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July 21, 1662 -- Ruth Wood was born at Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to Thomas & Ann Hunt Wood.
January 16, 1681 -- Ruth Wood & Captain Joseph Jewett married at Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony. "They settled in Ipswich and soon removed to Rowley, where he [Joseph] was made freeman July 9, 1684." [1]
Circa 1681 - 1695 -- Ruth Wood & Captain Joseph Jewett had 9 children: 6 daughters & 3 sons. Two of the 9 children (the 1st Joshua & Hannah) did not live to adulthood.
Ruth Wood's husband, Captain Joseph Jewett, died at Rowley, Massachusetts Bay, October 30, 1694.
October 26, 1696 -- Ruth Wood Jewett married John Lunt John Lunt, tavern keeper.
1697 - 1703 -- Ruth Wood Jewett Lunt & John Lunt had 4 children: 3 daughters & 1 son.
According to the "Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Church Records of the First and Second Parishes in the Town of Rowley and of Byfield and Lunebrook Parishes," Ruth died on November 29, 1734 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pg. 35.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
- Blodgette, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts Revised, Edited and Published by Jewett, Amos Everett. Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981. Pgs 189-90, 233-4, 411-2.
- Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pg. 35.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #38801507, Unknown burial site
