Sources: 1. IGI file (batch # 7450331 and film # 002917).

Source 2. from Catherine A. Larson:

Source 3. Salisbury Vital Records;

Source 4. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Records.

Source 5. Knapp Genealogy;

Source 6. Boston Transcript of Connecticut.

Source 7. Marriage: Salsbury, Conn. Vital Records-Vol. 2-pg:4. In birth record of the son Joseph, Jacob was listed in Italics;

Source 8. After Jacobs father Nathaniel Gillett of Salisbury died in 1765, Jacob chose his mother Mercy Boardman, wife of Benjamin Boardman as his guardian on 20 Oct. 1765 (This proves that his mother married again shortly after her first husband Nathaniel Gillett died)
(The following probably not our Jacob as he was in Conn. & not in N.Y;

Source 9; Film: 0930125: Item 1, pg: 48: Dutchess Co. Deeds: 3 June 1769: Jacob Gillett from Martin Winchell Jr.

Source 10. Film: 0925056: Dutchess Co. N.Y.; Item 4: pg: 75: Jacob Gillett Took a loan in 1771, pg: loan 5 May 1772.

Source 11. Record of Conn. Men in the Military service during the War of the Revolution; A Jacob Gillett Appears on the payroll December 1781 & January 1781; (Our jacob Died in 1777)

Jacob may have had a twin brother Isaac Gillett as some records seem to indicate this possibility; Isaac died 21 Feb 1840 in his 91st year in Lebanon Columbia, New York; Our Jacob died in 1777 in Lebanon;,