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Sarah Orne Jewett, filha de um médico, nasceu em South Berwick, Maine, em 3 de setembro de 1849. Jewett foi educada na escola da Srta. Olive Rayne e depois na Berwick Academy, graduando-se em 1865.
Jewett teve uma história publicada no Atlantic Monthly na idade de dezenove. Isso foi seguido por vários livros, incluindo Deephaven (1877) Histórias do dia de jogo (1878) e Velhos amigos e novos (1879).
Sarah tornou-se amiga íntima de Annie Fields. Seu marido, James Thomas Fields, morreu em 24 de abril de 1881. Logo depois, Sarah foi morar com Annie. Mark DeWolfe Howe argumentou em Memórias de uma Anfitriã (1922): "James Fields escolheu Jewett como o amigo ideal para preencher a lacuna iminente na vida de sua esposa. Ele deve ter sabido que, quando chegasse a hora de se reajustar à vida sem ele, ela precisaria de algo mais do que contatos aleatórios com amigos ... Ele deve ter percebido que o elemento intensamente pessoal em sua natureza exigiria uma saída por meio de uma devoção intensamente pessoal. Se ele pudesse ter previsto a relação que cresceu entre a Sra. Fields e a Srta. Jewett, seu júnior, por volta de quinze anos quase imediatamente após sua morte, e continuou ao longo da vida do amigo mais jovem, ele certamente teria sentido uma grande segurança de satisfação com o que ainda estava para ser. "
Quando as mulheres estavam separadas, elas escreviam cartas apaixonadas umas para as outras. Em março de 1882, Sarah escreveu: "Tem certeza de que sabe o quanto eu te amo ... Eu penso em você e penso em você e sempre me lembro de você." Em outra carta, ela disse a Annie: "Desejo muito vê-la e dizer todo tipo de bobagem ... e beijá-la muitas vezes." Lillian Faderman, a autora de Superando o Amor dos Homens (1981) sugerem abertamente que o relacionamento de Fields e Jewett era lésbico. No entanto, outros levantaram dúvidas sobre isso.
Em 1884, George Washington Cable visitou a casa deles: "Jantei e passei a noite na Charles Street com a Sra. Fields e a Srta. Sarah Orne Jewett. Ambas são mulheres de bondade e inteligência enfáticas. A Sra. Fields não pôde me ver por algum tempo, pois ela tinha acabado de chegar de um árduo dia de trabalho visitando suas várias instituições de caridade e estava suja pela tempestade. conversamos sobre homens e coisas ... Isso ajuda a anedotas, ouvi-los de uma adorável mulher de mente e coração e boas obras e fama, e anos dourados, e cabelo preto ondulando do centro da testa superior e para trás, até as orelhas. Devo tentar tirar uma foto dela ... A Srta. Jewett não é pitoresca como a Sra. Fields, mas é um sermão doce e curto só para olhar para ela. "
Jewett publicou Um médico country (1884), O companheiro da luz do dia e amigos em terra (1884), Uma garça-real (1886), Contos da Nova Inglaterra (1890), Estranhos e Viandantes (1890), O país dos abetos pontiagudos (1896) e O amante conservador (1901). O crítico, William Dean Howells, observou que ela tinha "um sentimento incomum para falar - eu ouço seu povo".
Jewett, como Annie Fields, era uma forte defensora dos direitos das mulheres. Certa vez, ela disse: "Deus não nos daria o mesmo talento se o que fosse certo para os homens fosse errado para as mulheres". Em outra ocasião, ela comentou: "O que tornou esta nação grande? Não seus heróis, mas suas famílias."
Em 1902, Jewett foi jogada de uma carruagem e feriu a cabeça e o pescoço. Os ferimentos lhe causaram dores recorrentes, tonturas e esquecimento nos quatro anos seguintes. Como Susan K. Harris, autora de O trabalho cultural da hostess do final do século XIX (2004), apontou: "Enquanto Jewett estava se recuperando no Maine, Fields sofreu um derrame leve em Boston; o resultado de ambas as doenças foi uma separação prolongada e ansiedade resultante um sobre o outro."
Sarah Orne Jewett morreu em 24 de junho de 1909.
