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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Robert Lett: Birth: 29 OCT 1803 in County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 4 DEC 1883 in Lett Cemetery, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL

  2. John Lett: Birth: 1806 in Ireland. Death: BEF SEP 1824 in Solina, Lower Canada

  3. Thomas Lett: Birth: 17 JUN 1809 in Kildemond, County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 8 JUL 1885 in Sandwich, IL

  4. Benjamin Lett: Birth: 14 NOV 1813 in County Carlow, Ireland. Death: 9 DEC 1858 in Milwaukee, WI

  5. Elizabeth "Betsy" Lett: Birth: 12 MAY 1816 in Wexford, Ireland. Death: 23 DEC 1897 in Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL

  6. Anne Lett: Birth: 1818 in Ireland. Death: 1839 in Natchitoches, LA

  7. Maria Lett: Birth: 29 OCT 1821 in Chatham Township, Quebec Region, Canada. Death: 2 MAR 1900 in Sec 34, Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL

  8. Sarah "Sally" Lett: Birth: 29 FEB 1824 in Chatham Township, Quebec Region, Canada. Death: 11 AUG 1887 in Adams Township, LaSalle County, IL


Notes
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  This Lett Family were originally Hollanders, who went to England with William Henry, Prince of Orange, Nassau, and afterward William the Third, whence they migrated to Wexford, Ireland.
  According to page 31 of son Thomas Lett's booklet, "The Life Trial & Death of Benjamin Lett - The Canadian Patriot of 1837-'38", the following is stated:
  "In June 1819, his (Ben's) father, Samuel Lett and Mother Elizabeth Warren, emigrated from Ireland to Lower Canada with their family, consisting of four sons, Robert, John, Thomas and Benjamin and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, and settled on the Ottawa River, district of Montreal".
  Maria and Sarah were born in Chatham, Canada.
  By accident, Samuel died on his farm in Chatham, in 1824, falling from a hayrack and breaking his neck.
  In 1833, his widow and his family moved to Solina, Darlington, Ontario.
  The Family moved to Texas in 1836-7, as far from the Canadian Rebellion as possible.
  After the widow Elizabeth's death in Nagadotches, TX, from yellow fever, the family moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1839, where his son Thomas' wife, Sophronia, died, as well as his daughter Anne, also from yellow fever.
  Shortly thereafter, in 1839, son Thomas and the remaining family moved to Illinois, traveling up the Mississippi River onto the Illinois River, wintering 1839-40 in Kentucky along the way, landing at Ottawa, IL, and finally into northern LaSalle County, Northville Township.
Note:   The Irish Lett family, which spread world wide, originates from Richard Lett of Churchill, Worcestshire, England, whose Will is dated 15 May 1601. Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition Volume 3 [1972] has authenticated details of Thomas' father'


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