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Jewetts of America - Joseph Franklin Jewett

A Record of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and of his two emigrant sons, Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1639 also of Abraham and John Jewett, Early Settlers of Rowley, and of the Jewetts who have settled in the United States since the year 1800.
3384 DR. JOSEPH FRANKLIN JEWETT (Joseph1xx7, Joseph7x0, Nathan2xx, Joseph109, Joseph22, Joseph4, Edward1), was born in Granby, Conn., Aug. 22, 1788. He married Aug. 18, 1813, Elizabeth Bancroft Reed, who was born in Granville, Mass., May 15, 1790, and died in Granby April 20, 1839. Dr. Jewett resided in Granby, where he practiced medicine until his death. He received the honorary degree of M. D. from Yale in 1841; held many town offices, and was prominent in social affairs. He died in Granby Jan. 5, 1860. The High Priest of Lafayette Chapter of Masons said of him:---"To high attainments in Masonry he added the excellence of professional distinction, the graces of a life of unselfishness, and the blessedness of the largest Christian home."

Children, born in Granby, Conn.:
5845 Charlotte Amelia, born June 22, 1814; died Oct. 14, 1820.
5846 Joseph William, born April 14,1816; died Dec. 29, 1842.
5847 Erastus Frederick, born Sept. 12, 1820; married Aununciade Pinney.*
5848 Charlotte Amelia, born Dec. 6, 1822; married Stiles W. Reed, who was born in West Granby, Conn., Feb. 22, 1820, son of Shaler and Laura (Farnum) Reed. He was a farmer and settled in Enfield, Conn. She died July 2, 1903. One child, Edward Franklin, born in Enfield, May 29, 1850, died Sept. ---, 1888.
5849 Caroline Amanda, born Jan. 22, 1825; married (1st) Leroy Fuller; (2d) Charles W. Spring.*
5850 Robert Ransom, born March 8, 1827; married Emma Lydia Alderman.*
5851 Cornelia Amanda, born July 17, 1831; married Jan. 13, 1859, Lucius Cowen of Woodstock, Vt., who died Oct. 24,1859. She died in Southwick, Mass., March 31, 1882, s. p.
The cited information was sourced from Book, Vol. 2 published by The Grafton Press in New York, USA in 1908 (Ref: 3384 / pg. 575) The author/originator was Frederic Clarke Jewet, M. D.. This citation is considered to be secondary evidence, data officially recorded sometime after event.


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