Person:Edward Jowett (1)

The Last Will and Testament of Edward Jewett

"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 yett sounde in minde and memorye I praise God therefore doo in this uncertainty 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 assurredly 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 bequeth two full parts of all my goods Cattles Chatties & 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 Catties, Chattels & Credit I give and bequeth 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 unto them at such times as 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 severall porcous during theire several minorities unto the said Mary my wife.

Witnesses hereof William Smith, Jonas Watson & Lewis Watson."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} The Jewett Line, in Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
   1:375.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} 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)
   3.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Hazen, Tracy Elliot. Two Founders of Rowley, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1940)
   94:103-04.