6 • The . JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA YEAR BOOK OF 1911 Pt111L111n9D D1' TUE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA (Incorporated 10th September. 1010) ROWLEY, 1\IASSACIIUSETTS - , f TO THE BRA VE SETTLERS WHO LEVELLED FORESTS CLEARED FIELDS MADE PATHS BY LAND AND WATER AND PLANTED COMMONWEALTHS. TO THE BRAVE WOMEN WHO IN SOLITUDES AMID STRANGE DANGERS AND HEAVY TOIL REARED FAMILIES AND MADE HOMES. (Inscription on the water gate, World's Fair, Chicago.) Gi: -:. 1~ 111: 111 B o1111J\I ,..; .J 1. 1\TTT 1'rt•,i1l1•11t u( I ht· .\ ,,,...j,, I i1111 I !l I II - l !1 11 The JEWETT FAMILY YEAR BOOK OF 1911 P oauen1:0 DT THE JEWETT FA.MI.LY OF AMERICA (Incorporated 19lh September, 1910) ROWLEY. MASSACHUSETTS, ~ ~ullor .9ru1 .B OOTO I<, M . .... JEWETI' FAMILY OF A.MERICA THE YEAR BOOK OF 1911 C ONTENTS D EDICATION - I NSCRIPTION PORTRAIT OF THE PRESlDEXT, EDGAR B. J EWETT A.LUTATORY OF TlIE PRESJDEXT O u n A OCIA.TION, lTs I xconPOR.<\TlON -JOHN W. SAXE OFFICERS AND COl\ThOTTEE CHARTER A.ND OBJECT Bv-LAws AND l\IEMBER mP REUNlON AT ROWLEY, J ULY 7, 1910 -EDITB N. PuTNEY TnE REUNlON PICTURE ADORES OF W ELCOME TO R OWLEY - DEACON A. E. J EWETT H1 TORY OF TllE JEWETT no~lE TEAD - WENDELL P . HALE R EGI TRY OF N A)!ES AT REUNION - A. D. JEWETT THE J EWETT F~lrLY - 0RlG1N OF NAME, HENRY L. J EWETT Dn. CIIARLES J EWETT, Fm T Y1cE-PRESmENT. AN APPRECIATION P ORTR.UT OF R ESOLUTIONS .. L'l l\1ID10RLUI " 1 7 8 9 10 11 13 15 20 22 30 31 G&.--.EALOGY, "TnE J EWETT OF .~IBRJCA" (Continued) 32 (Dn. FRED CLARKE JEWETT) G E?\"EALOGJCA.L N OTES 44 F..unLY NEWS 19-29-43-51 "Oun OLD Ho11IE," RowLEY, ~IA . - A. E. JEWETT LIST OF l\lfillBERS OF Assocu TION . 49 53 :: SALUTATORY "The Foreword is Forward" TO THE JEWETT FA:\filY OF A..\IERICA DEAR ~SY.AN: The Jewett family first settled in this country about the year 1638, in Rowley, Essex County, l\Iass., emigrating irom England. In the year 1855 a very ucces ful and largely attended family reunion was held in the town of Rowley. 1\Iuch interest was felt by the many descendants of tho e early settlers. Since that time, and until the present year, a period of about fifty-five years, there had been no further attempt at getting together the member of this family, either from lo of interest or want of some one to take the matter in hand. On July 7th, of 1910, another meeting was held, and, among other things, the descendants have had themselves incorporated, under the laws of the Commonwealth of l\la.ssachusetts, as the "JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA," of which As ociation I have the honor of being its first President. I am surrounded by an excellent taff of officers, and it is my desire, and that of all loyal members (and that includes us all), that we make this Association strong in membership and powerful in its influences; and in order to do this, our membership must be made as large as po sible and every one must do his part to this end. We need two hundred annual members to keep going, and we will make it five hundred with your help. Every endeavor must be made to find all descendants of our family, and interest them and see that they are duly enrolled as members. I do not think this part of enrolling will be difficult after we once locate our kinsmen. Once they are found, family loyalty and pride will accomplish the rest. We should al o be proud of our family record and achievements in the different vocations and professions as well as on the field of battle. The further purposes of the Association as et forth in our charter are the collection and preservation of books, pamphlets, documents, manuscripts, and other hi torical and antiquarian matter; the publication of historical articles from time to time; the protection of records and monuments of the forefathers, and erection of suitable memorials; and the holding of reunions of the family for promoting acquaintance and good-fellowship. II you are interested in these objects, and desire to qualify as a member of the As ociation, send one dollar to the Treasurer, Thoma Jewett Hallowell, 52 Beaver Street, New York City, who will send you an engraved certificate or membership. The Jewett Family of America is i uing under the direction of its Com mittee on Publication its fir t YEAR DOOK, and I a k for it a cordial wel come and a quick re ponse in our membership. To every member of the J ewett Family I send greeting, and I hope you and our As ociation may live long and pro per. Yours in the bonds of kinship, EDGAR B. JEWETT THE JEWETI FAMILY OF AMERICA OUR ASSOCIATION - ITS INCORPORATION CB.ARTER, OFFICERS, AND BY-LAWS JOHN w. SA.~E The first Association formed by members of the Jewett Family at the first reunion at Rowley, in 1855, had a list of officer that gave promise of an active organization, but, either from lo s of interest or want of a strong executive Secretary, lhis early promi e was not fulfilled. The Civil War intervened and the Jewett Family responded to the call to duty, as our war record exemplifies. Men's minds were diverted to other objects and naturally the As ociation failed. However, the publication of the History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, and the call for the second reunion, made a new organization greatly desired. The Committee on permanent organization, appointed by General J ewett, at the reunion, July 7, 1910, was compo ed of Dr. Fred C. Jewett, John W. Sa.xe, Albert D. J ewett, Algernon L. Jewett, and Edith N . Putney, and after a conference submitted a report on Constitution and By-Laws and nominations for Officers. The meeting thereupon voted to sign and adopt an agreement of association forthwith, and to authorize incorporation under a charter in M:assachu etts. The annual dues were fi..xed at one dollar, payable in advance, and membership included alJ persons of the name or kin of J ewett or related thereto by marriage. The Agreement of As ociation was then signed by sixty members, and more than a hundred were enrolled as charter members. The following officers were elected and by-laws adopted. We took charge of the details of incorpora tion, and on the 19th of September, 1910, the Commonwealth of l\Iassachusetts granted to the Jewett Family of America a charter, a facsimile of which follow . The President and Directors have appointed an Executive Committee, a Committee on Publication, a Committee on History and Genealogy, and a Committee on the next Reunion. The President has kindly given an engraved plate, a fine Certificate of Member hip with a coat of arms. The President in March last presided over a directors' rneeti ng in New York and also in Bo ton, and is mot active in advancing lhe organization. The President and Vice Presidents are earnestly promoting member hip in their respective sections, and our As ociation will soon have a large enthu iastic member hip. After an interval or filty-five years the Jewett Family has aroused itsell, and now ve ted by its charter with perpetual existence, i sues a call for an en rollment of five hundred members, o that the objects of the As ociation may be advanced. The President orders "Forward," and every member is expected to do his duty in enlisting new members. NoTE.-The eighty or more per ons who first answeredto the calJ for the reunion and whose name are preserved in lhe records of the present corpora tion, are entitled to lhe credit of starling the organization, and are enrolled as charter members. Wqr it 1!\nnmn 'TJ..11; w,:eraas Edgar B. Jewett, Thoms Jewett H&llowell, Amos Everett Jewett, Fred. Clar ke Jewett , Albert D. Jewett, Algernon L. Jewett, Arthur K. Jewett , John W. Saie, Edith N. Putney and others nar.:e (If The Jewett Famil,y of America, for ti:e purpose of rormi ng a permanent aeaoc1at1on or the members of the Je :iett Family in Amer ica, the receiving and holding real and personal property acqu!:-od by wi l l, gift , in trust or otherwise !or its purposes, tho preservation of historical and ant iquarian matter relati ng to the family ; the collection of books, pa.=phle t s , documents, manuscripts a nd articles referring to !ta histo ry and tho p~~licatlon from time t o t1me of h.1eto r 1cal a rticles, the protection and p reservation of re c ords and monuments of the f ore!athere a nd erection of suitable me=orials ; the hold ing of reunions of the !amilY rrom t ime t o time for promoting gocd- f ellowsh! p; and J:a-:.•e cow.p:ied wit!: ti-.e prtr.1isit'r:s of the sta!~i;es (If ti-.:s Cc;;;;;::1::.·.-,1::;: :1; s::.-,: case rriaa'e a ;:d provided. as appears fr(l'n: t:.:.e certif.ca!e t•/ t::e President , Treasurer, Secretary &nd Directors t'f said corpom !irn, d~i:y appreved hy ti-.c Ce1;:r.~s:::vncr of Ccrp~t!!:,•;:: a;:,i r.·.-,•1-.i.·.1· ;1: !k:s office. : Nnm, wlrerrfon. I. WILLIAM M. OLIN. Sccrd(V?J o/ 'D:.: c.,;;:;;;::: wea!ti-. rf Jlassack:tse!!s, DO HEREBY CERTIFY :::a! said Edgar B. Jewett, Thomas J ewett Hallowell, Amoa .Rverstt Jewett, Pred. Clarke Jewett, Albert D. J ewett, Al· gernon L. J ewett, Arthu r H. Jewet t . J ohn W. Saia, Edith N. Putney and others, tlz.e:r assoc:·ales a1:d :::iccesscrs. are .'egat:y crgar.:.:;rd ar.d rs!ao::.s::ed a::, a;:,i ar.: ker.:by ;n,1d.:. 111;, .•:x::;!:'::g c.n'P(!rn/:°,:n: :ma'er t:.:e 1:a~e <'/ The Jewett Family or Ameri c&, wi!J:. t;:e /)(rd/C/S, r:g::!s ar..d priv:·:eges. and s:,C·~,,;~ !v ~;~ ::n::·:a.1:r;;s, a·::!:.rJs ,1;:t1 res!ric!it'1:s, w:::·c:: iiy .aw appcrla~1• tizere!o. IDitnrS5 n:y o..;.::Scia l :ic;:.z::1re j:tre:o:!o s:1bscr:bt.I, ai:.i 1:~ Vr~.1 · Seal of Tiu Co:;:mo;:wealli: of "'~: .:iss.:JC;;;1.:t::s htr.;:m:.) a;=.t t.I, 1:::: nineteenth Sept ember o:tr :..or.i en:~ 1;ur.u.u:.i .:ir:e J:m:Jrl.d ar..t t en. Secr"tary o/ !i:~ C"i;:11:ot:t1u.1.':,:. ?r'~c--aO-:r .... :~-. ' Deput y a.nd Actine Secretary. :: • TuE JEWETT FAMlLY OF AMERICA THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA (INCORPORATED) ORGANIZATION Pre:tident GEN. EDGAR B . JEWETT Buffalo, N. Y. Vice-Presidents R. DICKINSON J EWETT New York City Wlf. KE.~ON J EWETT Colorado prings, Col. Al. H. JEWETT J ,uras w. J EWETT 9 White nlmon, Wash. Central Keswick Ridge, N. B. J AM.ES H. JEWETT Portsmouth, Va. Treaa-urer Taos. JEWETT lliLL<>WELL New York City Historian DR. FRED CLARKE J EWETT Baltimore, :lid. EDGAR B. J EWETT Buffalo, N. Y. GEORGE B. B W DGETTE Rowley, l\Ias . H ENRY L. J EWETT Bethlehem, Pa. Directors FLORENCE G. J E\VETT Rowley, M ass. Corresponding Secretary ALBERT D . J EWETT Xew York City Recording Secretary A . E VERETT J EWETT Rowley, l\las . ARTDUR H. J EWETT Reading, Mass. ALGERNON L. J EWETT Bo ton, Mass. J onN w. A.XE Boston, Mas . Committee on Publication J oUN W. SA...'{£, Chairman and Editor FRED CLARKE J EWETT HENRY L. J EWETT AMO EVERETT J EWETT GEORGE B. BLODGETTE Committee on History FR.En CLARKE JEWETT, Chairman GEORGE A . J EWETT H ENRY L. J EWETT Ml EDI TB N. P UTNEY a11d Genealogy CHARLES F. J E WETT, Secretary pringfield, Ma s. R. DICKINSON J EWETT GEORGE B. B LODGETTE Committee on Reunion President and Officers, Ex-Officio H ENRY CLAY J EWETT ARTHUR H. J EWETT J o u.n JEWETT Jewettville, N. Y. Reading, l\la s. Skaneateles, N . Y. H ENRY )!. J EWETT NANNIE E. J EWETT G UERNSEY R. J EWETT Moravia, N. Y. Buffalo, N . Y. New York City GEORGE A. J EWETT ADA L. J EWETT J OHN H OWARD J EWETT Des Moines, Ia. Rowley, Mass. New York City 10 THE J EWETT FMITLY OF AMERICA BY-LAWS Name.-The name shall be "The Jewett Family of America." Sea1.-The seal shall be a scroll with name in full, and date l!HO in center. Purposes.- The purposes shall be: A permanent association of the J ewett Family of America, to receive and hold real and personal property acquired by will, gift, or trust, or otherwise for its purpose; the collection of all documents, books, pamphlets, articles, and manuscripts relating to the family; the preservation or historical and anti quarian matter pertaining thereto; the promotion of historical and genealogical research; the publication from time to time of historical articles, etc., inabulletin; the protection and preservation of monuments of the forefathers and the erection of suitable memorials; the promotion of acquaintance and good-fellowship, and the holding of reunions from time to time. Membership.-Any person of the name or kin of Jewett, or related thereto by marriage, may become a member upon payment of one dollar, which shall include dues of the first year. Dues.- The annual dues shall be one dollar, payable in advance. Meetings.-Meetings of the Association shall be held annually in July at such time and place as the majority vote of the directors taken by mail shall provide, provided no selection of time or place shall have been made by a ma jority of members of this Association present, and voting at a regular meeting. Officers.- There shall be a President, six or more Honorary Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Recording Secretary, and a Corresponding Secretary, a His torian, a Librarian Curator, and si.x Directors. The Honorary Vice-Presidents, who shall have no authority except by vote of the Board of Directors, the Treasurer, the Clerk or Recoi:ding Secretary, the Corre ponding Secretary, and Historian shall be elected by a majority ballot at a regular meeting of the Jewett Family. The President and other Officers and Agents shall be elected by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall consist of the six elected Directors, the President, Treasurer, two Secretaries, and Historian, ex-officio. Four of said board shall constitute a quorum for business. Said board shall have the usual powers of Directors and in all matters of finance, and in filling vacancies and in executive direction. The officers shall haYe the usual au thority and duties of such office, and with directors shall hold office until suc cessors are appointed. = TrrE J EWETT F~ITLY OF AMERICA 11 THE SECOND REUNION OF THE JEWETI FA.MIL Y DY EDITH N. P UTNEY The fir t reunion took place in 1855, and at that time il was intended to hold others from Lime to time, but no proper organization for the purpo e was effected, and interest apparenlly died out. However, interest and enthu iasm were revived by the publication o! Lhe Jewett Genealogy, collected and edited by the untiring efforts or Dr. F. C. Jewett, of Baltimore. uggeslions for anolher reunion came in uch number that a commiLLee in New York City determined to arrange a family gathering, and their letters and circular received a prompt expres ion for a reunion and a permanent association. Prof. A. D. J ewett, or Kew York, was tireles in promoting the good work, and was ably assisted by Deacon A. E. J ewett, or Rowley, and many other who contributed their time and money. Thi committee wa as follows: PROF. Cu.ABLES JEWETT, l\l.D., Chairman. Brooklyn, N. Y. HoN. EDG.