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Elizabeth Hawkes

Female 1647 - 1681  (~ 34 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth Hawkes 
    Christened 10/10 Jan 1646/7  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 11 Oct 1681  Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2233  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Joseph Gillett,   c. 25 Jul 1641, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Sep 1675, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Married 24 Nov 1663  Hadley, Hampshire, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1320  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Ancestry.com's "The Great Migration Begins, Sketches, Preserved Puritan" has the following listing of children for the emigrant Jonathan Gillett. [See his notes for full quotation from which this small portion is taken.]:
      "Children:
      i Jonathan, b. about December 1634 [TAG 15:210]; m. (1) Windsor 23 April 1661 Mary Kelsey [Grant 39], daughter of William Kelsey [TAG 68:209, 210, 215]; m. (2) Windsor 14 December 1676 Miriam Dibble [Grant 39], daughter of Thomas Dibble.
      ii Cornelius, b. say 1636; m. by 1659 Priscilla Kelsey, daughter of William Kelsey [TAG 68:214; Grant 39].
      iii Mary, b. say 1638; m. Windsor 15 July 1658 Peter Brown [Grant 33-34; TAG 33:215]. (Because of the tight chronology between the date of marriage of the parents and the known birthdate of the fourth Child, Coddington suggests that Cornelius and Mary may have been twins [TAG 15:211].)
      iv Anna, b. Windsor 29 December 1639 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 29 October 1663 Samuel Filley [Grant 37].
      v Joseph, bp. Windsor 25 July 1641 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 24 November 1664 Elizabeth Hawkes [WiVR].
      vi Samuel, bp. Windsor 22 January 1642/3 [Grant 39]; no further record.
      vii John, b. Windsor 5 October 1644 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 8 July 1669 "Marcy Barber" [CTVR 12; Grant 40]. John Gillett d. in 1682 [Manwaring 1:307] and his widow m. (2) Windsor 14 June 1683 George Norton [CTVR 52], son of George Norton. She was the daughter of Thomas Barber [Manwaring 1:94], and had been taken in by Walter FILER after her father's death [RPCC 262, 264].
      viii Abigail, bp. Windsor 28 June 1646 [Grant 39]; d. Windsor 1648 [Grant 81].
      ix Jeremiah, b. Windsor 12 February 1647/8 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 15 October 1685 Deborah Bartlett [WiVR Barbour 117], daughter of Benjamin Bartlett.
      x Josiah, bp. Windsor 14 July 1650 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 30 June 1676 Joanna Taintor [Grant 42, 76].
      Bibliographic Note: George E. McCracken surveyed the literature on the Gillett family in 1979, providing some brief commentary on the relative reliability of the many publications [TAG 55:170-1]."
      Sources:
      DTR: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883).
      TAG: The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+).
      Grant: "Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681" in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930).
      WiVR: Windsor Vital Records, typescript, Connecticut State Library (1918-29).
      WiVR Barbour: Windsor Vital Records, Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut.
      CTVR: Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898).
      Manwaring: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904).
      RPCC: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987).
      WiLR: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut)."

      2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 290:
      "Joseph (son of Jonathan) Gillett, settled at Simsbury; m. Elizabeth (dau. of John) Hawkes, 1664; bought the Hawkes place at Windsor, where he resided until about 1673, when he removed to Deerfield, Massachusetts, and sold the Hawkes place to Thomas Parsons, and he sold it to John Osborn, Jr. Children (Old Church Records):
      A. Joseph, b. 2 Nov 1664.
      B. Elizabeth, b. 11 or 12 Jun 1666.
      C. Mary, b. 10 Sep 1667.
      D. Jonathan, b. 11 Aug 1669; acc. to 'Col. Rec.,' d. 3 Jun 1686.
      E. John, b. 10 Jun 1671; m.; had Joseph, b. 16 Feb 1692.
      F. Nathaniel, b. 4 May 1673.
      G. Hannah, b. 30 Jan 1674.
      H. Daughter.
      I. Daughter.

      3. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 369: "John (Hakes) Hawkes, land grant (see page 158, Vol. 1); removed to Hadley about 1660; dying, his widow sold lands to their son-in-law, Joseph Gillett, 1666. Children (Old Church Records gives him eleven; all these are given in O.C.R. as births):
      A. John, b. 13 Aug 1643.
      B. Nathaniel, bp. 16 Feb 1644.
      C. Elizabeth, bp. 10 Jan 1646; m. Joseph Gillett, who prob. resided on the Hawkes lands until about 1673, when he removed to Deerfield.
      D. Ann, bp. 1 Oct 1648.
      E. Isaac, b. 11 Aug 1650; 'was drowned in the Great River June 22, 1659, by voluntarily going in to swim, and on the day following was found (by an Indian), driven far down, and was brought and buried.' - Windsor Records.
