Talk:Thomas Willett

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Background, footnotes, etc.

This is a potentially neat entry, but is slapdash as now written. It needs footnotes, clarifications and additions. I hope to get to it at some point, and I also hope others will take an interest in this first mayor of New York City, who was formerly a Puritan merchant. MarmadukePercy (talk) 05:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Correction for Second Spouse of Thomas Willett

This article states that “... after [Thomas Willett] lost his first wife, he married the widow of a clergyman named John Pruden.” Thomas Willet actually re-married, as his second spouse, the widow of the Reverend Peter Prudden of Milford, Connecticut, Joanna (Boyse) Prudden. Peter and Joanna Prudden had a son, John Prudden, who may have been the "John Pruden" referred to in this article.

SOURCES:

1. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 2 volumes (Fairfield: Tuttle, Morehoues & Taylor Co., 1930), 1:77, 494.

2. George Clarke Bryant, “Prudden-Burr Connection”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 84 (January 1930): 63.

3. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, (Clearfield: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), 611.

4. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1861), 3:491-492.

5. Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, 2 volumes (New York: Grafton Press, 1904), 1:139.

6. Lillian E. Prudden, Peter Prudden – A Story of His Life, (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1901), 56-58.

7. Rev. E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut, (Stamford: Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., 1868), 269.

8. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 volumes, (Cambridge: Charles William Sever, 1881), 2:258-259.

G3NCR42Y (talk) 15:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]