Mary Eno Gillett

• BIRTH 12 Oct 1682 Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
• DEATH 17 Dec 1773 (aged 91) Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Show Map
• PLOT Sec 5 MEMORIAL ID 8995366 Photos by Terry Lewis & C Greer

Biography

Mary's baptism record says she was born December 12 1680, at Simsbury, a daughter of John Eno; this implies a different age at the time of her death, in December of 1773, from the inscription on her gravestone, which appears to read "Aged 91 Years" rather than the expected 93. However, gravestone estimates of age are notoriously imprecise. (Other, secondary records offer a birth year of 1682 -- presumably calculated from her inscribed age in 1773 -- but the transcript of the original record clearly shows 1680.)

Mary Eno is sometimes referred to, probably incorrectly, as Margaret; this confusion sometimes arises from the resemblance of a clerk's handwritten "Mary" to a handwritten abbreviation "Marg". Mary Eno married Daniel Gillett in January of 1703; the couple had several children including proven daughters Margaret (Gillett) Phelps.[1][2] and Eunice Gillet Bull. She widowed in 1753 then died at Windsor on the 7th of December, 1773; she and Daniel share a gravestone in Windsor's Palisado Cemetery. [1]

Inscription
In Memory of Mr.
Daniel Gillett & Mrs.
Mary his Wife who
died as follows:
Daniel on
Auguft 16th
AD 1753
Aged 75
Years
Mary on
Decemr
17th 1772
Aged 91
Years

Spouse
Daniel Gillett 1678–1753

Children
Daniel Gillett 1703–1769
Mary Gillett Haskins 1705–1746
John Gillett 1707–1800
Eunice Gillett Bull 1716–1808
Hannah Gillett Moore 1719–1805
Dorothy Gillette Cook 1726–1814

References

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eno-5

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8995366/mary-gillett