      F. Mary, b. 23 May 1652.
      G. Joanna, b. 8 Feb 1653; d. bef. 1674.
      H. Eleazer, b. 20 Dec 1655.
      I. Sarah, b. 29 Sep 1657.
      J. Gershom (Jesom, in rec.), b. 12 Apr 1659
      (None of this family remained in Windsor.)"

      4. The book "The 'Mary and John," chapter "The Passengers," p. 37:
      "Jonathan and Nathan Gillett were the sons of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, co. Somerset, who died in 1641. Jonathan Gillett came to America with his brother in 1630, but returned to England to marry March 29, 1634, at Colyton, co. Devon, Mary Dolbere, who was b. 7 Jun 1607, and d. 5 Jan 1685, dau. of Rawkey and Mary (Mitchell) Dolbere. Mary Dolbere is thought to have been a relative of Rev. Warham. (Jacobus, Donald Lines: 'The American Genealogist,' v. XV, p. 209. New Haven, Conn., 1938-39.)
      In a bible belonging to the Gillett family is the following: 'My Grandfather Gille(tt) came into new englan the secon time in June in the yeare 1634 and Jonathan his sonne was born about half a years aftur he cam to land.'
      Jonathan Gillett was made a freeman in 1635, moved to Windsor in 1636, and died there 23 Aug 1677. Children:
      A. Jonathan, 1634-5 Sep 1708; m. 22 Apr 1662, Mary, 1634-18 Apr 1676, dau. of William Kelsey; m. (2) 1676 Miriam Dibble, d. 1687. Children: Mary, Jonathan, William, Thomas, and Samuel.
      B. Cornelius, b. 1635; m. Priscilla Kelsey.
      C. Mary (twin), m. Peter Brown.
      D Anna, b. 29 Dec 1639; m. 1663, Samuel Filley, 1643-1711.
      E. Joseph, b. 25 Jul 1641; killed in King Philip's War; m. 1664, Elizabeth, 1647-1725, dau. of John Hawkes. Children: Joseph, 1664; Elizabeth, 1666; Mary, 1667; Jonathan, 1669-1692; John, 1671; Nathaniel, 1673; Hannah, 1675.
      F. Samuel, b. 22 Jan 1642.
      G. John, b. 4 Oct 1644; m. 1669, Mary, dau. Thomas Barber.
      H. Abigail, 1646-1649.
      I. Jeremiah, 20 Feb 1647-1 Mar 1692; m. 1685, Deborah Bartlett. Deborah m. (2) Samuel Adams.
      J. Josiah, bapt. 15 Jul 1650; m. 1676, Joanna Taintor."

      5. 20 Mar 2008 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/Gillet.htm
      "Joseph Gillett baptized 25 July 1641 in Windsor. CT, married Elizabeth HAWKES 24 Nov. 1663 in Hadley, MA,[45] killed in an Indian massacre 18 Sept. 1675 at Bloody Brook, Deerfield, MA. Elizabeth was baptized 10 Jan. 1646/7 in Windsor, CT, died 11 Oct. 1681 in Hatfield, MA(?). She was a daughter of John & Elizabeth (Browne) Hawkes. She married (2) Nathaniel Dickinson 16 Dec. 1680 in Hatfield, MA. He died 11 Oct. 1710. Elizabeth's father, John Hawkes, died intestate in June 1662 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA. In the estate settlement: "Elizabeth shall have the sum of twenty pounds at her day of marriage in such pay as the estate will afford."[46]
      In 1666 Joseph bought Windsor land from his widowed mother-in-law. No doubt this was the "homelot with the addition eight acres" (annotated "sold to Joseph Gylitt") in John Hawkes' Windsor, CT, estate settlement. Joseph and his young family probably lived on this land until their removal to Deerfield, MA.
      Joseph was listed as a freeman in Windsor on 8 Oct. 1668 and on 11 Oct. 1669.[47]
      The first record of Joseph in Deerfield is 7 Nov. 1673 when he was present at a plantation meeting there. Deerfield lot numbers 31 & 32 had been drawn in 1671 by Robert Hinsdale and Nathaniel Colburne. In 1673 these 2 lots were owned by "Joseph Gillett, son of Jonathan (1), born 1641." (Note that Robert Hindsdale had married (2) widow Elizabeth {Brown} Hawkes in 1668.) When the lots were sold in 1694 they were described as "Sometime two town lots, 16½ by 72 rods with a house on it."
      In Sept. 1675 during King Philip's War Deerfield was attacked several times by the Indians. It was decided to evacuate Deerfield. Capt. Thomas Lathrop's company of soldiers were bringing loaded carts toward Northampton when they were ambushed at a spot since known as Bloody Brook, about 5 or 6 miles due south of Deerfield. The men were taken completely by surprise. Joseph Gillett and Capt. Lathrop were among the 64 English killed on 18 Sept.[48] Reoccupation of Deerfield did not occur until the spring of 1682.
