Person:Eleazer Jewett (3)

BIOGRAPHY: 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 Rowley, Mass.: Jewett Family of America, 1908, 1244 pgs.

Eleazer Jewett (Jeremiah 15,Joseph 4, Edward 1), was born in Ipswich, Mass., baptized Nov. 23, 1673. "Dec. 5, 1698 Eleazer Jewett purchased of Moses Waterman and Bushnell agents of the town 75 acres of land near the Shetucket River." (Conn. Records.)

He settled I Norwich, Conn., "where he conveys to his son Eleazer junior of Norwich all his estate in Massachusetts, and Eleazer junior of Norwich sells land in Rowley to Joseph Barker and appears personally in Rowley Dec. 2, 1742, and acknowledges the deed." (Essex Inst. Col.)

He married (1st) Mrs. Sarah Lamb, widow of Ebenezer Lamb. She died in 1714. He married (2d) Sept. 3, 1717, Mrs. Mary (Griswald) Tracy, widow of Jonathan Tracy. She was a daughter of Francis Griswold, of Norwich, and was born at Saybrook, Conn., Aug 26, 1656, and died Sept. 18,1723. He died at Norwich, Conn., _____,1748.^[1]

1. ↑ According to the Norwich VR's, his first wife's name was Mary, not Sarah. His second wife was Jonathan Tracy's second wife Mary Richard (possibly not her maiden name) - his first wife, Mary Griswold, had died in 1711.