Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameJonathan GILLET 
Birth11 Aug 1609, Chaffcombe, Somersetshire, England9291
BurialPalisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut9291
ReligionPuritan
FatherRev. William GILLET
Spouses
Birth1607
BurialPalisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut9294
FatherRawkey DOLBERE (1571-)
MotherMary MITCHELL (~1576-1648)
Notes for Jonathan GILLET
Jonathan Gillet, the progenitor of this branch of the family belonged to the company of about 140 Puritans which was formed in the counties of Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, England. They sailed in the Mary and John, 20 March 1630 and arrived at Nantasket, 20 May, settling at Dorchester. He was made a freeman there 6 May 1635.
He, with the Dorchester Church, removed to Windsor, Connecticut in 1636.
There seems to be some confusion surrounding these dates and his marriage. If he sailed with the group in 1630, he would have returned to Devonshire at some time later because he married Mary Dolbier at Colyton 29 March 1634.
From Find-a-Grave:
Born by about 1609 (based on presumed age at marriage), son of Rev. William Gillett. Came from Chaffcombe, Somersetshire to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled in Dorchester; moved to Windsor in 1638. Died in Windsor, 23 August 1677 (from inventory).
Married in Colyton, Devonshire, 29 March 1634 Mary Dolbiar, bp. Colyton, Devonshire, 7 June 1607. She died Windsor 5 January 1685[/6].
Ever since the publication of the will of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somersetshire, Jonathan and Nathan Gillett of Dorchester and Windsor have been considered his sons, although there have been some nagging doubts. In 1979 George E. McCracken published additional information which makes the identification solid. McCracken suggested that Jonathan, Nathan and some of their siblings were born before 1610, when William Gillett was instituted at Chaffcombe; but we only have scattered Bishops' Transcripts for some of the years after 1610, and there is a ten-year gap when several Gillett children could have been born. Jonathan was probably older than Elias, who was baptized on 11 February 1611/2 and so could well have been born at an earlier residence for the family. Nathan, however, need not have been born until 1613, and he could have been born at Chaffcombe, next after Elias, during a period when neither the parish register nor the Bishops' Transcripts survive for that parish.9291
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Description
Section: Appendix B Passengers of the Mary and John in 1630
Source Information
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 [database on-line].
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Description
Section: Hudson-Mohawk Family Histories
Source Information
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. IV [database on-line].
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He, with the Dorchester Church, removed to Windsor, Connecticut in 1636.
There seems to be some confusion surrounding these dates and his marriage. If he sailed with the group in 1630, he would have returned to Devonshire at some time later because he married Mary Dolbier at Colyton 29 March 1634.
From Find-a-Grave:
Born by about 1609 (based on presumed age at marriage), son of Rev. William Gillett. Came from Chaffcombe, Somersetshire to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled in Dorchester; moved to Windsor in 1638. Died in Windsor, 23 August 1677 (from inventory).
Married in Colyton, Devonshire, 29 March 1634 Mary Dolbiar, bp. Colyton, Devonshire, 7 June 1607. She died Windsor 5 January 1685[/6].
Ever since the publication of the will of Rev. William Gillett, Rector of Chaffcombe, Somersetshire, Jonathan and Nathan Gillett of Dorchester and Windsor have been considered his sons, although there have been some nagging doubts. In 1979 George E. McCracken published additional information which makes the identification solid. McCracken suggested that Jonathan, Nathan and some of their siblings were born before 1610, when William Gillett was instituted at Chaffcombe; but we only have scattered Bishops' Transcripts for some of the years after 1610, and there is a ten-year gap when several Gillett children could have been born. Jonathan was probably older than Elias, who was baptized on 11 February 1611/2 and so could well have been born at an earlier residence for the family. Nathan, however, need not have been born until 1613, and he could have been born at Chaffcombe, next after Elias, during a period when neither the parish register nor the Bishops' Transcripts survive for that parish.9291
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Check Great Migration Books
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Description
Section: Appendix B Passengers of the Mary and John in 1630
Source Information
The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 [database on-line].
Original data:
Source Description
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Description
Section: Hudson-Mohawk Family Histories
Source Information
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. IV [database on-line].
Original data:
Source Description