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Source: Jonathan Gillett & Mary Dolbere family links

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John Gillett

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↑ Windsor Vital Records (Barbour Collection). Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862). Jonathan Gillett, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

↑ Windsor Vital Records (Barbour Collection).
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).
Jonathan Gillett, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

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Jonathan Gillett Birth? abt 1610 Chaffcombe, Somerset, England Other? 1630 Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA from England aboard the "Mary and John" Arrival Marriage 29 Mar 1634 Colyton, Devon, England to Mary Dolbere Residence? 1635 Windsor, Connecticut, USA Death[1] 23 Aug 1677 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Alleged to have sailed with his brother Nathan and 140 puritans on 20 Mar 1630 with Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick on the ship Mary and John from Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, England. Arrived on 30 May 1630 off Nantasket, MA. (Great Migration says this is possible, but "not a necessary conclusion.") He first settled at Dorchester, MA and returned to England in 1633. He married there in 1634, then returned to New England. He was admitted to the Dorchester church and became a freeman there in 1635. He settled at Windsor in late 1636 with his new wife Mary. Lived next to his brother Nathan. Named as son of William Gillett Clarke parson of Chafecombe in the countie of Somerset in the will of Rev. William Tyes, dated 1 Apr 1623. (NEHGR 162:113-4) In his will, dated 8 August 1677 and proved 6 September 1677, "Jonathan Gillett sen. of Windsor ... being at present very ill and under distemper of body above ordinary" named "my wife ... sole executrix " and "my son Josiah Gillett to take care for the improvement of his mother's estate," she to have the use of "both my houselots, my one and that which was my brother Nathan Gillett's, which are both nine acres, also at the upper end of the first meadow, or that which is Timothy Phelpes," and "all that remains of that to me I set out three acres to my son John"; after "my decease ... my son Josias" to assist his mother, and after her death "he shall enjoy for his own ... my now dwelling house and all the appurtenances with it, with five acres of houselands & all other parcels of land, as are expressed to be his mother's for her use whilst she lives, only excepting the house & four acres of the houseland to it, which my son Jeremy shall possess for his own after my wife's decease" and "the six acres in the second meadow I set out to him, he is to possess for his own at the present"; "thirdly, my will is that if the Lord should take me and my wife both of us away by death within four years after the date hereof, my son Josiah shall pay some legacies, as to his brother Jonathan Gillett ~4 and a gun, and to his brother Cornelius Gillett ~4, & to my daughter, Peter Browne's wife, ~2, and to my daughter, Samuel Fyllye's wife, ~2, and to the two children which I have taken that were my son Joseph's, deceased, as the little son Jonathan ~5, and the girl ~5. My son Jonathan is to have the other twenty acres of woodland joining to the twenty acres expressed to my wife. He is to have his twenty acres next to Thomas Barber, ten acres of it I give him, the other ten he hath bought. Also, Jonathan and Cornelius my sons are to have my eleven acres without the west bounds of Windsor, betwixt them, after my decease. And my son John Gillett to have six acres of the other parcel without the bounds at present, and Jeremie to have the remainder of it" [Hartford PD Case #2202; Manwaring 1:200-01]. Spouse and Children H. Jonathan Gillett abt 1610 - 1677 W. Mary Dolbere 1607 - 1685 m. 29 Mar 1634 Jonathan Gillettabt 1634 - 1697/8 Cornelius Gillett1636 - 1711 Mary Gillett1638 - 1719 Anna Gillett1639 - 1711 Joseph Gillett1641 - 1675 Samuel Gillett1643 - 1676 John Gillett1644 - 1682 Abigail Gillett1646 - 1648 Jeremiah Gillett1647 - 1692/3 Josiah Gillett1650 - 1736

Jonathan Gillett
Birth? abt 1610 Chaffcombe, Somerset, England
Other? 1630 Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA from England aboard the "Mary and John" Arrival
Marriage 29 Mar 1634 Colyton, Devon, England to Mary Dolbere
Residence? 1635 Windsor, Connecticut, USA
Death[1] 23 Aug 1677 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Alleged to have sailed with his brother Nathan and 140 puritans on 20 Mar 1630 with Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick on the ship Mary and John from Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, England. Arrived on 30 May 1630 off Nantasket, MA. (Great Migration says this is possible, but "not a necessary conclusion.") He first settled at Dorchester, MA and returned to England in 1633. He married there in 1634, then returned to New England. He was admitted to the Dorchester church and became a freeman there in 1635. He settled at Windsor in late 1636 with his new wife Mary. Lived next to his brother Nathan.

Named as son of William Gillett Clarke parson of Chafecombe in the countie of Somerset in the will of Rev. William Tyes, dated 1 Apr 1623. (NEHGR 162:113-4)

In his will, dated 8 August 1677 and proved 6 September 1677, "Jonathan Gillett sen. of Windsor ... being at present very ill and under distemper of body above ordinary" named "my wife ... sole executrix " and "my son Josiah Gillett to take care for the improvement of his mother's estate," she to have the use of "both my houselots, my one and that which was my brother Nathan Gillett's, which are both nine acres, also at the upper end of the first meadow, or that which is Timothy Phelpes," and "all that remains of that to me I set out three acres to my son John"; after "my decease ... my son Josias" to assist his mother, and after her death "he shall enjoy for his own ... my now dwelling house and all the appurtenances with it, with five acres of houselands & all other parcels of land, as are expressed to be his mother's for her use whilst she lives, only excepting the house & four acres of the houseland to it, which my son Jeremy shall possess for his own after my wife's decease" and "the six acres in the second meadow I set out to him, he is to possess for his own at the present"; "thirdly, my will is that if the Lord should take me and my wife both of us away by death within four years after the date hereof, my son Josiah shall pay some legacies, as to his brother Jonathan Gillett ~4 and a gun, and to his brother Cornelius Gillett ~4, & to my daughter, Peter Browne's wife, ~2, and to my daughter, Samuel Fyllye's wife, ~2, and to the two children which I have taken that were my son Joseph's, deceased, as the little son Jonathan ~5, and the girl ~5. My son Jonathan is to have the other twenty acres of woodland joining to the twenty acres expressed to my wife. He is to have his twenty acres next to Thomas Barber, ten acres of it I give him, the other ten he hath bought. Also, Jonathan and Cornelius my sons are to have my eleven acres without the west bounds of Windsor, betwixt them, after my decease. And my son John Gillett to have six acres of the other parcel without the bounds at present, and Jeremie to have the remainder of it" [Hartford PD Case #2202; Manwaring 1:200-01].

Spouse and Children
H. Jonathan Gillett abt 1610 - 1677
W. Mary Dolbere 1607 - 1685

m. 29 Mar 1634

Jonathan Gillettabt 1634 - 1697/8
Cornelius Gillett1636 - 1711
Mary Gillett1638 - 1719
Anna Gillett1639 - 1711
Joseph Gillett1641 - 1675
Samuel Gillett1643 - 1676
John Gillett1644 - 1682
Abigail Gillett1646 - 1648
Jeremiah Gillett1647 - 1692/3
Josiah Gillett1650 - 1736

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