\.R B. JEWETT Buffalo, N. Y. A. L. J EWETT Bo ton, l\Iass. FREDERIC A. JEWETT, l\f.D., Treasurer Brooklyn, N. Y. AI. II. JEWETT White almon, Wash. HE-,""RY c. JEWETT East Aurora, N. Y. J OHN HOWARD JEWETT New York, N. Y. A. D. J EWETT, Secretary New York, N. Y. On Thursday, July 7, 1910, more than two hundred of the J ewett Family assembled in the beautiful country village of Rowley, in the county of Es ex, .l\Iass., the ancestral home of the Jewett of America, to celebrate their second reunion, and to organize a permanent association. For everal days before, persons coming from a distance bad arrived in town, and early Thursday morn ing many s trangers and townsfolk, all claiming a common ancestry in the name of Jewett, a embled at the Baptist Church, the official headquarters. The day or the reunion was perfect, and about everybody came early, by train, trolley, and motor. Big Jewetts, little J ewetts, Jewetts by name, and Jewetts by marriage; one from London, some from l\laine, ome from the far-away Pacific coast , and everywhere between, were in evidence to the number of over two hundred. The vi itors registered at headquarters, purchased dinner tickets, looked over an interesting collection of old document relating to the Family loaned Cor exhibition through the courtesy of Deacon A. E. Jewett, into who e posses ion mo t of them have come, including an ancient copy in colors of the Jewett coat of arms. The members in an informal, cordial way became acquainted, and repre sentatives or many lines met once again. Some had a card with their name and address thereon, and on the back names showing their respective line of descent from l\1a..ximilian or Jo eph Jewett. 12 TnE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA The official meeting was at the Congregational Church, from 11 to I o'clock. over whlch Gen. Edgar B. Jewett, e.x-mayor of Buffalo, most ably and filliogly presided. Prayer was offered by Rev. F. J. Ward, or the Baptist Church of Rowley, and thereupon an address of welcome was given by Deacon A. E. Jewett. Many letters of regret were read from prominent members unable to attend the reunion, and John H. Jewett, of Goodman, Wis., sent a poem of greeting, "To the Jewetts Assembled." Wendell Phillips Hale, of Providence, R. I., who was also pre ent at the fir t reunion, was called to the platform and gave a most delightful and reminiscent talk on the "Old Jewett House in Row ley." AU who had attended the fir t reunion or lhe family, held June 14, 1855, were requested to stand, and allho11gh fifty-five year had pas ed, twenty-five per ons were present. Mis E ther Jewett, of Summit, N. J., read part of the program of the day from the original copy whlch her father had trea ured many years. Milton Ellsworth, of Rowley, told how he had marched in the great Jewett procession in 1855. T . P. Hale, of Rowley, spoke o( ome old pictures in t.be vestry o( the church which were well worth seeing; a picture of the mother church in England, from which Ezekiel Rogers, the parson, had set out in 1638; the portraits of old Dr. Jewett and of his wife and daughter. Ai. H. Jewett, of White almon, Washington, who bad come east with :llr . Jewett expres ly to attend the reunion, spoke enthusiastically of the reunion, aying he Celt more than repaid for his long journey across the continent. Mr. Arthur H. Jewett, or Reading, Mass., by his resonant voice and hearty enthusiasm tirred the mem bers up to action and to merriment. A vote of thanks was passed lo Dr. Fred Clarke Jewett, for the publicalion of the Jewett Genealogy, conlaining an index of over 24,500 names; also a \'Ole of thanks to Deacon A. E. Jewett, for his word of welcome and his arrange ments for the return to the " Old Home." At 1 . 30 the company adjourned to the Town Hall, where refreshments were erved by the ladies of Rowley to more than two hundred guests. D eacon Samuel L. Jewett, ex-mayor or Haverhi!J, invoked di"ine blessing. To A. D . Jewett, or New York, a vote of thanks was passed for his successful efforts as secretary, in planning all the detail of the reunion, and a Yote of thanks was passed to the ladies or Rowley who had o graciou ly as isted in the feast. Then a photograph or the company was taken by C. A. Houghton, and the rest of the day was spent vi iting places or interest in the old town; many vi ited the qufot graveyard, where nine generations or Jewetls have been laid to rest, and many went to the site of the early houses of their ancestors, marked by A. E. Jewett; many lingered on the grounds or the town hou e, or the churches, and of Rowley Common unlil late in the afternoon, exchanging cards, writing in birth day books, securing addresses, and relating bits of family hlstory. o ended the second reunion, permeated with a genial fraternal pirit, a splendid success. The hearts of all upon parting were deeply stirred and t.be general desire is now for the third reunion. • ....: - ... ·F. ·r. -= ;... ....: ;;: -- THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 13 WORDS OF WELCOME BY DEACON A. E. JEWETr Mr. Chairman, members of the Jewett Association, and all by the name or blood of Jewett: No race in modern times has left an impress on the world like that 0£ the Anglo-Saxon. The blending 0£ the Briton, the Dane, the Angle, the Jute, the axon, and the Norman has produced a race unsurpassed for pro found convictions and for tenacity of purpo e; a race, which, while not always standing for liberty, religious or political, has ever bad its face toward the light. They made England what she has been and is to-day. They wrested the :Magna Charta from King John seven centuries ago. They humbled the pride and power 0£ pain in Elizabeth's time, and in the seventeenth century they ro e in their might and drove the Stuarts from the throne. Here was the rise of Puritanism. And I use the term in its broadest sense. Here were men who said to the son and the grandson of 1\fary, Queen of Scots, "We have some rights and we shall maintain them at any cost,'' and they did. Have you ever noticed that the only men mentioned in Gray' beautiful elegy written a century later are the leaders of that movement? Indeed, the names of Hampden, Milton, and Cromwell are immortal. John Fiske ays : "U ever there were men who laid down their lives in the cause of aJI mankind, it was those grim old ironsides whose watchwords were texts from Holy Writ, and whose battle cries were hymns of praise," and add, "Had it not been for the Puritans, political liberty would probably have dis appeared Crom the world." Again, "The moment of Cromwell's triumph was the most critical moment in history." I know that Carlyle laments that with the death of the Protector, Puritanism began to decay and lo e its moral force and power. True in a measure in old England, but did he forget that for nearly two core years there had been those who, turning their faces toward the setting sun, had cro ed the ocean, and that not in the mother country, but in New Eng land, was to be seen Puritanism at its best. " It was the simple truth," says Fiske again, "that was spoken by William tough ton, when he said in his election sermon, in 1688, 'God sifted a whole nation that be might send choice grain into the wilderness.' And so they came to Plymouth in 1620, eight years later to Salem, in 1630 to Boston; to Ip wich, on the outh of us, in 1634, to Newbury, on the north, in 1635, and "sixty industrious and pious families" under the leadership of Ezekiel Rogers came, in 1639, to this town of Rowley, to which we welcome you to-day. Here along thi bore commenced the struggle for existence, a struggle which men of less determination would have given up, but not so with them. Surrounded by Indians, menaced on the north by the French, unju tly taxed as they thought by the mother country, they rose above all obstacles. The Indian is gone. The French, since the battle on the plains of Abraham a cen tury and a hall ago, have given no cause for uneasiness, and England has learned to respect her eldest daughter. They pushed north to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the Provinces. They peopled the western reserve a century THE JEWETT FMOLY OF Alt::EiucA later and still pressed on unlil they have reached the Pacific. Wherever they have been for any length of time, they have left an impress not easily effaced. They were, and their descendanls are, men of moral force and power. Do not be deceived. Puritanism is not a pent force and will not be in your day or mine. Why? Because it tands in its very nature for independence of thought and action, and it bring eYery man naked and alone before God, saying to him, "Life i a erious thing. Your i before you. What will you do with it? Will you make the mo tor it or will you place a living above a life?" o r tho e who came in that exodus the name of Carver, Brew ter, Bradford, Winthrop, Endicott, Davenport, and Williams are among the leader. We honor their memory, bul we will not forget the plain, everyday men who made their achievement po ible, who )i,·ed their lives quietly, who did their duty and who have gone the way oC earlh. Such were the men in who e name we meet to-day, and I count it a privilege to welcome you in behali of tho-e of u · who stayed, to this ancienl town or Rowley, and a pleasure I cannot well express is in our hearts as you come here from ea t and west and norlh and south. Ay, more than that, in behaU of those who generations ago ht!re lived and lo,·ed and toiled, I welcome you; in behaU of Maximilian and Jo eph, who in the trength of their manhood came here and were so largely idenlified with the best interests or thi town, who have long ince turned to dust and over who e unmarked grave you may uncon ciously walk this July day; in behalf of Ezekiel, who, with his father, l\1~x:imilian, erved the church as deacons eighty-four years in succes ion, and who e last resting place you will visit; in behali or Jo eph's sons, Jeremiah and Nehemiah, who e graves are also to be seen in the old yard; in behali of all tho-e who e voices are hushed, I welcome you. We want you to walk the streets they walked; Bradford treet, where they lived, named for their home in old England, whither their thoughts so often turned; Wethersfield Street, where lived Ezekiel Rogers, the leader of their flock, who gave it the name from his old home in England, and who also gave the name Ezekiel to a long line or Ezekiel Jewetts. We want you to look upon the scenes they looked upon, especially the site or the old meeting house where they worshipped. We want you to remember that J eremiah and Joseph were in King Philip's War; that James fell at Loui burg, in 1745; that their descendants were among the foremo t in the French and Indian war in 1756- 1763; that Captain Moses, whose Lexington payroll you may see to-day, was in the R evolution with Aaron, Nehemiah, J ames, and a hundred other ; that l\Iaximilian and Jo eph and their sons represented this town at the general court thirty-eight years; that Nehemiah, Jo eph's second son, represented the neighboring town oI Ipswich nineteen years, being peaker three year ; that he was one of tho e who drew up a remonstrance to Governor Andros which the town of Ipswich adopted, for which act ome of the number suffered imprison ment, and one, Rev. John Wise, in addition to being imprisoned, was fined fifty pounds and suspended from the ministry. Nehemiah Jewett helped make po ible the claim or Ipswich as the birthplace of American independence. We hope that as you visit these scenes and think of these men and women, of their early struggle and hardship, of their sturdy independence of thought, it may J THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AllErucA 15 be a help and an inspiration to you in the days to come, and that in after years you may !eel that the day you spent in Rowley was not altogether in Yain; that in a measure, at least, you were repaid for your journey from your homes to the home of your fathers, to whom we all owe o much. Let us remember the words of Edmund Burke, "People will not look forward to po terity who never look backward to their ancestors." Tenny on says in one of his poems, "Kind hearts are more than coronets And simple faith than Norman blood." Tho e early Jewetls had the Norman blood which led them to dare and do, and al o the faith which held them true to life' purpo e. Their blood is in your veins and mine to-day. ~lay their faith be in our hearts as well, and when our eart:Wy hou e of this tabernacle be dis ol"ecl and the places which now know u ·, know us no more again fore,·er, may it be said of us, " Ile was a Jewett and he kept the faith." THE OLD JEWE'IT HOu E IN ROWLEY, MAS. BY WENDELL PB.n.LIPS HALE The old Jewett hou e has gone, but Lhe memory o! it remains. To tho e oC us who are fortunate enough to have a picture of the house as it looked in its la t day , it will alway be a pleasure lo look at it ancient walls and to see the two trees which tood for o many year as entinels on the north ide of the hou e, and the cart path which left the main road and wound between the house and the trees. There were originally three trees, but one was truck by light ning about the year 1857, two year after the .fir t Jewett Camily meeting. The tree was so much injured that it was cut down. It could, however, have stood many years longer, as it was not injured internally. It is much easier to cut down a tree than to pre erve it. An old apple tree grew for many years on the west side of the hou e, and some lilac bushes, which hid many woodchuck holes, were on the south ide of the lot. After the fashion oI ancient times the house was built to face the south, and as the main road was on the north side the front door opened on the back yard. This did not make much trouble, as there was another door on the street side which opened into a small entry which had been partitioned off from the center room of the house. Another door led from the pantry to the back yard, and still another door from the pantry to the woodshed and barn, which were on the east side of the house and connected with it. The shed was sometimes called Deacon J ewett's slave pen, as here he used to keep his slaves shut up at night. The old Jewett hou e was neither a gambrel roof house nor a house with seven gables, like the one in Hawthorne's tale, but a solid two and a half story 16 THE JEWETT F AMIL y OF AMERICA structure standing about forty by twenty feet on the ground, with a simple peaked roor and an immense chimney in the center. Once when a clapboard was blown off on the north side, a solid brick wall was seen on which the clapboards had been nailed with handmade wrought iron nails over two inches long. The house was built "on honor," and with a few repairs could have withstood the blasts of winter for a hundred years longer. Shall we enter the house and see it as it was in 1855, the year when I first aw it? So many memorie come thronging into my mind as I think of the things that happened to me and to my ancestors in those old rooms that I al most hesitate to describe it. It is hard to know where to begin or what to tell of first . I never saw the old bed that used to be in the living room. I have seen one just like it in Moses Richards's hou e here in Rowley. It was let down at night and drawn up in the morning, and when up against the wall a curtain hid it from sight. It was fastened to the wall on one side and moved on hinges. It is safe to say that many who hear this description never aw a bed