An American Family History

Elizabeth Kimball Jewett and her twin, Corporal Richard Kimball, were born on September 22, 1665 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were John Kimball and Mary Bradstreet.

(Other sources say that Jeremiah married Elizabeth Kimball daughter of Caleb Kimball; Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts by William Richard Cutter)

Elizabeth and Jeremiah's children were Elizabeth Jewett Day, Hannah Jewett Pearson (July 16, 1690) Aaron Jewett (February 10, 1693- June 27, 1694), Moses Jewett (October 13, 1695- June 11. 1715), Aaron Jewett (June 13. 1699) Mary Jewett Bennett Lakeman (June 30, 1703), and Mercy Jewett Chapman (February 25, 1706).

Elizabeth died in Ipswich in August, 1728. After her death Jeremiah married Elizabeth Bugg. Jeremiah died February 15, 1731. Elizabeth married Thomas Day after he died.

Jeremiah Jewett, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Mallinson) Jewett, was born probably in England, about 1637, and died May 20, 1714. His home was in Ipswich, near the Rowley line, and his associations were chiefly with the latter town, where he owned a farm given him by his father, also where he attended church and after his death w:as buried in the graveyard there...

Jeremiah Jewett married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Dickinson, of Rowley; she died January 30, 1723-4. Children, all born in Ipswich, and baptized in the church in Rowley:
1. Jeremiah, born December 30, 1662;
2. Joseph, born April 17, 1665.
3. Thomas, born January 29, 1667-8. died July 1, 1742. unmarried.
4. Eleazer, baptized November 23, 1673; was in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1742, when he conveyed lands there to his son Eleazer, and was again in Rowley in December same year.
5. Sarah, baptized November 23, 1673; married June 9, 1692. William Hobson. 6. Mary, born January 27, 1674-5, died in Newbury (according to Coffin's "Newbury") November 25. 16,95; married November 1, 1694, Abner Dale, of Newbury.
7. Nehemiah, born about 1678; married Priscilla Bradstreet. 8. Ephraim, born.February 2, 1679-80; married Elizabeth Hammond.
9. Caleb, born 1681.

Jeremiah Jewett, eldest child of Jeremiah and Sarah (Dickinson) Jewett, born in Ipswich, December 30, 1662, died there February 15, 1731-2. He married first, in Ipswich or Topsfield. January 4, 1687-8, Elizabeth Kimball. who died in Ipswich, in August. 1728.

He married second, January 21, 1729. Elizabeth Bugg of Ipswich. After his death his widow Elizabeth married second, September 5. 1732, Joseph Nelson. Children of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Kimball) Jewett:
1. Elizabeth, married (published January 28, 1709) Thomas Day, of Ipswich. 2. Hannah, born July 16, 1690; married February 27, 1710-11, Stephen Pearson.
3. Aaron, born February 10, 1693, died June 27, 1694.
4.Moses, born October 13, 1695, died June 11. 1715.
5. Aaron, born June 13. 1699; (see post ).
6. Mary, born June 30, 1703; married first, 1727, Joseph Bennett; second, Solomon Lakeman, of Ipswich. 7. Mercy, born February 25, 1706; married November 14, 1733. Daniel Chapman, Jr. of Ipswich.