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Facts and Events
Named in his father's 1641 will - received a lease of court ground, 2 silver spoons, and a chair and a frame stool[3]. In the last bequest, he was listed with Thomas, Mary and Habiah, suggesting that they might have been the youngest (surviving) children.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jacobus, Donald Lines. The "Other" Gilletts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
25(1949):174.
'... and on 14 May 1647, "Jeremy Gillett Senr" received a colonial grant of 50 acres, but with no statement of for what service [Col. Rec. of Conn., 2:161, 230].'
Jacobus presents a case that the recipient of the land grant was the Jeremiah Gillett who was the known brother of Nathan and Jonathan, and suggests he may have fought in the Pequot War, for which service land grants of 50 acres were usually given. If so, he returned to England by 1641, when his father wrote his will, and there is no evidence he ever returned to New England.
- ↑ McCracken, George E. New Gillett Information from England, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
pp. 171-72.
On 10 Aug 1676, at the Manor of Chaffcombe Buller, a land lease held by William and Jeremiah Gillett was surrendered and William Gillett took a new grant. McCracken suggests that this lease renewal was "probably occasioned by the recent death ... of Jeremiah".
- ↑ Lea, J. Henry and J. R. Hutchinson. Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy, in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
41(1910):282-83.
'Will of William Gyllett of Chaffcombe, co. Somerset, dated 1641.'
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