      The 1676 inventory of Joseph Gillit's estate was presented to the Corte by John Hawks (Joseph's mother's father or brother?). The inventory totaled £010-09-00. Also belonging to the estate "Land at Deerfield, viz. two homelotts & Land in ye meadows vallued at 8 Commons. Debts due ye estate: £02-12-00.
      As noted above, Joseph's widow, Elizabeth, married (2) Nathaniel Dickinson 16 Dec. 1680. Elizabeth then died 11 Oct. 1681.
      On 18 Apr. 1682 Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield requested power of administration of Jos. Gillett's estate. In 1686 the estate was finally settled with Joseph Gillett's 4 sons and 2 daughters. The oldest son, Joseph Gillett, received a double part.[49]"
      [Note that the article continues with an extensive list of descendancy, a copy of which I provide in husband Joseph Gillett's notes.]

      6. The book "Gillette Families, Some of the Descendants of Jonathan Gillet and Nathan Gillet," comp. Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, 1955, pp. 18-19:
      "Joseph Gillett, (son of Jonathan) bapt. 25 Jul 1641, Windsor, Conn., another rec. says he was bapt. in Simsbury, Conn., son of Jonathan and Mary Dolbiar Gillet, m. 24 Nov 1663, Elizabeth Hawks, dau. of John and Eliza Hawks of Haddam. She m. (2) Nathaniel Dickinson 16 Dec 1680. The Hist. of Deerfield, Vol. 2, p. 173 says 'Joseph came as one of our earliest settlers, built on No. 32, on the Dr. Willard lot; was killed with Capt. Lothrop 18 Sep 1675 in King Philiips War at Battle Creek. [Someone has penciled in 'Blood Brook, South Deerfield, MA.']
      Children:
      Joseph, b. 2 Nov 1664, Windsor, Conn., d. 1745-6; m. 2 Nov 1687, Esther Gall.
      Elizabeth, b. 12 Jun 1666.
      Mary, b. 10 Sep 1667.
      Jonathan, b. 11 Aug 1669; d. 3 Jun 1686.
      John, b. 10 Jun 1671; captured by the Indians 16 Sep 1696; d. Lebanon, Conn., Apr 1755; m. Lebanon, Conn., 3 Jan 1700 to Experience Dewey, b. Westfield, Mass., 9 Apr 1682. On 23 Oct 1696, administration was granted on his estate, he being killed or captured by the Indians, therefore, as to his personal residue in Deerfield is dead. He was taken to Canada; was sent to France, thence to England, where he was sent home about 1698. John was one of the 51 charter members or proprietors of Lebanon, Conn.
      Nathaniel, b. 4 May 1673; d. 10 Jul 1714; m. abt 170?, Sarah Culver, d. 6 Jan 1716-17.
      Hannah, b. 30 Jan 1675; d. 11 Aug 1683. Jonathan, Joseph's father in his will mentions 'and to ye two children, which I taken that were my son Joseph's dead, as ye little son Jonathan 5, and ye garle 5 (Mary?) there seems to be no further mention in Jonathan's wil of either Joseph or Samuel or their families."

      7. Article from the Gillette family file at the Windsor Historical Society by Gary Boyd Roberts entitled "Genealogies of Conn. families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register," vol. II, Baltimore, 1983, Gen. Pub. Co., Inc., pp. 41-43:
      "Joseph Gillett (son of Jonathan), of Windsor, Conn., and Deerfield, Mass., baptized in Windsor 25 Jul 1641, died in Deerfield, in the tragic warfare at Bloody Brook, 18 Sept 1675. He married, probably in Hadley, Mass., in 1663 or 1664, Elizabeth Hawkes, baptized in Windsor 10 Jan 1646/7, died almost surely 1681, daughter of John and Elizabeth Hawkes. Elizabeth (Hawkes) Gillett married secondly, 16 Dec. 1680, as his second wife, Nathaniel Dickenson of Hatfield, Mass.
      Joseph Gillett was made a freeman in Windsor 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.
      These records indicate the error of statements that Joseph was of Simsbury, Conn., and had nine children; the probable gound for the latter error to be indicated later by a 1686 probate record. 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 finanacially interested in the projective settlement by 1673.
      Another erroneous statement is the Joseph Gillett and Elizabeth Hawkes marriage date, and probably the place: 'at Windsor 24 Nov 1664.' There is no known Windsor record of the marriage, and Windsor would not have recorded the birth of Josoph's first Child, 2 Nov 1664 (or even 20 Nov 1664, as one statement has it) if the parents were then not married. Hence the birth record seems to guarantee the marriage by 1664 before 2 Nov.; and it may have been in 1663, but probably not earlier.
      Stiles states that John Hawkes' widow sold Windsor lands to their son-in-law Joseph Gillett in 1666, 'who probably resided on the Hawkes lands until about 1673 when he removed to Deerfield.' Another Windsor record is: ' Joseph Gillett, adult, church member 16().'
