Joseph GILLETT
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1873: Vol 47, Pg. 169
SOURCE: 1. Main Archive Sheet 2. 1994 IGI 3. Ancestral File History of Deerfield gives birth information on the children born to Joseph Gillette and Elizabeth Hawkes as recorded on this family group sheet.
SURNAME: Genealogy of Hadley Families, Pgs. 36 and 69, shows first that Nathaniel Dickinson married widow Elizabeth Gillette and second that Elizabeth Hawkes married Joseph Gillette. Thus Widow Elizabeth Gillette's maiden name.
SOURCE: 1. History of Deerfield, MA (FHL#974.422/D142s) 2. Family of Hartford, CT (FHL#974.63 D2b) p262-5
History of Deerfield, MA, pg. 173 states that he had been captured by Indians, rescued and became a farm servent for the nuns at Montrreal was then sent to France, thence to England and retrned home abt. 1698..
He married Elizabeth Hawkes 24 Nov 1663/64 at Haddam, Middlesex, Massachusetts . Elizabeth Hawkes was christened at Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 10 Jan 1647 daughter of John Hawkes and Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkes .
They were the parents of 7
children:
Joseph Gillett
born 2 Nov 1664.
Elizabeth Gillett
born 13 Jun 1666.
Mary Gillett
born 10 Sep 1667.
Jonathan Gillett
born 11 Aug 1669.
John Gillett
born 10 Jun 1671.
Nathaniel Gillett
born 4 May 1673.
Hannah Gillett
born 30 Jan 1675.
Joseph Gillett died 18 Sep 1675 at Bloody Brook, Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts .
Elizabeth Hawkes died 11 Oct 1681 at Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts .