"Cornet" Stephen Jewett

Stephen "Cornet" Jewett

• Birth:  Feb. 23, 1683 Rowley Essex County Massachusetts, USA
• Death:  Jan. 14, 1771
• Parents: Ezekil Jewett & Faith Parrat Spouse:
• 1. Priscilla Jewett, d. of Ens. Joseph Jewett, m. July 12, 1708
• 2. Widow Sarah Trask of Beverley, int. Sept. 28, 1723
• 3. Widow Lydia (Thurston) Rogers, Nov. 23, 1725 

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family

from page 1720 of New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter:

(IV) Cornet Stephen Jewett, son of Deacon Ezekiel Jewett, was born in Rowley, February 23, 1682-83, died there January 14, 1771. His will was dated November 21, 1767, and proved 1771.

He married (first) in Rowley, July 12, 1708, his cousin, Priscilla Jewett, daughter of Ensign Joseph and Rebecca (Law) Jewett. She was born in Rowley, August 9, 1687, died there December 27, 1722.

He married (second) Sarah Trask, of Beverly, Massachusetts, intentions being published September 28, 1723, and she died December 3, 1724, aged forty-nine years.

He married (third) November 23, 1725, Mrs. Lydia Rogers, widow of Daniel Thurston and of Robert Rogers, and daughter of Thomas and Demaris (Bailey) Leaver of Rowley; she was born December 5, 1684, died September 7, 1754.

Children, born in Rowley, by first wife:

1. Phebe, November 2, 1709;
2. Eliphalet, mentioned below;
3. David, June 10, 1714;
4. Solomon, September 2, 1716, died July 6, 1723;
5. Rebecca, February 1, 1718-19, died December 2, 1728;
6. Elizabeth, June 17, 1721, died November 21, 1728.

By third wife:

1. Priscilla, June 30, 1727, died December 16, 1728.

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biography

Stephen3 Jewett, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933), 172.

"100-19. Stephen3 Jewett (Dea. Ezekiel 100-1; Dea. Maximilian 100), born 23 Feb., 1682-3; … He died 14 Jan., 1771 (G. S.). His will, dated 21 Nov., 1767, mentions son Eliphalet to be executor and have the real estate; son David, deceased, 'has had his share already, except twenty shillings, which I give to his six children' (unnamed); six children of son Eliphalet, Stephen, David, Priscilla, Phebe, Joanna, Sarah. 'Item whereas I have heretofore given my daughter Phebe Cooper, decd., the full of her portion except fourteen pounds lawfull money which sum I give Priscilla Ross her only surviving child upon this condition viz. that she and her husband release remise and forever quit claim unto my said son Eliphalet Jewett his Heirs and assigns forever all such estate, Right, Title Interest or Demand that she now has or that may hereafter accrue to her in or to any estate that was formerly Willm Laws late of sd Rowley decd by virtue of any Right my sd decd daughter had or ought to have in the said William's Estate or any part thereof' (Essex Probate, 346:511)."

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• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Stephen_Jewett_(2)-
• http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/bio/fc-jewett.htm
• page 43-44 of History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America By F.C. Jewett

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Age: 88

• Parents: Ezekil Jewett & Faith Parrat Spouse:
• 1. Priscilla Jewett, d. of Ens. Joseph Jewett, m. July 12, 1708
• 2. Sarah Trask of Beverley, int. Sept. 28, 1723
• 3. Widow Lydia (Thurston) Rogers, Nov. 23, 1725

Inscription: HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF CORNET STEPHEN JEWETT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUr THE 14h 1771 IN THE 88h YEAR OF HIS AGE

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