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Thanks for the quick followup Ron. Your info about Alexander Gillette makes the jugsaw pieces begin to fall into place. But there as still some puzzling gaps in the transmission history of my book.
William Brewster's book was probably brought to CT ca. 1665 by his son Jonathan, an early settler of New London & Norwich. It remained in his family until the death of this gr-gr-grandson, Joseph II in 1775. Joseph's son (Joseph III) was serving in the CT militia during these early days of the American Revolution & was not discharged until 2 months after his father's death. Being neither a scholar nor a clergyman he had no use for a biblical commentary in Latin. So in 1779 (correction of the date indicated above)during the hard days of the late Revolution he evidently sold this ancestral heirloom to the young Congregationalist (?) preacher Alexander Gillett from Farmingbury for the handsome price of 16 shillings. Soon after he moved to Vermont & eventually upstate NY. Gillett signed, dated the sale & recorded the sale price on the 2nd title page (He spelt his name Gillette).
How the volume came back into my family is more of a mystery. But you offer me a possible link to another branch of my grandmother's lineage by noting that Gillett died at Torrington in Litchfield county. Several of my non-Brewster relatives (Hoskins, Torrey, Loomis, Eggleston) lived in the area around Torrington, Litchfield, & Windsor during the late 18th & early 19th c. My maternal gr-gr-gr-gr-grandmother, Paulina Torrey, was born in Litchfield in 1774 & died in 1808. If Alexander Gillet was ministering in Litchfield county then one or more of these families could have been his parishoners. How & why this book came again into one of my ancestor's possession, however, remains one of history's unsolvable mysteries. For the book bears no marks of being sold to any owner after Gillet.
Thanks alot for your clues. In payment for this information I'm willing to send a digital file of Alexander Gillette's signature to you or anyone who is interested.
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