      In 1669 the first house was built in Deerfield; the second house in 1670; and house lots were drawn 14 May 1671. In 1673 at least twenty men were present, Joseph Gillet one of them; also Robert Hinsdell (later Hinsdale) and his five sons; and Robert had married (2) Widow Elizabeth Hawkes, and his son had married her daughter Mary Hawkes in 1672 and gone at once to Deerfield with her. Lots No. 31 and 32, drawn 1671 by Robert Hinsdale and Nathaniel Colburne, in 1673 were owned by 'Joseph Gillett, son of Jonathan (1), born 1641' and he 'built on No. 32 - the Dr. Willard lot; was killed with Capt. Lothrop, Sept. 18, 1675' (Sheldon, 'History of Deerfield'). when the lots were sold in 1694 by Joseph Gillett's son, they are described as "Sometime two town lots, 16-1/2 by 72 rods, with a house on it.'
      In two or three days after Bloody Brook battle, the garrison and inhabitants of Deerfield abandoned the place, and a third village in Hampshire County was given up to desolation. The surviving inhabitants retired to Hatfield and other places.
      In 1680 measures were taken for the reoccupation of their lands by the Proprietors of Deerfield, and the spring of 1682 is considered as the date of the permanent settlement. And by the spring of 1682 Joseph Gillett's widow (Hawkes) was also dead, after having married (2) 16 Dec. 1680, as his second wife, Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield, Mass.; and at that date her seven children were all living.
      Hampshire Conty, Mass., Probate Reocrds in Northampton give the following records of the estate of Joseph Gillett; Card Index - Joseph Gillet, Deerfield. Adm., vol. 1, p. 172, year 1676. Inventory, adms., p. 222, year 1682. Ad., Inv., & Dist., p. 257, year 1686:
      'John Hawks presented to this Corte ye Inventory of ye Estate of Joseph Gillit deceased to wch he mad Oath wch Inventory is on ffile with the Reocrder of this Corte & Powere of adminstration upon ye Estate of Joseph Gillit Deceased is by this Corte granted to Elizabeth Gillit the Relict.
      Here following a copy of ye Inventory of ye Estate of Joseph Gillitt deceased (Inventory difficult to read in the opening part of list of stock, tools, etc. It includes: cow, yearling, young mare: and 'due from Eldr Storng 20 due from Caaleb Pomery')
      Above Inventory taken by Quimtan Stockwell, Samll Billing. Sum total 010 - 09-00.
      There is Likewise belonging to this Esate, land at Deerfield viz two homelotts & Land in ye meadows vallued at 8 Comons.
      Debts due from ye Estate 02 - 12 - 00.
      Page 222, Adms. on Jos. Gillett Estate, April 18, 1682. Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield (appearing before magistrates Pynchon & (?) both Assistants of this Jurisdiction & a clerk present - desiring power of administration upon ye Estate of Joseph Gillitt sometyme of deerfield deceased whose Widdow or Relict sd Dickinson had married & in her Right was adminsitrator to sd Estate, wch ceased at sd Widdow's death, and it being needful to conserve same for his children sd Dickinson desiring of it. - Granted.
      Page 257 - Settlement Estate Joseph Gillett 1686.
      Dist. - March 30, 1686 - Additional inventory, of clothes etc. presented by Nathaniel Dickenson, who stated after her marriage to him, the widow of Joseph Gillett 'soon after died'...'the sd Nathaniel Dickenson shewing himself faithful to his trust & also to settled sd children in some comfortable way and there bieng 4 sons and two daughters'... eldest son Joseph Gillett, to have a double part, and to have the land for his use till his brothers come of age. court orders Nathaniel Dickinson, Joseph Barnard & Thomas Wells to make the division.'
      As Windsor death records show, the youngest child Hannah, had died 11 Aug 1683; and Jonathan(3), second of the four sons referred to in the above probate record, died the following 3rd of June 1686. But there is nowhere suggestion of the deaths of two older sisters, Elizabeth(3) and Mary(3), and they were doubtless the 'two daughters' of their stepfather's statement; not any imaginary and almost impossible two daughters younger than the Hannah (3) for whom Barbour's Collection gives the birth records for Joseph's birth, one making it Nov. 2 and two making it Nov. 20; and two different records for sister Mary, one Sept. 1 and the other Sept. 10, 1667.
      [Seven children listed.]"

      8. From "The Great Migration," by Anderson:
      "JOHN HAWKES
      Origin: Unknown.
      Migration: 1634 (based on date of freemanship).
      First Residence: Dorchester
      Removes: Windsor 1635, Hadley by 1660.
      Church Membership: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 3 Sep. 1634 implied by freemanship.
      John Hawkes or his wife (and probably both had apparently been admitted to Windsor church by 13 August1643, if that be the date of baptism of their son John. On 18 January 1659/60 "John Hakes" was listed among those who had been placed in the long seats in Windsor meetinghouse [Windsor .Hist 1:178, citing "Book of Rates"].
      Freeman: 3 September 1634 (third in a sequence of three Dorchester men) [MBCR 1:369].
