The Ancestors and Relatives of William Addams Reitwiesner
Part CMLXXXII
The Descendants of Richard Willett and Frances Dervall



Descendants of Richard Willett and Frances Dervall
                   
1. RICHARD WILLETT, b. ... [St. Chrisopher, Leeward Islands, ca. 1679], d. ... [will dated 9 May 1722, proved New York 17 July 1722], son of ... Willett and of ,
m. (1) ... [license New York 22 Dec. 1697],
Mary Willett, b. ... , d. ... [by Nov. 1701], dau. of Thomas Willett and of Helena Stoothoff,
m. (2) ... ,
FRANCES DERVALL, b. ... , d. ... [living 1722], dau. of William Dervall and of Rebecca Delavall.
Issue by first wife, if any, unknown.
Issue by second wife (surname Willett):
a. Ralph, b. ... , d. ... [living 1742].
2 b. John, b. ... , d. ... 1767.
3 c. Thomas, b. New York, N. Y., ... [ca. 1707], d. ... [will dated 26 Dec. 1766, probated (PCC 399 Seeker) 16 June 1768],



Generation II


2. Ralph Willett, b. ... , d. ... [admin. 20 Jan. 1767], son of Richard Willett [number 1] and of Frances Dervall,
m. ... , Frances ... , b. ... , d. ... [living 1756], dau. of ... and of ... .
Issue, if any, unknown.


3. 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 [number 1] and of Frances Dervall,
m. ... [license New York, N. Y., 15 Oct. 1737], Elizabeth Lawrence, b. ... 1711, d. ... 23 Oct. 1776, dau. of ... Lawrence and of ... .
For issue, see Part CCCCXCI.









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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