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Alpheus Jewett
Alpheus Jewett (15 January 1756 – 5 October 1841) was born in Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut to Capt. Caleb Jewett and Rebekah Cook Jewett. He married Abigail Sears Jewett. His child was Judge Freeborn Garrettson Jewett. He died in 1841, in Sharon, Connecticut.
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- LOCK as father of Rebekah Cook Jewett: Jewetts of America — Caleb married Rebekah Cook, daughter of Samuel and Leah (Ripley) Cook.
Children, born in Sharon, Conn., all by first wife: … 689 Alpheus, born Jan. 15, 1756; married Abigail Sears. [NY Courts:] Alpheus was the son of Captain Caleb Jewett…
- LOCK as father of William: NY Courts biography — Freeborn married Fannie Warner; in 1816 Fannie presented him with his first and only child, a son named William; later “Freeborn Garrettson Jewett’s son, William Jewett… died at the age of 43.”
Freeborn Garrettson Jewett was born on August 4, 1791, in Sharon, Connecticut. He was the fifth of 10 children born to Abigail Sears Jewett (1762-1849). Freeborn’s father, Alpheus Jewett, born January 15, 1756, in Sharon, Connecticut, was a Revolutionary War veteran. He married Abigail Sears on February 15, 1781.
- LOCK as father of Freeborn Garrettson Jewett Sr. (of Albany): Frederic Clarke Jewett, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, vol. I (Grafton Press, 1908), p. 296, under Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (1791), child #2967 William H. married Eliza Riddle of Delaware; lawyer in Skaneateles; “died leaving one son, Freeborn Garretson Jewett, of Albany, N. Y.”
1428 HON. FREEBORN GARRETSON JEWETT (Alpheus … Caleb …), was born in Sharon, Conn., Aug. 4, 1791.