like this one. The cabinet beds that you have seen are a modern adaptation, and are similar to the one that was in the old house for so many years. For seven long, weary years my grandmother, Ruth Jewett Hale, was sick with the palsy, in the old Jewett hou e, and was cared for by her two devoted daughters, and she slept at night in the bed that has just been described. As you enter the house by the front door from the back yard you almost stumble on the stairway. There was just room for the door to swing back. To the left or the front door was the parlor, long used by Miss Sarah Hale as a store for the ale of all kinds of dry goods for women and children. To the right of the front door was the living room, which has been spoken of before. In the early days the big brick chimney mus t have been the center of the house in more ways than one. Here all the cooking was done for the family over the fire of log or in the big brick oven on one side or the fireplace. Those who have read Whittier's poem, "Snow Bound" (and who bas not?), can almost see this Ji.replace and all that belongsd to it, including the old settle which stood on one side. The settle was in the house in my day and was made from a long slab of wood and had for legs two sections from the trunk of an old elm tree. The back was one whole piece of wood, like the seat. After the in troduction of stoves the chimney was filled in with brick, leaving only a small fireplace just large enough to put the stove in summer, and was closed by a fire screen in winter. Part of the pantry was divided off on the north side to make a smaller room, where stood the meal chests and the shelves for the milk pans. Many of the old wooden platters and pewter dishes remained in the house, and were seen in 1855 by those who came to the first Jewett reunion. A large, square trap door with hinges, and a. leather strap to fasten it back, led from the pantry to one cellar, and a door by the side of the chimney to the other cellar. In the back yard was the old well sweep, but it bas not been in use for many years, for a chain pump brought up the water by a method more modern, but not so picturesque. THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 17 Upstairs, on the second floor, were two rooms, one called the parlor cham ber, and ~he other a large room over the living room. In the southeast corner of this room a small room had been partitioned off. This was my room while I lived in the old house, and many a. morning in winter I have waked up and found a drift of snow on the floor under the window. This was part of the fun of living there. A small room was over the pantry, which was part of the ell of the house. This was called "Crissey's" chamber, and was named for an old black slave who had it for her room many years before. Slaves must have been more plentiful in Rowley in tho e days than in 1855, for when I first came there the whole black population of the town consisted of one old man, Jack Lee, who used to dre s up in uniform and parade on the Fourth of July. The stairs to the attic were so narrow and steep that you had to go up sideways, and when near the top put your shoulder to the trap door, which clo ed a you descended. This door also had a piece of leather to fasten it back while you were in the attic. I will leave it lo your imagination lo think of all the things the attic contained, and will guarantee that you will not think of half of them. The latchstring was alway hanging out the pantry door. This was its only fastening, and one night when I lived there, and my aunt and I had gone to the evening meeting, some one pulled the string and entering the house stole all the money there wa in the old secretary. I wish I could tell some romance connected with the old mansion, but all who ever lived there went their way from day to day, doing their work in this world, and when their time came were ready for the ne>..'t world. The story about my great-aunt, l\1rs. Jane Todd, come the neare t of being a romance of anything connected with the old Jewett house. She was a si ter of l\1r. Paul Jewett, and when quite young was married to a Captain Todd, of Rowley, Mass. Some time after they were married they went to live in Providence, R. I. He sailed from that port on seYeral voyages, and from one voyage he never returned, and neither the ship nor the captain were ever heard from after that time. This was not like the story of Enoch Arden. After wailing a reasonable time she married again, and, as the story book says, lived happily ever after. Her second husband was Benjamin Pabodie, a de cendant from John Alden and his wife, Betty. l\1rs. Todd was a born matchmaker and married off all her sisters and nieces in Providence when they came to ,.j it her. There were some persons who lived in the old house who were perhaps typical of all the generations who lived there from the time it wa built, way back in the seventeenth century, to the time it was torn down. First and foremost was my great-grandfather, l\1r. Paul Jewett, who was born and died in the old Jewett house. He was over ninety years old when he died, and up to the time of hi death was able to read his Bible while itting on the old settle in the corner of the fireplace. We still have this old Bible, and from its pages know it to be true that he used to read it from the beginning to the end several times each year. Written on the inside cover or the Bible are the dates when he began to read it and when he would finish it. 18 TUE JEWETT FAMILY OF AME.ru:CA Old Hannah Hobson was one of the characters in the town of Rowley in the early part of the nineteenth century. he would make her home for a lime in one hou e and then in another, helping in the work of the house and en-ing as shoemaker for the whole family. All who have eyer lived in Rowley will remember that the women earned many a dollar "clo ing" shoes. Hannah always had a skillet of tea brewing on the hearth, and would have it so trong that no one could drink it but herself. She wore men's garments, ~xcept the trousers, and would pile one coat on after another, and would then ask one o! the children to stick a pin in her shoulder to see iI it would prick the flesh. When my grandfather I anc Hale died in Newbury "Old Town," his widow, who was Ruth Jewett before her marriage, left Newbury with all her children, eleven in number, and came to lfre with her father in the old Jewett homestead. Her daughter, Sarah Hale, was Lhe last descendant of the Jewett family who lived in Lhe old Jewett hou e. After her death it reverted to Deacon Plummer, who was the on in law of Deacon Jo hua Jewett, or as we u ed to call him, Uncle Doctor. Deacon Plummer old the house to some one outside the family, and it wa torn down and a new hou e has been built on the same spot. l\Iany per ons now li'-ing in Rowley will remember lliss Sarah Hale, who was the dre smaker for the town, and kepl the store for women's goods for many year . She u ed to make yearly pilgrimage to Providence, R. I., where many of her sisters Jived. There she would lock up with all kinds of goods for ale, and fill commissions for dress goods and olber articles for the women of Rowley. I t wa an exciting time for us all when she returned to Rowley with her boxe and bundles. I would not dare to ay how many of the women and children of Rowley were hod with the tockings knit from the yarn she bought in ProYi denC'P and sold in the store in the north room of Lhe old house that tood on the right-band side or the road as you go down to the depot from l\ir. Prime' tore. If y!lu are interested to know how I happened to learn so much about the old J ewett house and its inhabitants, I will say that when I was a small boy I was sent from Providence, R. I ., to live with my aunt, Sarah Hale. I tayed there two years, making one vi it home in the mean time. It used to be a joke when I was older, that all I ever knew I learned in Rowley, while I was lh'ing with my Aunt Sarah. Not having anything better to talk about mo t of the time we talked about our ancestor . All of the incidents related in this paper, and many more that I have forgotten, were told me as we sat in the warm living room in the center of the house, in the long winter evenings. When 1\iiss Sarah Hale died all the furniture and everylbing else in the hou e was either sold or given away and scattered all over Rowley. Every one wanted something to remember Sarah Hale by. Thi was before the craze for old furniture, for if all the highboy and lowboys and old chests and tables that were disposed of at that time were for ale now they would bring a mall fortune. I can tell where the old highback chair is thal used to stand in the parlor chamber. If you will come to ProYidence you will ee it in my parlor. Every one who visits us has to be told where it came from. • = THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 19 The old clock that was made in England a hundred and fifty years since, and which stood in the corner of the living room, and marked the time with its one hand, is now in the rooms of the Historical Society in Salem, Mass. Some chairs went to one niece and the old silver poons were divided among the nieces and nephews. o the old hou e was cleared out and only the shell remained. It is per haps better that the old Jewett house, alter standing for over two hundred years, should be torn down than that it should, like so many old houses, drag out a lingering existence in the po session of some tranger who cared nothing for the house nor for the associations connected with it. NEWS Our President desires to issue a call for a reunion and intimates that Bulfalo has attraction as a meeting place, next to Rowley. The President and Secre taries would be glad to have ome uggestions from the members as to a choice, and would ugge l Buffalo for 1912, and Rowley once again for 1914. Many Jewetts live in and about Bulfalo, and the numerous Jewetts of New York feel that branches of the family in ~ew England hould be their guests in the near future. The President has appointed a Committee on Reunion, which will later be increased to filty. At the nert reunion at Rowley, the President, as chairman of a Committee on Reunion, expects to ha\'e in place and to dedicate a suitable memorial to the colonial ancestors, ~Ia.ximilian and Joseph Jewett, of Rowley, in the form of a large natural boulder, with an inscription on a bronze plate to be located in the cemetery. Bronze markers will be placed to mark the site of the original Jewett land grants and location of their houses in Rowley, Mass. The oldest member of the family present at the reunion was Francis Jewett Stevens, aged eighty-six years, of Boxford, and the youngest member, E,·erett Tilson Peabody, aged five months, of lps~;ch Village. The mother of the little one is the eldest daughter of Deacon A. E.Jewett, whogavetheaddressofwelcome. Since the reunion the Recording Secretary has received many letters of inquiry and requests for information in regard to the early Jewetts. Some have wished to trace their connections and others have procured data to enable them to join the D. A. R. There have also been many requests for postals of the old J ewett houses and other places of interest. Some have procured the group picture. Letters have been answered and requests complied with. Quite a number of the Camily have visited the old town since the reunion, among them are: :Mrs. May J ewett Leavitt, North Jay, Me., and her sister, l\fiss Ethel B. Jewett, Brookline, l\iass.; :Mrs. Emilie Jewett Waterman, Forest Hills, Mass.; Miss Francena B. Jewett, Norwood, l\1ass.; .Miss 1\1. E. Ililton, Brockton, Mass., and Mrs. Laura C. Clifford, of West Springfield. ~lany who did nol know oC the reunion haYe expres ed regret at not being here and signified their intention of coming to the next one. 20 THE JEWETT FAMILY oF AMErucA REGISTRY AT REUNION BT ALBERT D. JEWETT J. M. J ewett, P ortsmouth, Va. Mrs. J. l\I. Jewett, Portsmouth, Va. Josephine E. J ewett, Portsmouth, Va. Carlton Ballowe Jewett, Por tsmout h, Va. G. W. J ewett, Richmond, Va. W. L . J ewett, Richmond, Ya. G. A. Jewett, Richmond, Va. J ohn R . J ewett, Richmond, Va. Chas. E. Jewett, Richmond, Va. Willia m J ewett, Richmond, \ 'a. Ada M. Jewett Gates, Cleveland, Ohio. Alvin S. Gates, Cleveland, Ohio. Wendell P . Hale, Providence, R. I. Marcin J ewett Vialle, D orchester, Mass. Henry A. Vialle, Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. Almira A. W. Lunt, Rowley, l\Iass. Algernon L. Jewett, Boston, Mass. D aniel G. J ewett, R ochester, T. H . Mrs. Emily A. Harris, Ipswich, l\Iass. L . H . Jewell, Broken Bow, Neb. S. L. J ewett, Haverhill, M ass. F. I. J ewell, Rowley, Mass. Mrs. F . I. J ewell, Rowley, Mass. Gladys Jewett, Rowley, Mass. Annie J ewett, Boston, Mass. Sarah Cornelia Muzzy, Grant Park, 111. Thomas P . Hale, Rowley, Mass. H erbert Jewett, Amesbury, Mass. Mrs. G. P. Stoker, Gridley, Ill. Mrs. Frank E. llowe, Ipswich, ~lass. J.E. J ewett, Foxcroft, l\Ie. Mrs. J .E. J ewett, Foxcroft, Me. Mrs. May Whittier Fairbanks, West New- bury, Mass. Miss M. mi th, West Newbury, Mass. Mrs. Charles M. Duren, Salem, M ass. C harles l\I. Duren, Salem, Mass. l\lrs. Mary A. Jewett, Bridgeport, Coon. Mrs. Edwin Hale Jewett. Toledo, Ohio. Edwin Hale J ewett, T oledo, Ohio. Rut h L . Jewett, T oledo, Ohio. ProC. Arthur C. J ewett , Orono, Me. Esther B. Jewett, Summit, N. J . Mrs. J ennie J ewett Alderman, Cambridge, Abbie K. Bride, Medford, Mass. Mrs. Charles A. J ewett, Amsterdam, N. Y. George H . Churchill, Amsterdam, N. Y. Florence J ewett Churchill, Amsterdam, N. Y. Anna J ewett LeFevre, Chicago, Ill . Mrs. Frank S. Fulton, Charleston, Ill. Harriette Jewett Macdonald, Chelsea, Mass. R eba J ewett Conway, London, England. Lydia Evelyn Harriman, Brockton, Moss. Mary E. Hilton, Brockton, Mass. Ellen C. Whitcomb, Reading, Mass. J ennie J ewett, White Salmon, Wash. Mrs. R ober t Hutton, Lawrence, Mass. Mrs. J ohn H . Turtle, Lisbon Falls, Me. Martha S. Hight, Wa ltham, Mass. Grace M . H ight, Waltham, Mass. Ber tha Gardner, Lowell, Mass. l\lrs. Jennie S. Hall, Bradford, Mass. Francis Jewett Stevens, 1\1. D ., Boxford, !