TO FIND THE AREA WHERE HE ONCE WAS BURIED, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO GO TO THE AREA JUST INSIDE THE MAIN GATE TO THE MOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY. This area is now part of a Jewish Cemetery but once was the farm of the family of Episcopalian Thomas Willett, Jr. and his wife Helena Stoothoff. Thomas Willett, Jr. (born about 1645) was the younger son of Sara Cornell and her first husband William Willett and he was the High Sheriff of the old Queens County, New York (which then included what is now Nassau County). Thomas Willett who died about the time his younger son was born (older son was William Willett) was a soldier with the Dutch West India Company in what is now lower Manhattan, New York, New York. Thomas Willett, Sr. was a first generation settler in America and his wife Rebecca Cornell was a second generation settler in America.
Willett Whiting was born in 1785 or 1786 and died at the age of six years and is buried near his mother Sarah Willett, the wife of Robert Whiting. This information comes from the Genealogical notes of the Colden family in America, page 9. The burial ground is the old Willett farm which passed into various ownership over a long period of time and then became the Cedar Grove Cemetery, a large part of which evolved into the Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Willett Whiting was born in 1785 or 1786 and died at the age of six years and is buried near his mother Sarah Willett, the wife of Robert Whiting. This information comes from the Genealogical notes of the Colden family in America, page 9. The burial ground is the old Willett farm which passed into various ownership over a long period of time and then became the Cedar Grove Cemetery, a large part of which evolved into the Mount Hebron Cemetery.
TO FIND THE AREA WHERE HE ONCE WAS BURIED, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO GO TO THE AREA JUST INSIDE THE MAIN GATE TO THE MOUNT HEBRON CEMETERY. This area is now part of a Jewish Cemetery but once was the farm of the family of Episcopalian Thomas Willett, Jr. and his wife Helena Stoothoff. Thomas Willett, Jr. (born about 1645) was the younger son of Sara Cornell and her first husband William Willett and he was the High Sheriff of the old Queens County, New York (which then included what is now Nassau County). Thomas Willett who died about the time his younger son was born (older son was William Willett) was a soldier with the Dutch West India Company in what is now lower Manhattan, New York, New York. Thomas Willett, Sr. was a first generation settler in America and his wife Rebecca Cornell was a second generation settler in America.
Willett Whiting was born in 1785 or 1786 and died at the age of six years and is buried near his mother Sarah Willett, the wife of Robert Whiting. This information comes from the Genealogical notes of the Colden family in America, page 9. The burial ground is the old Willett farm which passed into various ownership over a long period of time and then became the Cedar Grove Cemetery, a large part of which evolved into the Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Willett Whiting was born in 1785 or 1786 and died at the age of six years and is buried near his mother Sarah Willett, the wife of Robert Whiting. This information comes from the Genealogical notes of the Colden family in America, page 9. The burial ground is the old Willett farm which passed into various ownership over a long period of time and then became the Cedar Grove Cemetery, a large part of which evolved into the Mount Hebron Cemetery.
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