Lieutenant
William
Jewett
Born in Rowley, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Aquila Jewett
and Anne (Tenney) Jewett
Brother of
Mehitable (Jewett) Sawyer, Rachel (Jewett) Dole, Ezra Jewett, Elizabeth (Jewett) Kimball, Bethiah (Jewett) Webster, Abel Jewett, Amos Jewett, Jeremiah Jewett, Anne (Jewett) Page [half], Stephen Jewett I [half], Rebecca Jewett [half] and Priscilla (Jewett) Dresser [half]
Husband of
Hannah (Pickard) Jewett
— married
8 Jun 1727 (to 15 Feb 1771) [location unknown]
Husband of
Esther (Adams) Wright
— married
30 Dec 1771 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Aquila Jewett, Anna (Jewett) Houghton, Aquila Jewett, Elizabeth (Jewett) Pingry, Samuel Jewett, Hannah (Jewett) Tuttle, William Jewett, Rebecca Jewett, Jean Jewett, Maximilian Jewett, Jean (Jewett) Treadwell, Thomas Jewett and Mary Jewett
Died
at age 80
in Littleton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Dec 2012
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Biography
LIEUT. WILLIAM JEWETT (Aquila, Joseph, Maximillian, Edward) was born in Mass., July 15, 1705; bapt. same day.[1]
He married June 8, 1727, Hannah Pickard, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Elizabeth (Hale) Pickard. She was born in Rowley; bapt. Feb. 3, 1706.
He was called Lieutenant ; lived in Littleton, Mass., where he died in 1786. She died there Feb. 15, 1771.
Children, born in Littleton, Mass.:[1]
- Aquila, born April 13, 1728 ; died June 10, 1729.
- Anna, born Sept. 23, 1729; married Stephen Pingry.
- Aquila, born Feb. 20, 1730-31 ; married Eunice Houghton.
- Elizabeth, born March 23, 1731-2 ; married John Pingry.
- Samuel, born June 23, 1733 ; died Oct. 27, 1746.
- Hannah, born March 12, 1734-5; married (Pub. Dec. 13, 1776) Stephen Tuttle of Littleton.
- William, born Feb. 12, 1736; married (Pub. Dec. 14, 1771) Esther Wright of Westford, Mass.
- Rebecca, born Aug. 4, 1738 ; died Oct. 10, 1740.
- Jean, born Oct. 18, 1740 ; died Nov. 6, 1740.
- Maximilian, born June 16, 1741 ; married Rebecca Burpee.
- Jean (Jane on Littleton Records), born March 6, 1742; married Thomas Treadwell.
- Thomas, born June 11, 1744, " and lived until the 21st. day and died."
- Mary, born Sept. 22, 1745.
Sources
- Jewett, Frederic Clarke. History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908.Aquila pg. 47-48 & William Jewett pg. 83
- Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896)
- "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKG-9HF : 15 January 2020), William Jewett, 1705.
- Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 19 July 2021), memorial page for LT William Jewett (15 Jul 1705–16 Jun 1786), Find A Grave: Memorial #22656972, citing Old Burying Ground, Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Peaceful Wanderer (contributor 46846969). (no photo)
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- John Robert Jewett
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AncestryDNA Paternal Lineage (discontinued) 46 markers, haplogroup R1b, Ancestry member Jewett53 - Bob Jewett :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 25 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #N7966
- Rodney Jewett :
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~0.78%
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~0.39%
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~0.39%
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