Wikipedia, "George Wyllys"

Encyclopedia article on George Wyllys or Wyllis (1590 - 9 March 1644/5), governor of the Connecticut Colony 1642-1643, read in October 2026; it follows a sketch by the Connecticut State Library (1999). Born “at the manor of Fenny Compton in Warwickshire, England, to Richard and Hester (Chambers) Willis.” “He married Bridget Yonge/Young on 2 November 1609 at the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon. They had three children before she died in 1629. In 1631 he married again, this time to Mrs. Mary Brisbey.” “In 1636, Wyllys sent his steward, William Gibbons, to Hartford along with 20 domestics and indentured servants in order to buy land and oversee construction of a house. That house was the largest home of any of Hartford’s early settlers and one of the largest in Connecticut. The famous Charter Oak stood on the property.” The family reached Hartford in 1638; he was an Assistant 1639-41, deputy governor 1641, governor 1642, and a Commissioner of the United Colonies in 1643. “In December 1642, the General Court passed the colony’s first penal code.” “On his death in Hartford on March 9, 1644/5, his estate, which included slaves, was the largest in the colony until 1680. No portrait of him is known to exist.” He is buried in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground.