Thomas Willett Huxley. The Fire Department of New York operated a fireboat named "Thomas Willett" from 1908 to 1959. Attribution Thomas Willett Thomas Willett (1605 – August 29, 1674) was a British merchant, Plymouth Colony trader and sea-captain, Commissioner of New Netherland, magistrate of Plymouth Colony, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia and was the 1st and 3rd Mayor of New York City, prior to the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York in 1898. The fourth son of English clergyman Andrew Willet, he was born in August 1605, in the rectory-house of Barley, Hertfordshire, and was baptised
Thomas Hele (died 1665) Thomas Hele (died 1665) Thomas Hele (6 September 1630 – 13 September 1665) of Wigborow, Somerset, was a Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in Devon from 1661 to 1665. Hele was the eldest son and heir apparent of Sir Thomas Hele, 1st Baronet (died 1670), of Flete, Holbeton in Devon, by his first wife Penelope Johnson, daughter and co-heiress of Emorbe (Eniorbe(?)) Johnson of Wigborow in Somerset. In 1661 he was elected Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Devon from 1661 and for Somerset from 1665. Thomas married Amy