      Offices: Connecticut petit jury, 1 March 164819 [CCCR 1:176]. Tax collector, 6 February 1649/50 [CCCR. 1:2O4].
      Estate: In the Windsor land inventory on 4 February 1640[/1] "John Hawkes bath granted from the plantation" four parcels: "an homelot with the addition eight acres" (annotated "sold to Joseph Gylitt"); "in the Great Meadow two acres" (annotated "sold to Nathan[ie]l1 Winchel"); "over the Great River ten rod in breadth, more or less, the length from the river back to the east three miles" (annotated "sold to John. Osband"); and "also at Paquanick, on the north side of the river, in meadow four acres, besides; allowance for swamp, & adjoining to it twenty acres of upland" (annotated "sold to David Williams [16]62 October 13") (WiLR 1:107r, 1A:99].
      On 31 March 1663, "John Hawkes of Hadley dying intestate the inventory of his estate was presented to this Court & is in [illegible], and in reference to settlement of the said estate the Court ordered with the advice of friends & the widow's free consent &. desire that her son John shall when he comes to the age of 22 years have a third part of her homelot, her housing only excepted & a third part of all her lands in Hadley & a young horse, and that her daughter Elizabeth shall have the sum of twenty pounds at her day of marriage in such pay as the estate will afford, and that her son Elezur shall have twenty pounds when he attains the age of one & twenty years in such pay as the estate will afford, and that her son Gerson shall have the sum of twenty pounds at the age of one & twenty years in such pay as the estate will afford, and that the next four daughters shall have the sum of fifteen pounds apiece to be paid to each of them as they shall attain the age of one & twenty years, and power of administration is granted to said widow Hawkes in reference to the said estate" [HamCCR 1:25].
      On 28 September 1669, "John Hawkes late of Hadley deceased, dying intestate, there was an order of the Court at Northampton in March 1663 settling the estate in respect of the widow Hawkes & portions for the children, but there being no security ordered for payment of Children's portions, this Court ordereth upon the desire of Robert Hensdall & his wife the mother of the said children that the housing & lands at Hadley which were the estate of John Hawkes shall stand as security for the children's portions excepting those lands that young John Hawkes hath received as his portion by the former Court order" [HamCCR l:ll3].
      On 27 September 1681, "the widow Elizabeth Hindsdall administratrix to the estate of her former husband John Hawks, as by the Court act March 31: 63 appears presenting a petition to this Court wherein she shews how she would dispose other remaining estate by her former husband Hawks in Hadley which by God's Providence she is again come to live upon, that is to say that her son Eliezur & Gershom Hawks who are yet unmarried & have their portions to receive should have the said portions paid them out of some of her husband Hawks lands, she declaring that the other children's portions are paid them according to the Court's settlement, and signifying that she with her two sons Eliezer and Gershom Hawks have come to this agreement, that they shall improve the whole remainder of estate or lands as abovesaid in Hadly together with their own shares for the yearly maintenance of their mother while she shall live & so have conditioned mutually that the said Eliezer & Gershom shall have the. whole betwixt them at her decease, as by writings drawn & signed & sealed between them appears, and the widow mother signifying her desires that the said lands may be confirmed to them as aforesaid by this Court they performing the agreement to her this Court likes well of the petition and appoint the lands to her said sons after her decease" [HamCCR 1:l27].
      Birth: By 1613 (based on date of freemanship).
      Death: Buried Hadley 30 June 1662 (Pynchon VR 237].
      Marriage: By 1643 Elizabeth ___. She married (2) Robert Hinsdale {1637, Dedham} and (3) Thomas Dibble, son of Robert DIBBLE {1634, Dorchester} (GM 2:2:345-47]. She died at Windsor on 2 September 1685 [WiLR Barbour 71, citing "1:43"].
      Children:
      i JohnHAWKES, b (or bp) Windsor 13 August 1643 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. (1) Hadley 26 December 1667: Martha Baldwin [Pynchon VR 223]; m. (2) Deerfield 20 November 1696 Alice A1lis.
      ii Nathaniel HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 16 February 1644[/5] [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; no further record.
      iii Elizabeth HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 10 January 1646[/7] [Grant 46; CTVR 36); m. (1) Hadley 24 November 1663 Joseph Gillett [Pynchon VR 223]; m. (2) Hatfield 16 Dec. 1680 Nathaniel Dickinson. [NEHGR 152:170-71].
      iv Anna HAWKES, b. (or bp.) Windsor 1 October 1648 (Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. Hadley 10 November 1672 Thomas Hastings [Pynchon VR 224], son of Thomas HASTINGS {1634, Watertown} [GM 2:3:235-40].
      v Isaac HAWKES, b. Windsor 11 August 1650 [Grant 46; CTVR 36); "drowned in the Great River June 22d 1659 by voluntarily going in to swim, and on the day following was found (by an Indian) driven far down, and was brought up and. buried" [Loomis Rec 45].
