This short book on the Hallett Family is extracted from the book Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families page 474 to 521. Several of the name came to New England early in the colonizing of America. William, the ancestor of the Long Island family was born in Dorcetshire, England in 1616. He first joined the settlement of Greenwich, Connecticut then moved to Long Island. He purchased 161 acres of land at Hellgate, at Hallett's Cove. In the fall of 1655 the Indians destroyed his house and plantation, and he moved to Flushing. He was appointed Sherriff in 1656. There's more to this  interesting story! Genealogy records are provided to about 1837. Some interesting notes are given on family members, such as 'died with only one unsound tooth', and 'she was insane and supported by the town', and 'he was a farmer, and was one of the first contractors to carry a weekly mail to Boston', and this note, 'she by mistake took rats-bane instead of salts, and died in six hours', another died of small pox in Boston Harbor, and 'lost in a gale on Nantucket Shoals, and all on board perished'. Softcover 

(55p. 1888)