William Leete, Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut

Abt 1612 - 1683  (~ 71 years)

• Name	William Leete  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut
  Birth	Abt 1612	Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Apr 1683	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Person ID	I12213	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 1	Anna Payne   d. 1 Sep 1668
  Marriage	1 Aug 1636
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Leete,   b. Abt 1650   d. 9 Apr 1710, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F7082	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah   d. 3 Feb 1673, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
  Marriage	7 Apr 1670
  Family ID	F11385	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  A descendant of Robert II, king of France (d. 1031); see The Royal Descent of 900 Immigrants by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2018), volume 2, p.855.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1648] The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Newbury, Mass.. "Compiled from the papers left by the late Louis Mitchell, Esquire." New Haven, Connecticut, 1883. [S6118] Mary K. Talcott, "Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:292, July 1879.