      vi Mary HAWKES, b. Windsor 23 May 1652 [Grant 46; CTVR 36]; m. (1) Hadley 10 October 1672 Experience Hinsdale (Pynchon VR 224], son of Robert Hinsdale {1637 Dedham}; m. (2) Hatfield [blank] July 1677 John Evans [HadVR 105].
      vii JOANNA HAWKES, b. Windsor 8 Feb. 1653[/4]. [Grant 46 (annotated "dead"); CTVR 40, 45]; m. Hatfield 21 November 1677 William Arms (HadVR 105].
      viii ELEAZER HAWKES, b. Windsor 20 December 1655 [Grant 46; CTVR 45); m. Deerfield 30 April 1689 Judith Smead.
      ix Sarah. HAWKES, b. Windsor 29 September 1657 (Grant 46, CTVR 44]; m. (1) Springfield 10 September 1677 Philip Mattoon [Pynchon VR 59]; m. (2) in 1704 or later Daniel Belden [John Hawks Gen 20].
      x GERSHOM HAWKES, b. Windsor 12 April 1659 [Grant 46]; m. by 1691 Elizabeth Pratt, daughter of Richard Pratt (in his will of 8 May 1691, "Richard Pratt Senior of Malden" included a be quest to "my daughter Elizabeth the wife of Gershom Hawkes" [MPR Case #17925]).
      xi child HAWKES, b. Windsor on an unknown date [Grant 92]; no further record.
      Comments: Imogene Hawks Lan e claimed that John Hawkes came to New England in 1630, based on an entry in the Winthrop Papers [John Hawks Gen 1, citing WP 2:276], but this is only a guess, and misreads the record.
      No record of John Hawkes has been found between his freemanship in 1634 and his record of landholding in Windsor in 1640. He would have been at least twenty-one years old in 1634, but did not marry until about late 1642, when he would have been nearly thirty. These circumstances raise the question whether the John Hawkes of Dorchester in 1634 was the same as the Windsor man.
      If John Hawkes was one of the early migrants from Dorchester to Windsor in 1635, we would have an explanation for the lack of further records in Massachusetts Bay, and the records for Windsor in the later 1630s are few. We then need only to assume that he married about five years later than average for men of his time. Some doubt remains, but we assume here that all these records pertain to one man named John Hawkes.
      In his 17 August 1677 list of "what children has been born in Windsor from our beginning," Matthew Grant included "John Haks," crediting him with eleven children [Grant 92]. Only ten of these children are accounted for in other records. Grant states that the daughter Joanna was dead, but a daughter of that name married not long after Grant compiled his record, so there may have been two daughters of this name. The correct chronological placement of a second daughter Joanna is not clear.
      Bibliographic Note: In 1989 Imogene Hawks Lane published a comprehensive account of this immigrant and his agnate descendants [John Hawks, A Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts, After a Sojourn of Twenty-Four Years at Windsor, Connecticut: Thirteen Generations in America] (cited above as John Hawks Gen)."

      9. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 1:32-33:
      "JONATHAN GILLETT - b.a. 1600, England, d. 29 Aug. 1677, Windsor, Conn. m. Mary Dolbiar, 29 Mar. 1634, St. Andrews Church, Colyton, Devon, England (1607-1685), dau. of Rawkey Dolbiar & Mary Michell of Cadhayne, near Colyton.
      Jonathan Gillett came on the "Mary & John" in 1630, either alone or with his younger brother, Nathan. He returned to England to marry and then sailed back to New England soon after. He was the son of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somerset in 1609, who d. 1641. He served in the Pequot War in 1637 and moved his family from Dorchester, Mass. to Windsor, Conn. in the summer of 1639. He was the Constable of Windsor in 1665 and in 1671 he was granted land in Simsbury, Conn. for his service in the Pequot War. Estate: 273 pounds.
      Ten children (1635-1650) (NER 100:275), 75 grandchildren, and 243 great-grandchildren identified.
      Children:
      1. Jonathan Gillett, Jr.-b.a. 1635, Dorchester, Mass., d. between 1694 & 1698. m. (1) Anna Kelsey, 23 Apr. 1661 (1634-1676), dau. of William Kelsey, the emigrant. m. (2) Miriam Dibble, 14 Dec. 1676, Windsor, dau. of Thomas Dibble. Estate: 360 pounds. Four children by first wife (1665-1673) (NER 100:275), and six by second (1678-1685), and 13 grandchildren.
      2. Cornelius Gillett-b.a. July 1636, Dorchester, Mass., d. 26 June 1711, Windsor, Conn. m. Priscilla Kelsey, who d. 1772, dau. of William Kelsey, the emigrant. Estate: 44 pounds. Nine children (1659-1678) (NER 100:277), and 28 grandchildren.