\[ass. l\1rs. F rancis Jewett Stevens, Boxford, Mass. Abby Harlan J ewett, Laconia, N. Il . Curtis H. James, Middlebury, Yt. Catherine C. J ames, M iddlebury, Yt. Florence G. J ewett, Rowley, Mass. l\lrs. Sarah F. Lear, Lynn, Mass. Mrs. Emma L . Littlefield, Lyon, )lass. E. . Putney, Rowley, Mass. George A. J ewett, Des Moines, Ia. Mrs. Annie H . Jewett, Des Moines, Ia. Bonnie Jewett Welpton, D es l\foines, l a. Gladys Dlodgett, R owley, Mass. Mrs. George B. Blodget t, Rowley, Mass. Gerald A. J ewett, Des Moines, Ia. David W. J cwetl, Des Moines, In. Emma S. J ewett, lpswich, Mass. Mrs. Susan J ewett Barr, Reading, Mass. Mary H . Barr, Reading, Mass. Silas W. J ewett, Middlebury, Vt. Mrs. Silas W. J ewett, Middlebury, n . Frank 1\1. Mather, H artford, Conn. Allred R. J ewett, Abington, l\lass. l\1rs. Allred R. J ewett, Abington, Mass. Wallace B. J ewett, Leominster, l\lass. Mrs. Wallace B. J ewett, Leominster, l\Iass. Alfred S. J ewett, )fanchesler-by-the- ea. l\lrs. Jane F. J ewett, Manchester-by-the-Sea. James W. Jewett, K eswick Ridge, N. B. Arthur S. Jewett, Cenlra l Keswick R idge, N. B. D exter J ewett, ~o. Cambridge, Mass. George Carter Chaney, Leominster, Mass. Mrs. Evadne Jewett Chaney, Leominster. Oliver Carter Chaney, Leominster, Mass. S. T. Searles, Charlestown, N. H . Mrs. S. T. Searles, Charlestown. N. H. Marion Holbrook Jewett, E . Lexington, Mass Ai. H. J ewett, White Salmon, Wash. Charles Dole, Rowley, Mass. Lydia A. Dole, Rowley, Mass. = THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 21 Sarah M . Bale, Rowley, Mass. W. 0 . L. J ewett, helbina, Mo. l\lrs. W. O. L. J ewett, Shelbina, Mo. C. B. Chapman, Lynn, :\:lass. Elizabeth A. L. Wood, Portsmoulh, ~- H. WiUin.m F. Jewett, Roslindale, Mass. Lilla F. J ewell, Roslindale, .Mass. Mabel J . J ewett, R oslindnle, Mass. Elizabeth H . Baker, Ipswich, M ass. George W. Jewett, Manchester-by-lbe-Sea. :\!rs. George W. Jewell., Manchesler-by-lhe Sea. Mass. Elizabeth P. J ewell., Manchester-by-the-Sea. E dgar M orlon Jewett, l\1.D .• Portsmoulb, ~- 11. Mrs. F lorence P . J ewett, Porlsmoulb, N. Il. l\Irs. Alice K eller, Atlantic, Mass. Melissa Jewett, Everett, :\las . Mrs. Lenn. S. Edwards, Cnmbriclge, Mass. ~!rs. Maurice W. Turner, Brookline, Mass. Sumner J ewett, Boston, l\la.is. Clarence Peabody, Ipswich, Mass. Lillian Jewett Peabody, Ipswich, Mass. Ernesl Whitfield Peabody, Ipswich, Mass. E\'erett Tilson Peabody, Ipswich, Mass. Herbert L. J ewell., Rowley, ::\fass. ::\!. Abbie .\ dams, Rowley, Mass. C. W. Bradstreet, R owley, )lass. Chas. F. J ewett, Spring6eld, ::\lass. M rs. Chas. F. J ewell, pringfielJ, Mnss. Francis Jewell, Rowley, Ma . John W. axe, Boslon, Mass. Fred Clarke Jewell, l\1.D., Baltimore, :\Id. George L . Jewell, New York, N. Y. William Gardner llale, Chicago, 111. Mrs. Xellie Chase Jewett, Bellow& Falls, Vt. William Chase Jewell, Bellows Falls, Vt. ~lrs. Lizzie Jewett Andrews, Haverhill, Mass. Mrs. Abbie F. Ells11•orlb, Rowley, Mass. Mrs. Angeline Jewett Ricker, Newburyport, ::Uass. Oscar A. J ewett, R owley, Mass. Clarence W. Morgan, Manchester, Mass. )!rs. John B. Snvnge, New York, ~- Y. Mrs. Caleb Cushing Adams, Kew York, ~- Y. Finelte J ewell, Newlon Center, Mass. C. Elizabelh Jewell Evans, Newton Cenler, Ma s. Edward Irwin Jewett, Everett, Mass. H enry :\!. J ewett, :M. D., Pro\-.\dence, R. I. Chas. Timolby Jewett, Lieut. Col., Terre Ilaule, Ind. J os. Clark Jewett, Ha rdwick, Mass. Mrs. Jos. Clark Jewett, Hardwick, Mass. Dorothy Orcutt J ewett, Bardwiclc, Mass. Marjorie Knight Jewett, H ardwick, Mass. Charles Henry Jewett, Pepperell, Mass. George F . J ewett, Boston, )ii.ass. ::\Irs. Lorena Jewelt Day, BelJows Falls, Vl. l\Ir;,. Gorham Jewett, Rowley, Mass. Angie Howe, R owley, Mass. :lfrs. Mary C. Todd, Rowley, Mass. Margaret H owe, R owley, Mass. ~arah E. Fosler, Ipswich, Mass. Mrs. Amanda Blaisdell, Ipswich, Mass. Mrs. Sarah . Jewelt. Rowley, Mass. Gorham P. J ewett, Rowley, Mass. Laurence Jewett , Rowley, Mass. Greta J ewett, R owley, Mass. Edgar B. J ewett, Buffa lo, N. Y. Waldo Jewett, Rowley, Mass. Alice Chee\'er J ewell, Amesbury, Mass. :\!rs. George Jewell Johnson, R owley, :\fass. John W . Nourse, Ipswich, :\lass. Harriet E. Nourse, lps'\\;ch, Mass. Mary Appleton ::\ourse, Ipswich, :Uass. Eliza Jewell Walton, Ipswich, ::\lass. Al bertine J. Collins, R owley, Mass. Floren<'e A. Thompson, Ipswich, Mass. Annie M . Stanwood, Ipswich, :\lass. Etta l-1. Peabody, Rowley, .Mass. Austin L. Millell, R owley, l\lnss. Mrs. Arlhur R. True, Amesbury, Mass. Mrs. Elin F. J ewell, Rowley, Mass. Almira L. While, HoverbilJ , Mass. )lrs. Winifred E. While, Georgetown, Moss. Edward Wyman Jewett, Pas,,aic, N. J . E dward W. J ewell, Jr., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Esther D. Jewett, R owley, :lfass. Mrs. S. C. Dnrnes, Amesbury, :\lass. R obert L . Hutton, Lawrence, Maas. l\lrs. R obert Jewett Button, Lawrence, Mass. Dea. Amos E verett J ewett, R owley, Mass. Mrs. A. Everett Jewell, R owley, Mass. Grenville Jewett, R owley, Ma.~s. Hope D. Jewell, Rowley, Mass. Douglas E . J ewett, Rowley, )lass. Allred Tilson Jewett, R owley, Mass. Laura F. J ewett, Rowley, M ass. Phebe llortense Jewett, R owley, Mass. Emily P earson Jewett, Rowley, Mass. A. D. J ewett., New York, N. Y. Mrs. Caroline Cate Collazo, Rowley, Mass. Lawrence R. Bishop, Rowley, Mass. Clara A. Hale, Rowley, Mass. Benjamin J. Howe, Ossining, N. Y. :\:lrs. Benjamin J . Howe, Ossining, N. Y. HISTORY OF THE JE'WETT FAMILY. ORIGIN OF KAME• BY IlEKRY L. JEWETT Two hundred and sevenly-one years have passed since our ancestors landed in New England, and during that time their descendants have" increa ed. and multiplied" until they are found, not only in nearly every state and territory in the Union, but beyond the seas, in India, Turkey, China, and many other countries. But one reunion of the family has been held, that on June 14, 1855, at Rowley, Essex County, .Massachusetts, where the two immigrant ettled. At that time but little was known or Lhe family history. Gage, in his history or Rowley,t gave " Maximilian and Jo eph Jewett, brothers, and a nephew," as the original settlers; and that error till remains fixed in the minds of many or our family. Through the long, careful and valuable labors o! George B. Blodgette, Esq., or Rowley, that error, and many more made by Gage in his records- he was Lown clerk of Rowley for many years- concerning the early settlers of Rowley, have been corrected; and we know that the "nephew" re ferred to by Gage was Jo eph Jewett, Jd About the year 1853, Professor Charles Coffin J ewett,§ Secretary or the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, afterward for a number or years superin tendent or the Boston Public Library, visited Rowley, Yorkshire, England, in the hope or finding some record of the Jewett family in the church at that place, and of which the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers was for about twenty years rector, as it was then believed that our ancestors came from that place. The Rowley church records, however, previous to 1705 have been lost or destroyed, and the visit was fruitless so far as securing information relating to our family was con cerned. In 1854, Mr. H. G. omerby, who had hed in England for a number of years collecting data concerning X ew England families, found in the course of his examinations at Bradford, the will of Edward Jewett, the father of Ma.xi milian and Jo eph, and made a copy of it, which he sent to Professor Jewett. From that paper it was first learned that the Camily was from Bradiord, instead of R-0wley, and as the will mentions " wife l\1ary; son William, Maximilian, and *This article is reprinted from Lhe :\lay, 1910, number of Lhe Grafl<>n Maia:.ine of HiIU>ry and Geiualogy, 1vitb kind permission of the Grafton Press, o{ Kew York City. Our lhanks are returned lierewitb. After the lapse of more lhan half a century, the Jewett family met this lasl summer again at Rowley, Massachusellli. During this time "The Jewelt Family in America" bas been published. ;~llhoul?h in two large volumes, there is much information which lhe work does not contain about this important family, and Mr. TI. L. Jewett has contributed this article at our request, and promises others for Inter issues. (See " llistory of Jewett Family," by Fred Clarke Jewett, in his Genenlogy, lwo \•olumes, publbhed by Grafton Press, 1908.) Editor. t" llistory o{ Rowley, Mass," by Thomas Gage. Boston, Ferdinand Andrews, 1840. tFor the Jewett Family Record, see "Early ettlers of Rowley, Mass." By George B. Blodgette, A.:\1., Essex Institute Papers, Vol. XXIl, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 1885. §See Note l, at end o{ lhis article. THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 23 Joseph; and daughter Sarah," the names of the children were obtained; but it was not until about a year later Lhat the marriage record of Edward Jewett and l\1ary T aylor and the baptismal records of the children came to light. The coming reunion of the family at Rowley in July, 1910, would seem to be an event of more than ordinary importance to every member of the family, and especially to those interested in the family history. It was believed that some additions to the published history of the family would possess special and timely interest, and in this hope these notes have been hastily prepared. In his address at the Rowley meeting, in 1855, Professor Jewett said: "The history oi our family, quiet and unpretending as it has alway been, is associated with the most stirring and impressive events oC modern times. The first of our ancestors known to us were actors in most important scenes of the moving panorama of human progress. To the English Puritans - their enemies themselves being the judges - are to be attributed the strongest steps in the march of freedom. The great principles of civil and religious liberty . were .first iully developed and established by their efforts and sacrifices. The colonization of this country by such men first gave an assured resting place Cor these principles upon the earth; and viewed in all its bearings and consequences, may, I believe, ... be said . .. to have done more for the progress of our race in the paths of true civilization, than any and all other assignable human causes.'' Concerning the origin and significance of our family name, we are left to conjecture. Surnames did not become fixed until about the time of the R~formation, but every surname once had a meaning. In many names this is still clear, in others it has by the lap e or time been lost among obsolete words or corrupted spelling, the latter being undoubtedly the cause of by far the greater part of the changes. 1\Iany names are derived from baptismal names, such as Johnson, from J ohn's son; Fitz Herbert, from Herbert's son; and a numerous class are derived from the city, village, or manor in or near which the founder of the family dwelt, or from other objects of nature. Another class of names denote occupation, such as Farmer, Weaver, Smith, Baker, or to the incidents of personal or phy sical characteristics of the .first bearer or the name. Others are derived from the objects of the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom, and even from the celestial hierarchy. Another class denotes the nationality of the original possessor, as Scott, Ireland, Dane, Flanders, and others. The last class it should seem is the only one to which, il to either, we can trace our name. The first syllable suggests the question whether it is derived from Jew, which is known to have been used as a family name. The termination et or ett could, perhaps, be accounted for and logically by reCerence to such names as Hewett, upposed to be derived from Hugh, Hew, and Everett, from Eber, Eoier. The name J ew does not imply that the founder was a Hebrew, "but as has been supposed, from his having slain Jew in Syria, when such deeds were considered meritorious." At least t wo early writers on the subject of surnames incline to the opinion that the 24 THE JEWETT FAMILY OF A..'1ERICA name Ives, was originally Jews, which became Jues, and then by the change of "i" for "j," and "u" for "v ," I ves. The name has also been supposed by some to be of French origin, and the surname, not uncommon in France, and in this country now, as Jouet; Jonet.* Bardsley says: "We must not forget a once familiar corruption of the diminutive "Juliet" into "Juet." Such entries as "Jueta fil William"; "Richard fil Juetta," or "Christopher Je'11;tson," are very common in the rolls of the XIII and XIV centuries." Fergusont says: "The name Jewett is from the 'Compounds': French, Jougard ; Jouhard; Jouet." Bowditcht says: "The law has furnished many family names, as Jewett," and Arthur§ says : "Jewett: a little jew; the son of a jew: French: Jouet: toy; sport." The name does not appear in the " Patronym.ica Brittanie"; "A Dictionary oI Family Names." By Mark Anthony Lower, M.A., London, 1860; nor in his "Essays of Family Nomenclature" (London, 1875). As Lower was one of the mo t voluminous writers on the subject, the absence of the name, which, if not prominent, has been so long known in England, is not a little curious. In seeking the origin of the name it may possibly be found nearer the old home of our family. English history tells us that the Saxons and Angles were accompanied in their descent upon England by the" Jutes," who are said to have been inhabitants of Jutland, and that this tribe of the invaders settled in Kent, the Isle of Wight, and in Hampshire. The name exhibits all of the caprices of orthography in the old chronicles, being "I veta"; "J ueta"; "J uat"; "Juit "; "Jewet"; Jewett, etc. It is not improbable that this tribe may have been known as "Jutes, and been the founders of our surname. The change from "Jute" to" Juet" is slight; and from " Jute" to'' John the Jute" an easy, and, it should seem, a very natural one to designate a particular person before surnames were in vogue. "While many and perhaps well-founded doubts have been expressed re garding the existence of the "Jute" element as joining in the invasion of Eng land, they do not, if proven, discredit this theory, for as late as the time of Bede there were people in the part of England ref erred to who were known a.s a distinct nation under the name of "Jutes." The name "Jueta," or " Iveta," occurs in the Liher Winton, which contains a survey of the city of Winchester, England, taken by order of Henry I, between 1107 and 1128, and the Jewetts were a well-known family in that city in later years. In the Winchester Cathedral are to be found now several memorial tablets bearing the name, and some of these bear the same coat of arms as that considered as belonging to our family. *"English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations." By Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A. London, 1875. t"The Teutonic Name System: Applied to the Family Names of France, England, and Germany." By R obert Ferguson. London, 1864. !"Suffolk Surnames." By N. I. Bowditch. London, 1861. f" An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names." By William Arthur, M.A. New York, 1857. THE JEWETT FAl\m..Y OF AMERICA 25 The arms are thus described: "He beareth gul~s on a cross argent five fleur de lis of the first. Crest: an eagle' neck between two wings displayed argent, by the name Jewett." It has been claimed that the jl.eur de lis in the coat of arms is an indication, it not a proof, of the French origin of the family; but this would seem to be without great force, as the arms of families of unquestioned English origin bear thejleur de lis, notably, ~Iorrison, Neane, and A hur t. Gilliam says of thejleur delis: "This bearing is the most esteemed of all flowers, having been from the first the charge of a Royal escutcheon borne by the French kings, though tract of time halh made the bearing of them more common." That the arms as described were tho e brought by our ancestor is probably beyond dispute; but as an evidence of this, the following is taken from the notes of Charle Coffin Jewett: "An interesting incident of the reunion (1855) may