When Mary Willett was born on 20 September 1698, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Francis W. Willett III, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Lowell, was 28. She married John Foote Jr on 22 July 1721, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1762, at the age of 64.
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English: from the Middle English personal names Wilot, Wilet, pet forms of Will , itself a short form of William .
English: sometimes a variant of Willard .
English: perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Willet, in Elworthy (Somerset). It is from an earlier name of Doniford Stream, which rises at Willet, and is probably a compound of Old English wiell, will ‘spring’ + an unrecorded gīete ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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