      3. Mary Gillett-b. 1638, Dorchester, Mass. m. Peter Brown, 15 July 1658, who d. 1691, called the son of Peter Brown of the Mayflower (1620) but this has been disputed. He bought land in Windsor in 1658 and moved to the Josias Ellsworth place in 1664. Estate: 408 pounds. Eleven children (Windsor-118) and 61 grandchildren. One of his descendants was John Brown, the Abolitionist.
      4. Anna Gillett-b. 29 Dec. 1639, Windsor, Conn., d. 4 Jan. 1711. m. Samuel Filley, 29 Oct. 1663, Windsor (1643-1712), s. of William Filley, the emigrant. He moved to Simsbury, Conn., 1669. Twelve children (1667-1683) (Windsor-250), and 26 grandchildren.
      5. Joseph Gillett-bpt. 25 July 1641, Windsor, Conn., d. 18 Sept. 1675, killed by Indians at Bloody Brook, near Deerfield, Mass. m. Elizabeth Hawkes (1646-1681), dau. of John & Elizabet Hawkes. Moved from Windsor to Deerfield, 1675. Seven children (1664-1675) (NER 101:46), and 19 grandchildren.
      6. Samuel Gillet-bpt. 22 Jan. 1642, Windsor, Conn., d. 19 May 1676, killed in the fight at Turner's Falls, Mass. m. Hannah Dickinson, 23 Sept. 1668, Hadley, Mass. (b. 1648), dau. of John Dickinson. She m. (2) Stephen Jennings, 1677. The year after Samuel's death, Hannah remarried, became pregnant and was captured by Indians in the attack on Hatfield, Mass., along with her daughter Mary (age 5) and son Samuel, Jr. (age 4). When the authorities refused to pursue the Indians, her husband, Stephen Jennings and Benjamin Waite, set out toward Canada to recover the captives. After traveling thru the winter they arrived in Canada in January, 1678 and negotiated a ransom with the French. There, Hannah had a daughter she named Captivity, and she returned to Deerfield, with her other two children and the captives in June. Four children (1669-1674) (NER 101:46), and 14 grandchildren.
      7. John Gillett-b. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor, Conn., d. 1682. m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669, Windsor (1651-1725), dau. of Thomas Barber, the emigrant. She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. Seven children (1671-1682) (NER 101:46), and 29 grandchildren.
      8. Abigail Gillett-bpt. 28 June 1646, Windsor, d. 1648.
      9. Jeremiah Gillett-b. 12 Feb. 1647, Windsor, Conn., d. 1 Mar. 1692, Windsor. m. Deborah Bartlett, 15 Oct. 1685, Windsor (b. 1666), dau. of Benjamin Bartlett & Deborah Barnard. Four children (1686-1692) (Fyler-30).
      10. Josiah Gillett-bpt. 14 July 1650, Windsor, Conn., d. 29 Oct. 1736, Colchester, Conn. m. Joanna Taintor, 20 June 1676 (1657-1735), dau. of Michael Taintor of Branford, Conn. (See NER 4:169). Res: Windsor and Colchester, Conn. Eleven children (1678-1701) (NER Apr. 1893, p. 168), and 53 grandchildren.
      References:
      Gillett & Allied Families, by L. S. Gillett, 1930.
      Gillett Family in Conn., Vol. 1.
      Gillett Families, by B. B. Aldridge, 1955. TAG 42:160 (English Wills).
      TAG 56:129 (Nathan)
      NER 100:272 (Genealogy).
      NER 101:43, 153, 237, 283 (Genealogy).
      NER Apr. 1893, p. 168 (Genealogy).
      TAG Apr. 1971 (Dispute French Ancestry)."

      10. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 18:61-62, "GILLETT, JONATHAN (a.1607-1677) OF WINDSOR, CT, NATHAN GILLETT ( -1689) AND JEREMIAH GILLETT ( - )":
      "Jonathan Gillett - Born before 1609. Died 29 Aug. 1677, Windsor, CT. He m. Mary Dolbair, 29 Mar. 1634, St. Andrew, Colyton, Devon, dau. of Rawkey Dolbiar and Mary Michell of Cadhayne, Colyton. According to family tradition he came on the "Mary & John" in 1630, possibly with brothers Nathan and Jeremiah. He returned to England to marry and they returned to New England on the "Recovery of London" in March 1634. If his brothers did not accompany him in 1630 they probably did in 1634. The bible he brought from England, printed in 1599, is now on display at the Windsor Historical Society in Windsor, CT. A note in the bible says Jonathan Gillett came to New England a second time in June 1635. He actually came in 1634. Children (Search Series Vol. 5, pp. 49-77).
      a. Jonathan Gillett, Jr. - B.a. 1635 Dorchester, MA. His will dated 25 Aug. 1694 and proved 5 Apr. 1698. He m. (1) Mary Kelsey, 23 Apr. 1661, (1634-1676) dau. of William Kelsey. He m. (2) Miriam Dibble, 14 Dec. 1676, Windsor, CT, dau. of Thomas Dibble. Four children by first wife (1665-1673) and six by second (1678-1688).
