THIRTEENTH GENERATION
4944. Jonathan Gillett/ Gylette
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4944) JONATHAN, Dorchester, freem. 6 May 1635, rem. next yr. to Windsor with ch. (4945ii) Cornelius, (4945i) Jonathan, and (4945iii) Mary, wh. m. 16 July 1658, (4945iii[1]) Peter Brown; there he had (4945iv) Ann, bapt. 29 Dec. 1639, wh. m. 29 Oct. 1663, (4945iv[1]) Samuel Filley; (4945v) Joseph, 25 July 1641; (4945vi) Samuel, 22 Jan. 1643; (2472)John, 5 Oct. 1644; (4945viii) Abigail, 28 June 1646, d. at 2 yrs.; (4945ix) Jeremiah, 12 Feb. 1648; and (4945x) Josiah, 14 July 1650; was a constable 1656, and d. 1677."
-- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692" c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945i) JONATHAN, Windsor, s. of the preced. m. 23 Apr. 1661, (4945i[1]) Mary Kelsey, wh. d. 18 Apr. 1676, had Mary, b. 5 Apr. 1665, d. young; Mary, again, 21 Oct. 1667; Jonathan, 18 Feb. 1671; William, 4 Dec. 1673; and for sec. w. he m. 14 Dec. 1676, (4945i[d]) Miriam, d. of Thomas Deeble, had Thomas, 31 Mar. 1678, d. soon; Ebenezer, 26 Oct. 1679; d. soon; Samuel, 17 Dec. 1680; Hannah, 1682; Jonathan, 1685; and Miriam, 1687. Of these ten ch. only five were liv. when he d. 1698."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945ii) CORNELIUS, Windsor, eldest s. of Jonathan, b. perhaps in Eng. m. (4945ii[1]) Priscilla Kelsey, had Priscilla, b. 23 Jan. 1660, d. soon; Priscilla, again, 30 Mar. 1661; Abigail, 20 Sept. 1663; Cornelius, 15 Dec. 1665, bapt. 28 Jan. foll. Mary, 12 Aug. 1668; Esther, 24 May 1671; Sarah, 3 Jan. 1674; Joanna 22, bapt. 23 Apr. 1676; and Daniel, 30 June bapt. 27 July 1679; was freem. 1658."
"BROWN, ...PETER [Jr.], Plymouth, I suppose, s. of Peter of the same [who came on the Mayflower of 1620], b. after 1627, as his name does not appear in the div. of cattle that yr. He was with Gov. Bradford and thirty others among the first purch. of Dartmouth in 1652. [prob. c. 12 Dec. 1632 Plymouth -- NOT husband of (4945iii) Mary Gillett (see above)]
"BROWN, ...(4945iii[1]) PETER, Windsor, m. 15 July 1658, (4945iii) Mary, d. of (4944) Jonathan Gillett, had Mary, b. 2 May 1659; Hannah, 29 Sept. 1660; Abigail, 8 Aug. 1662; Hepzibah, 19 Nov. 1664; Peter, 2 Mar. 1667; John, 8 Jan. 1669; Jonathan, 30 Mar. 1670; Cornelius, 30 July 1672; (4945iii_a) Esther, 22 May 1673; Elizabeth 9 June 1676; Deborah, 2 Feb. 1679; and Sarah, 20 Aug. 1681; the twelve were nam. at his d. 9 Mar. 1692, as all liv. Hannah was m. to one not kn.; Abigail m. 1683, Samuel Fowler; Esther m. 1700, William Barber; and Deborah m. 1696, John Hosford."
-- James Savage, op. cit. "FILLEY, (4945iv[1]) SAMUEL, Windsor, s. of William, m. 29 Oct. 1663, (4945iv) Ann, d. of (4944) Jonathan Gillet, had Ann, b. 16 Aug. 1664; Mary, 12 Apr. 1667; Abigail, 20 Jan. 1669, d. soon; Samuel, 2 Apr. 1670, d. young; Jonathan, 30 Nov. 1672; Samuel, again, 7 Mar. 1674; Josiah, 21 Jan. 1676; John, 18 Feb. 1678; and Abigail, again, 3 Jan. 1680; and Samuel, again, 8 Sept. 1681; and Mary, again, 14 Dec. 1683."
"DICKINSON, ...NATHANIEL, Wethersfield 1637, town clk. 1645, rep. 1646-56, rem. 1659 to Hadley, was deac. in both places, freem. 1661, liv. a few yrs. at Hatfield, but went back to Hadley, d. 16 June 1676. Four ch. John, Joseph, Thomas, and Hannah or Ann he took with him on first going to W., there had other six, Samuel, b. 1638; Obadiah, 15 Apr. 1641; (4945v[1][2]) Nathaniel, Aug. 1643, or perhaps four yrs. earlier; Nehemiah, a. 1644; b>Hezekiah, Feb. 1646; and Azariah, 4 Oct. 1648. The first two and last two are bef. ment. Hannah, wh. in her latter days is call. Ann, m. 1. John Clary, jr. 1670, wh. d. at Northfield; and 2. Enos Kingsley of Northampton."
