which had settled on Long Island. They were possibly cousins of the Thomas Willett who is the subject of this article. Hezekiah Willett was killed during King Philip's War in spite of the special consideration which was supposed to be extended to the Browne/Willett family by Philip's followers. This was a source of great sorrow to Philip as reported by the servant captured when Hezekiah was killed (this probably was the slave later ordered freed by the colony's court). This incident also exasperated the Plymouth colonists; special punishments were eventually meted out to Hezekiah's killers. Andrew Willett spent most of his adult life near what is now Kingston, Rhode Island. He married Ann Coddington, daughter of William Coddington, a governor of Rhode Island. Thomas Willett's interests in the Atherton Company led to ownership of land in this area of Rhode Island, then known as the "Boston Neck", along with other company shareholders who over time banded together as merchants, which included Thomas Willett's son, Andrew. Some confusion exists in the records distinguishing between the Boston Neck area of Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Some have claimed that one of Willett's great-grandsons was Marinus Willett, who also served as Mayor of New York from 1807 to 1808, assuming that Willett's son, Samuel, settled on Long Island where he became Sheriff of Queens County and Marinus' grandfather. This claim has been refuted by E. Haviland Hillman in an article published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 47 at 119, published in April 1916. The descendants of Thomas Willett were numerous. The 'Dorothy Q.' of the poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes was Thomas Willett's great-granddaughter, and the great-grandmother of Holmes. Another of Thomas Willett's descendants is American musician Parthenon Willett Miller Huxley. The Fire Department of New York operated a fireboat named Thomas Willett from 1908 to 1959. Notes References Austin, John Osborne (1887). Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Comprising Three Generations of Settlers. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsells Sons. Brown, George Tilden (1919). John Browne, Gentleman of Plymouth. Providence: Remington Press. Baylies, Francis (1866), Drake, Samuel Gardner (ed.). An historical memoir of the colony of New Plymouth. Boston: Wiggin & Lunt. Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1908). Sowams; with ancient records of Sowams and parts adjacent--illustrated. New Haven, Conn.: Associated publishers of American records. Bradford, William (1952), Morison, Samuel Eliot (ed.). Of Plymouth Plantation: Sixteen Twenty to Sixteen Forty-Seven. New York: Alfred