Talk:Thomas Willett

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group (assessed as Low-importance).

New York (state) Low‑importance

	New York (state) portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York (state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of New York on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York (state)Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)Template:WikiProject New York (state)New York (state) articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

New York City Low‑importance

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Politics: American Low‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by American politics task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Background, footnotes, etc.[edit]

This is a potentially neat entry, but is slapdash as now written. It needs footnotes, clarifications and additions. I hope to get to it at some point, and I also hope others will take an interest in this first mayor of New York City, who was formerly a Puritan merchant. MarmadukePercy (talk) 05:24, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Correction for Second Spouse of Thomas Willett[edit]

This article states that “... after [Thomas Willett] lost his first wife, he married the widow of a clergyman named John Pruden.” Thomas Willet actually re-married, as his second spouse, the widow of the Reverend Peter Prudden of Milford, Connecticut, Joanna (Boyse) Prudden. Peter and Joanna Prudden had a son, John Prudden, who may have been the "John Pruden" referred to in this article.

SOURCES:

1. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, 2 volumes (Fairfield: Tuttle, Morehoues & Taylor Co., 1930), 1:77, 494.

2. George Clarke Bryant, “Prudden-Burr Connection”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 84 (January 1930): 63.

3. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, (Clearfield: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), 611.

4. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1861), 3:491-492.

5. Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, 2 volumes (New York: Grafton Press, 1904), 1:139.

6. Lillian E. Prudden, Peter Prudden – A Story of His Life, (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1901), 56-58.

7. Rev. E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut, (Stamford: Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., 1868), 269.

8. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 volumes, (Cambridge: Charles William Sever, 1881), 2:258-259.

G3NCR42Y (talk) 15:56, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed major edit to add information[edit]

The summary of Willett's life in the article is currently based upon a copy of unreferenced material (i.e., the "citation needed" area). Some of this material is subject to dispute in the references below.

The current article is also thinly sourced and can be improved by addition of material from and references to additional sources, including:

Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

Burgess: Thomas Willett of Leyden and Plymouth, First Mayor of New York. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LXI, pp.157-164.

Dexter: The England and Holland of the Pilgrims

Gay (transcriber): Edward Ashley, Trader at Penobscot. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Third Series, 45, pp. 415-485. (Transcription of originals in the Public Record Office, London (State Papers, Colonial, vi. 40)).

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England.

Bunker: Making Haste from Babylon (The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World)

(NOTE: these citations are not in the standard form which would be used in the revised article.)

I am proposing to work on a draft edit/update of the article while maintaining the current article as-is for the present. The attempt being to prevent a mess being displayed to those accessing the article.

Rdschillawski (talk) 18:18, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A nearly completed draft is of the proposed major update and edit is available for review and comment at User:Rdschillawski/sandbox. Any constructive input is very welcome. I expect to be making some minor changes to the draft before transferring it to the main Thomas Willett page sometime around February 1, 2022.

Rdschillawski (talk) 23:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]