Asa Gillett

Asa Gillett House, 2008

Asa Gillett (1740-1785) was the owner of the Asa Gillett House and the grandson of Joseph Gillett, Jr., one of West Hartford, Connecticut's early proprietors of land. He built the house around 1760, living in the area until his death in 1785, on the east side of South Main Street just north of the famous lexicographer, Noah Webster, Jr.