Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Gillet (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and France. Some settled in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont in the 1700's. Some allied families came from Ireland. During the 1800's, some moved to Ontario (Canada), Italy, and to California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,...

Jonathan Gillet (d.1677) immigrated in 1630 from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, and moved to Windsor, Connecticut about 1636. His descendants of the sixth generation, Daniel M. Gillet (1782- 1853), was the son of Aaron Gillet (1732-1786), a Revolutionary War soldier. He married 1) Mary Leach (d. 1808) in 1803. They had three children, 1804-1807. He married 2) Lydia Park (d. 1866) in 1809. They had four children, 1810-1820. Includes grandchildren...

Nathaniel Foote (ca.1593-1644) married Elizabeth Deming about 1615, and immigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, and they later were among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut. After his death, Elizabeth married Thomas Welles (who later became governor of Connecticut). Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes Barker,...

Jonathan Gillet (d.1677) was the son of Rev. William Gyllett (d.1641) of Chaffcombe, Somerset Co., England. Jonathan and his brother Nathan emigrated to Massachusetts Colony in 1630, settling with the Puritans. By 1633, he had returned to England and married Mary Dolbiar/Dolbere (b.1607) of Colyton, Devonshire, Eng. By 1634, they had returned to the Colony. His brother Nathan married Elizabeth (d.1670), she died at Simsbury, Conn. They were the parents...

John Andrews (d.1681) and his family immigrated about 1640 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, later moving to Farmington, Connecticut. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Ohio and elsewhere.

Jonathan Gillet (ca. 1600-1677) was the son of the Rev. William Gillet of Chaffcombe, Co. Somerset, England. He and his brother Nathan emigrated from England with 140 other Pilgrims in 1630 and arrived at Nantusket Bay, Mass. He returned to England and married Mary Dolbere, daughter of Rawkey Dobere and Mary Mitchel of Colyton, Eng. in 1634. They returned to the Colonies and settled at Windsor, Conn. They were the parents of nine children. Several...

Isaac Elsea, son of William Elsey, was born in 1776 in Virginia. He married Matilda Burgess in1804 in Frederick County, Virginia. They had three children. He died after July 1860 in Indiana. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas. Includes Custer, Gillet, Groves, McCloud and related families.

Charles Nial Saxton was born in 1872 in Jamestown, New York, to Frederick Asa Saxton and Ada Maria Bentley. He married in 1894 to Nellye Rea. She was born in 1872 in Washington, D.C., to John Laird Rea and Mary E. Monahan. They lived in Washington, D.C., where they had 5 children. Charles died in 1918, while Nellye died in 1948. Charles Nial Saxton's immigrant ancestor was George Saxton. George was the oldest son of James Sexton of Limerick,...

Elgeva Victory Horton, son of John Horton and Rachel Lord, was born in 1840 in Boston, New York. He marrid Elizabeth Jane Fletcher in 1871 in Paola, Kansas. They had seven children. He died in 1904 in Kansas.