1Ambrose Milton Shotwell, Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Posterity, p. 264 (1895-7).
"I. William2 Hallett, b. 1648± , eldest son of William1, was justice of the peace and Capt. of Foot Company; d. 18 Aug., 1729; m. Sarah Woolsey, dau. of George & Rebecca (Cornell ?) Woolsey, of Jamaica, L. I., and had: (1.) Wm., b. 10, Dec., 1670, m. Ruth ________ . (2.) Sarah, b. 19 Mar., 1673, m. Rev. George Phillips, of Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., N. Y. (3.) Rebecca3, b. 31 Aug., 1675, m. James Jackson, of Rocky Hill, L. I., name mentioned in New York M. M. records, lived much nearer to Flushing than to Jericho, L. I., son of Col. John2 & Elizabeth (Seaman) Jackson, [of Robert1]. (4.) Joseph, b. 4 Mar., 1678. (5.) Moses, b. 19 Jan., 1681, m. _______ Fitch. (6.) George, b. 5 Apr. 1683. (7.) Charity, b. 16 Mar., 1685, m. Samuel Moore. (8.) Mary, b. 22 Oct., 1687, m. Jacob Blackwell. (9.) Elizabeth, b. 12 Apr., 1689, m. John Fish. (10.) Richard2, b. 17 Nov., 1691, dw. Newtown, L. I., and there d. 19 of 5 mo. (May), 1769, bought in 1717, the farm of John Denman (deceased), at English Kills; embraced the principles of Friends, which many of his decendants yet profess. (See Riker's quotation "Annals of Newtown, L. I."); m. (1) at Flushing, L. I., 14 of 9 mo. (Nov.), 1717, Amey3 Bowne, b. 1694, at Flushing, L. I., "deceased ye 7th of ye 9th mo., 1733, and was buried in ffriends' burying ground in Newtowne," dau. of John2 & (3rd wife) Mary (Cock) Bowne, of Flushing, L. I., [of Thomas1]; m. (2) at Birmingham, Conn , ______, 1739, Anne (Gilpin) Miller, who d. 15 of 9 mo., 1759, widow of Joseph Miller, and dau. of Joseph & Hannah (______) Gilpin, "y't was of Pennsylvania." (Children later).".
1Ambrose Milton Shotwell, Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, Or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Posterity, p. 264 (1895-7).
"William1 Hallett, b. about 1616, in Dorsetshire, Eng., emigrated to Greenwich, Conn., where, in 1547, he, with Elizabeth Feake, had charge of the property of her insane husband, Lieut. Robert Feake, (pp. 134-6), and thence in 1649, with Elizabeth, removed to Newton, L. I.; the next year William Hallett & Elizabeth hallett conveyed to Jeffise Ferris all of his and his wife's interest in land purchased by Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake at Greenwich, Conn. William Hallett was in Hellgate in 1652. On 14 May, 1652, William Hallett bought of Thomas Baxter the house and plantation which Baxter had bought of his father. A few years later (1654±), he settled on what is known as Hallett's Cove, where he is said to have lived to the age of ninety years, and died leaving sons, William and Samuel.*.".