[Savage 4:557] Married Rev SH. [NYGBR 18:74] MWH then married 10 August 1703, Rev Thomas Buckingham of Saybrook. After he died she came to Norwalk where she died; she is buried in East Norwalk.

[1723] Mary Brown

	b. c1604	Swansea, Co Cambridge	[Willett1 5-10]
	d. 8 January 1669	Plymouth Mass	[Willett1 5-10]

[Savage 4:557] Plymouth. In youth was associated with the Leyden Congregation. Came over in the Lion, 1632. Entrusted with the command of the trading house of Plymouth people at Kennebeck, 1639 and was disposed forcibly by the French. Assistant 1651-1664. When England conquered NY he accompanied them and was made mayor. Married second 19 September 1671 Joanna widow of Rev Peter Prudden. Resided at Rehoboth and Swansey.

[Willett1 1-11] TW grew up in the adtmosphere of the Green Gate congregation under the tutelage of Pastor John Robinson. TW came to NE in the Handmaid in the summer of 1630. He was sent north to take charge of the trading post near the mouth of the Kennebec River (now in Maine). Went back to England with Isaac Allerton to testify in the fraud case against the trading post agent Edward Ashley. TW returned in 1632 in the Lyon in the company of the Browns. In 1634 TW moved the trading post to the Penobscott and was eventually expelled from there by the French in 1635. In 1639 TW was granted a tract of land in Duxbury where he invested in livestock which he then traded with the Dutch in New Amsterdam. He kept a residence in New Amsterdam where he is listed as one of 320 taxpayers in 1655. He owned several sehips all of which may have been ocean going vessels. In 1660, TW founded the town of Swansea RI. In 1662, he accompanied Stuyvesant to Albany to talk with Wamsutta, the son of Massasoit. TW maintained relations with Stuyvesant and later was appointed the first English Mayer of NY City --12 June 1665 he assumed his seat as head of the NY City Council. MB died at their home in Plymoutn in 1669 and was buried at Swansea; she was 65 years old. TW married 2) 19 September 1671 Mrs Joyce Pruden, widow of Rev Peter Pruden of the New Haven Colony. In 1673, the Dutch retook New York. TW's will is dated April 1761 and proved 25 November 1674. In the will he mentions his son-in-law Samuel Hooker. His inventory amounted to 2798-14-07.

[3445] Alice --

[Willett1 1] TW and AW born probably in Norfolk. Resided in Norwich until they removed to Holland. Disenters from the Anglican Church, the left England in 1615 following the second exodus for Leyden.. Their children grew up in Leyden: Sarah, Rebecca, Hester and Thomas.