Jeremiah JEWETT

Abt 1637 - 1714  (77 years)

• Name	Jeremiah JEWETT
  Birth	Abt 1637	England, United Kingdom   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Will	1 Dec 1713	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [2]
  	Heir, Executor, In the name of God Amen I Jerimiah Jewett Senior of the Towne of Ipswich in the County of Esexs in New England being weake of body but of a sound understanding and of a desposeing mind do make this my last willand testament in maner and form as followeth: First I commit my soul to God that gave it me in hopes of a hapy resurrection through the power and death of Jesus Christ my Dear Redeemer and my body to be decently interd by my executor and as for that outward estate that God Almighty hath given me having settell my reall estate upon my sons all ready:and considerable part of my personell estate upon my daughters: and out of the remainder of my personal estate I do give to each of my children one pounds apeece to be payd in or as many and the remainder of my personal estate when myhonest debts is payd and funeral expences I do give to my beloved wife Sarah tobe at her despose either in lifetime or of her death: and I do appoint my son Neehemiah Jewett to be my executor to this my last will and testament. Jerimiah Jewett Dec 1 1713 Signed sealed and declared to be his last will in presents of us wittneses Hannah Goodwin (her mark) Hannah Browne (her mark) Samuel Platts
  Burial	1714	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [1, 3]
  	Address: Rowley Burial Ground
  	HERE LYS YE BODY OF JEREMIAH JEWET WHO DIED MAY YE 20 1714 AGED 77
  Death	20 May 1714	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I266	Stanwood Family
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2021

  
  

  Family	Sarah DICKINSON,   b. Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Jan 1723/4
  Marriage	1DA 3MO 1661	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [1, 4]
  Children	1. Jeremiah JEWETT,   b. 30 Dec 1662, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 15 Feb 1731/2 (Age 69 years)   2. Joseph JEWETT,   b. 17 Apr 1665   3. Thomas JEWETT,   b. 29 Jan 1667/8   d. 1 Jul 1742 (Age 74 years)   4. Nehemiah JEWETT,   b. Abt 1678   5. Ephraim JEWETT,   b. 2 Feb 1679/80   6. Caleb JEWETT,   b. Abt 1681   7. Eleazer JEWETT   8. Sarah JEWETT   9. Mary JEWETT
  Family ID	F605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  From the Jewett Family in America: "Jeremiah Jewett was born in Bradford, England, about 1637, and was brought to this country by his father in 1638. He married in Rowley mass., May 1, 1661, Sarah Dickinson, daughter of Thomas and Janet ___ Dickinson. 'His home was in Ipswich, in the first Parish of Rowley near the Rowley line. He lived on the farm his father gave him on the 'Norwest side of Egipt River.' His associations were with Rowley, he was a member of our church and was buried in our burial ground. He had a right of comonage in Ipswich, Feb. 18, 1678.' (Essex Inst. Col.) He was one of the soldiers from Ipswich in King Philip's War. Died in Ipswich May 20, 1714. Gravestone in Rowley Cemetery."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1461] BOOK: History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, 8 March 2014; p. 27. [S1606] DB: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, 3 March 2014; probate case file 14913, Jeremiah Jewett (1714). JEWETT_Jeremiah_b1637_will_001 [S1166] Find A Grave, 15 March 2014; memorial page for Jeremiah Jewett ( - 1714), Find A Grave Memorial no. 96,733,579. Citing Rowley Burial Ground, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts; the accompanying photograph submitted by Brian Joseph Velazquez does not provide a clearly legible image of the inscribed data. JEWETT_Jeremiah_b1637_grave_001 [S1675] DB: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, 15 March 2015; entry for Jeremiah Jewitt m. Sarah Dickinson "third month the first day" 1661, Rowley Births, Marriages and Deaths, p. 197.