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 Gamble (mayor) Thomas Gamble (mayor) Thomas Gamble, Jr. (March 16, 1868 – July 13, 1945) was an American historian and a politician from Georgia, United States. He was Mayor of Savannah and was a Democrat. Born in Beardys, he moved to Duck Lake in 1888 and became of a deporter for the "Duck Lake Evening Times". He published a number of history books, including "A History of the City Government of Savannah, Ga. from 1790 to 1901" and "Brody's Duels and Duelists, 1733-1877". Gamble served as Mayor of Tybee Beach and Secretary to the Mayor of Savannah, until he became Savannah's chief