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     Thomas Willett was baptised on 15 August 1602. He was the son of Andrew Willett and Jacobine (Jacobeda) Goad. Thomas Willett was buried on 29 February 1604.

     Captain Thomas Willett. The first English mayor of New York City.^3,4 He was born in August 1605 in the Rectory House, Barley, Hertfordshire, (Anderson gives a birth date of about 1610).^4,5 He was the son of Andrew Willett and Jacobine (Jacobeda) Goad.² Captain Thomas Willett was baptised on 29 August 1605 at Barley.⁵ He was but sixteen years of age when his father died, and he continued to live with his widowed mother and maternal grandmother until he had attained his majority. Shortly afterward he went to Leyden and joined the second Puritan exodus to the New Plymouth plantations, and Governor Bradford mentions him as "being discreet and one in whom they could place trust." He was admitted a freeman in 1633 after he had become a successful trader with the Indians, and soon became a large ship owner trading with New Amsterdam. He was elected one of the assistant governors of the Plymouth Colony, and as a proof of his worth of character and commanding abilities, he was frequently chosen to settle disputes between the rival colonies of England and Holland. He also became captain of a military company.

Early in 1660 he left Plymouth and establishing himself in Rhode Island became the founder of Swansea. Accompanying the English commander, Nicholls, he greatly contributed to the peaceable surrender of New Amsterdam to the English, September 7, 1664, and when the colony received the name of New York, Captain Willet was appointed the first mayor, June, 1665, with the approval of English and Dutch alike. The following year he was elected alderman, and became mayor a second time in 1667. Not long afterward he withdrew to Swansea, where he spent the remainder of his life. In his religious views he was an independent. His descendants were numerous and included Colonel Marinus Willet, the friend of Washington, who himself became mayor of New York, and the "Dorothy Q." of the poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, was the great-granddaughter of Captain Thomas Willet, and the great-grandmother of the poet.⁶ He married first Mary Brown, daughter of John Brown Sr. and Dorothy Beauchamp ?, on 6 July 1636 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.⁷ Captain Thomas Willett received into his family the orphaned children, Mary and Priscilla, daughters of his brother-in-law, Peter Brown, of the "Mayflower." in 1644. He married secondly Joanna Boyse, daughter of Rev. John Boyse, on 19 September 1671 at Milford.⁷ Captain Thomas Willett died on 3 August 1674 in Swansea, Massachusetts.²

     (?) William X, Duke of Aquitane married Aenor de Rochefoucauld, daughter of Aimery I de Rochefoucauld Viscount de Châtellérhault.¹

     Hugh fitz William was the son of William Fitz Norman.¹ In 1124 (25 Hen. I) Hugh the son of William Fitz Norman, gave to the Monastery of St. Peter at Gloucester the Church of St. David at Kilpeck together with the chapel of our Lady within the Castle.
The church was built in a decade starting in the 1130s; a church which Pevsner describes as "one of the most perfect Norman village churches in England."²

     Abigail Williams married Samuel May.¹

     Rev. Abraham Williams married Anne Buckminster, daughter of Col. Joseph Buckminster Jr..¹

     Benjamin Williams was born in 1730 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Boyleston.¹ On 1780 he entered military service as a private in Capt. Samuel Holden's company, Col. Ebenezers Thayer's Suffolk County regiment, to re-enforce the Continental army. Benjamin Williams died in 1802.

     Cornelius Coffin Williams was the son of Thomas L. Williams and Isabella Coffin.¹ Cornelius Coffin Williams married Edwina Dakin.¹

     Major Elijah Williams married Margaret Pynchon, daughter of Colonel William Pynchon and Catharine Brewer, on 11 January 1750.