      b. Cornelius Gillett - B.a. July 1636, Dorchester, MA. D. 26 June 1711. He m. Priscilla Kelsey, a. 1658, dau. of William Kelsey. Nine children. (16591678).
      c. Mary Gillett - B. 1638, Dorchester, MA. She m. Peter Brown, 15 July 1658 Windsor, CT. who d. 9 Mar. 1691. Fourteen chilren (1659-1681).
      d. Anna Gillett - B. 29 Dec. 1639, Windsor, CT. D. 18 Nov. 1711. She m. Samuel Filley, 29 Oct. 1663, Windsor, CT. (1643-1711), son of William Filley. Twelve children (1667-1683).
      e. Joseph Gillett - Bpt. 25 July 1641, Windsor, CT. Killed 18 Sept. 1675 Bloody Brook, Deerfield, MA. He m. Elizabeth Hawkes (1641-1681) dau. of John Hawks. She m. (2) Nathaniel Dickinson. Seven children (1664-1675).
      f. Samuel Gillett 0 Bpt. 22 Jan. 1642, Windsor, CT. Killed 19 May, 1676 Turner's Falls Fight. He m. Hannah Dickinson, 23 Sept. 1668, Hadley, MA. She m. (2) Stephen Jennings, 1677. Four children (1669-1674).
      g. John Gillett - B. 5 Oct. 1644, Windsor, CT. He m. Mercy Barber, 8 July 1669 Windsor, CT. (1651-1725) dau. of Thomas Barber. She m. (2) Capt. George Norton, 1683. Seven children (1671-1682).
      h. Abigail Gillett - Bpt. 28 June 1646, Windsor, CT. D.y.
      i. Jeremiah Gillett - B. 12 Feb. 1647/8, Windsor, CT. D. 1 Mar. 1629/3. He m. Deborah Bartlett, 15 Oct. 1685 (b. 1666) dau. of Benjamin Bartlett at Deborah Barnard. Three children.
      j. Josiah Gillett - Bpt. 14 June 1650, Windsor, CT. D. 29 Oct. 1736 Colchester, MA. He m. Joanna Taintor, 20 June 1676 (1657-1735) dau. Michael Taintor. Eleven children (1678-1701).
      Jonathan Gillett had ten children and at least 77 grandchildren.
      Reference: Search Series, Vol. 5, pp. 49-81."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. The marriage between Joseph Gillett and Elizabeth Hawkes is reported variously as 24 Nov 1663, 1664, and 24 Nov 1664. The last date is the only one that seems to be documented per Ancestry.com's "The Great Migration Begins, Sketches, Preserved Puritan" (Joseph, bp. Windsor 25 July 1641 [Grant 39]; m. Windsor 24 November 1664 Elizabeth Hawkes [WiVR].) WiVR probably refers to the vital records of Windsor; however, Stiles, in his "Ancient Windsor" book, who knows the Windsor records best simply says 1664. Other publications give the first date without providing us the source. It should be noted that their first Child, Joseph, is born 2 Nov 1664, which would make the 1663 date the most reasonable.

      2. From the Gillett family file of the Windsor Historical Society, an article entitled: "The Brothers Jonathan and Nathan Gillett and Some of Their Descendants," comp. by Alice Lucinda Priest, B.L., of Brookline, Mass., p. 65, Additions and Corrections, Volume 100:
      "P. 43: Hatfield 'original old book,' page 70, marriage of Joseph Gillet and Eliza Hawkes, Nov. 24, 166(3 or 4?). The date is clear except for the last figure in the year, which last figure is a combination of a perhaps underlying 3 and overlying double 4; the 3 fainter than the double 4, which suggests that it was earlier. Mr. Walter E. Corbin writes, 'probably should be 1663.' And the Hadley-Hatfield and Windsor, Conn., records and situation make that year practically the only possible one, as a detailed long recording could demonstrate.
      Mr. Corbin wrote later: 'I have found another record entry wihich will clear up the marriage date 1663 mixed with two 4s. In the old Register Book of William Pynchon of Springfield kept at the Pynchon building of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society at Springfield, in the Hadley marriages is this, 'Joseph Gillett & Elizabeth Hawkes were marryed Nov. 4 1663.' So the year really is 1663. From the looks of this Pynchon Book, I assume that William liked to have copies of records on hand, as he had copied the births, marriages and deaths to about 1693 of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and Springfield, and a few other early towns."

      3. From the book "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," p. 304 for the Gillett family: "Gillett, Joseph (1641-1675) & Elizabeth Hawks (1640/1-1682), m/2 Nathaniel Dickinson 1680; 1664?, 1663, ?24 Nov; Windsor, CT."

      4. From a booklet "Gillett," 1970, by Wilma Gillet Thomas, copy at the Windsor, CT, Historical Society. Within the booklet is a copy of a page entitled "Marriage Records Before 1699," pp. 98-99:
      "Gillett, Joseph and Elizabeth Hawkes, 1664, Windsor, Conn."