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This is really great. Thanks for writing. A story is told that the first relatives I have in NJ were in MA, first, then CT, as these relatives followed the building of iron forges, and finally northern NJ were they were beginning to build forges. So they were in CT for a little while. Their distant ancestor, Henry Willis, came from England first to Lynn, MA but returned to England and resumed his career, teaching. He left a son Thomas in MA from whom the others descended. They thought that Henry was a cousin of George Willis, the first governor of CT. This is written in a book called The Willis Family of New Jersey and New England. I looked in CT to see if I could find any records, thinking that we have computers today and that I might find something that these New Jersey Willis researchers hadn't found. Actually, I haven't found any more yet that they didn't have, or think they had. However, when I looked at CT, all I saw was just a lot of names, and I wondered if any of them was related, and how. So if you know that the Willises in Tolland were relatives of George, that is great! This is something you should really read about in those papers and find out how they're all sorted out. Do you have any Willis male relatives who would do the Y-DNA test? My uncle has done it. We could prove or disprove their theory that the Henry who came to Lynn, MA was a relative of George Willis of CT. Please keep in touch, and if there is more that you know now, please let me know the details. I can share with you what was published in the Willis book.
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