylletb. Abt. February 1611[1612]
- Thomas Gylletb. Abt. March 1621
- Andrew Gylletb. Abt. April 1623
Life story
A Return Voyage for Marriage
Jonathan Gillet sailed from England with his brother Nathan in March 1630 aboard the Mary and John, arriving that May at Natasket, Massachusetts, and settled in Dorchester, where he was made a freeman in 1635 and granted several parcels of land. He returned briefly to England around 1634 to marry Mary Dolbiar before coming back to New England and moving with his brother to Windsor, Connecticut, around 1636. Jonathan paid to secure his family a seat in the Windsor church's prominent long seats and donated toward relief for those who had suffered in fighting near Simsbury and Springfield. He wrote his will in August 1677 and died in Windsor that same month.
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).
- George E. McCracken, “New Gillett Information from England,” The American Genealogist 55 (1979): 170-173; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12605/170/24379214 : accessed 24 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).