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to the church in June, 1643, anc^ was
secretary of the colony from 1658 to 1664.
He married, June 13, 1644, Mary Newberry,
who died October 29, 1688. She
was a daughter of Thomas Newberry,
who came from England and died in Dorchester,
as he was preparing to remove
to Windsor. His widow, Jane, married
(second) Rev. John Warham, the first
pastor at Windsor, and removed thither
with her children. Her third son, John
Newberry, born April 10, 1656, was admitted
an inhabitant of Simsbury, December
24, 1686, and died there in February,
1715. lie married, in 1685, Mary, daughter
of Christopher and Mary (Burr) Crow,
born 1665. She married (second) about
1720. William Randall, of Enfield. Chris-
topher Crow lived first in Hartford, later
in Windsor, and again in Hartford. His
father, Benjamin Crow, was one of the
founders of Hartford, one of the original
proprietors in 1635, and a soldier of the
Pequot War.
Jonah Gillett, the posthumous son of
Thomas Gillett, was born October 18,
1708, in Simsbury, and resided in what
was called Wintonbury Parish of Windsor,
now the town of Bloomfield, and was
sergeant of militia. He married Elizabeth
Hoskins, born 1708-09, died May 28, 1758,
and several of their children were baptized
in Wintonbury.
Their eldest child. Captain Jonah
Gillett, was born about 1728-29 in Bloomfield,
and was a soldier of the Revolution
in command of the Second Company of
the Second Battalion in Colonel Gay's
regiment in 1776. This regiment was
raised to reinforce General Washington's
army at New York, and participated in
the movements on Long Island and at
White Plains. He died March 14, 1792,
in Bloomfield. He was married, Novem-
ber 9, 1752, by the Rev. Hezekiah Bissel,
first pastor of the church at W'intonbury,
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to Sarah Goodrich, who was born October
31, 1733, in Windsor, daughter of Jacob
and Benedicta (Goodwin) Goodrich, descended
from William and Sarah (Mar-
vin) Goodrich, who were early in
Wethersfield. Their son, John Goodrich,
born May 20, 1653, lived in Wethersfield,
and married, March 28, 1678, Rebecca,
daughter of Captain John Allyn, of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, born in February,
1660. Their youngest child was
Jacob Goodrich, born November 27, 1694,
and lived in Wethersfield and Windsor,
and died May 11, 1746. He married, September
12, 1717, Benedicta Goodwin,
daughter of Nathaniel and Mehitable
(Porter) Goodwin. Their fourth daughter,
Sarah Goodrich, born in 1733, became
the wife of Captain Jonah Gillett, as above
noted. She was also a descendant of
Ozias Goodwin, the ancestor of all of that
name in the vicinity of Hartford, and
his wife, Mary (Woodward) Goodwin,
the daughter of Robert Woodward, of
England. Ozias Goodwin and wife were
residing in Hartford as early as 1639, and
there he died before April, 1683. His
son, William Goodwin, was born about
1629, and died October 15, 1689, an d mar-
ried Susanna Fruen. Their second son,
Nathaniel Goodwin, was a shoemaker,
deacon of the First Church of Hartford,
and died in November, 1747. He married
Mehitable Porter, born September 15,
1673, daughter of Samuel and Hannah
(Stanley) Porter, of Hadley, Massachusetts
; she was the granddaughter of John
Porter, who came from Felsted, County
Essex, England, and was in Windsor as
early as 1639. He married, October 18,
1620, Anna White, of Messing, England,
baptized July 3, 1600, daughter of Robert
and Bridget (Allgar) White. The latter
was a daughter of William Allgar, of
Shelford, Essex. Samuel Goodwin, the
third son of Nathaniel and Mehitable