"DICKINSON, ...(4945v[1][2]) NATHANIEL, Hatfield, s. of the preced. m. early in 1662, and by w. Hannah had Nathaniel, b. 1663; Hannah, 1666; (4933v[1]h[1]) John, 1667; Mary, 1673; Daniel, 1675; and Rebecca, 1677. His w. d. 1679; he had sec. w. (4945v[1]) Elizabeth wid. of Samuel Wright in 1684, and third [sic] w. but no more ch. was freem. 1690, and d. 11 Oct. 1710."
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945v) JOSEPH, Windsor, br. of ((4945ii) Jonathan). m. 1664, (1220[2]) Elizabeth Hawks, had Joseph, b. 2 Nov. 1664; Elizabeth 12 June 1666; Mary, 10 Sept. 1667; Jonathan, 11 Aug. 1669; John, 10 June 1671; Nathaniel, 4 May 1673; Hannah, 30 Jan. 1675; was k. by the Ind. with Capt. Lathrop and flower of Essex, 18 Sept. 1675, d. young."
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945vi) SAMUEL, Hatfield, m. 23 Sept. 1668, (4945vi[1]) Hannah, d. of (2440) John Dickinson, had Samuel and three ds. was k. by the Ind. at the Falls fight 19 May 1676, and his wid. m. 15 May foll. (4945vi[1][2]) Stephen Jennings, and suffer. more than once by the same enemy after, being tak. four mos. after her m. and car. to Canada, and her sec. h. k. 22 July 1710 by Ind. at Brookfield, tho. ano. authority makes it her B. Stephen and Benjamin, and in 1708, her s. Joseph, and the h. of her d. Captivity, suffer. the former wound. the latter k. by the Ind. at the same town. Eleven of j this name, of wh. six were clerg. had been, in 1834, gr. at N. E. coll. but none at Harv."
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945ix) JEREMIAH, Windsor, s. of Jonathan the first, m. 15 Oct. 1685, (4945ix[1]) Deborah Bartlett, eldest d. of Benjamin, had Deborah, b. 6 Aug. 1686; Abigail, 21 Feb. 1688; and Jeremiah; all d. young; and the f. d. 1 Mar. 1693."
"GILLETT, or JELLETT, ...(4945x) JOSIAH, Windsor, br. of the preced. [(4945v) Joseph] m. 30 June 1676, (4945x[1]) Joanna Taintor, had Josiah, b. 24 Nov. bapt. 1 Dec. 1678; and Joanna, b. 28 Oct. 1680; beside Elizabeth 16 Jan. 1683; Jonathan, 28 June 1685; Mary, 8 Mar. 1687; Dorothy, 15 Apr. 1689; Samuel, 1 Oct. 1690; Joseph, 3 Mar. 1695; Mindwell, 4 Feb. 1697; Aaron, 8 Mar. 1699; and Noah, 5 Dec. 1701."
"(4944) Jonathan Gillett sailed with 140 puritans on 20 Mar 1630 with Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick on the ship "Mary & John" from Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, England. Arrived on 30 May 1630 off Nantasket, MA. First settled at Dorchester, MA. Returned to England in 1633. Returned to New England and settled at Windsor in late 1636 with new wife (4945) Mary. How Jonathan met a girl from Colyton is not known. However, the "Mary & John" passenger, George Hull of Crewkerne, had two brothers who were ministers of Colyton, the last being Rev. William Hill, who died there in 1627."
SRC: FHL book 929.273 B233bd, "The Connecticut Barbers, A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut," 2nd Ed., Donald S. Barber c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kerryap&id=I2211
"DEATH: Vital Records gives 1704 as the year of death, but in the previous entry it lists his son as being born in 1701, with father deceased.
"BARBER, ...(2465x[1]) SAMUEL, Windsor, s. of (4947ii) Thomas, by first w. (4947ii[1]) Mary had Thomas, b. 7 Oct. 1671; Samuel, 26 Jan. 1674; and by sec. w. (4947iv[2]) Ruth d. of John Drake, had John, 25 Jan. 1677; and Hannah, 4 Oct. 1681; Ruth, 24 July 1683; Elizabeth 9 Feb. 1685; and perhaps others; but I dare not copy the list of Stiles, 528."
