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Willett was connected by marriage to the family of John Brown(e), shipbuilder, perennial political office holder, founder of several towns, and one of the wealthiest men in the Plymouth Colony. Although Brown(e)'s origins are uncertain and subject to present debate, he evidently was very well connected in England, as near the end of his life he returned there for several years as executor of the estate of Sir [[Henry Vane the Elder]]; the Sir Henry Vanes, elder and younger, played major roles in England at the time of the [[English Civil War]]. The Brown(e) family also had ties to earliest Plymouth through the marriage of John Brown(e)'s son, James, to Lydia Howland, daughter of [[John Howland]], one of the Mayflower passengers; Howland collaborated in Willett's early fur-trading efforts.<ref>Nathaniel Philbrick. (2006) [[Mayflower]]. New York: Penguin.</ref>
Willett's son, [[Thomas Willett (son)|Thomas Willett]], was a major in the militia of [[Queens County, New York|Queens County]] and a councillor under Governors [[Sir Edmund Andros]] and [[Henry Sloughter]]. Mary Willett, eldest daughter of Capt. Thomas Willett and his wife Mary, married in 1658 Rev. [[Samuel Hooker]], son of Rev. [[Thomas Hooker]], Puritan divine and founder of [[Hartford, Connecticut]].<ref>[
Some have claimed that his great-grandson was [[Marinus Willett]], who also served as Mayor of [[New York City|New York]], from 1807-1808. This claim has been refuted by E. Haviland Hillman in an article published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 47 at 119, published in April 1916.<ref>[
The descendants of Thomas Willett were numerous. The 'Dorothy Q.' of the poem of [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]] was Thomas Willett's great-granddaughter, and the great-grandmother of Holmes.
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