Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

Thomas Willett

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 126 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Willett 
  • Mother:
  • Alice -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1610 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Aug 1674 
  • Death Location:
  • Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jul 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Willett

  Hester Willett (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mayor of New York City

• Additional marriages for Thomas Willett

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  • Spouse:
  • Joanna Boyse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Sep 1671

• Sources for Thomas Willett

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 984.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1997-2002.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 426.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 536.
  • ⁵ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 311.
  • ⁶ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 2000.
  • ⁷ Buckingham, James, The Ancestors of Ebenezer Buckingham, Who Was Born in 1748, and of his Descendants, Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company, Printers (1892), 16.
  • ⁸ Chapman, Rev. F. W., The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn., Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1872), 139.
  • ⁹ Hooker, Edward, The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1909), 10.
  • ¹⁰ Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot and James Jackson Putnam, The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Unknown: Privately printed (1907), 7.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182, 202.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 4, gives incorrect father-in-law.