Mary HOOKER

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• 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]

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• Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Standley of Hartford and Sarah Boosey, dau. of James Boosey of Wethersfield, Ct.

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]

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

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• Fact: Son of Thomas Stanley and Benet Tritton

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He was an Assistant of the Colony, Judge of the County Court, etc., a man of wealth and influence.

Eldest son of Thomas and Benett Stanley, born in Hartford about 1638; removed with his father to Hadley in 1659, and was townsman there in 16665. He returned to Hartford the same year, and was chosen a townsman there February 16, 1665-6; was a deputy to the General Court; an Assistant 1690-1712; Judge of the County court and court of Probate. hH married, June 2, 1759, Sarah, daughter of James and Alice Boosey, of Wethersfield, who was born November 12, 1643, and died August 18, 1716, aged seventy-six. Both were received to the Second church in Hartford March 31, 1678. He died November 14, 1712. His estate amounted to L1,618.19.0.

Nathaniel married Sarah BOOSEY on 2 Jun 1659. Sarah (daughter of Lieut. James BOOSEY and Alice ?) was born on 12 Nov 1643; died on 18 Aug 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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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.

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• Fact: Son of John Stanley and Susan Lancock

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He probably arrived in May, 1634, (Love's Colonial History of Hartford, p. 2), though he is generally said to have come from London in the ship "Planter", 1635 and registered at the Custom House as 16; but this evidently refers to someone else of the same name, for he was much older. He and his brother Timothy were made Freemen of Massachusetts, March 4, 1634/5. His wife was born in 1609 and he was Deputy to the General Court from Lynn, Sep. 2, 1635, when the removal to Connecticut was decided upon. Moreover, he came with his brothers, John and Timothy who did not come in the "Planter." At Hartford he was Constable in the years 1644, 48 and 53. He joined the first party for the settlement of Hartford, known as the "Adventurers," who went the year before the main body of Mr. Hooker's congregation. He had been chosen Constable at Lynn and was fined 10 shillings at a Court held in Salem, for not being present June 27, 1636. He was an original proprietor at Hartford and his home lot in 1639 was on what is now Main Street just north of Little River, extending to the present Center Church. He removed to Hadley in 1659 and it has been said he was Townsman there but his name is not included in the list of Hadley's Selectmen.

Though a young man at this time, Mr. Stanley soon took an important position in the affairs of the town. He was a juryman in 1639 and 1643, and a constable in 1644, 1647, 1648, and 1653. This office was then one of the most responsible in the settlement, combining the duties of the modern sheriff and policeman, and being charged in general with preserving the order and decorum of the place. it devolved on him to summon the courts, General and Particular, to their sessions, and the freemen to their elections, to execute the decrees of the courts and the laws, to enforce order in public worship, to arrest and confine offenders, to administer the frequent whippings which were ordered in punishment of petty crimes, inflicting so many lashes "well laid on," a duty requiring a steady nerve and a strong arm.

In the year 1659, Thomas Stanley and his family, with some others, removed from Hartford, and commenced a new settlement at Hadley, Mass.

Though Thomas Stanley and his family removed from Hartford, he did not dispose of his house and lands there. At his death he left them to his only son, Nathaniel, who after the de3cease of his mother, returned and made his home there. They remained in the line of his descendants until they were bequeathed by his grandson William to the second church in1726. He died January 31, 1663, and was buried at Hadley. His will which is on record in Northampton, gives us interesting particulars as to his home and his family.

Thomas married Benedicta TRITTON on 3 Aug 1630. Benedicta was born on 30 Jul 1609 in Parish Reg., Ashford, Kent, England; died in Jan 1664/5. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Daniel Tritton and Alice Goldhatch

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He was of Wethersfield, 1635; Representative from 1639 till his death; was chosen clerk of the Wethersfield Trainband in April, 1645 and is called "Lieutenant" in September, 1647, tho' the date of his appointment is unknown. He was a prominent citizen both in town and colonial affairs. By occupation, he was a joiner and wheelwright. Lands were recorded to him at Wethersfield, Mar. 10, 1641. In October, 1644, he was appointed by the General Court a committee with Governor Edward Hopkins, the Deputy Governor John Haynes, Captain John Mason, Mr. John Steele and Mr. William Gaylord, to treat with Mr. George Fenwick about the purchase of the fort and land at Saybrook. They made a bargain with Matthew Griffin. (h. 121) In his will of June 21, 1649, he appointed Mr. Welles, brother of Smith Senior and brother Dickinson overseers; Samuel Smith and nathaniel Dickinson, witnesses. In it, he mentions his daughter Mary "Item I give to my Daughter Mary fifty pounds at the age of on and Twenty years or at the Day of her maridge." He spelled his name Boosye. The best sketch of his life is in Mr. Starr's Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines, I, pp. 263-271.

James married Alice ?. Alice died on 30 Aug 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]