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Eliza or Elizabeth Gillett

Female 1788 - 1875  (86 years)


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  • Name Eliza or Elizabeth Gillett 
    Born 25 Sep 1788  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 11 Aug 1875  Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1367  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Thomas Gillett,   b. 14 Sep 1748, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Apr 1821, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Mary Jones,   b. 7/07 Feb 1747/8, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1827, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married Abt 1772  of Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F872  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James Gideon Hunn,   b. 1 Jul 1780, Berkshire Village, Lanesborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 May 1859, Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married Bef 1812  of Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F920  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Censuses:
      1820 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 14 of 18:
      James Hunn, males 1(to 10), 1(16-26), 1(26-45); females 4(to 10), 2(16-26), 1(26-45).

      1830 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York:
      James G. Hunn

      1840 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York:
      James G. Hunn

      1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 141 of 148, house and family 1005, 3 Oct 1850:
      James G. Hunn, 69, farmer, $8000, MA.
      Eliza, 63, MA
      Alantha, f, 37, NY.
      Olive M., f, 28, NY.
      Rebecca, 25, NY.
      Nathan S., 23, NY.
      Ira Mashall, 16, m., NY.

      1860 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, 9 Aug 1860, house 1389, family 1406:
      Nathan S. Hunn, farmer, $7500, $1800, NY.
      Marcia A., 32, NY.
      Ja's G., 6, NY.
      Eliza C., 2, NY.
      Eliza 72, MA.
      Olive M., 39, NY.
      Rebecca M. 34, NY.
      Hiram Case, 18, NY.

      1870 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, 30 Jul 1870, house 1344, family 1402, p. 175 of 183:
      Nathan Hunn, 42, farmer, $14,500, $1750, NY.
      Martha L., 42, NY.
      James C., 16, farm laborer, NY.
      Eliza A., 12, NY.
      Frank, 7, NY.
      Eliza, 82, MA.
      Olive M. 48, NY.
      Margaret R., 44, NY.

      2. 26 May 2007 Worldconnect database "shirley-simpson" of Shirley Simpson : James Gideon Hunn, b. 1781 in Massachusetts, d. 22 May 1859 in Bristol, Ontario, NY, parents Zadoc Hunn, b. 17 Apr 1743 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT and Mary Morton, b. 1746 in Becket, CT. Shows 11 children born to James and Elizabeth. Marriage to Elizabeth Gillette. James G. Hunn came to Canandaigua at age 14.

      3. Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyontari/Hsurnamefamilysketchpart2.htm:
      A. From the History of Ontario County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893: "Nathan S. Hunn, Canandaigua, was born on a farm in Canandaigua, now occupied by his son, April 20, 1828. His grandfather, Rev. Zadock Hunn, was a native of Berkshire, Mass., and came to this section in 1795. He, in company with Rev. John Ralph, organized the Congregational Society of Canandaigua. He married in Massachusetts Mary Morton, and they had five children, of whom James G. was the oldest son. He was born in 1781 in Massachusetts, and since the age of fourteen made this farm his home. At the death of his father he assumed the management of the farm. He married Eliza Gillette, also of Massachusetts, and of their eleven children two survive: Thomas, of Bristol, and George, of Gainesville, Wyoming county. Nathan S. was the youngest son. His whole life was spent on the farm, which has now been in the possession of the family almost a century. Mr. Hunn has erected on it a beautiful residence, with fine barns, etc. He was a man of excellent management, and after the death of his father increased the farm from 150 to 350 acres. He was an upright and honest man and citizen. December 25, 1852, he married Marcia A., daughter of Sheldon and Roxana (Holmes) Squire. They have had three children: James G., who died February 10, 1878, aged twenty-four years; Eliza A., wife of William H. Pierce, a farmer of Canandaigua; and Frank S., who conducts the homestead farm. Nathan S. died October 26, 1879, mourned by all who knew him. Frank S. was born August 3, 1863. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and took up farming for a living. He with his parents and sister united with the First Universalist Church of Bristol in 1877. He is a young man of character, temperate, virtuous and honest in all his dealings. February 5, 1885, he married Ollie B. Totman, of Wisconsin, who died December 23, 1888. He remained single over four years, when on the 4th of April, 1893, he married Lida L. Monagle, of New York." B. From the History of Ontario County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893: "Thomas M. Hunn, Bristol, is a native of Canandaigua, born August 28, 1822, and a son of James G., a son of Rev. Zadoc Hunn. The first representatives of the family in America were the great-grandfather of Thomas M., who was a farmer, one brother who was a minister, and one a doctor. Rev. Zadoc Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age. He was educated for the ministry and took a classical and a theological course in Yale College. He then spent seven years as teacher in that college, Noah Webster being one of his pupils. He married Mary Morton, a native of Becket, Conn., and a daughter of Thomas Morton, a native of Scotland, who came to America for George III, and liking the country made his home at Becket, Conn., where he died. The family are related to Levi P. Morton. Mr. Hunn and wife had three sons and three daughters: Thomas M., James C., Alexander Z., Rebecca, Annie and Lorena. Rev. Zadoc went to Canandaigua in 17 - , and was the second family to settle there. He organized the Congregational church of Bristol, of which he was pastor many years. James G. Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and went to Canandaigua with his parents, where he married Eliza Gillett, a native of Dighton, Mass., and daughter of Thomas and Laura (Jones) Gillett. He died May 22, 1859. Thomas M. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and at the Lyceum in Geneva. In 1848 he married Fannie P. Gregg of Bristol, born November 15, 1821, a daughter of Benjamin Gregg, a son of John Gregg, a native of England, who came to America during the Revolutionary War, who fought some time with the British and then joined the Americans. Mr. Hunn and wife have had five children: James, Mary, Alexander Z., Benjamin G., and Emma E. James was born in 1848 and educated in Canandaigua Academy and in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Malissa Mack, by whom he had three children. He moved to Kansas, where he and the children died. Mrs. Hunn returned to Bristol, where death occurred February 4, 1878. Mary was born August 17, 1851, and died at the age of nine years. Alexander D., born December 26, 1854, married Myra A. Dend of Canandaigua, daughter of George M. and Kezia L. (Lucas) Dend of Canandaigua. Alexander and his wife have one child, Fannie V., born in July, 1892. Benjamin G. was born September 7, 1861, and died October 30, 1883. Emma E. was born July 22, 1864, educated in Canandaigua Academy and is the wife of Ruel Reed of Bristol. At the age of twenty-six our subject came to Bristol and purchased 100 acres, and there for thirty-five years followed farming. He sold his farm, and in 1872 came to Bristol Center and purchased forty-five acres, which he now owns. He has since followed hop growing and general farming. He is a Republican and has been commissioner of highways three years. He is a member of the Universalist Society of Bristol."

      4. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.