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Personal data Maximilian Jewett 

• He was born about October 4, 1607 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (Present UK).
• He was baptized on October 4, 1607 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (Present UK).
• Profession: Deacon.
• (MARR) on August 30, 1671 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present USA): Spouse: Elinor Jewett (born Pell).
• He died on October 19, 1683 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present USA).
• He is buried in Old Burying Ground, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten.
• A child of ?? and Mary Taylor

Household of Maximilian Jewett

Notes about Maximilian Jewett

He married Ann Cole.ing, England 357,595d other information: record is of Maximilian, of Rowley, Massachusetts, born 1607, died 1684, who cane from England in 1638 with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and sixty others who settled at Rowley in April, 1639. Maximilian Jewett was a son of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, Yorkshire, England.th his first wife Ann.tive in the General Court.ngland, baptized in the same place 4 Oct 1607. He, his wife and brother Jospeh all sailed from Hull, England in 1633 in the ship, John, with a colony under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. They arrived about the first of Dec 1638, and spent the winter in Salem. In the spring of 1639, they found the town of Rowley, Massachusetts.hosen as a Deacon of the church, 13 Dec 1639, an office he served in for forty-five years.other were given two-acre lots on "Bradford Streete," to build their homes. Other land was granted including "foure Acres and a halfe" in "Brandford street field," a planting lot on "Impr. Batchelours meadow," "1 division of salt Marsh," plus at least sixteen other grants that followed through the years.. He was a representative to the General court, 1641-1643, 1648, 1651-1652, 1654-1656, 1658-1665, and again in 1672-1676. He was the overseer of the will of Rev. Ezekiel rogers, signed 17 Apr 1660. He was a clothier and with his brother Joseph, was either the first or close to it, to manufacture woolen cloth in the British American colonies.th day 1667." Maximillian married a second time to Elinor Boynton, widow of John Boynton, 30 Aug 1671. Her maiden named was Pell. He died "October ye Ninetenth day 1684" according to the town records. His final will was filed in the Clerk of the Courts' office at Salem, among the Essex County Papers, Vol. XLII, p. 46.re their marriage, to be paid in part by two cows. He gives her another twenty pounds which his executors were to pay to her. He futher states that she is to get "a feather bed which my daughter Elizabeth Layd on; all during her naturall life & to be her owne dispose at her death." He includes a place for her to live, but if she chooses not to live there, it will go to his son Joseph.nder of his will deals with his children and what he passes on to them, which is quite lengthy since he acquired a lot of property during his life. The will was signed 8 Jan 1682 & 8 month 1684. The witnesses were Leonard Harriman and Nehemiah Jewet. who appeared in Court in Salem on 25th 9th month 1664.kerfirst, and second Mary Gage. (Ann Cole was born in England, died before 9 Nov 1667 in Rowley, Massachusetts 298,357,595 and was buried on 9 Nov 1667 in Rowley, Massachusetts 357.)nd in 1638 and arrived in Boston 1 Dec 1638. Founded Rowley, MA in the Spring of 1639.ith him. He was one of the first deacons of the church in Rowley, and for twenty years represented the town in the cestor, son of Edward Jewett, was born in Bradford. West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he was baptized October 4, 1607. He came to this country with his wife and brother Joseph, sailing from Hull, England, in 1638, on the ship "John," in Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' colony, and arriving at Boston about December first, 1638. <br/> 1639 founded the town of Rowley, Massachusetts. Maximilian Jewett was made freeman. May 13, 1640, and became deacon of the church, December 13, 1639, serving forty-five years in that office. Savage says: "For two hundred and twenty years, a descendant of him or his younger brother, a fellow passenger, has been in that office or minister, the whole-time except eight years." He received many grants of land from the town of Rowley at various times, and in 1658 had a grant in Merrimac, then part of Rowley, and in 1673 incorporated as Bradford. He was very early a deacon of the church and always known as Deacon Jewett, even on the town records. He was for many years selectman and a deputy to the general court. His wife Ann, whom he married in England, died November, 1667, buried November 9. He died October 19, 1684. He drew his home lot at Rowley, January 10, 1643-4, on Bradford street, named for his home in England. It consisted of