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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>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jNcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA119 E. Haviland Hillman, "Ancestry of Colonel Marius Willett" ''The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record'', Volume 47 at 119 (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. Another of Thomas Willett's descendants is American musician Parthenon Willett Miller Huxley. {{cn|date=July 2017}}
The [[Fire Department of New York]] operated a [[fireboat]] named [[Thomas Willett (fireboat)|''Thomas Willett'']] from 1908 to 1959.<ref name=Marine1FdnyHistory>
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