The Ancestors and Relatives of William Addams Reitwiesner
Part CCCCXCI
The Descendants of Thomas Willett and Elizabeth Lawrence



Descendants of Thomas Willett and Elizabeth Lawrence
                   
1. THOMAS WILLETT, b. New York, N. Y., ... [ca. 1707], d. ... [will dated 26 Dec. 1766, probated (PCC 399 Seeker) 16 June 1768], son of Richard Willett and of Frances Darvall,
m. ... [license New York, N. Y., 15 Oct. 1737],
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE, b. ... 1711, d. ... 23 Oct. 1776, dau. of ... Lawrence and of ... .
Issue (surname Willett):
2 a. John, b. ... , d. ... [living 1783].
3 b. Frances, b. ... 2 Nov. 1739, d. ... .
4 c. Elizabeth, b. ... , d. ... [living 1772].



Generation II


2. John Willett, b. ... , d. ... [living 1783], son of Thomas Willett [number 1] and of Elizabeth Lawrence,
m. St. George's, Hanover Square, London, 2 March 1769, Elizabeth St. Leger Douglas, b. ... , d. ... , dau. of James George Douglas and of ... .
Issue, if any, unknown.


3. Frances Willett, b. ... 2 Nov. 1739, d. ... , dau. of Thomas Willett [number 1] and of Elizabeth Lawrence,
m. ... [license New York 2 Nov. 1762], as his first wife, Christopher Billopp, b. Bentley Manor, Staten Island, N. Y., ... 1737, d. St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, 28 March 1827 [he later m. (2) ... (lic. 11 Feb. 1773), Jane Seaman, b. ... 16 Jan. 1754, d. St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, 21 Jan. 1802], son of Thomas Billopp and of Sarah Leonard.
For issue, see Part CCXLV.


4. Elizabeth Willett, b. ... , d. ... [living 1772], dau. of Thomas Willett [number 1] and of Elizabeth Lawrence,
m. ... , Thomas Miller, b. ... , d. ... [living 1768, dead by 1772], son of ... Miller and of ... .
Issue, if any, unknown.









NOTES






1 -- There were several different, and unrelated, Willett/Willetts families in early New Amsterdam. This Willett family is one of the smaller ones, covered (briefly) by Rosalie F. Bailey in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. LXXX [1949], pp. 93-95, reprinted in Genealogies of Long Island Families [1987], vol. II, pp. 719-721.


















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