be mentioned" as show ing "the aid occasionally furnished by heraldry to genealogy: lli. A.. D. L. Jewett, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on of Commodore Jewett,• was present. He stated that he aw two days before, in a new paper that there was to be a. meeling of the family at Rowley. . . . He brought with him a coat of arms, evidently blazoned at the Herald's College, which had hung for about a hundred years in the house formerly occupied by his grandfather. He did not know from what place his grandfather had emigrated, but knew hi first name. The coat of arms was identical with our own, and his grandfather's name was found upon our ancestral tree." A Jewett family in England at the present time has armorial bearings distinct from ours, but they date back only to the la t century. That the Jewett family was not con.fined to Yorkshire in early days is shown by the following: "July 8, H86. Grant for life to Henry Jewel of the offices of one of the foresters of Windsor forest, called the 'ryding forester,' and parker of sunnyng hill, within Windsor Forest, with wages of 3 d per day as forester, 4 d per day as parker, out of the issues of Wind or Castle, the wages to date from !l!l August last. "t We come now to consider the original immigrants of the family in this country. Robert Jewett, mate of Henry Hud on's ship, the "Half-~Ioon," was undoubtedly the first of our name to ee the new world. He made several voyages with Hudson, but ju t how many it has not been possible to ascertain.t Edward Jewett, of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, was, perhaps, the son of Thomas Jewett and E lizabeth Shackellton, married in Bradford, in 1578, but the evidence thus far adduced is too slight to establish more than a supposition. • ee N ote2 at the end of lhis article. t" Material £or A History of the Reign of Henry VII." By Rev. William CampbeU, M.A. London, 1877. tFor his "Log-Book," see N. Y. Hist. So. Coll.; and Ashmead's History of Delaware County, Pa. 26 THE JEWETT F.u:CILY OF ~ICA He was the ancestor of most of the Jewetts in this country; but nothing is really known about him beyond the information given in his will, which mentions that he was a "Clothier." The word clothier does not imply that he was a maker oI or seller of men's clothing, the sense in which the word is almost universally used in this country, but a maker of cloths, a manufacturer, and in that sense only was the word used in England until a comparatively recent date, when its meaning became slightly modified. In his time, however, the word had but one meaning, the merchant manufacturer of woolen cloth, who had in his employ a larger or smaller number of families engaged in the various processes connected therewith. The work was carried on in private houses, the several parts of the process being conducted by different members of the family, accord ing to age and sex and the character of the work, and to this is attributed the acknowledged superiority of the Yorkshire fabrics. The clothiers were considered among the most industrious and frugal people in the kingdom. They were of necessity capitalists, employing fullers, weavers, etc., and paying their wages ju cash. Bradford is two hundred and ten miles from London, eighty mile from Hull, and seventy miles from Rowley, the old home of Ezekiel Rogers. Leland, the antiquary, in the time of Henry VIII, called it "a praly quick market towne"; and added, "it standeth much by clothing." I ts woolen manufactures are still famous. II, as we may suppose, Edward J ewett's sons followed the occupation of their Cather, we may find in the condition of that trade an additional reason for leaving England, other than the fact that they were "Non-Conlorm.ists," and as such the object of per ecution. One writer says, "The persecutions of Archbishop Laud seems to have fallen with peculiar weight upon the clothier ." Pyar, enumerating the peti tions for redress of grievances presented to Parliament in 1640-41, instances "Diver Clothiers having been forced away, who had et up their manufactures abroad to the great hurt of the Kingdom." Smith in "The History of Woolen Uanufactures," mentions the rigor of Archbishop Laud's execution of the Acts of Conformity as the cau e which drove many clothiers out of the kingdom. Bischoff, in his "History of Wool," say , "Thousands of families were frightened out or Suffolk and ~orfolk into New England." The ".Merchant Adventurers" in their reply to the "Interlopers," says that "a persecution for conscience and religion in 1634-5, which drove many families oC manufacturers out of the kingdom, added lo the troubles of the North in this year, and did cast a damp upou the whole woollen trade." · That Edward Jewelt was a man of property is shown by his will, which, however, is a will or per: onal property only; but a reference to the will or his on, Jo eph Jewett, dated 15 February, 166o-61 (Essex Probate), in which he meu tions . . . " all estate I ha\·e both in New England, and Old, whether personall or Reali," would seem to indicate that Edward Jewett was pos e ed of real eslate at the time of his death, and which under the laws of England would de scend to his children. l\faximilianandJo ephJewetlcame to America in the ship" John of London," wruch sailed from Hull, in the autumn of 1638, and reached Boston December THE J EWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 27 31, 1638. They were of the company brought out by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, of Rowley, Yorkshire; but it was not known until recent years that Hull was their port of departure, and not London, as had been supposed. John Camden Hotten in his "Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, etc., who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700," asks in the preface, "Who went with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers from Rowley?" The fact that Hull and not London was the sailing port answered the question in part; but no list or the passengers by the ship" John of London" is thought to be e-xtant. Hotten mentions the ship " John or London" in his book, as making several voyages from London to the West Indies, etc., as to St. Christophers, 2 October 1635, when James Waymouth was master. The ship "John of London" on her e,·entf ul voyage from Hull to Boston brought the first printing press set up in the colonies, and it has been frequently stated Lhat John Pearson's fulling mill, which was established at Rowley, came in the same ship on that Yoyage. This may be doubted, however, as Pearson's mill was not set up at Rowley until 1643. That the printing pre s was brought over at that time is unquestioned. It was the enterprise of the R ev. Joseph Glover, rector, it is said, of Sutton, Surrey, and Glover's contract with Stephen Daye, who came out as foreman, made with Daye at Cambridge, 7 June, 1638, provided that Daye was to go to New England at Glover's expense in the ship " John of London." Glover died on the voyage, and Daye set up the press at Newtowne, now Cambridge. This press is often referred to as having been "brought over for Harvard College"; but as Harvard College did not exist until 1639, when it received the name in consideration of seven hundred pounds given by the Rev. J ohn Harvard; and as the printing press did not go there it was evidently never intended for Harvard. The immigrants passed the winter of 1638-39 in Boston and the surrounding towns. Joseph Jewett and his wile seem to have been at Dorchester, as their names appear as having been admitted to the church there in 1638-39. No mention is found of their dismissal to the church at Rowley. During the winter, Davenport and Eaton endeavored to persuade Rogers to settle in New Haven, where they had established a colony, and several mem bers of Rogers company were sent there to examine the place. But not:finding it to their satisfaction, and Rogers feeling his responsibility "to many persons of Quality in England, who depended upon him to choose a fit place for his people," counselled with the ministers of Massachusetts, and by their advice he and his people decided to take a place between Ipswich and Newbury, and a tract of land was purchased there for eight hundred pounds. It has been thought that some of Rogers's company ettled in New Haven, a few of them afterward joining the ettlers at Rowley. The evidence of this is, however, far from con vincing, and as no list of the original company is obtainable, the question is one not easily decided. So far as known the only member of Rogers's original com pany who did not settle at Rowley, was Thomas Cro by, who had an interest in the printing press, and who remained at Newtowne with Daye. Whether the interest was acquired after the death of Glover, or was an original one, is not 28 THE JEWETT FAJ\ULY OF A.~CA known. Crosby's son's widow went to Rowley, and was given a house lot on Holmes Street. Maximilian and Joseph Jewett left many descendants. John and Abraham J ewett, who appeared in Rowley, "2 - 2mo. -1661 " when each took a wife, are, a Blodgette says, "my teries." No previous record of them can be found ; but it is quite certain that they were relatives of Maximilian and Joseph. What the relation hip was cannot be determined. John Jewett has many descendants. The line of Abraham is belie,·ed to have been extinct for about two hundred years. The Maryland branch of the family, which until recent years was looked upon as a distinct branch of the family, are the descendants of Joseph Jewett. The Wilmington, N. C., family belong to the Maximilian branch, the Georgia family to J oseph, and the Alabama family to John. There are in addition to these several other families of the name. J ohn Jewett, of Jewett, Cumberland County, Tenn., was born in Yorkshire, Eng land, and came to this country in 1842. He was married at Erie, Pa., in 1850, and removed to T ennes ee, where numerou descendants are now living. An other is thnt of William J ewett, born in England, but living a few year ago in Bucks County, Pa., and two families of English birth in Canada. J ohn R. Jewitt, who e descendants are living, mostly in Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Boston, England, 21May, 1783. He was intended for a profession, but abandoned that to take a place at Hull in his father's shop, which was de voted to shipbuilding and repairing. In 1802 he sailed from Hull in the Ameri can ship " Boston" on a trading voyage to the northwest coast of America. March 22, 1803, at Woody Point, in Nootka Sound, the crew, with the exception of J ewitt, and the sailmaker, Thompson, were killed by the Indians. Jewitt and Thomp on were held prisoners until rescued, July 10, 1805, by the American ship " Lydia," of Boston, bound for China, whither the two men were taken. Jewitt sailed from Canton in F ebruary, 1807, and reached Boston in May. He settled at :Middletown, Conn. In 1815 he published a book entitlerl, "Narra tive of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. J ewitt, only survivor of the Crew of the ship ' Boston,' During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound; With a Account of the Manners, Mode of Liv ing and Religious Opinions of the Natives." This is the only case known to the writer where the name is spelled Jewitt. The writer may be pardoned if before closing this paper reference is made t o the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, the leader of the company of which our ancestors were members. That he was a "learned, eloquent, and pious man" possessed of sterling ability, high character, and indomitable energy, is conceded; a great leader and teacher among the early settlers. Yet he seems to have been sadly neglected by the historians of his time. Winslow, Cotton Mather, Johnson, and others refer to him frequently, but it is surprising that so little of a reliable character is known of a man so conspicuous in his time, and to whom, not only New England, but the whole country is so greatly indebted. This, however, is not the time nor the place for an e.nended notice, but the writer hopes to be permitted to present in a future issue an article devoted to this subject only. THE JEWETT FAi!.fILY OF AMERICA 29 NOTES 1. Charles Coffin Jewett (&v. Paul°: Paul': Lieut. Joshua•; Capt. J oseph5 : J oseph9.: Edward1 ), born Lebanon. Me., 12 August 1816. Brown Univ. 1835. Professor of Modern Languages, and Librarian, Andover Theo. em. to 1848. Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institute, Washington. In 1850 he pub lished a valuable report on the Public Libraries of the United tates. Superin tendent Doston Public Library 1858 to his death, 9 January, 1808. (See Felt' "Annals of Salem, l\lass.," "Drake's American Biography"; and Winsor's ":\lemorial Hi tory of Bo ton," for sketch and portrait.) It was largely due to his efforts and those of his brother, John Punchard J ewell, the publisher of Harriet Beecher towe·s "Uncle Tom' Cabin," that the reunion of 1855 was such a gratifying succes . 