Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Thomas Willett

Male 1708 - 1751  (43 years)


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  • Name Thomas Willett 
    Birth 9 Aug 1708  Rock Creek Parish, Prince George's, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 18 Sep 1751  Frederick County, Maryland - inventory Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I13765  Tree1
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

    Father Edward Willett,   b. 7 Oct 1656, Cirencester, Gloucester, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1745, Prince George's County, Maryland - probate Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Tabitha Mills,   b. 26 Oct 1676, Calvert County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1738 and 1744, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1692  Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9499  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabella Allison,   b. 11 Feb 1709, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1770, Frederick County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 62 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1729  Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Eleanor Willett,   b. 1726, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1822, Cotton Run, Butler County, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)  [Father: natural]
     2. Thomas Willett,   b. Aft 1730, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1772, Prince George's County, Maryland - inventory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 40 years)  [Father: natural]
     3. John Willett,   b. Bef 1740, Prince George's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1774, Wake County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 36 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F8860  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
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      The Willett Family of Maryland: Colonial Pewterers, Kentucky Pioneers
      Publication: self-published: Burke, Virginia, 1990
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      Thomas Willett 48.325 FR £164.10.3 Sep 18 1751 Oct 13 1751
      Appraisers: William Pritchett, John Flemming.
      Creditors: Ninian Tannehill, Jr., John Allison, Jr.
      Next of kin: John Allison, Sr., Andrew Tannehill, Sr.
      Administratrix/Executrix: Isabella Willett.
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      Thomas Willett 3.1 D FR £164.10.3 Oct 15 1759
      Distribution to: Representatives unknown to this Office.
      Executrix: Issabella Willett.
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      Thomas Willet; acct.; Frederick Co.; £164.10.3; £32.0.9; 15 Oct 1759; admx. Issabella Willet (widow) (AA 44.76)
      === Contributed by Ralph D. Smith

      Aug. 9, 1708 - Thomas Willett, son of Edward & Tabitha Willett, was born Aug. 9, 1708.
      Sources: (1) Smith, Dorothy H., "Orphans and Infants of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1750," Page 111, and (2) Jourdan, Elise G., "Colonial Settlers of Prince George's County, Maryland," Page 376.

      Nov. 1708 - Thomas Willett and his older brothers Ninian Willett (b. Nov. 1701) and Edward Willett (b. Jan. 1703/4) are bound out.
      Source: Jourdan, Elise G., "Colonial Settlers of Prince George's County, Maryland," Page 376.

      May 1732 - "Lick Hill," containing 100 acres in Prince George's Co., Md., is surveyed May 12, 1732 for Edward Willett and assigned to Thomas Willett and patented to him.
      Source: Keddie, Leslie & Neil, "Land Office, Rent Rolls, Prince George's County, 1725-1740," Page 40.
      Comment: In the May 1734 record below this land is called "Rich Hill."

      1733 - Thomas Willett is in the tax list of Potowmack Hundred, Prince George's Co., Md.
      Source: Calendar of Maryland State Papers. No. 1. The Black Books. Item no. 273.

      May 1734 - Thomas Willett patents "Rich Hill," containing 100 acres in Prince George's Co., Md., assigned by his father Edward Willett.
      Source: Coldham, Peter W., "Settlers of Maryland, 1731-1750," Page 246.

      Mar. 28, 1739 - The Prince George's Co., Md. administration account of Joshua Calvert shows that Calvert's estate received a payment from Thomas Willett.
      Source: Skinner, V. L., Jr., "Abstracts of the Administration Accounts of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, 1737-1744," Page 36.

      Nov. 1746 - Prince George's Co., Md. Court. Thomas Willett is appointed Constable for Potomack Hundred for the ensuing year.
      Source: Western Maryland Genealogy, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan. 2002, Page 44, citing Prince George's Co., Md. Court Records, Liber FF.
      Comment: Potomack Hundred is in Frederick Co. after 1748.