-- http://www.infokey.com/cgi-bin/cntry00
"(4946) Thomas Barber... was apprenticed under Francis Stiles, a master carpenter from Millbrook, Bedfordshire, England. Stiles was contracted by Sir Richard Saltonstall to build houses in America for Englishmen who were to follow. Thomas was among the twenty apprentices plus others who sailed with Stiles for New England in the ship "Christian" (John White, Master) which left London 16 March 1634 (Julian calender), and arrived 3 months later in Boston in June 1635. Each of the passengers had a certificate which read in part:
"with certificate from St. Mildren, Bread Stree, London, and having taken the oaths, to be transported to New England from London in the 'Christian'."
(From the Publick Record Office, Westminster Hall, London). "After 10 days at Boston the "Christian" sailed up the Conneticut River to Windsor, arriving there on the first day of July 1635."
"The Pequot War in 1637, precipitated by the Pequot Indians by their continual harassment of both the settlers and the friendly Mohegans, found (4946) Thomas a Sargeant, one of 30 soldiers from Windsor under the leadership of Captain John Mason. The night attack was a complete surprise to the Pequots, and a large percentage of the tribe was massacred....
"He took part in several battles with the Pequot Indians and greatly distinguished himself in the attack made upon the Pequot Fort, which the Indians deemed impregnable. In an account of this battle, written by Mason, and published in Boston in 1727, the following reference is made to the part taken by Thomas Barber: `We had entered the fort and in getting out of a wigwam encountered seven Indians. They fled and we pursued to the end of a lane, but before we could reach them they were met by Thomas Barber and Edward Patterson, who slew the entire seven with their axes and knives, their muskets having been discharged.'
"The records also state that while returning from the Pequot fight Thomas Barber and Lieutenant Cook engaged in a dispute over church matters. Becoming somewhat heated Barber struck Cook whereupon the court adjudged that Barber should forfeit his military position and pay a fine of £5. As an Indian fighter he evinced a courage and sagacity which secured him the confidence of the colonies and the fear and respect of the Indians. He was thoughtful, intelligent and a God-fearing man, and for the times exceedingly liberal in religious views."
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gene-perkins-2&id=I03564
"A deep mystery surrounds Jane, wife of (4946) Thomas. He married her in 1640, but the written record by Matthew Grant gives only the name (4946) Jane or Joan. Two of Thomas's sons married Coggin ladies, but there is little sign that Jane was a Coggin, as some have suggested. One report (LDS record) has it that Jane Coggin, b. Bedfordshire ENG 1619 was daughter of John Coggin, b. in Bedford, Bedfordshire about 1593.
"It has also been suggested that Thomas Barber married (4949) Jane Bancroft, widow of (4949) John Bancroft who died in 1637. Jane Bancroft had ties to Windsor thru her daughter (4949ii) Anna, b 1627, who married 1647 John Griffin of Windsor and Simsbury, and her son John, born about 1620, who married in 1650 Hannah Dupper and had a family in Windsor. But Jane Bonython who married (?) John Bancroft was born in 1573, and would have been way too old to have borne Thomas Barber’s children. This theory against the wife being Jane Bancroft was written up in The American Genealogist, Vol 37, p 164, in 1961 by George E McCracken and more or less disproved at that time. He points out that she would have had to have borne children for too long a time span - highly unlikely, and also she would have had 2 sons named John and 2 named Thomas - also unlikely.
"Another account has John Bancroft born about 1596, died 1637, m. Jane about 1622. That would have meant she was born about 1606 or before, making her about 47 in 1653 when Thomas’s youngest child Josiah Barber was born - not impossible, but very unlikely.
"It has been said by some that Thomas may have married the daughter of one of the Dutch traders at Old Saybrook, or Hartford, and also that the one he married was “the first white woman to land in Connecticut”.
"One of Francis Stiles' sisters was named Jane, born 1605. She married in England and presumably remained there. There was a Jane Morden or Worden, age 35 (in 1635), on the passenger list of the Christian; however I know nothing further about her. It seems she was too old to have borne all of Thomas's children.
"There seems as yet no way of knowing who Jane was (an all too frequent problem in genealogy). [~ Windsor Hist Soc:Jay Mack Holbrook, 1992; 1909 Barber Gen; Barbour Index; Lyman Barber Gen; Stiles:Windsor; Lure of the Litchfield Hills ~]"
-- http://members.aol.com/BarbrFam/3index.html
"I thought it might be useful to summarize the probable ancestors and family of (9896) Thomas Bancroft as described in these articles, which are found in Vol 37, p154 (1961), Vol 42, p.210 (1966), and Vol 67, p.112 (1992):
"* Thomas Bancroft, of Swarkeston, Derby, England, died ca 1626. His will mentions his wife (9897) Rebecca and five children: (4948) John, (9897ii) Ralph, (9897iii) Thomas, (9897iv) Dorothy and (9897v) Elizabeth (NEH&GR, Vol 56, p.86)
"* John Bancroft apparently decided to emigrate to New England with his family and sold his holdings at Swarkeston, but died at nearby Kings Newton, Derby, England, before May 12, 1635 when his will was proved. Thus he did not come to New England in the James. John’s wife, who is named in his will, was (4949) Anne not Jane. (The confusion seems to have been introduced by the early assumption (Savage?) that John Barcroft, whose wife was named Jane and who did come over on the James, was actually John Bancroft. However it seems that these were two different individuals; John and Jane Barcroft appear to have gotten in crosswise with the Puritans and may have moved to Virginia.)
