Jedediah Jewett, Jr.

• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A062743
• Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank: PRIVATE
• Birth: 22 Apr 1754 PEPPERELL MASSACHUSETTS
• Death: 2 Apr 1840 PEPPERELL MASSACHUSETTS
• Notice: TREAT AS NEW ANCESTOR (No application or supplemental application has been verified on this ancestor since the very early days of the society. As such, this means all information on this ancestor and his or her descendants must be documented using current DAR standards. )

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JEDEDIAH JEWETT (Jedediah, Joseph, Nehemiah, Joseph, Edward), was born in Pepperell, Mass., April 22, 1754. He married in Townsend, Mass., May 8, 1776, Rachel Blood. She was born in Pepperell. He married second Sally Hall. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a shoemaker by trade, and a member of the Congregational Church.

" Jedediah Jewett, Townsend, private, Capt. James Hosley's Co., of Minutemen, Col. William Prescott's regt. ; which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 9 days; reported enlisted into the Army April 27, 1775 ; also Capt. James Hosley's Co. of volunteers, Col. Jonathan Reed's regt.; enlisted Sept. 26, 1777; discharged Oct. 29, 1777; service 1 mo. 4 days ; reported formerly served as Corporal in local militia, company raised in Townsend, Pepperell, and Ashly, to reinforce Army under Maj. Gen. Gates." (" Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in War of the Rev.," Vol. VIII.)

He was in Shay's Rebellion in 1786, but was pardoned " as he was a good citizen."

He died in Pepperell, Mass., in 1840.

Source: History and genealogy of the Jewetts of America, by Frederic Clarke Jewett.