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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

Born

December 4, 1673

Died

not recorded

Married

September 14, 1699

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

Children

William Gillett
b. September 1, 1700 · d. July 16, 1736/1737
Jonathan Gillett
b. October 1, 1701 · d. 1719
Richard Gillett
b. 1705 · d. 1709
Eunice Gillett
m. David Gaines in December 1728

Siblings

Jonathan Gillett
b. February 18, 1670[1671] · d. September 1, 1683
Thomas Gillett (half-sibling)
b. May 31, 1678
Died; June 11, 1678 (half-sibling)
Ebenezer Gillett (half-sibling)
b. October 271/282, 1679 · d. 1680
Samuel Gillett (half-sibling)
b. December 172/181, 1680
Hannah Gillett (half-sibling)
b. September 18, 1682
m. ____, April 23, 1702, in Hartford, Connecticut
Miriam Gillett (half-sibling)
b. 1687

In brief

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

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.

At a glance

Lived

Windsor, Connecticut · Simsbury, 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).
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).