to the Taunton area by the 1650s, and later to the eastern shores of Narragansett Bay to Wannamoisett, near present-day Barrington, Rhode Island. Willett had substantial business dealings with Browne (Sr.) and later increasingly, especially between 1656 and 1660 when Browne (Sr.) is believed to have been in England, with Browne's two sons, John (Jr.) and James. Another family connection was with Willett's early co-worker in the fur trade, John Howland. Howland's daughter, Lydia, married James Browne and Howland's widow, Elizabeth, was living with James and Lydia Broowne's family when she died. Both John Browne (Sr.) and John Browne (Jr.) died in 1662, the son ten days before the father. The children of Thomas and Mary Willet, as compiled from several sources, were: Mary, b. November 10, 1637, d. June 24,1712, married Rev. Samuel Hooker (son of Rev. Thomas Hooker) in 1658, remarried Rev. Thomas Buckingham in 1703. Martha, b. August 6, 1639, d. 1678, married John Saffin in 1658. John, b. August 21, 1641, d. February 2, 1663/4, married Abigail Collins in 1663. Sarah, b. May 4, 1643, d. June 13, 1665, married Rev. John Eliot (son of Rev. John Eliot). Rebecca, b. December 2, 1644, d. April 2, 1652. Thomas, b. October 1, 1646, d. before 1671(?). Hester, b. July 6, 1648, d. July 26, 1737, married Rev. Josiah Flint. James, b. November 24, 1649, married Elizabeth Hunt (daughter of Peter Hunt) in 1673, remarried Grace Frinck in 1677. Hezekiah, b. June 20, 1651, d. July 26, 1651. Hezekiah, b. November 16, 1653, d. July 1, 1676, married Ann (or Hannah) Browne (daughter of John Brown (Jr.)) in 1675. David, b. November 1, 1654, d. before 1671(?). Andrew, b. October 5, 1656, d. April 6, 1712, married Ann Coddington in 1682 (daughter of William and Ann Coddington). Samuel, b. October 27, 1658. (?) Sons John, Thomas, and David are not mentioned in Willett's will which calls James the "eldest son". There is disagreement over Thomas Willett's date and place of birth. The Dictionary of National Biography states that he was born in England in 1605. Willett's will, dated April 26, 1671, says he was then "being going in the sixty-fourth year of my age" (i.e., he was 63 years old, born between April 27, 1607, and April 27, 1608, prior to the migration to the Netherlands later in 1608 which included those who later became the Leyden congregation).