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William Gillett

Generation 11 back

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

In brief

Born December 4, 1673. He married September 14, 1699.

Family

Father

Jonathan Gillett

Mother

Mary Kelsey

Spouse

Mary Saxton

m. 1699

Children

William Gillett
b. September 1, 1700
d. July 1736
Jonathan Gillett
b. October 1, 1701
d. 1719
Mary Gillett · in this line
b. 1702 (recorded as February 29, a date that did not exist that year)
m. David Eno, October 20, 1726, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. November 23, 1760
Richard Gillett
b. 1705
d. 1709
Eunice Gillett
m. David Gaines in December 1728

Siblings

Full siblings — children of Jonathan Gillett and Mary Kelsey

Jonathan Gillett
b. February 18, 1670[1671]
d. September 1, 1683

Half-siblings — children of Jonathan Gillett and Miriam Dibble

Thomas Gillett
b. May 31, 1678
d. June 11, 1678
Ebenezer Gillett
b. October 27/28, 1679
d. 1680
Samuel Gillett
b. December 17/18, 1680
Hannah Gillett
b. September 18, 1682
m. ____, April 23, 1702, in Hartford, Connecticut
Miriam Gillett
b. 1687

Life story

A Simsbury Inheritance

William Gillett was born December 4, 1673, son of Jonathan Gillett, and settled in Simsbury, Connecticut, inheriting his father's housing, land, and a gun and sword in 1698, and further land from his father-in-law John Sexton in 1719. William married in September 1699.

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).
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).
Buell Burdett Bassette, One Bassett Family in America: Part 2 (New Britain, Connecticut: F.A. Bassette Company, 1926); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/onebassettfamily00bass_0 : accessed 13 July 2026).