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- JOSEPH, bp. Windsor 25 July 1641 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 24 November 1664 Elizabeth Hawkes [ WiVR].
One of the earliest settlers of the village of Deerfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Deerfield is now in Franklin County).
Joseph Gillette (Sr.) was a teamster killed at Bloody Brook. The teamsters were hauling grain to storage, under the protection of Captain Thomas Lothrop and his soldiers.
"Joseph Gillett was made freeman in [Windsor, Connecticut] 8 Oct. 1668 and is again so listed there 11 Oct. 1669. The births of his seven children are recorded there and the deaths of two. . . . While the Windsor birth records of all seven children suggest that the young family did not move to new-town Deerfield until the spring of 1675, Joseph was financially interested in the projective settlement by 1673."
--NEHGR (see Sources).
Born / bap. July 25, 1641.
4. Joseph, s. of Jonathan (1), b. 1641; came as one of our earliest settlers; built on No. 32 "the Dr. Willard lot;: was k. with Capt. Lothrop, Sept. 18, 1675. He m. Nov. 24, 1664, Elizabeth, dau. John Hawks of Hadley; she m. (2) Dec. 16, 1680, Nathaniel Dickinson; she d. bef. Apr., 1682.
Ch.:
-Joseph, Nov. 2, 1664(7).
-Elizabeth, June 13, 1666.
-Mary, Sept. 10, 1667.
-Jonathan, Aug. 11, 1669; d. bef. Apr. 17, 1692.
-John, June 10, 1671; capt. by Indians Sept. 16, 1696; Oct. 23, administration was granted on his estate, "he being killed or captured by the Indians, therefore as to his personal residence in Deerfield is dead;" he was taken to Canada, where he became a farm servant for the nuns at Montreal; was sent to France, thence to England, whence he was sent home abt. 1698.
-Nathaniel, May 4, 1673.
-Hannah, Jan. 30, 1675.
Sources:
"The brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and some of their descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGR), v 101, p 44
History of Deerfield, Sheldon, 1895, v II, p 173
See cemetery notes for further details and bibliographic sources.
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