Nathaniel HOOKER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Rev. Samuel Hooker and Mary Willett (dau. of Capt. Thomas Willett of Swansea, NH)

Nathaniel married Mary STANLEY on 28 Dec 1698. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel STANLEY and Sarah BOOSEY) was born on 8 Oct 1677 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary HOOKER was born on 3 Dec 1699; died on 2 Jan 1765.
2. Alice HOOKER was born on 12 Nov 1701 in Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1750 in Hartford, Connecticut.
3. Sarah HOOKER was born on 07 Nov 1703/4 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 31 Jul 1775 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
4. Abigail HOOKER was christened on 5 Oct 1707; died on 04 Oct 1792 in Norwich, Connecticut.
5. Nathaniel HOOKER was born about 1706; died in young.
6. Nathaniel 2d HOOKER was born in 1710 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was christened on 8 Oct 1710 in Hartford, Connecticut; died on 27 Jan 1763 in Hartford, Connecticut.
7. Eunice HOOKER was born about 1707.

Samuel married Mary WILLETT on 22 Sep 1658. Mary (daughter of Capt Thomas WILLETT and Mary BROWNE) was born on 10 Nov 1637 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 24 Jun 1712 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Capt. Thomas Willett and Mary Browne

Notes:

Name:
Rev. Thomas Hooker, son of Thomas Hooker, born in England, about 1586, he entered Emanuel College, Cambridge in 1604. he received the degree of B.A. in 1608, the degree of M.A. in 1611, and entering upon a divinity course, he was elected a Fellow of the College. He left the College before completing the first course and receiving the degree of B.D. There are many reasons for supposing that he went from the college direct to Chelmsford and remained there until being silenced, arrested and placed under bonds to appear before the Ecclesiastical Court; he fled to Holland. Came to new England on ship "Griffin" 1633.

The name of his first wife is unknown and nothing of the parentage of his second wife, whose name was Susanna.

His second wife survived him, and though nothing is positively known about her, there are many reasons for believing that in later years she became the wife of Elder William Goodwin and died at Farmington, Conn.

Thomas married Susanna GARBRAND. Susanna was born in 1593 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 17 May 1676 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:
Colonial Mayor. First Mayor of New York City. Arriving in 1632 on "The Lion" (with a religious separatist movement that called themselves "The Saints", that fled England to Leydon, Holland then went back to England to follow the Mayflower voyage), Thomas Willett was a merchant that traded from Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He succeeded Captain Miles Standish as head of the Colonial Militia and negotiated what is now known as the "Rehoboth North Purchase" which acquired land (now known as Attleboro and North Attleboro, Massachusetts) from Wampanoag leader Sachem Wamsutta who was the son of famed chief Massasoit. He later conducted sea trade from the Colonies and was a navigator from 1651 to 1654. When the charter of "New Amsterdam" was changed to British possession, Governor Richard Nicholls granted the city charter on June 12, 1665 and the city, population 1,500 at the time, got Thomas Willett as its English representative/mayor, making him the first mayor of "New York". He served two concurrent one-year terms from 1665 to 1667. His property in that colony was confiscated when the Dutch reclaimed the area and he settled in the locale of Barrington, Rhode Island (while some accounts have his retirement in Sewansea or Seekoknk, Massachusetts, these towns are all close and at the time the town lines that currently exist were not the same.) He was married to Mary Brown and together they had fourteen children. There is a large memorial marker placed for him, and near it is the original weathered stone which, now unreadable is documented as having the following inscription "1674 Here lyeth the body of the worthy Thomas Willett, Esq. who dies August 4 in the 64th year of his age, and who was the first mayor of New York and twice did sustain the place." (bio by: R. Digati)

Thomas married Mary BROWNE on 6 Jul 1636. Mary (daughter of John BROWNE and Dorothy ?) was born in 1614 in England; died on 08 Jan 1669; was buried in Little Neck Cem. Riverside, Providence, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was buried "by her father Mr. John Browne, and other relations upon a little hill in Swansey" in Little Neck Cemetery, Riverside. her husband survived her, married a second time, died in August 1674, and was buried by her side.


At the graves of Thomas Willett and Mary Willett are stones inscribed as follows:

1674
Here lyeth ye body of ye
Wor. Thomas Willett,
esqr., who died Aug. 4,
in ye 64th year of his anno.

Footstone
Who was the first May.
of New York and twice
did sustain ye place.

1669
Here lyeth ye body of ye
virtuous Mary Willett,
wife of Thomas Willett,
esqr., who died, January
ye 8th, about ye 55th
year of her anno.

Footstone
daughter of Worf. John
Browne Esq. deceased.