Inscription
on her gravemarker at Rowley Burial Ground
HERE
LIES Ye BODY
OF MRs REBEKAH JEWET
ye WIFE OF MR
JOSEPH JEWET WHO
DIED DECEMBER Ye 26th
1729 IN Ye 74th
YEAR OF HER AGE
OF MRs REBEKAH JEWET
ye WIFE OF MR
JOSEPH JEWET WHO
DIED DECEMBER Ye 26th
1729 IN Ye 74th
YEAR OF HER AGE
Yesterday (31 May 2017) I wrote
about my 8th great-grandfather Joseph Jewett. I did state that he had
married Rebecca Law on 2 Mar 1676/77. Since Rebecca was born 1 Jun
1655 she would have been 21 years old when she married him. Rebecca
was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, so lived in the same town as
Joseph.
Her parents were William and
Mary (Cheney) Law. She was their 4th child. They had named their
oldest child, born in 1646, Rebecca. That Rebecca and the 2nd child
John both died in 1652. The 3rd child, Mary, born in 1650, died in
1653. When their 5th child was born in 1657, they named her Mary.
They named their 6th child John (they kept on trying) but he died at
a year old. When the 7th child was born in 1662, she was named
Priscilla. Apparently some time before 2 May 1666 Rebecca's mother
died, because William remarried then to Faith, the widow of John
Smith. So the 3 surviving daughters, ages almost 11, 8 and 3, now
had a step-mother. In the will of Rebecca's grandfather, John Cheney,
written 5 Jun 1666 he gave a bequest to William Lawes 3 daughters:
Rebecca, Mary and Priscilla. Each were to receive 40 shillings.
Rebecca had 1 half-brother,
Aquila, born in July 1667, but he died before his 2nd birthday. Both
Rebecca and Mary lived to be married. I have not found information
for Priscilla.
Rebecca and Joseph had 4
children, 2 boys and 2 girls, and all lived to be married, before
Rebecca died 26 Dec 1729. The church record wrote about her death:
"who lay long in a sad disconsolate condition, but was
(we hope) lifted into joy."
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