      Mar. 1750 - Frederick Co., Md. Court Records. Ardin Evans, planter, of Frederick Co., and Thomas Willet, planter, of Frederick Co., both formerly of Prince George's Co., to appear in March Court 1750 to answer to the complaint of Richard Snowden, to whom they owed money.
      Source: Shaffer, Stefanie R., "Inhabitants of Frederick County Maryland," Vol. 1, 1750-1790, Page 10.

      Aug. 1750 - John Outchtenlony records supersedeas. Thomas Willet and John Allison confess judgment for 140 lbs. of tobacco and 0/2/6, recovered Aug. 1750.
      Source: Frederick Co., Md. Land Records, Liber B, Page 227.

      Mar. 1751 - Frederick Co., Md. Court Records. George Gordon vs. Thomas Willet. Archibald More to appear in March Court 1751 to testify for Willet.
      Source: Shaffer, Stefanie R., "Inhabitants of Frederick County Maryland," Vol. 1, 1750-1790, Page 2.
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      Lettice Grimes, born say 1728, was called "Negroe Lettice" in Prince George's County court on 23 June 1747 when the court ordered her daughter Dido sold to Thomas Willett until the age of thirty-one [Court Record 1746-7, 620]. She was a "free-born Mullatto woman" who claimed to be close to forty years old in August 1764 when she petitioned the Frederick County, Maryland Court for her freedom from her indenture to Isabella Willet. She stated that she was born of a white woman and should have been entitled to her freedom at the age of thirty-one. Three months later on 20 November 1764 the court ordered her released from Willet's service but also convicted her of "Mullatto Bastardy" and ordered her sold to Samuel Beall for two years and four months. The same court ordered her daughter Lucy and (her daughter?) Lydia Grimes sold to Samuel Beall until the age of thirty-one. On 18 March 1766 she confessed to having another illegitimate child. Samuel Beall paid her fine and court costs [Judgment Record 1763-6, 285, 320, 323, 324, 503, 639].
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      Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records 1769-1772; Liber AA 2 {Abstract by Mike Marshall}; Page 35. At the request of Joseph Cole the following Deed was recorded November 9, 1769
      Indenture made October 21, 1769; between William Willett of PGCo and James Swann and Ann Swann his wife of Baltimore County, Maryland of the one part and Joseph Cole of PGCo of the other part; whereas Edward Willett of PGCo by his testament and last will devised unto his children Thomas Willett, William Willett, James Willett and Ann Swann a tract called "Little Dean" containing 103 acres and whereas William Willett together with James Willett two of the devisees did on April 6, 1758 in or into a bond with condition for the conveying and making over all their parts of the aforesaid tract for valuable consideration secured to be paid and whereas Joseph Cole has since paid and satisfied the said William Willett and and Swann (as well as the said James Willett) their respective parts of the consideration for their undivided parts of the tract and the said James Willett being now removed from this province so that he cannot join as party hereto. Now this indenture witness that William Willett and James Swann and Ann Swann his wife in consideration aforesaid as also in consideration of 5 shillings sterling money paid by Joseph Cole have sold all their several and respective parts of the aforesaid tract called "Little Dean" being two fourths or one moiety of the same undivided tract beginning at a bounded white oak in the given line surveyed for Daniel Elliott and bounded by the Beaverdam containing 103 acres. Signed William Willett, James Swan, Ann Swann in the presence of and acknowledged before Alexander Symmer, David Craufurd
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      1772-1774 Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records Liber BB 3 [Abstract by Mike Marshall]; Page 420. At the request of George Munro the following Deed was recorded March 26, 1774
      Indenture made November 27, 1773; John Willett, planter of Wake County, North Carolina eldest son and heir at law of Thomas Willett who was devisee of Edward Willett of PGCo in consideration of 1500 pounds of crop tobacco paid by George Munro, merchant in Bladensburg has sold one undivided fourth part of a tract called "Little Dean" that Edward Willett bought of Thomas James and left by his will to be equally divided between his three sons; Thomas Willett, William Willett and James Willett and his daughter Ann Swan which said fourth part contains 25 acres. Signed John Willett in the presence of Zachariah Jones, Richard Henderson and acknowledged before

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