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Ruth Jewett

Female 1681 - 1728  (47 years)


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  • Name Ruth Jewett  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Birth 21 May 1681  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 28 Nov 1728  Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8] 
    • Age: 47
    Burial Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 8] 
    Person ID I660  My Tree
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

    Father Joseph Jewett,   b. 1 Feb 1656, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Oct 1694, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Ruth Wood,   b. 21 Jul 1662, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1734, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 16 Jan 1680  Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 9] 
    Family ID F182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joseph Varnum,   b. 15 Mar 1672, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1749, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 3 Oct 1697  Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 7, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Sarah Varnum,   b. 14 Dec 1698, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1731, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Ruth Varnum,   b. 5 Feb 1703, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1771, Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Joseph Varnum,   b. 17 May 1710, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Aug 1763, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Samuel Varnum,   b. 8 Sep 1714, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1797 (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Deborah Varnum,   b. 31 Dec 1718, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1719 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. John Varnum,   b. 8 Sep 1721, Dracutt, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1786, Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F177  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2025 

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    Find a Grave Ruth Wood Jewett Varnum Wife of Colonel Joseph Varnum Died Nov 28, 1728, aged 47 years Birth: 1681 Ipswich Essex County Massachusetts, USA Death: Nov. 28, 1728 Dracut Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA Family links: Parents: Joseph Jewett (1656 - 1694) Ruth Wood Jewett Lunt (1662 - 1734) Spouse: …

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  • Sources 
    1. [S340] Compiled from Family Papers and Officials Records by John Marshall Varnum, of Boston., The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts): A History of Geroge Varnum, his son Samuel who came to Ipswich about 1635, and grandsons Thomas, John and Joseph, who settled in Dracutt, and their descendants, (Name: David Clapp & Son, Printers; Location: Boston; Date: 1907;), The Varnums of Dracutt, Storage 929.2 VAR.
      Among the very first entries in the records of Dracutt, commemorating an event which occured many years previous, is the announcement, made by John Varnum, borther to Joseph, at that time Town Clerk: "Joseph and Ruth Jouett of Roully was lawfully marrid in Octobear ye 3 day in the year 1697."
      Ruth was the daughter of Capt. Joseph and Ruth (Wood) Jewett, and was born about 1681. Her tombstone in the little burial-ground, near the "Navy Yard" in Dracutt, adjoining the spot where for many years, up to 1900, stood the old Garrison House, the residence of Col. John Varnum, which sheltered in times of apprehended or actual danger the early settlers of the neighborhood recites:
      Here lyes buried ye body of
      Mrs. Ruth Varnum
      wf of Colonel Joseph Varnum
      who dyed November ye 28, 1728,
      In ye -8 year of her age.

    2. [S345] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil;).

    3. [S359] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    4. [S350] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    5. [S367] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;), Volume: 124; SAR Membership Number: 24741.
      U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970      		 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
      Volume: 124; SAR Membership Number: 24741


    6. [S367] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;), Volume: 221; SAR Membership Number: 44023.

    7. [S375] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;), Birth year: 1681; Birth city: Ipswich; Birth state: MA.

    8. [S80] Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com. Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.;).

    9. [S374] Ancestry.com, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).

    10. [S69] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Marriage Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).


 

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