2. Commodore David7 Jewett (Dr. Daz•id llibbard0 , David5 , J oseph4 , Capt. J oseph3 , J oseph2 , Edward1 ) , born at New London, Conn., 17 June, 1772. " l\laster Commandant, U. . K., 6th June, 1799; discharged under the peace e tablishment act, 3 June, 1801." (Record, Na,·y Dept., 6 Dec., 1894.) Served in Buenos Ayres during the war for independence. Entered service of Brazil, and was for many year a commodore in their Navy. Ile died in Rio Janeiro, -- July, 1842. The Rev. Augu tus David Lawrence Jewett was his only child. NEWS At the dedication of the Hay Library, in Providence, mention was made of one of the former librarians of Brown University, Charles C-Offin Jewett, who later was librarian of the Bo ton Public Library. The manuscript of the oration delivered by Charles Coffin J ewetl at the reunion in 1885 has been recently discovered by :1\Ir . .Northrop, 0£ Buffalo, in the papers ol Lhe late Elam R. Jewett, the fir l Yice-President 0£ 1855, and editor of the Buffalo Commercial. Copie have been made by the Secretary, and our President may secure the manuscript fol' per ervation. Parts of the oration were reprinted in the Register of X. E. II. & G. Society. Henry L. Jewett, of Bethlehem, Peno., has ufficiently recovered Crom an illne s lo take actiYe part a one of our historians in the work of the Committee on Hi tory. llis article in this number shows him to be a scholarly historian, and his article, ''Our Re,·olutionary Heroe~." to appear in the next Year Book, will be or great interest and value, howing extended research. George B. Blodgette, of Rowley, has long been a contributor of historical paper to the E ex Institute and other societies. He is t11e authority on local history, and has in preparation a History of R owley, the re ult of over twenty year of work in re earch and in collection of material. The early families of Rowley are traced down to the time of the departure 0£ the line, and the early colonial Jewetts have been carefully followed. Mr. Blodgette has promised a paper as a member of our Committee. The publication of his Uistory of Rowley will be welcomed by our Association with many subscriptions. CIIARLES JEWETT-A .... '\ APPRECIATIO~ lln memoriam The Jewett family of America in the sudden death of Charles Jewett, first Vice-President of our Association, has lo t one of its noblemen, and the Year Book ets forth this memorial in order that the memory of his character and achievemeul may be handed on lo be cherished by U1e younger generations. Dr. Charles Jewett died at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., on August 6, 1910. He performed his final operalion August 3, although oppressed by U1e heat or a midsummer day, and the day before his la.st he was busily engaged in the prac tice of his profession. The following day he had planned to leave for Saratoga for a month of rest and recreation. He seemed worn and fatigued as he sought Jeep that night, and the pirit of our noble kinsman peacefully passed out "until the morning break and darkness shall flee away." II.is whole liie had been devoted to a struggle with di ease; his last day was a battle and a mi sion oI mercy. He fought a good :fight, and a a Jewett he kept the faith and Lhen came peace and rest. Tho e who were so fortunate as to know him socially and in his home, loved him best. Ile was es entially a man of domestic tastes, strong in his affections and having a deep and abiding love for his family. While he occupied apo itionof eminencein the medical worldhewas most unassuming and modest. During many years his pleasantest di\•er ion was had in the time spent with his family. Then he seemed happiest, unless it was while doing or planning some thing which was designed to pleasantly surprise or give happiness to the ones he loved. The traits in his character which stood out prominenUy were sympathy, kindliness, love of truth, the abomination of ham and hypocrisy. He was a loyal friend and stood firm for his convictions. He had the keenest regard for and interest in the new clisco\·eries of science and the betterment of civic govern ment. His life was one of sen·ice in the largest and best sense. He ad.minis tered to humanity and ·ought to alle,-riate its ufl'ering and in such service had hi reward. Charles Jewett died in the fulness of power and in the fulness of years, haYing nearly completed seventy-one. He was truly a great man, well rounded in all branches of learning, a ble ing lo the community, and an honor to his family. J. A. T. S. NOTE: See " Jewell Genealogy," Yol. I , page 426, !or a portrait and sketch of bis life. Al~o see Seplember, llHO, issue, \"ol. I, Xo. 9, of lhe New York State Journal of Medicine for an edilorinl tribule to Charles J ewett. who was president of the Medical ociety of the stale of New York. Th.is sociely has kindly loaned the ball-lone plate !or the porlrnil. " Pliulu h,,. P u-·11 Btto't. O u. ('11\Rl. F.'> .J F.\\F.TT Fi rst \"i<'l' Prc .. ;idt•n l of llw .\ ,,odnlion Oil'fl a l Brooklyn. X1·\\ York. \11 g1hl Ii. l!llO Tm; JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA IN l\.IEMORIA~f CHARLES JEWEIT, l\J.D., OF BROOKLYN First Vice-President RESOLUTIONS: 31 At a meeting of the board of directors or the Jewett Family of America, held in Boston, Mass., on the 29th day or August, 1910, to take action upon the death of our honored Yice-President, Dr. Charles Jewett, of Brooklyn, New York, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: RESOLVED, "That in the passing or Dr. Charles Jewett from thi life to the great beyond, in the ripene of his long and eminent career of u eful ne s in hi profes ion, on the sixth day of August, 1910, at the age of seventy one years,- we mourn the loss of his fellowship as a member and earnest pro motor or this Association, whose counsels we had hoped to enjoy for many years. "RESOLVED, That m the fellowship of sorrow we extend to his family and friends our heartfelt sympathy, mingled with a deep and abiding appre ciation of his life-long derntion to the cause of humanity, his broad and scholarly mind, and above all the modest, kindly, and gentle spirit which endeared him to all who knew him in the manifold relations of a life o nobly and faithfully Hved. "RESOLVED, That these resolutions of respect be in cribed upon the records of this Association, and that a copy of the same be forwarded to the family of the deceased, by the Secretary." A. D. JEWEIT, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY VOL. III HISTORY AND GENEALOGY JE""ETTS OF Al\IERICA SUPPLEMENT No. I BY FRED CLARKE JEWETT, 1\1.D. 1164 MARK JEWETT (see 1164 in J ewett Genealogy) was born in or near Hopkinton, N. H., June 15, 1762. He married, about 1785-6, Patience Varney, daughter of his father's third wife. She was born Aug. 8, 1764, and died near Steubenville, Ohio, July 8, 1829. Iler molher, Mary (Varney) J ewett, was the widow of Otis Yarney and the daughter of William and Abigail Fry, of Kittery, M e. l\fr. J ewett was a farmer and tock raiser. He lived in New Hampshire a number of years and removed to Ohio, where he died at the home of hi son, Sumner, near Steubenville, Dec. 20, 1849. (Chil,dren born on Sugar Hill, near H opkinton, N. H. ) 11043 Otis, born Sept. 30, 1787; died at the age of twenty-two years, un married.. 11044 Brazilla, born Aug. 1, 1789; married Rebecca Jane Todd. (For his descendants see 10445 in J ewett Genealogy.) 11045 Jasper, born Sept. 12, 1791; married April 6, 1817, Eliza--, a widow. Two children, Yiz., Jasper, who was killed by the bursting of a cannon at a Fourth of July celebration ; and l\iary, who married a sea cap tain named Rudolph, from whom she ecured a divorce and later married a Mr. Duttenhoffer, of New York City. She died without issue. J asper J ewett was a mariner and died in Savannah, Ga. 11046 Gilman, born Aug. 10, 1793; married Elizabeth Alexander.* 11047 Laura, born July 5, 1795; married Amos Russell.* 11048 Lewis, born Nov. 12, 1797; married Susan Henry.* 11049 Harriet, born Feb. 21, 1800; married first, J ohn Robinson, of West Moreland, Pa. (his third wife). He died and she married James l\1cnlaster (his econd wife), of Pittsburg, Pa., who was in the livery busine s. She died in Keokuk, Ia., buried in Pittsburg. No issue. 11050 Sumner, born April 26, 1802. 11051 Lorenzo, born June 29, 1804. 11052 Shorah, born Aug. 20, 1806. • :. TuE J EWETT F A..l\ULY OF AMERICA 33 11046 GILMAN JEWETI (Mark, 1164) was born on Sugar Hill, near Hopkinton, New Ha mpshire, Aug. 10, 1793. He married in Monroe County, Ill., Feb. 13, 1825, Elizabeth Alexander, who was born there Dec. 1, 1806, daughter of William and hlary (Raner) Alexander. She died in Monroe Counly, March 2, 1837. When a young man l\fr. J ewett went to Lhe lumber di tricL of Maine, but not liking, he started West, via Wheeling, W. Va., and down the Ohio River on a flalboal lo Cairo, Ill. , thence by steamboat up the l\1issis ippi lo clma Landing, cxpccling to conlinue on to the lead mines in the Wcsl. ·while wailing Ior a conveyance he met Will iam Alexander (his future fo.ther-in-law) of llull 's Blockhou e, 1\Ionroe County, Ill. , who persuaded him to remain and leach a school of which that place was badly in need. Alter conducting Lhe school lwo winter , be settled there as a farmer, and died there Crom the cholera, June 20, 1835. Children born in lfoll's Blockhouse, Monroe County, Ill. 11053 Mary, born Dec. 6, 1825; died in 1\Ionroc County, Ill., July 9, 1833. 11054 William Sumner, born . epl. 28, 1827; married, fir t, Cecilia Josephine Adelsberger; second, Permelia Ann Breckenridge.• 11055 Laura Ann, born Sept. 6, 1829; married fir t, ilas Richardson; second, J runes Alden Owen.• 11056 Harriet, born 1\Iny .5, 1831; died Aug. 2, 1832. 11057 a mucl Lewi ', born Nov. 12, 1833; married l\1artha Matilda Dorsey.• 11017 LAURA JEWETT (l\lark, 1164) was born on ugar Hill, near Hopkinton, N. H., July 5, 1795. he married in Hopkinton, April 6, 1817, Amos Ru sell, of Boscawen, N. H., who w ru; born in Merrimac County, N. H., June 0, 1785. Mr. and Mr ' . Russell resided in New Hamp hire until lhe fall of 1 38, when they scllled on a farm in Bashan, l\1eigs County, Ohio, where he died June 29, 1862. l\lrs. Russell died lhere June 29, 1879. 11058 11059 11060 11061 11062 11063 11064 11065 11066 11067 11068 Chiklren all born iii Boscawen, N. H ., except last. Oti Gilman, born Feb. 11, 1818; married urah Miller. l\fary Whitlicr, born Ocl. 5, 1819; married Rev. Henry Law on. Jame , born Aug. 27, 1821; died Jan. 12, 18 ~9, unmarried. Hannah a nborn, born Sepl. 20, 1823; died Jan. 12, 1842, unmarried. J nsper horah, born July 23. 1825; married Sarah Ann Stout. Hambleton Jewett, born May 27, 1828. Amo Davi , born Aug. 27, 1830. Harriet Jewett, born .\pril 14, 1832; married Robert Fulton.• Laura, born l\larch 7, 1834; died, aged four years. Edgar Dighton, born F eb. 14, 1836. He was a soldier in the Civil War, and died at ea, in 1865, while in the service of his country; unmarried. Benjamin Ta~lor, born April 9, 1838. 34 THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 11069 Lorenzo Jewelt, born in l\Ieig County, Ohio, April 9, 1810; married Rachel Tucker. 11048 LEWI JEWETI (Mark, 116.J.) was born on Sugar Hill, near Hopkinton, N. H., Nov. 12, 1797. He married in Jeffer on ounty, near Toronto, Ohio, June 26, 1827, u an Henry, who was born near Pittsburg, Pa., March 13, 1802, daughter or John and • usan (Bell) Henry. • he died in Sterling Bottom, l\Ieig Counly, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1847. l\lr. J ewell was a pros perous Carmer of Meigs Counly. He died there Dec. :H , 1862. Children born in N ewburgh (11ow Toronto), Ohio. 11070 Patience Elizabeth, born Aug. 14, 1829; married in PiLLsburg, Pa., June 2, 1858, William Penn Knapp, who was born in Ravenna, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1827, son of Ezra and Lydia (WiLhercl) Knapp. He was a farmer and tockman in R avenna, where he died Nov. 20, 1890. Mr. Knapp resides there ( . p.) . 11071 Emily 1\1., born Aug. 2, 1831; married Lyman tedma n. • 11054 William umner Jewett (Gilman, 11046; l\Iark, 1164) was born iu Monroe County, ID., ept. 28, 1827. Ile married in 1\litchie, Ill., Ocl. 10, 1849, Cecelia Jo ephinc Adelsberger, who was born in Waterloo, Ill., daughter of Frank X . and Elizabeth (Fisher) Adelsberger. She died in l\Iitchie, Aug. 25, 1852 (s. p.). He married, second, in Old l\Iines, l\Io., ept. 25, 1856, Permelia Ann Breckenridge, daughter oC James and Elizabeth (Bryan) Brecken ridge. She was born in Old Mines, No,·. 22, 1833, and died Crom paralysis iu Crystal City , l\lo., Nov. 7, 1910. Mr. J ewell re ides in Cry tal City, where he is a farmer, fruit grower, and and quarryman. Children born in J efferson County, Mo. 11072 Mary J essie, born Sept. 20, 1857. Resides in Crystal CiLy , l\Io., un- married. 11073 Ilarriet Ann, born Feb. 2, 1860; died Nov. 28, 1860. 11074 George Percival, born Sept. 7, 1861 ; died Aug. 5, 1864. 11075 Wi1liam Bryant, born Dec. 28, 1863; married Elizabeth Steins.* 11076 James Charles, born Jan. 18, 1866. Resides in Denver, Col., unmarried. 11077 Elizabeth Permelia (twin), born F eb. 14, 1870; died l\Iay 4, 1873. 11078 Su an Cecelia (twin), born Feb. 14, 1870; died April 26, 1902. 11079 Samuel Theodore, born Jan. 9, 1874; married first, ophia Clare Miller; econd, Emma Bott.• 11055 LAURA ANN JEWETT (Gilman, 11046; 1\Iark, 1164) wa. born in Monroe County, Ill., ept. 6, 1829. he ma rried in Walerloo, DI., Dec. 27, 1846, Silas Richardson, who died there July 30, 1840 (s. p.). She married econd, in Waterloo, April 15, 1851, James Alden Owen, who was born in 1826, TnE J EWETT FAMILY OF Ac\rEBICA 35 son of Charles and Margaret (Macfnrlnnd) Owen. He was a farmer and died in Cooper County, Mo., Dec. 13, 1901. Mrs. Owen resides in Boonville, Mo. Children by second husband 11080 l\Iary Gertrude, born in Waterloo, Ill., Aug. 25, 1852; married George Baker Judy.• 11081 l\fedorn 0 ., born in Waterloo, Ill., Oct. 29, 1854; married John J. Gib son.• 11082 Sumner Lewi.is, born in Waterloo, Ill., Feb. 11, 1857; died Sept. 8, 1875. 11083 Laura Ilerlha, born in Waterloo, Ill., Oct. 1, 1859; married William Long, of Pilot Grove, l\[o. 11084 Je' ie Ro clte, born in Waterloo, Ill., May 30, 1863; died June 18, 1864. 11085 Lizzie Katura, born in Walerloo, Ill., June 15, 1865; died July 23, 1866. 11086 Nellie Joanna, born in Clarks F ork, Cooper County, 1\10., Nov. 8, 1867; resides in Boonville, Mo., unmarried. 11087 Adelaide Augusta, born in Clarks }i'ork, Cooper County, l\Io., Sept. 12, 1872; resides in Boonville, Mo., unmarried. 11057 AMUEL LEWIS JEWETT (Gilman, 11046; Mark, 1164) was born in Ilull' Blockhouse, Monroe County, Ill. , Nov. 12, 1833. He married in Upper Allon, Ill., Oct. 10, 1860, )farlha. Matilda Dor ey, daughter of Ben jamin Lawrence and Nancy (l\IcBookes) Dorsey. She was born in Ken tucky, J an. 14, 1834, and died in Cooper County, Mo., from la grippe, May 24, 1893. l\Ir. J ewett resides in Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., where he is a miller, farmer, and large stock rai er. He was po tmaster of Clarks Fork sixteen years; school director twenty years; ecretary or local and County Grange; master of local and County Grange; delegate to Slate Grange several years, and Executive Committee man of the State Grange three years. He could have represented his county in the Stale Legislature, but his large business compelled him t o refuse the honor. Children born in Cooper County, li1 o. 11088 Benjamin Dorsey, born Aug. 3, 1861. He reside in Boonville, Mo., where he is a farmer and slockman. He has erved two terms of two years each as County Judge of Cooper County; unmarried. 11089 Elizabeth Ann, born April 3, 1863; married Walter B. Windsor.• 11090 William Gilman, born J an. 20, 1865; married Myrtle Mills.* 11091 Edward Mary, born June 4, 1868; married Ada l\1arion Davis.* 11092 Halbert Alexander, born Aug. 27, 1870; married Maud Rankin.* 11093 Theodore Brown, born Nov. 18, 1873; married Kathryn Florence Logan.• 11071 El\IILY l\I. JEWETT (Lewis, 11048; Mark, 1164) was born in Newburgh (now Toronto), Ohio, Aug. 21, 1831. She married in Sterling 36 THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA Bottom, Meigs County, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1850, Lyman Stedman, who was born at Chester, Ohio, Nov. 22, 1827, on of Lyman and amary (McCanathan) ted man. Mrs. Stedman died on Brown's Island, W. Va., near Toronto, Ohio, May 18, 1895. Mr. Stedman re ides on Brown' I land, where he is a farmer. He has taken much interest in public matler , and served five terms in the Legislature of West Virginia. Children. 11094 Blanche, born in Porlland, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1852; married Rev. John R. Keyes.• 11095 Audubon J ewett, born in Portland, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1854; married Ella V. Henry.* 11096 Mabel, born on Brown' Island, W. Ya., l\Iarch 3, 1862; re ides in Costonia, Ohio; unmarried. 11097 Sedgwick Jewett, born on Brown's Island, W. Va., Aug. 30, 1864; married Eva. Margaret Erskine. They reside in New York City, where he is a clerk in a railroad office. 11098 Chester Jewett, born on Brown' I land, W. Va., l\Iay 6, 1878. Ile was graduated from The Baltimore Medical College about 1900, and is a physician in Portland, 0l"egon; unmarried. 