Edward Jewett

“Edward Jewett, father of Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, lived in Bradford, England, where he was a clothier. By clothier it is not to be understood that he sold clothes, but was a maker or manufacturer of cloths. In those days, in England, the designation clothier was used only in the sense of the merchant manufacturer of woolen cloth who had in his employ a larger or smaller number of families- engaged in the various manual employments connected therewith. Edward Jewett lived long before the days of factories. In his time the making of cloth was carried on in Yorkshire in private houses, the several parts of the process being conducted by different members of the family according to their age and sex. The clothiers of Yorkshire were considered among the most industrious and frugal people of the kingdom. They were of necessity capitalists. They employed weavers, fullers, etc., and furnished them with material. In part they were accounted among the millionaires of England. Edward Jewett seems to have been a man of property, and to have left goodly portions to his children.”

Source: “History and Genealogy of The Jewetts of America” by Frederic Clarke Jewett, M. D.

The older forms seem to have been Juatt, Juet, Juett,  Ivet, Ivett, Jvat, Ivat, Juit, Juite,. (there was a Sir Henry Juite, Baronet, living in Ireland in 1850), Juitt. The Latin forms are Juet, Jouitt, Jeuit, Jewitt, and Jewett.

Edward married Mary Taylor in Bradford, West Riding, England on 10/01/1604. His will was dated 02/02/1614. He ha considerable property, and the title of"Gentleman".

In the name of God Amen, the second day of February in the year of our Lord God 1614 in the XIIth year of the reign sovereign Lord James by the grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc., and of Scotland the eight and forty whereas nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the house of death. Therefore, I Edward Jewett of Bradford within the dicos of York, Clothier, though sick and deseased in body yet sounde in minde and memorye I praise God therefore doo in this uncertainly of life knowninge that even in health we are subject to death make, publish and declare this my last will and testant in the names and form following (that is to say)

First and principally I give up and comend my soule in the hands of Almighty God my creator and redeemer hoping and assuredly trusting to have full and free pardon and remission of all my sinnes by the precious death and burial of Christ Jesus my alone Saviour and for jestification by his righteousness and my body I yeald to earth to be decently buried at the decreation of my friends. Item, I give and bequeath two full parts of all my goods Cattles Chattles & Credits (in three parts to be divided) unto William Jewett, Maximilian Jewett, Joseph Jewett and Sara Jewet my children equally to be divided amongst them after my debts be paid and funeral expense discharged. The third part and residue of all my said Cattles, Chattles & Credit I give and bequeath unto Mary my wife whome I make the sole executris of this my last will and testament. And I do entreat William Taylor my father in law, Henry Taylor my brother in law, Samuel Taylor and Thurstum Ledgerd the supervisors of this my last will and test't. Item, my will and mind is that my children shall have their porcous paide until them at such times s they shall sevarly accomplishe their ages of XX years or otherwise lawfully demand the same. Lastly I do commit of all my said children with theire several porcous during theire several minorities until the said Mary my wife.

Witnesses hereof William Smith, Jonas Watson & Lewis Watson.

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From: HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE JEWETTS OF AMERICA

A RECORD OF EDWARD JEWETT, OF BRADFORD, WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, AND OF HIS TWO EMIGRANT SONS, DEACON MAXIMILIAN AND JOSEPH JEWETT, SETTLERS OF ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, IN 1639

"Edward Jewett, father of the Jewetts who first came to America, was born is 1580 and lived in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The arms borne by him and which were brought to this country by Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, and which they were so careful to preserve on the records here is thus described on old records in both France and England: "He beareth, Gules, on a Cross argent, Five fleur-di-lis of the first, Crest, an eagle's Neck between two Wings displayed argent, by the name Jewett."

    The persecution under Archbishop Laud seems to have fallen with peculiar weight upon the clothiers. This may have been owing to the fact that many of the clothiers were descendants of Dutch and French Protestants.  Mr. Pryer in enumerating the petition for redress of grievances to Parlement in 1640-41 instances under the head of trade, "Divers Clothiers having been forced away who had set up their manufacture abroad to the great hurt of the kingdom."  Smith, in the history of wool, cites the rigor of Archbishop Laud's execution of the acts of conformity as the cause which drove many clothiers out of the kingdom."

Original spelling of the name may have been Juatt; this family may have been the descendants of Huguenot Flemings. The Protestant immigrants from Flanders and Brabant spoke Flemish, a Dutch dialect, and can thus easily be confused with Dutch settlers. Edward III (1327-1377) encouraged the Flemish to settle in England, as he valued their silk and other textile skills. Other waves came in 1551 and 1567 fleeing the occupying Catholic Spaniards, as did the Walloons.

They settled primarily in south eastern England, particularly in London, Norwich and Canterbury and were employed especially in silk weaving, the New Draperies and market gardening. In the 17th century more Flemish immigrants arrived with the Dutch to drain the fens of East Anglia (Beharrell).

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bellyn-1
• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. xv-xvi. < Archive.Org > William Iwett mariede Margery doughter to Robert Bellyn late of the Cittie of Chester. Robert Bellyn married Cicelye doughter to John Poole seconnde sonne to Sr John Poole in Warral County of Chester knight. "And hee the said Wm. Iwett saythe that there [their] badge is a nightingale. But how or in what sort hee cannot Instructe mee andtherefore have I omytted the setting downe of yt till I may doe it p'fectlye. " Signed Wyll'm Jewett."
• Harleian Society. Iwett of Chester., Harl. 2163, fo. 76., The Publicatons of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1882) Vol. 18, Page 263: < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_History_of_Huguenots,_Walloons,_Flemish_Religions_(National_Institute)

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GEDCOM Note

Possible Parents:
William Jewett 1536–1604 LBZL-RNM​​
Marriage: 1578 Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Margarette Cicely Bellyn 1555–1613 LR57-WR2​​</line><line /><line>1/12/21