Mary WILLETT

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• Fact: Daughter of Capt. Thomas Willett and Mary Browne

Mary married Rev Samuel HOOKER on 22 Sep 1658. Samuel (son of Rev Thomas HOOKER and Susanna GARBRAND) was born on 14 Nov 1633 in Hartford, Connecticut; died on 6 Nov 1697 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Memento Mori Cemetery, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev Thomas BUCKINGHAM on 10 Aug 1703. Thomas (son of Thomas BUCKINGHAM and Hannah HAWKINS) was christened on 8 Nov 1646; died on 1 Apr 1709 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut; was buried in Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary SMITH about 1686. Mary was born on 07 Mar 1642 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 17 May 1702 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mehitabel HAMLIN on 28 Jun 1687. Mehitabel (daughter of Capt Giles HAMLIN and Hester CROW) was born on 17 Nov 1664 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut ; died in 1749 in Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a merchant at Farmington and his tore was opposite his father's house, on the corner of the main street and the road over the stone bridge over the Pequabuc River, the road now leading to the railroad depot, the place known as Thomas Cowles corner.

Family/Spouse: Susannah FENN. Susannah (daughter of Benjamin FENN and Susannah WARD) was born on 4 May 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hon. John Hooker, was one of the most noted men of his day. For many years he was the leading man of the town. He was he magistrate who did most of the business of the town and he was Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony from 1724 to 1732. He was a member of he Lower House of the Assembly from 1699 to 1723. He then went into the Upper House. He served twenty-one sessions of which he was Clerk two sessions, and Speaker, six. He was chosen assistant in 1723, and rechosen annually for eleven years. He was on important committees and was Frequently sent to settle difficulties in towns, churches, etc.; he was charged with important public trusts, etc., and the papers in file in the office of the Secretary of State, attest the carefulness, as well as the confidence, reposed in him.

When he married, his father purchased and gave him a site on the west side of the main street, some distance north of the Meeting House at Farmington, and here he built his house under the branches of a beautiful elm tree, where it soon became a center of generous hospitality, and a familiar gathering place for the sages of the own, who in the pleasant summer evenings seated under he leafy canopy of the Hooker Elm, discussed the passing events, while their long pipes gave forth clouds of fragrant incense, which curling upwards, dispensed itself among the leaves of the beautiful tree.

John married Abigail STANDLEY on 24 Nov 1687. Abigail (daughter of Capt John STANLEY and Sarah FLETCHER) was born on 25 Jul 1669 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 21 Feb 1742/3 in Farmington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary LEETE on 1 Aug 1691. Mary (daughter of William LEETE and Mary FENN) was born on 11 Jan 1671/2; died on 5 Oct 1752 in Guilford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Rev. Samuel Hooker and Mary Willett (dau. of Capt. Thomas Willett of Swansea, NH)

Nathaniel married Mary STANLEY on 28 Dec 1698. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel STANLEY and Sarah BOOSEY) was born on 8 Oct 1677 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev James PIERPONT on 26 Jul 1698. James was born on 4 Jan 1659 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; died on 22 Nov 1714 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He graduated from Harvard College, 1700. He was the first Farmington born man who received a college education. After his father's death he was invited to fill his place as minister, but declined. He studied medicine and was licensed to practice. He became the first Tutor of Yale College. He soon resigned his tutorship in favor of rev. John Hart (who subsequently married his niece) was graduated from Yale in 1703, nominally the second, but really the first actual student to graduate. He was the first B.A. of Yale.

After leaving the college Mr. Hooker settled at Wethersfield as a physician, and continued to practice there until his death. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but there is no evidence that he ever practice law, and the supposition is hat he studied it only hat he might be useful to his patients in making wills and otherwise. Dr. Hooker was surgeon of the expedition against Canada in 1711.

Daniel married Sarah STANDLEY on 24 Jun 1706. Sarah was christened on 4 Jul 1686 in Waterbury, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rev Stephen BUCKINGHAM. Stephen died on 13 Feb 1746. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]