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Samuel Gillette

Also Known As: "Gillett"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: March 30, 1769 (95)
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts
Immediate Family:

Son of Samuel Gillett and Hannah Jennings
Husband of Hannah Gillett and Hannah Gillette
Father of Samuel Gillett, Jr; Hannah Evarts; Margaret Belding; Samuel Gillett; Elizabeth Bardwell and 1 other
Brother of Hannah Gillett; Mary Ives and Hannah Taylor
Half brother of Mary Ives; Captivity Bartlett; Stephen Jennings, Il; Joseph Jennings; Sarah Johnson and 4 others

Managed by: Devlin Donald Foster
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About Samuel Gillette

[Hannah's father John Dickenson and her first husband Samuel Gillett had been killed by Indians at the Fall's Fight, later her second husband Stephen Jennings would be killed by Indians.]

[Hannah had been remarried only a few months when on 19 Sept. 1677 she and her 5-year old daughter Mary and her 4-year old son Samuel were captured during an Indian attack on Hatfield.

Hannah was pregnant at the time. When the authorities refused to pursue the Indians in fear of ambush, her husband and Benjamin Wait set out together to recover the captives who were headed for Canada. After a journey that lasted all winter they reached Canada in January and negotiated a ransom with the French. There Hannah had a daughter she named Captivity Jennings on 22 Jan. 1678. Hannah returned home with her children in June 1678.[36]

On 22 July 1710 Stephen Jennings while engaged in making hay was ambushed and killed by Indians at Brookfield. Captivity Jennings married Abigah Bartlett. He too was killed by Indians Oct. 1708.(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.an cestry.com/~bart/GILLET.htm)]

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Samuel Gillette's Timeline

1673
May 14, 1673
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1697
January 9, 1697
Hatfield, MA, United States
1699
May 1, 1699
Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
1703
December 26, 1703
Hatfield, Hampshire County, MA, United States
December 26, 1703
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
1705
December 29, 1705
Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA
1711
July 31, 1711
Hatfield, MA, United States
1769
March 30, 1769
Age 95
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts
1931
May 26, 1931
Age 95