11075 WILLIAM BRYANT JEWETT (William S., 11054; Gilman, 11016; Mark, 1164) was born in Jeffer on County, 1\'.Io., Dec. 28, 1863. Ile mar ried in Festus, Mo., Sept. 3, 1885, Elizabeth Steins, daughter of Herman Joseph and Elizabeth (Guedemeier) Steins. he was born in L. Loui , Mo., ov. 18, 1863, and died in HighJand, Cal., J an. 27, 1910. Mr. J ewelt reside in Los Angeles, Cal., where he is engaged in fruit growing. Children. 11099 William Joseph, born June 15, 1886; married in San Bernardino, Cal., May 10, 1909, Lona Cain. They reside in Highland, Cal., where he is a box.maker. 11100 Herman Alloysius, born June 10, 1889. 11101 John Christian, born Sept. 25, 1891. 11102 Bernard Francis, born May 6, 1894. 11103 Annie Mary, born June 2, 1896. 11104 Elizabeth Katharin, born July 1, 1899. 11105 Lawrence A., born Sept. 5, 1903. 11079 SAMUEL THEODORE JEWETT (WiJliam ., l 1054; Gilman, 11046; Mark, 1164) was born in Jefferson County, l\Io., Jan. 9, 1874. He married first, in Clarksville., T enn., Oct. 3, moo, ophia Clara ~Iiller, who was born in Clarksville, --, daughter of William Miller. She died in Breese, Ill., Feb. 26, 1906. He married, econd, in Washington, Mo., Nov. 1, 1908, Emma Bott. They reside in St. Louis, Mo. THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 37 CILil.d by first wife. 11106 Cecelia Ann, born in Bree e, Ill., January 29, 1905. Child by second wife. 11107 Genevieve Gertrude, born in St. Loui , Mo., July 27, 1910. 11080 MARY GERTRUDE O"'EN (Laura Ann, 11055; Gilman, 11046; Mark, 1164) was born in Waterloo, Ill., Aug. 25, 1852; died in Boonville, Mo., Feb. 3, 1893. he married Dec. 24, 1874, George Baker Judy, a Carmer, who now reside in Pilot Grove, 1\lo. Child 11108 Laura Lucile, born in Pilot Grove, Mo., Oct. 29, 1875; married William Chapel.* 11081 .MEDORA 0 . OWEN (Laura Ann, 11055; Gilman, 11046; Mark, 1164) was born in Walerloo, Ill ., Oct. 29, 1854. he married at Clark's Fork, Cooper County, Uo., Oct. 13, 1875, John J. Gibson, wbo was born in Boonville, l\'.lo., .March 24, 1849, son or WiJJiam and Emily (O'Bryan) Gibson. l\Ir. Gib on was a former amd tock rai er. He died in Boonville, Aug. 17, 1896. Mrs. Gib on resides in Boonville. Children bom in Boonville, Mo. 11109 Emily O'Bryan, born Aug. 27, 1876; married in Boonville, Jan. 1, 1901, William David Voelker, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1873, on of John and Sarah (Sprinkle) Voelker. They re ide in St. Loui , where he i a commission merchant (s. p.). 11110 l\Iary Gcrlrude, born July 17, 1879; married in Boonvrne, June 12, 1906, Crockett Hickman, who wus born in Bunceton, l\Io., Dec. 31, 1869, on or Thomas and l\Iarlha (Crockett) Hickman. They reside in Boonville, Mo., where he is in the real e late bu ine s {s. p.). 11111 Laura Jewett, born Jan. 2, 1881; married Thomas Benjamin B rewer.* 11112 Helen Harriet, born Aug. 12, 1885; unmarried. 11089 ELIZABETH ANN JEWEIT (Samuel Lewis, 11057; Gilman, 11046; l\Iark, 1164) was born in Cooper County, l\Io., April 3, 1863. he married there :\lay 20, 1888, Walter Benton Wind or, who was born in Cooper County, Mo., April 23, 1862, on of John Hol'8ce and Elnora (Zollinger) Windsor. Mr. and Mrs. Windsor reside in Boonville, Mo., wbere he is a Carme1· and stock man. 38 TnE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA Children born in Cooper County, Mo. 11113 Elmer (twin), born April 29, 1891. 11114 Jewett (twin), born April 29, 1891. 11115 Alma l\Iay, born July 25, 1893. 11116 Annie Laura, born April 17, 1895. 11117 Dorsey William, born Feb. 24, 1897. 11090 WILLIAl\f GILMAN JEWETI (Samuel Lewis, 11057; Gilman 11046; l\lark, 1164) was born in Cooper County, l\lo., Jan. 20, 1865. He mar ried there, March 22, 1899, l\lyrtle l\Iills, who was born in Cooper County, Nov. 11, 1872, daughter of James Terrill and Leona (Maxwell) l\Iills. l\fr. and Mrs. J ewett reside in Overton, l\lo., where he is a Carmer and stock raiser. He has served evcral Lerms as director or the Buncelon Fair As ociation. Children born in Cooper County, Mo. 11118 amuel Lewis, born Dec. 29, 1899. 11119 l\Iartha Willard, born Feb. 27, 1901. 11091 EDWARD l\IARY JEWETI (Samuel Lewis, 11057; Gilman, 11046; l\lark, 116-1.) was born in Cooper Counly, l\lo., June 4, 1868. He mar ried there, Dec. 24, 1895, Ada l\larion Davis, who was born in Cooper County, Dec. 21, 1874, daughter of Francis Marion and Nancy (Hunt) Davis. They reside in Boonville, l\Co., where Ur. Jewell is a farmer and stockman. He is a director or the Boonville Trust Co. and of lhe Walnut Grove Cemetery. Chilcl. 11120 Nancy Frances, born in Cooper County, Mo., July 1, 1899. 11092 HALBERT ALEXANDER JEWETI (Samuel Lewis, 11057; Gil man, 11046; l\lark, 1164) was born in Cooper County, ~Io., Aug. 27, 1870. Ile married there, Sept. 25, 1895, l\laud Rankin, who was born in Cooper County, April 25, 1874, daughter of Robert and l\laria Laura (Duncan) Rankin. They reside in Boonville, l\lo., where he is a farmer and stockman. He has sen ·ed seYeral terms as cbool director. Children born in Cooper County, Alo. 11121 Robert Rankin, born Nov. 3, 1896. 11122 amuel Lewis, born Feb. 21, 1898. 11093 TilEODORE BROWN JEWETI (Samuel Lewi, 11057; Gilman, 11046; l\lark, 1164) was born in Cooper County, l\lo., Nov. 18, 1873. He mar ried lherc, Aug. 27, 1907, Kalh.ryn Florence Logan, who was born in Cooper County, July 1, 1887, daughter of Hugh and Nancy Jane (Davis) Logan. Mr. THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA 39 J ewett has served several years as marshal of the Bunceton Fair Association. He is a farmer and stock.man and resides in Boon ville, Mo. Child. 11123 Kathryn Louisa, born in Cooper County, Mo., June 15, 1909. 11094 BLANCHE STEDl\IAN (Emily M., 11071; Lewis, 11048; Mark, 1164) was born in Portland, Meigs County, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1852. • he married there, April 4, 1871, Rev. John R. Keyes, who was born in Carrolton. Ohio, Aug. 16, 1844, son of Zephaniah and Frances (Kale) Keyes. l\lr. Keyes is a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the East Ohio Con ference. They reside at Martin's Ferry, Ohio. Chi/,dren. 11124 Laura, born at Noblestown, Pa., July 31, 1872; married Charles E. Stewart.* 11125 Edith, born at Steubenville, Ohio,--. She resides at Martin's F erry, Ohio, where she is a teacher of lhe piano and pipe organ; unmarried. 11126 Raymond Stedman, born at Richmond, Ohio, May 20, 1878; married Louise Fernald.* 11127 Paul C., born at Bridgeport, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1883; married at Cambridge, Ohio, May 17, 1910, Bertha Chenowith, who was born in London, Ohio, daughter of John Chenowilh. He is treasurer of the Com mercial Sash and Door Co., of Pittsburg, Pa. Resides in Crafton, Pa. (s. p.). 11128 Lucile, born at New Philadelphia, Ohio, Jan. l , 1889; resides at Martin's Ferry, Ohio; unmarried. 11095 AUDUBON JEWETT STEDMAN (Emily 1\1., 11071; Lewis, 11048; Mark, 1164) was born in Portland, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1854. He married in Steubenville, Ohio, Aug. 24, 1875, Ella V. Henry, who was born in Steubenville, Sept. 13, 1854, daughter of Joshua and Ann (Lee) Henry. l\Ir. and Mrs. Sted man reside in Co tonia, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he is a farmer. Children born on Brown's I sland, W. Va. 11130 Faber Henry, born June 14, 1876; married Minnie Lane.* 11131 Waldo Henry, born Oct. 15, 1882; married Eleanor May Davis.* 11108 LA.URA LUCILE JUDY (Mary Gertrude, 11080; Laura Ann, 11055; Gilman, 11046; Mark, 1164) was born in Pilot Grove, Mo., Oct. 29, 1875. She married there, June--, 1899, William Chapel. He is a railroad engineer. Residence, Kan as City, Mo. 40 THE JEWETT F.ilULY OF AM.ERICA Children. 11132 Margaret Mary, born in Sedalia, 1\10., in 1903. 11133 Elizabeth, born in J effer on City, l\lo., in 1905. 11111 LAURA JEWETI GIB ON (Medora 0., 11081; Laura Ann, 11055; Gilman, 11046; l\Iark, 1164) wa born in Boonville, Mo., Jan. 2, 1881. . he marrit!CI there No,-. 11 , 1908, Thomas Benjamin Brewer, who was born in Charleston, l\Io., l\larch 23, 1870, son 0£ Nelson Delaney and l\Iary Ellen (Yowel ) Drewer. They re idc in Charleston, where he is a druggi t. Child. 11134 Benjamin Grinstead, born in Charleston, Mo., Dec. 4, 1909. 11124 LAURA KEYES (Blanche, 11094; Emily M., ll071 ; Lewi , 110-J.8; Mark, 1164) was born in Noblestown, Pa., July 31, 1872. he married in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1896, Charles E . tewart, son of R ev. Nixon tewart. They reside in adiz, where Mr. tewart is ca bier of the Fourth National Bank or lhat city. Chi/,dren born in Cadiz, Ohio. 11135 harle Keyes, born Dec. 6, 1901. 11136 Dlanchc Stedman, born Sept. 27, 1906. 11126 LIEUT. RAYMOl\TD STEDMAN KEYES (Blanche, 11094 ; Emily l\l., 11071; Lewis, 11048; Mark, 1164) was born in Richmond, Ohio, May 20, 1878. Ile was graduated from the Naval Academy in the cla.s of 1902, and is now a lieutenant talioned on the United lates ship, Idaho. He married at P ensacola, Fla., in April, 1005, Louise Fernald, who was born in Philadelphia, Pa. Child. 11137 Raymond Stedman, born in Annapolis, l\ld., Dec. 12, 1907. 11130 FADER HENRY TEDMAN (Aubudon J., 11095; Emily M., 11071; Lewis, 110-1 ; .Mark, 1164) wa born on Brown's I sland, W. Va., June 14, 1876. He married :Minnie Lane. They reside in CalleLtsburg, Ky., where he is a stone contractor. Child. 11138 Ella Frances, born in Buchanan, Ky., Sept. 27, 1905. 11131 WALDO HENRY TED:MAN (Audubon J ., 11095; Emily M., ll071; Lewis, 11048; l\1ark, 1164) was born on Brown's Island, W. Va., Oct. 15, 1882. He married in 'Well ville, Ohio, Jan. 27, 1906, Eleanor May Davis, THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMEnlCA 41 who was born in Wellsville, Nov. 11, 1883, daughter of John and Martha (Black) Davis. They reside in Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Stedman is a bookkeeper. Child. 11139 Eleanor, born in Ravenna, Ohio, Oct. 25, 1906. NoTE.- The descendants of Mark J ewett will be continued. 4551 ALBERT POOLE JEWETT (see 4551 in the J ewett Genealogy) was born in Sidney, Maine, April 25, 1833. He married Alicia Rebecca Thorn ton, who was born in England, Dec. 25, 1844, and died in Spokane, Wash., July 29, 1906. Mr. Jewett was an architect and builder, later a farmer, but retired from active business before his death. He died in Spokane, Feb. 10, 1905. Children born in Sacramento, Cal. 11140 l\lyra Gay, born J an. 26, 1871 ; married first, Otto Weber; second, Frederick Henry Boesman. * 11141 Laura Frances, born Sept. 17, 1872; married Harry F. Yeager.* 11142 Edward EYerett, born Jan. 6, 1875; married in Spokane, Wash., Aug. 1, 1909, Betty Margrethe Mengel, who was born in Gundsemagle, Denmark, Sept. 16, 1880, daughter of Julius George and Frederikke Sophie (Peterson) Mengel. Mr. and 1\-Irs. Jewett reside in Spokane, where he is in the lumber business. (s. p.) 11143 Parker Hale, born NoY. 28, 1876; died in Spokane, Wa h., J an. 11, 1901. 11140 MYRA. GAY JEWETT (Albert Poole, 4551) was born in Sacra mento, Cal., J an. 26, 1871. She married in Cheney, Wash., Oct. 30, 1890, Otto Weber, who was born in Frankfort, Germany. He was a baker and confectioner. Mrs. ·weber secured a divorce and married, second, in Spokane, Wash., April 10, 1905, Frederick Henry Boesman, who was born in Bremen, Germany, Oct. 9, 1862, son of Carl and Meta (Weber) Boesman. They reside in Spokane, where he is a stockholder and manager of the Spokane Brewing and Malting Company. He is also a director of the Northwest Loan and Trust Company of Spokane. Child by first husband. 11144 Laura Alene, born in Spokane, Wash., Aug. 7, 1891. 11141 LAURA FRANCES JEWETT (Albert Poole, 4551) was born in Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 17, 1872. She married in Spokane, Wash., F eb. 2, 1898, Harry Fred Yeager, who was born near Franford, l\lo., Sept. 3, 1870, son of Fred and Frances (Byrne) Yeager. They reside in Spokane, where he is an accountant. Child. 11145 Frederick Albert, born in Spokane, Wash., April 11, 1900. 42 THE JEWETT FAMILY OF AME:a1CA INDEX TO GENEALOGY Adelsberger, Elizabeth, 11054 Cecelia J osephine, 11054 Frank X., ll 054. Alexander, Elizabeth, 11046 Mary, 110l6 William, 1104.6 Bell, Susan, 11018 Black, Martha, 11131 Boesman, Carl, 111-lO Frederick llenry, 11140 Meta, 11140 :\lyra Gay, 11140 Boll, Emma, 11079 Breckenridge, Elizabeth, 11054 James, 11054 PermeHa Ann, 1105.J. Brewer, Benjamin Grinstead, 11134 Laura Jewett, 11111 Mary Ellen, 11111 Nelson Delaney, 11111 Thomas Benjamin, 11 lll Bryan, Elizabeth, 11054 Byrne, Frances, 11141 Cain, Lona, 11099 Chapel, Elizabeth, 11133 Laura Lucile, 11108 .Margaret 1Iary, 11132 William, 11108 Chenowilh, Bertha, 11127 J ohn, 11127 Crockett, Martha, 11110 Davis, Ada, II091 Eleanor May, 11131 Francis :\Iarion, 11091 J ohn, 11131 Martha, 11131 Xancy, 11091 Nancy Jane, 11093 Dorsey, Benjamin Lawrence, 11057 Martha Matilda, 11057 Nancy, 11057 Duncan, Maria Laura, 11092 Dutteohoffer, Mary, 110-15 Erskine, Eva Margaret, 11097 F ernald, Louise, 11126 Fisher, Elizabeth, 11054 Fry, Abigail, 1164 Mary, 1164 William, 1164 Gibson, Emily, 11081 Emily O' Bryan, 11109 Helen H arriet, 11112 J ohn J ., 11081 Laura Jewett, 11111 Mary Gertrude, 11110 Medora 0., 11081 William, 11081 Guedemeier, Elizabeth, 11075 Henry, Ann, 11095 Ella V., 11095 John, 11048 Joshua, 11095 usan, 11018 Hickman, Crockett, 11110 :.'\lartha, 11110 )lary Gertrude, 11110 Thomas, 11110 Hunt, Xancy, 11091 J ewell, Ada Marion, 11091 Alhert Poole, 4551 Alicia Rebecca, -l551 .lilllie Mary, 11103 Benjamin Dorsey, 11088 Bernard Francis, 11102 Bell~ :Margrethe, 11H2 Braz1lla, l lOH Cecelia Ann, 11106 Cecelia J osephine, 11054 Edward Everett, 11142 Edward Mary, 11091 Eliza, 110-15 Elizabeth. 11046; 11075 Elizabeth Ann, 11089 Elizabeth Kathario, 11104 Elizabeth Permelia, 11077 Emily :.'\!., 11071 E=a, 11079 Genevieve Gertrude, 11107 George Percival, 11074 Gilman, 110 16 Halbert Ale.under, 11092 Harriet, 110-19; 11056 Ilarriet Aon, 11073 Herman Alloysius, 11100 James Charles, 11076 Jasper, l l O06, LouL Frederic, :.on of Geo. Y. and ::\lary (Brown) Peck. He wa;, born at Port .Jcn;s, X. Y., :\Itm·h 9. 1876. Ko children. Re ... ide at Ilol~·oke. 10001 H arold \\'. Ilooker married at ::\Iittincague, )fa,.s., Oct. 12, 1905, Rubie )fa~·, daughter of Dwight and Ilamet (.\.tkin'>) Strong. She was born at Loud\'ille, Mass., Jan. 14, 1884. Two children horn at Springfield: Ralph Atkins. born Oct. 19, 1006. Stanley Jewett, born Jan. 12, 1008. Re~ide al Springfield. l\Iass. 10007 Raymond D. Jewell married at ~pringfield, Mass., Oct. 16. 1007. ~Car garet Kelso, daughter 0£ John and :'.\lary (Kel-:o) Thomson. She was horn at Sprin1,1fic1d, Dec. 25, 1883. X o children. Reside at Spring field. 10008 Rulh A. Jewett married at Springfield, l\Iass., Oct. 17, 1906. Frank Bugbee. on of Amos :\I. and Olive (Pear on) R am 'dell. Ile was born ' al Springfield, Feb. 16, 1878. One child, Dudley Pear. on, born Springfield, July 21, 1908. Reside at Springfield, ;:\las . 9904 Julia L. Jewett married a t GraYe end, L. I ., June 12, 1907, Nathan Lyman, on or H enry and .