Mary (Eno) Gillett (1680 - 1773)

Born 12 Oct 1680 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Gillett — married 28 Jan 1702 in or 1703 Windsor, Hartford Co., Ct.

Descendants

Died 7 Dec 1773 at age 93 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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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.

Mary -- widowed in 1753 -- died at Windsor on the 7th of December, 1773; she and Daniel share a gravestone in Windsor's Palisado Cemetery.

Research Notes

Note also the marriage of Abel Phelps to a _later_ Mary Eno: "376. IX. Abel, b. 22 May 1730, m. Mary Eno" -- https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel/page/132

Sources

1. ↑ Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew Tinkey Servin, The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors : With Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and Other Interesting Papers, Coats of Arms and Valuable Records, Volume I, pp. 109-110, 148 Eagle Publishing Co., Pittsfield 1899). Copy available at https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel.
2. ↑ Specific reference: "179. TIMOTHY PHELPS, b. Windsor, Ct., 3 Feb., 1713, m. 24 April, 1746, Margaret Gillett, (daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Eno) Gillett), b. Windsor, Ct., 31 Dec., 1723." -- https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel/page/148

• Birth: Simsbury birth records as found at ["Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77N-12Y : 3 December 2014), John Eno in entry for Mary Eno, 12 Oct 1680; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.]

• Birth (alternative Simsbury transcript; NEHGS): "Mary, 1st d. John, b. Oct. 12, 1680" -- Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12793/52/144322063 (subscription).

• Birth (alternative Simsbury transcript, presumably from original handwritten record; NEHGS): "Mary eno the firft daughter of John Eno was Born ye 12 of October 1680 and Martha Eno the daughter of John Eno was born ye Sixth of Aprill 1685." -- Vital Records of Simsbury, Connecticut 1665-1886 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: Simsbury, Connecticut, births, marriages and deaths, transcribed from the town records, and published by Albert C. Bates, by Albert C. Bates. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB267/i/7386/14/5969411 (subscription)

• Marriage (NEHGS): "Daniel, m. Mary Enno, b. of Windsor, Jan. 28, 1702/3" -- Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12316/115/138415514 (subscription)

• Death (with image of dual gravestone, shared with husband Daniel): Palisado Cemetery as found at "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-3XQW; citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 September 2019), memorial page for Mary Eno Gillett (12 Oct 1682–17 Dec 1773), Find A Grave Memorial no. 8995366, citing Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Don Blauvelt (contributor 46932939) . ; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8995366

• Death (presumed record; however, husband's name incorrectly transcribed as "David" rather than Daniel as shown on joint gravestone; date shown as 07 December rather than 17 December): "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F72R-SZY : 10 February 2018), Mary Gillet, 07 Dec 1773; citing Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, reference 80; FHL microfilm 3,374.