two acres and was alongside the home lot of his brother Joseph, part west and part east of the street. He drew many lots of land in later years. In 1652 he and Thomas Dickerman, the two largest taxpayers of Rowley, each had six cows, but Dickerman's stock was valued by the assessors at a slightly larger amount. Jewett's assessed property was valued at one hundred and five pounds, eight shillings, four pence.llen Boynton, widow of John Boynton'''. His widow married (third), in Ipswich, June 1, 1686, Daniel Warner, Sr., of Ipswich. She died August 5, 1689. He served as deputy to the general court in 1641-42-43-48-51-52-54-55-59-60-62-63-64-65-72-73-74-75-76. On urial acture woolen cloth in this country. He died October 19, 1684. He married (first) Ann, in England and she was buried November 9, 1667. He married (second) August 30, 1671, Elinor Boynton, widow of John Boynton, and daughter of Pell, of Boston. She married (third) in Ipswich, June 1, 1686, Daniel Warner Sr., and died in Rowley, August 5, 1689, surviving her third husband. Maximilian Jewett's will was dated January 8, 1682, and the inventory of his estate was taken November, 1684. Children by first wife, born in Rowley: Ezekiel, mentioned below; Anna, born December 26, 1644; Mary, December 18, 1646; Elizabeth, March 22, 1650; Faith, October 8, 1652; Joseph, February 1, 1654; Sarah, January 17, 1658, buried June 19, 1660; Sarah, about 1660; Priscilla, May 19, 1664, buried September 5, 1664.--------------------They were men of respectability, ‘of good estate,’ and could probably have no hopes of improving their worldly condition by emigration. They were lovers of liberty, and men of distinct and well-marked religious views. They were non-conformists. They had too sturdy an independence, as well as too strong a sense of duty, to abandon what they held as truth even in the midst of the bitterest persecution. For this reason they left their homes and sought in the wilds of America a resting place from oppression, a spot where they and their children might enjoy freedom to worship God. They were men of thought and character. The period at which they emigrated to America was one of the darkest for the Puritans. Many ministers had been silenced or suspended. Fines and the pillory, mutilation and torture, were remorselessly resorted to by the friends of Archbishop Laud to compel conformity to the ceremonies of the Established Church. The ministers of Charles the First were full of hope that they should exterminate the pestilent heresy from the land. Hunted down by tyranny, refused even the liberty of flight, the Puritans were almost in despair. All who could leave, fled, most of them to America.”Weathersfield, Essex County, England, was bred at Cambridge, where, in 1604, he was of Corpus Christi, when he was graduated as a Bachelor of Arts, and of Christ's College, in 1608, when graduated as Master of Arts. After leaving the University he became chaplain in the family uf Sir Francis Barrington, of Essex, exercising himselt in ministerial duties for about a dozen years. He then was called to a public charge, at Rowley, in Yorkshire, where he continued with great favor for about seventeen years, when he was compelled to relinquish his charge—as he tells the story in his will, 'for refusing to read that accursed book that allowed sports on God's holy Sabbath, or Lord's day, I was suspended, and, by it and other sad signs of the times, driven, with many of my hearers, into New England.'"e to Boston (Also on the John came the first printing press, later to be set up in Cambridge, the only printing press in the country until 1685. They founded the town of Rowley, originally know as Mr. Rogers’ plantation. The town extended from Ipswich on the south to Newbury on the north, from the ocean on the east to the Merrimack River on the west. Many of the settlers were clothiers and they soon built a fulling mill, the first in the colonies. The church was organized on December 3, 1639, with Ezekiel Rogers ordained minister. Mr. John Miller was the assistant pastor and Humphrey Reyner the ruling elder; the deacons were Maximilian Jewett and Thomas Mighill. It was the fifth church in Essex County and the sixteenth in the colony.”ty of Genealogistswley in 1643. He was one of the first two deacons of the Rowley Church, ordained 3 December 1639, and many times was a representative to the General Court. His will, dated 8 January 1682[/83], is filed in Salem and mentions an unnamed wife [Ellen Boynton], a marriage contract, and "her son John Boynton"; Maximillian's eldest son Ezekiel is executor; son Joseph has the homestead; daughter Anna to have certain lands for life, with the remainder over to her son Jonathan Barker; daughter Mary Hazeltine; daughter Elizabeth Hazeltine; daughter Faith Dowse; daughter Sarah Jewett. On the John of London, from Hull, England: 19 Oct 1684 Rowley, Essex Co., MA

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