Person:Nehemiah Jewett (5)

m. 1 Oct 1634
  1. Sarah Jewett1635/36 - 1665/66
  2. Jeremiah Jewett1637 - 1714
  3. Hannah Jewett1641 - Aft 1706
  4. Elder Nehemiah Jewett1643 - 1719/20
  5. Patience Jewett1645 -
  6. Faith Jewett1645 -
  • HElder Nehemiah Jewett1643 - 1719/20
  • WExercise PierceEst 1648 - 1731
m. 19 Oct 1668
  1. Joanna Jewett1677 - 1753
  2. Benjamin Jewett1691 - 1715/16
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Elder Nehemiah Jewett
Gender Male
Birth[1] 6 Apr 1643 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] 1668 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[2][3] 29 Apr 1668 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay; second in a sequence of two Lynn men.
Marriage 19 Oct 1668 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Exercise Pierce
Residence[1] 1673 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1][2] 20 Dec 1719
Death[1] 1 Jan 1719/20 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[2][4] Rowley Burial Ground, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[2] 9 Jan 1719/20
Reference Number? Q15430300?
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 101-4. Nehemiah2 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)
    189.

    Nehemiah2 Jewett (Joseph 101), born 6 Apr., 1643; married, in Lynn, 19 : 8 mo. 1668, Exercise, daughter of John Pierce of Lynn. He lived a short time in Lynn before joining Rowley Church, as shown by the following extract from page 88 of Rowley Church Record: "July 2, 1676 … Mr Neh Jewitt … had not procured his dismission from Lyn Church wh he had joynd many years since when he lived with his uncle Purchas at the Ironworks." His home, in Ipswich village, was the farm west of his brother Jeremiah's and divided from it by the street. He was well educated and very prominent in the affairs of Essex County; most of the wills and deeds of his townsmen from 1675 to the time of his death were drawn by him. In 1687, he is allowed to have a mill on the south side of Egypt River (Ipswich R.). From 1689 to 1709, inclusive, he was a Representative in the General Court nineteen terms, three of which he was Speaker. In 1711 and 1712 he was one of the Justices of the Court of Sessions. He died in Ipswich Village, 1 Jan., 1719/20, "aged 77 years lacking 3 months" (G. S. Rowley). His will, dated 10 Dec., 1719, mentions wife (unnamed); sons Nehemiah, Joseph, Benjamin and Daniel Dow; grandsons Benjamin, son of Benjamin Jewett; Nehemiah and Joseph, sons of Joseph Jewett; Purchase, sons of Nehemiah Jewett; Samuel, son of Thomas Varnum; Nehemiah Skillion (Essex Probate, 313:96). His widow, Exercise, died, 13 Nov., 1731.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Elder" Nehemiah Jewett, in Jewett, Frederic Clarke. 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: also of Abraham and John Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts Who Have Settled in the United States Since the Year 1800. (New York: Grafton Press, 1908)
    30-34.
  3. Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:240.
  4. 6920015 Nehemiah Jewett, in Find A Grave.