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

Male Abt 1612 - 1683  (~ 71 years)


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  • Name William Leete  [1, 2
    Suffix Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut 
    Birth Abt 1612  Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Apr 1683  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12213  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location (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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 
    1. [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.

    2. [S6118] Mary K. Talcott, "Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:292, July 1879.