Person:Zaccheus Gillett (1)
Captain Zaccheus Gillett
b.18 Dec 1724 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.7 Jan 1793 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 29 Oct 1719
  1. Isaac Gillett1720 -
  2. Captain Zaccheus Gillett1724 - 1793
  3. Jacob Gillett1728/29 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Zaccheus Gillett1724 - 1793
  • W.  Ruth Phelps1724 - Bet 1771 & 1775
m. 15 Mar 1743/44
  1. Rev. Alexander Gillett1749 - 1826
  2. Ruth Gillett1751 - 1806
  3. Benoni Gillett1760 - 1844
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Zaccheus Gillett1724 - 1793
  • W.  Sarah ThrasherAbt 1745 - 1784
m. 17 Dec 1778
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Zaccheus Gillett1724 - 1793
  • W.  Hannah Alford1725 - Aft 1791
m. 2 Jan 1787
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Captain Zaccheus Gillett
Gender Male
Birth[1] 18 Dec 1724 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 15 Mar 1743/44 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesZaccheus Gillett and Ruth Phelps were third cousins.
to Ruth Phelps
Marriage 17 Dec 1778 Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (probably)to Sarah Thrasher
Marriage 2 Jan 1787 Avon, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Hannah Alford
Will[1] 27 Jul 1791 Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] 7 Jan 1793 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2] Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[1] 17 Jan 1793 Will received by the court.
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The Estate of Captain Zaccheus Gillett

His will, endorsed 'The Last Will & Testament of Capt Zacheus Gillet late of Granby Deceased Received this 17 Day of January 1793' reads as follows:

In the name of God Amen Zacheus Gillet of Granby … am at this time through Gods Goodnes in common health and of sound mind and memory and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Duty to set my house in order do make and ordain this to be my Last will and testament that is to say principaly and first of all I Give and Recomend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my Body at death I give to the earth to Be Buried in decent Christian buril at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter to be named hoping again to Reseive the same through the merits of Christ at the Resurrection of the Just and as touching such worldly Guds and Estate which has pleased God to Bless me with in this present life I Give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form vis

Imprimis I Give and Bequeath unto my truly and well Beloved wife Hannah the yose of my Grate Bible during hur natral life also I Give her ten pounds Lawful moneys worth to be paid to hur in two years after my dse in Cattle or Grain out of my Estate after her dse said Bible to go to my son Alexandr.

Item I Give and Bequeath unto my son Zacheus twenty shilings money within one year after my decease more then I have allready Given him.

Item I give and Bequeath unto my dafter Ruth ten shilings more then I have already Given hur.

Item I give and Bequeath unto my daughter mary ten shilings more then I have allready Given hur.

Item I Give and Bequeath unto my daughter Anne foure pounds to Be paid two years after my deacise in household furniture.

Item I Give and Bequeath unto my daughter Rachel five pounds worth in household furniture to Be paid two years after my decease.

Item I Give and Bequeath unto my three Little Grand Children that my daughter Elizabeth Left at her death three pounds money when thay Become of age to Be paid cqully among them.

the a Bove Legacies are to Be paid Respectively By my Executors aCording to my will out of my Estate further my will is that after my Just Debts funaral Expencs and the Legicies mentioned in this will be paid all the remaining part of my Estat Boath Real and parsanal shall be Equaly Betwn my three sons Alexander nathan and Benoni to them and thar heirs asigns forever.

Item my will and pleasur is that my sons Alexander Gillet and nathan Gillet shall be the ondly Executors to this my last will and testament and I appoint them thareto and in witness of what is above written I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of July Anno Dom 1791 signed sealed published pronounced and declared By the said ZaCheus Gillet to Be his Las will and testement in the presents of us the subscribers

ZaCheus Gillet

Ahaz Holcomb Abner Bull Edmond Stephens"[1]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Capt. Zaccheus4 Gillett, in McArthur, Selim Walker, Compiler, and Donald Lines, Editor Jacobus. McArthur - Barnes Ancestral Lines. (Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1964)
    77-79.

    "Capt. Zaccheus4 Gillett, born at Windsor, Conn., 18 Dec. 1724 (29 Dec. 1724, by his gravestone, which is the same date revised to New Style), died 7 Jan. 1793 (gravestone at Simsbury, Conn.); … He lived in Simsbury, Conn., until 1775, when he removed to Farmingbury Parish (Wolcott), where his son Alexander was the pastor. He was established Ensign of the 3d Company in Simsbury, 1st Conn. Regiment, May 1761; Lieutenant of the same, May 1764; and Captain of the same, Oct. 1772 [Col. Rec. of Conn., 11:507; 12:255; 14:7]. He and his Simsbury company were called into service at the time of the Lexington Alarm, April 1775 [Conn. Men in the Revolution, p. 21]. As he was then over 50, he probably did not remain in command of the company much longer. … Following his third marriage, he settled in Granby. His gravestone reads: 'In memory of Capt. Zacheus Gillett, he was born Dec. 29, A.D. 1724, was blessed with numerous offspring, lived respected & died lamented Jan. 7, A.D. 1793, in the 69th year of his age. In Adam all men die & return to the dust.'"

  2. ↑ Capt Zaccheus Gillet, in Find A Grave.
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