It was February 25th when I
wrote about Dorothy Rogers, who was the wife of Benjamin Jewett. They
are my 6th great-grandparents. Again neither of them have much
information on their person pages on my website.
Benjamin was born 1 Apr 1703 to
Jonathan and Mary (Wicom) Jewett. It is quite interesting to check
his birth records on Ancestry.com, since there are six entries, all a
little different. It appears that his birth was recorded twice in the
original records. This is one of them.
But there are also two
handwritten ones, which are probably transcriptions done in 1884.
Again there are two since there are two in the originals.
In 1928 a printed version of the
Rowley Vital Records was published. Benjamin's birth is also in that
book.
The sixth entry is more
mysterious. It is marked on the title as Georgetown Paupers'
Records, with Births, Marriages, and Deaths. I looked up Georgetown
Massachusetts and discovered that it was formed in 1838 from Rowley,
so in the 1700s it would have been Rowley. Also looking at the images
themselves the beginning of them says: Register of Births in the Town
of Rowley.
They are arranged alphabetically
and there are a number of pages for the Jewetts and goes from the
1600s up into the 1800s. And Benjamin is in there born 1 Apr 1703 as
a son of Jona and Mary. In the middle of that record are marriages
and then at the end there do seem to be records of paupers. The title
is misleading, at least for Benjamin's record of birth.
On to his adult life. Benjamin
Jewett and Dorothy Rogers were married in Rowley 18 Jan 1724/25.
After the birth of one child it is believed they moved to Stratham,
New Hampshire. My 5th great-grandfather John Jewett was born in New
Hampshire about 1730. The family history compiled by George Anson
Jewett published in 1914, states that Benjamin was a tanner but
became a "large land proprietor in New Hampshire," with a
number of land transactions. He died in Stratham probably in 1766.
