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Persoonlijke gegevens Mary Browne 

• Zij is geboren in England.Bron 2
• Zij is overleden op 8 januari 1669 in Swansea, Massachusetts, USA.Bron 2
• Een kind van John Browne
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 26 november 2014.

Gezin van Mary Browne

Zij is getrouwd met Thomas Willett.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 juli 1636.Bron 2

Kind(eren):

1. James Willett  1649-???? 
2. Mary Willett  
3. Martha Willett  
4. John Willett  
5. Rebecca Willett  
6. Esther Willett  
7. Hezekiah Willett  
8. David Willett  
9. Andrew Willett  
10. Samuel Willett  

Notities over Mary Browne

New England families, genealogical and memorial Vol 1
William Richard Cutter
Pg 176

(The Browne Line).
Mary Browne descended from Sir Anthony Browne to whom Henry VIII. presented Battle Abbey.
(II) Thomas, son of Sir Anthony Browne.

(III) Thomas (2) was a son of Thomas (I) Browne, and brother of Peter Browne who came in the Mayflower.

(IV) John, son of Thomas (2) Browne, was born in England in 1584, died at Swansea, Massachusetts, April 10, 1662. He was one of the founders of Plymouth colony, coming in 1633 with wife Dorothy and three children. He was made freeman 1635, and in 1636 began his eighteen years service on the board of assistants. In 1637 he became one of the proprietors of Taunton. In 1643 was serving in the train band with his sons, John and James. In 1645 he moved to Rehoboth, settling at what is now Swansea on land scrupulously purchased from the Indian sachem Massasoit. For twelve years from 1645, and from the second year of its existence, he was a member of the board of colonial commissioners.

(V) Mary, daughter of Captain Thomas Browne, married Captain Thomas Willett (see Willett III).

A Godchild of Washington
by Katharine Schuyler Baxter
Pg 374

BRIGADIER-GENERAL MARINUS WILLETT
"General Marinus Willett was the great-grandson of Captain Thomas Willett of colonial fame; it therefore seems fitting to give a short sketch of the ancestor from whom he inherited his high principles, his daring courage, and his untiring energy.

"Captain Thomas Willett was born in England in 1610. His father and grandfather were clergymen; the latter having been vicar of Barley, Wilts, and prebend of Ely Cathedral. Captain Willett came to America in the ship 'Lion,' in 1632. He landed at Plymouth, Mass., and in January of the next year, he was made a freeman. He held various offices in the colony, and was given a considerable grant of land near the James river. In 1636, he married Mary Browne, daughter of John and Dorothy Browne of Swanzey, Mass. In 1648, he was appointed captain of a military company at Plymouth, where he succeeded Miles Standish. For thirteen consecutive years from 1651 to 1664, he was assistant to the general court. He was appointed, with eight others, in 1653, on the council of war, and 'part of the powder and shot was to be kept by him.' He was a member also of the famous Hartford Boundary Treaty of 1650. Willett was one of the pioneers of the carrying trade on the Sound between this city (then New Amsterdam) and the English settlements. In subsequent years, when question of boundary rights arose between the Dutch and their English neighbors, he became an efficient negotiator between the two partieshaving previously gained a knowledge of the Dutch language from his constant intercourse with them. In 1654, he was sent for, by the Commander-in-Chief of Massachusetts, and ordered to accompany him to Manhattan ; and to ' be an assistant unto them in advice and counsel.' From 1661 to 1665 he was an assistant to the Governor. In 1665 he was made Mayor of New York, the first Englishman to hold that office; having received his appointment from Colonel Nichols. He retained this office for two or three years. In 1668 he removed to Swanzey. By his will we learn that he had four sons; James, Hezekiah, Andrew, and Samuel from this youngest son, General Marinus Willett is descendedand three daughters, Mary, Martha, and Esther. Captain Willett died at Swanzey, 4th of August, 1674. He and his wife were buried at the head of Bullock Cove, in what is now known as the town of East Providence, R. I. Inscription on gravestones in Little Neck Cemetery:

1674
Here lyes ye Body
of ye word Thomas
Willett Esqr, who died
Augvst ye 4th in ye 64
year of his age Anno

Who was the
First Mayor
of New York
and twice did
sustain ye place

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1669
Here lyeth ye Body of
The vertuous Mrs Mary
Willett wife of Thomas
Willet Esq who died
January ye 8 about 65
year of her age. Anno

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