     Elizabeth Williams is also recorded as Eloi Williams.³ She was born on 17 July 1742.² She was the daughter of Capt. John Williams and Mary Pope.² Elizabeth Williams married Dr. Jacob Quincy, son of Judge Edmund Quincy and Elizabeth Wendell, on 17 July 1760 (m. intention 12 June 1760).^1,4,2 Elizabeth Williams died on 6 August 1831 at the age of 89.²

     Elizabeth widow Williams married secondly Judge William Smith, son of Thomas Smith and Susanna Odell, after 1754 there were no children of this marriage.¹

     Erastus P. Williams married Elizabeth Flint Rice, daughter of Thomas Rice and Charlotte Flint, on 31 July 1842 in Pompey, New York.¹

     Gertrude Williams was born circa 1896 in New York.¹ She was the daughter of John Maxwell Williams.³ Gertrude Williams married Joseph Crosby Sewall, son of Elbridge Cushman Sewall and Jessie Benton Mead, on 17 February 1917 in New York.³

     Harold Sewall Williams was born on 14 May 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland.¹ He was the son of Emma Kaiulani Sewall.² Harold Sewall Williams died on 10 August 2005 in Copley Woodlands, Stowe, at the age of 80.¹ He served with the ski troops of the Tenth Mountain Division in World War II.

     Helen Esther Williams was born on 15 April 1854.² She was the daughter of John George Williams.¹ Helen Esther Williams married John Bleecker Powell, son of William Dummer Powell and Clare Pigott Strange, on 15 July 1875 in Memorial Church, Guelph.³

     Jane Williams was the daughter of William Wynn Williams and Dorothy Griffith.¹ Jane Williams married William Coytemore, son of William Coytemore of Llanllechid and Ellen Puleston.

     Capt. John Williams was born on 13 May 1753.¹ He married Anne Brown, daughter of Christopher Brown and Esther Perry.¹

     Capt. John Williams was born on 15 May 1707 in Portsmouth, Hampshire.¹ He married Mary Pope on 19 August 1732. Capt. John Williams died on 21 March 1748 at the age of 40.¹

     John Tyson Williams was born on 20 December 1865.² He married Constance Muriel Champion, daughter of Charles Pipon Champion and Charlotte Henrietta Westrene Sewell, on 27 December 1906 in Holy Trinity Church, Quebec.² John Tyson Williams died on 4 June 1928 at the age of 62.²

     John W. Williams Jr. was born circa 1924 in Maine.¹ He was the son of Emma Kaiulani Sewall.² John W. Williams Jr. died before 11 August 2005.²

     Louise Lane Williams was born on 1 August 1894.² She married Professor Sewall Green Wright, son of Phillip Green Wright and Elizabeth Quincy Sewall, in 1921.¹ Louise Lane Williams died on 17 February 1975 in hospital, Maddison, Wisconsin, at the age of 80.³

     Martha Richardson Williams was born on 23 July 1837.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Williams and Polly Richardson.¹ Martha Richardson Williams married Alfred Pierce on 6 December 1865.¹ Martha Richardson Williams died on 6 January 1909 at the age of 71.¹

     Mary Williams was the daughter of Benjamin Williams and Elizabeth Boyleston.¹ Mary Williams is also recorded as Polly.¹ She married Andrew Tewksbury.¹

     Deacon Nathaniel Williams was born in 1642.² He married Mary Oliver, daughter of Peter Oliver and Sarah Newdigate, in 1674 in Boston.² Deacon Nathaniel Williams died in 1714?²

     Rev. Nathaniel Williams was born on 25 August 1675 in Boston. He was the son of Deacon Nathaniel Williams and Mary Oliver. Rev. Nathaniel Williams graduated in 1693 from Harvard.¹ He died on 10 January 1737/38 in Boston at the age of 62.

     Sarah B. Williams was the daughter of Rev. Abraham Williams and Anne Buckminster.² Sarah B. Williams married Rev. Timothy Fuller, son of Jacob Fuller and Abigail Holton, on 31 October 1771.^1,3 Sarah B. Williams died in March 1822.³

     Thomas Williams was born on 2 March 1791.¹ He was the son of Capt. John Williams and Anne Brown.¹ Thomas Williams married Polly Richardson on 2 November 1816.¹ Thomas Williams died on 3 April 1864 at the age of 73.¹

     Thomas L. Williams married Isabella Coffin, daughter of Cornelius W. Coffin and Nancy McCorkle.¹