\ chsah (Burt) ::\lontague. Ile was born at We ' lhamplon, :\las"'• April 29, 1873. One child, Caroline tockwelJ, born at Springfield, l\Ia ., Nov. 4, 1900. Reside at Springfield, M: s. Deaths. 3931 George :\Ielvin D ole died in Lowell, :\Ias ., Aug. 9, 1907. 2635 Dr. Levi Jewett, of Cobalt, Conn., died there from pneumonia Jan. 3, 1908. At the time or his death he was medical director of the Grand Army, Department of Connecticut. 6046 Dr. D an Lee J ewett, or Watseka, Ill., died Lhere 1Ionday, June 4, 1!>08. 6033 Miss ophie J ewett, Associate-Professor of Engli -h Literature at Welle - ley College, and well known as a writer, died Oct. 11, 1909, at Buffalo, N.Y. 46 THE JEWETT FAlttILY OF A..'\!ERICA 3928 H~ury S. Dole died April 10, 1909. 6571 Sarah Orne J cwett died at her home in South Berwick, 1\Ie., from apoplexy, June 24, 1909. She was one or the greatest of America's women aulhor . 7621 Elmer Elsworth Lancaster, of Minneapolis, :\Iino., died there from tubercular meningitis, July 8, 1010. 2452 Profes or Charles Jewett, A.B., A.M., 1\1.D., died at his home in Brooklyn, ~ . Y., from apoplexy, .\.ug. 6, 1910. He was one or the most emi nent gynecological specialists of lhi country. 3815 Andrew Jewett, who for ome years had been engaged with hi son, Kenneth D. Jewett, in note brokerage busines on tale St., Do ton, died January 18, 1910. 5994 Rev. George Ward Dunbar died at J ohns Hopkins Ilospilal, Baltimore, April 5, 1911, and funeral services were at Christ Church, Janes\•ille, Wisconsin, his last Parish, before taking up duties as Chaplain in the United States Army. Interment wns at Oak Hill Cemetery, Janes 'ille. He graduated from Hobart College, July, 1855,and was ordained deacon by Bishop DeLancey, July 1, 1860, in Trinity Church, Xew York City. He was retired for age from the Army in 1897, and then lived at Janesville to 1903; Fortres ).1onroe, Va., to June, 1910, and then at Washington. He leaves two children surnving, Alice l\laud, wife of l\Iajor W. P. Pence, U. S. A., and Arthur White Dunbar, Surgeon, U.S. N.; also five grandchildren. 5366 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Jewett) Putney, wife 0£ Warren C. Putney, died at Everett, l\Iass., l\Iay 12, 1910. 9774 Dwight Jewett, died, South D eerfield, l\las ., D ec. 24, 1909. 9783 Harriet Jewett Converse, died, aged ninety-four, Deep River, Ia., Dec. 23, 1910. 9793 Vileria Loud J ewett, died, Westhampton, ~las ., Nov. 29, 1903. !)900 On;Ue Flint, died, Westhampton, 1\Iass., l\Iarch 15, 1910. 9909 Mary Stoddard Jewett, died, Pelham, Mass., Jan. 24, 1908. At Salem, l\Iass., Feb. 13, 1910, Thomas Edwin J ewett, eventy-lhree years, seven months, U1irteen day . 3192 Frederick Augu t Jewett, l\LD., Medical School, 1852, Harvard Univer ity. Born ept. 6, 1824, at Pepperell, l\Iass. Died Feb. 8, 1910, at Graf ton, Mas . 4666 M ary l\f. Cate, died at Ipswich, Aug. 28, 1910, at age of eventy- ix years, nine month ' . She was the la t of her generation there and occupied the old hou e built by her grandfaLher, Aaron Jewett, in 1780, and was present at Lhe reunion in 1855. QUESTION DEPARTMENT This department is devoted to research work and a. strong effort will be made to trace the unidentified members of the family. It is very important for future generations that all should be placed in their proper line, and any person having any knowledge whatever regarding the following people are earnestly reque ted to send such facts to the Genealogical Committee. FnEo CLARKE JEWETT, l\I.D., Chairman, 2526 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, l\Id. Wanted.-The ancestors of Edmund )1. Jewett, who was born (probably) in l\las achuselts, June 8, 1785; married in Dorchester, l\Ias . , Aug. 12 or ept. 28, 1806, Nancy Hitchiag~. At the time of mar riage he was of Bo ton and she of Dorchester. They had the following children, viz.: Rebecca D., William H., Joseph Edmund, Luther W., George N., Lydia A., Sarah l\l., Samuel :\I., and Hiram 0., wish their descendants. Wanted.-The ance tors of Jacob J ewett, born about 1765-70; married Eve Carmen, and lived (for a while at least) in Highgate, Vt. They had J eremiah, born in Highgate, Dec. 25, 1801, Jacob, Abram, John, Charles, Riley, Samuel, Elcana.h, Elizabeth, Julia, Sarah, and Clark. Wish the descendants of these children. Wanted.- The ancestors and descendants of Samuel J. J ewett, who married Mary Richardson. This Jewett went to Texas in the early days, and it is supposed that two of his children are living in New Eng land. There is some money waiting for these children in Texas. Wanted.- Ancestors and descendants of Jedediah Jewett, who was born in Thompon, Windham County, Conn., l\Iarch 25, 1782. He was a teacher and Methodist mini ler. Wanted.- Ancestors of Rebecca Jewett, who married April 19, 1748, William Eastman. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., Oct. 3, 1715. She died in Bath, N. II., Jan. 26, 1806. Give their descendants also. Wanted.-Ancestors of I';lijah Jewett, who was born in. Canterbury, Conn., in / 1797, married in Rome, N. Y., Ruth Waters. llis father was perhaps Thomas (who married Prudence --), and lived in Canterbury until about 1813, when he moved to Rome, N. Y. Wanted.- The descendant 0£ the following, viz., Deborah J ewett, born in Row ley, Mas ., Dec. -, 1664, married Nathaniel Knowlton; Ann J ewett, born in Rowley, June 20, 1667, married June 10, 1690, Francis Palmer; l\Iary Jewett, born in Rowley, in 1671, married Ebenezer Browne; Priscilla Jewett, born in Rowley, in 1680; and Elizabeth Jewett, born in Rowley in 1683, married Thomas Perrin. 48 THE JE~'ETT, F MilLY OF AMERICA Wanted.- The ancestors and descendants of 1\-foses Jewett, who was born in H olli , X H. Ile was a farmer and cooper, and resided in New bury and Cleveland, Ohio. H e married, first, Eunice Andrew ; second, Mr . Adaline Adam . He died in 1850. Wanted.-The ance lors and de cendant of l\lo es C. Jewett, who was born in " 'indsor, Yl., F eb. 11, 1815, married Lhere Mary Ann Wakefield, and settled in Alexandria, K. Y. Ile had brothers, Chauncey, who died in Oregon; Era lus, who lived on the old home.!tead; Frederick, of Claremont, Yt., J ohn " '., a i ler, Eliza, and per haps others. " 'i h lo hear from the descendants of all. TVanted.-The ance5tors or )lunni:. W. Jewell, who was born in 'Ward boro. Yt., Oct. 27, 1802; married in E llington, Conn., in 1820, Loui a Ferry, and died in South Wilbraham (now Hampden), :\Ia. s.,July 2~, 1873. Wanted.-The ancestor of ~athnn Jewelt who wn:. born in East Iladdam, or North Lyme, Conn., in 1783. He married in 1808 Electa F ox, of Xorth Lyme, and in 1811 settled in Bridgewater, Pa., where he died, in 1861. Wanted.- .\.ncestors and descendants of X alhaniel Jewell. who Jiyed in Sweden and Bridgton, )le. He married, fir~l, a :l\Iiss Knight; married second, Florinda Cranmore. Ile died in White Creek, Adam" County, "i ·., in 1890. TT'antcd.-Anccstors and descendant south of Xcwburyport. and twenty-eight from Portsmouth. :-lome eight or ten trains a day stop here each way." As Lhe railroad station is some one and one halt miles from the center of the town, those coming to Rowley from Bo Lon by steam car should stop at Ips wich, and take the trolley from there, a dii.tance of three and one halt mile,., and any one from tl1e cast, can reach here by the same trolley line from Xew huQ·port, after a pica ant ride of three quarters of an hour. The electric line follows Lhe old Bay Road from Ipsmch until it reaches the XewbuQrport Turn pike, a lmo l the entire width of the town. This road was laid out in 16 !0 from Bo ton lo Newbury, and was the fir t road built by order of the :\Iassachusetts Bay Colony in N'ew England. Over this road marched the men under Benedict Arnold, ";th Aaron Burr in the ranks, on the ill-fated expedition to Quebec in the autumn of 1775. H ere later rode Washington on hi triumphal tour while Pre ident, and la ter still, Lafayette when on hi' last Yi it to thi ' countQ'. The neighboring towns of Xewbury, Ipswich, Kewburyport, Haverhill, alem, and the parish of Byfield , where Dummer Academy, of almost world wide fame, is situated, are full of inter~ t and will well repay one Ior the time pent in them. All about is historic ground, for here among the hills of old E . ex County have li,·ed those who have had a large part in shaping the destinies oC this nation. Our own beloved poet, Whittier, born but a few miles from here, has commemoraled many of the scenes and actors in his poems. Among the places of interest to Jewetls arc the original Jewett house lots on Bradford Street. Site of the old Jewett hou e, which was standing in 1855, on Cro s Street. Site 0£ the fi rs t mill for the manufacture 0£ cloth in the new world at Glen ~lill , built by the fir t settlers. Deacon Jo Ima Jewett's (1158) house, on Ilammond Street, built in Revo lutionary days. He was our first Pre ident. 1855. Jo cph Jcwett's (484) house, on Bradford lrcet, very near the site or the original house of :\Iaxi.milian, built 1785. Deacon George Jewett's (722) house, built 1752, on Pleasant treet. Site of the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers's hou e, on Wethersfield Street. 50 TnE JEWETT FAMILY OF AMERICA The first, second, and third meeting houses built respectively, 1639, 1697, 1749, stood on or near the same spot where the grammar school building now stands; the present Congregational meeting house, built 1840, being the fourth. In the central part of the town is the old graveyard, where are nine genera tions of our family, and adjoining is the Jot on which the town hall and library building is situated, and next is the Baptist meeting house. Both churches very kindly tendered the use of their buildings at the reunion. Just aero s the line may be een the site of the first Jewelt house in Ipswich, occupied by Jeremiah (15), the spot where his brother, Elder Nehemiah (18), had his sawmill. House of Capt. l\Ioses Jewett (646), built 1750. House oC Aaron Jewett (1366), built about 1780. House of Nehemiah Jewett (713), built 1793. Jewett's Ilill, sometimes called :\luzzy Hill, is also in Ipswich, on the line of the electric , about one hall mile from Rowley Center. It is a part of the "farme I bought of Jo 'eph Muzzy," mentioned in J oseph's will and given to his eldest on, Jeremiah (15). A portion of the farm is now occupied by Joseph's descendants of the ninth and tenth generation. The hill is easily accessible and commands a beautiful view of the ocean across which our ancestors came so long ago. There in the distance, as expres ed by the poet Whittier, "Long and low, with dwarf trees crowned, Plum I land lies, like a whale aground. A stone's toss over the narrow sound. Inland, as far as the eye can go, The hills curve round like a bended bow; A silver arrow from out them sprung; I see the shine of the Quasycung; And, round and round, over valley and hill, Old roads winding as old roads will. H ere to a ferry and there to a mill; And glimp es of chimneys and gabled eaves, Through green elm arches and maple leaves, Old homesteads acred to all that can Glad den or sadden the heart of man, Over whose thresholds of oak and stone Life and death have come and gone! There pictured tiles in the fireplace show, Great beams ag from the ceiling low, The dresser glitters with polished wares, The long clock ticks on the foot-worn stairs, And the low, broad chimney shows the crack By the earthquake made a century back. Up from their midst springs the 'Tillage spire With the crest of its cock in the sun afire; = THE JEWETT FMnLY OF AMERICA Deyond are orchards and planting lands, And great salt marshes and glimmering sands, And, where north and south the coast lines run, The blink of the sea in breeze and sun." 5 1 Those wishing accommodations while here will do well to visit the " Fair Yiew," where they will be well cared for. " Fairdew" is on Wethersfield Street, about two minutes' walk from the car line of the Bo ton & _ -orthern Street Railway. I t was built in the eighteenth century by Humphrey Hobson, a son of Humphrey Hobson and Priscilla Jewett (240), and its frame of olid oak bids fair to last another century or more. In this house was born Edward Kimball, a grand on of Lhe abo,·e named Humphrey and Priscilla, and a descendant of the first Jo eph J ewett. He afterward moved to Boston, and became while there the Sunday-school teacher of D . L. l\Ioody, and to him .Mr. )foody at tributed the awakening of his religious interest. Some of ou.r people were quar t ered there at the reunion. l\lrs. A. L. Mitchell is the present proprietor. Post-card views of nearly all the places mentioned, and many others, includ ing some of the old gravestones and the communion cup u ed by Deacon l\laxi milian, can be obtained of the local photographer, C. A. Houghton, or of the recording secretary; also the picture of the reunion group, taken July 7, 1910. Your recording secretary will be glad to answer any que tions or furnish such information as he can. NEWS OF THE JEWETT FAl'1ILY The R ev. Edward Everett Hale was connected with the Jewett Fa mily. Arthur H. Jewett relates a n incident in meeting him several years ago. Dr. Hale was much interested when he heard the name " Jewett," and said, " I claim cousinship with you." It appears that Edward Everett Hale told K. P. Hale that he was descended from Thomas Hale, who came to Newbury in 1637, and built a house on the south side of Parker River, and that his grandfather lived in a house on the other side of Parker River. Thomas Hale, the Glover, who was the first Hale to settle in Newbury, lived in a house not now standing, near the burying ground, between the Rowley Woods and Parker River. The next Year Book may present half-tone portraits of ou.r eminent histo rians, with biographical sketches, and special articles from each . A future issue of the Year Book may be a literary number, with portraits, biographical sketches, and articles by members of the family who have achieved literary distinction. as Sarah Orne Jewett, Sophie Jewett, Edward Everett Hale, Charles C. Jewett, Elam R. J ewett, and others. Dr. Charles Jewett at the time of his decease was president of the Medical Society of the state of New York, and the New York State Journal of M edicine, published by this society, in its September, 1910, issue, contained an editorial article, "In Memoriam, Charles Jewett," an appreciation of his life and character. 52 THE JEWETT F~mLY OF A..'\IB.RH.:...._ The collection of "Jewettiania, ., under the direction of the Recording ecretary, .-\. E. Jewett, of Rowley, will be undertaken, and original documents, pres clippings, records, books, etc., may be ent to him for preservation. Ori f,rinal contribution.s regarding Jewett Family tradition and folklore, especially of lhe early generations, may be sent to him Cor publication. The historian should be in trucled lo prepare, al our expense, a pecial copy or the present Gencalo~·. interleaved and bound, wherein the historian may make officially additions and corrections, so as lo keep the record of the family up to

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