"* The widow Anne Bancroft, with her seven children, probably came to New England with the influential Nathaniel Sowther, a witness to John’s will and an overseer of his estate. She moved with her family from Massachusetts to Southampton, Long Island, NY; some of the family, including her children John, Thomas and Anna/Hannah, later moved to the Connecticut Valley. (4949i) John married (4949i[1]) Hannah Dupper in 1650, and (4949ii) Anna married (4949ii[1]) John Griffin in 1647. (2474) Thomas married (1) (2474[1]) Margaret Wright, (2) (2475) Hannah, perhaps the daughter of (4950) Samuel Gardner, and died in Enfield in1684."
-- http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?wright::bancroft::198.html c/o Hal Langworthy hal@rochester.rr.com
"GARDNER, ...(4950) SAMUEL, Hartford, or Wethersfield 1641, rem. to Hadley 1663, there liv. 1678, had Samuel, wh. d. 1676, unm. and Joseph, wh. d. 1684, leav. wid. but no ch. He had also five ds. wh. m. but the male line failed."
4951. prob. Elizabeth (Belding?)
"INGRAM, or INGRAHAM, ...(4951ii[1]) JOHN, Hadley, m. 1664, (4951ii) Elizabeth Gardner, had, beside four ch. wh. d. young, or unm. at least, John, b. 29 June 1666; Samuel, 1670; Nathaniel, 1674, wh. had nine ch.; and Jonathan, 1676, wh. was k. 29 Feb. 1704 in the assault on Deerfield by the Fr. and Ind. He was freem. 1683, and d. 1722, aged more than 80 yrs. over 60 of wh. he had liv. at H."
"No substantive evidence has been found for the parents of (4950) Samuel Gardner, and ...published claims of his parents do not survive critical review of claimed dates, places and ...relationships. The basic Gardner family information is from Genealogies of Hadley Families, by Lucius M. Boltwood (1905, reprinted Baltimore 1979), and other standard colonial New England sources...
"One source states [(2475) Hannah Gardner] was married in 1675 to (4949i_a) Nathaniel Bancroft, but this has not been confirmed."
-- Preston-Gardner, From the files of Stephen M. Lawson, http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/preston.htm
"There was Thomas Gardner, of Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England, who came to America in 1624 and settled in Salem, Mass. Any relation? Also there was a John S. Gardner, who came from England and settled at Hingham, Mass., in 1617; from him one line of descent is traced through his son Thomas and his wife Abigail Ellis; their son Obadiah and his wife Lois. Any relation? Most secondary sources note that no proven ancestry has been found for (4950) Samuel Gardner."
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kerryap&id=I1307
INDEX
4945. Mary Dolbiar/ Dolbere
23 Apr 1661 Windsor, Hartford, CT
REF: Evelyn evelyn.beran@charter.net c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-shulsen&id=I14105 16 Jan. 1657/58 Hartford, Hartford, CT
-- James Savage, op. cit.
-- James Savage op. cit.
25 Dec. 1662 Stratford, Fairfield, CT
-- James Savage, op. cit.
-- James Savage, op. cit.
-- James Savage op. cit.
-- James Savage op. cit.
-- James Savage op. cit.
-- James Savage op. cit.
REF: http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/irving/3516; http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/johnson/980
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=annegillette&id=I1662
(4944) Jonathan was the ancestor of three men named Augustus Gillet, each descended through a different son.
4946. Sgt. Thomas Barber
c. 25 Dec 1612 in St George, Stamford, Lincoln, England
REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1821208&id=I1614
-- Wendy Muir mwmuir@rurametwork.net c/o http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mwmuir&id=I573
-- James Savage, op. cit.
The name Barber is said to be of Strathclyde Briton origin, and to have first appeared in records in Northumberland
4948. John Bancroft
SRC: The American Genealogist v. 37 p. 154 (1961)
REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hwbradley&id=I20814
4950. prob. Samuel Gardner
-- James Savage, op. cit.
REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nonmaskable&id=I10693
21 Nov. 1664 Hadley, Hampshire, MA
-- James Savage, op. cit. = siblings
GILLETT & BANCROFT LINES continued
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