Thomas Willett biographical notes (12) |
Wamsutta, who was the reigning sachem of Pokanoket. Plymouth gave him liberty to purchase lands there, as long as he did not antagonize the Indians in doing so…
On January 8, 1669, Thomas Willet’s wife, Mary Brown, died at their home in the Plymouth Colony. She was buried at Swansea. The gravestone of Mary Willett bears the following inscription: |
On the head stone | On the foot stone |
Here lyeth ye body of the Vertuous Mrs. Mary Willett wife to Thomas Willett Esqr. who died January ye 8 about ye 65th year of her age. Anno. |
Daughter to ye Worfl. John Brown Esqr. Deceased. |
…[p. 11] Captain Willett married a second time, on September 19, 1671, he married Mrs. Joyce Pruden.
CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLETT born 1610Posted to the Web (I neglected to take down the url) by: Linda in Phoenix; Date: November 10, 1999 at 21:02:50Hope this isn’t too pushy coming from someone who isn’t related. Source: “A Genealogical History Of The Rubel, White, Rockfellow, McNair And Allied Families,” by Jack P. Rubel, published 1977. WILLETT: Thomas Willett (Sr.) of Yormouth, Norfolk County, England, was one of the Leydon Congregation of Separatists who had escaped from England and settled in Holland, to find freedom to worship as they pleased. From this group came the “Saints”, who journeyed to the New World in the “Mayflower” in 1620, the first of several ships of that name, and established the colony of Plymouth. These early settlers hoped to prosper and eventually to |
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