Após a morte de James T. Fields em 1881, Annie Fields e Sarah Orne Jewett rapidamente se tornaram um casal na paisagem da Nova Inglaterra. As opiniões sobre essa relação variam. Para seus contemporâneos, parece ter sido considerada uma solução feliz para a solidão potencial de ambas as mulheres; isto é especialmente evidente nas cartas de condolências escritas a Fields sobre a morte de Jewett em 1909 ... Mark DeWolfe Howe, cujo Memórias de uma Anfitriã (1922) construiu a imagem de Annie Fields para a maioria dos leitores do século XX, sugere que James Fields arquitetou o relacionamento quando percebeu que estava prestes a morrer. Leia retrospectivamente, a interpretação de Howe do papel de James Fields em Annie Fields e a amizade de Jewett faz o papel parecer paternalista, mas eu suspeito que o enquadramento de Howe foi uma forma deliberadamente ingênua de negociar os fatos do relacionamento e a crescente homofobia de sua própria era. Muitos anos se passariam antes de Lillian Faderman (Superando o Amor dos Homens, 1981) sugeriria abertamente que o relacionamento de Fields e Jewett era lésbico. Entre comentaristas recentes, Rita Gollin observa que sua "associação profundamente afetuosa resiste à rotulagem", e Paula Blanchard a trata como uma amizade mutuamente sustentável, sororal / materna entre iguais.
James Fields escolheu Jewett como o amigo ideal para preencher a lacuna iminente na vida de sua esposa. Fields e a Srta. Jewett, seu mais novo por cerca de quinze anos, quase imediatamente após sua morte, e continuou ao longo da vida do amigo mais novo, ele certamente teria sentido uma grande segurança de satisfação pelo que ainda estava por vir.
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849–1909)
Autora americana mais conhecida por suas descrições da vida rural na costa do Maine. Variações de nomes: o primeiro nome era Theodora, raramente usado. Nascida Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett em South Berwick, Maine, em 3 de setembro de 1849 morreu em 24 de junho de 1909, em sua cidade natal, filha de Theodore Herman Jewett (um médico rural) e Caroline Frances (Perry) Jewett graduou-se na Berwick Academy em 1865 nunca O relacionamento principal de casado foi com Annie Adams Fields por aproximadamente 30 anos.
Publicou seu primeiro conto aos 17, além de seus contos, escreveu vários livros infantis, várias histórias populares e três romances mais conhecidos por O país dos abetos pontiagudos (1896), romance aclamado por muitos críticos como um dos melhores da literatura americana.
Sarah Orne Jewett nasceu em South Berwick, Maine, em 3 de setembro de 1849. Sua família residia na Nova Inglaterra há muitas gerações. [2]
O pai de Jewett, Theodore Herman Jewett, era um médico especializado em "obstetrícia e doenças de mulheres e crianças", [3] e Jewett frequentemente o acompanhava em suas visitas, familiarizando-se com as imagens e sons de sua terra natal e de seu povo. [4] Sua mãe era Caroline Frances (Perry). [5] Como tratamento para a artrite reumatóide, uma condição que se desenvolveu na primeira infância, Jewett foi enviada em caminhadas frequentes e através delas também desenvolveu um amor pela natureza. [6] Mais tarde na vida, Jewett costumava visitar Boston, onde conheceu muitas das figuras literárias mais influentes de sua época, mas sempre retornou a South Berwick, pequenos portos marítimos próximos aos quais foram a inspiração para as cidades de "Deephaven" e "Dunnet Landing" em suas histórias. [7]
Jewett foi educada na escola da Srta. Olive Rayne e depois na Berwick Academy, graduando-se em 1866. [8] Ela complementou sua educação com a leitura em sua extensa biblioteca familiar. Jewett "nunca foi abertamente religiosa", mas depois que se juntou à Igreja Episcopal em 1871, ela explorou ideias religiosas menos convencionais. Por exemplo, sua amizade com o professor de direito de Harvard Theophilus Parsons estimulou o interesse pelos ensinamentos de Emanuel Swedenborg, um cientista e teólogo sueco do século XVIII, que acreditava que o Divino "estava presente em inúmeras formas unidas - um conceito subjacente à crença de Jewett em responsabilidade individual. " [9]
Em 1868, aos 19 anos, Jewett publicou sua primeira história importante "Jenny Garrow’s Lovers" no Atlantic Monthly, e sua reputação cresceu ao longo das décadas de 1870 e 1880. [10] Jewett usou o pseudônimo de “Alice Eliot” ou “A. C. Eliot ”para suas primeiras histórias. [11] Sua importância literária surge de suas vinhetas cuidadosas, embora moderadas, da vida no campo que refletem um interesse contemporâneo nas cores locais, em vez de no enredo. [12] Jewett possuía um agudo dom descritivo que William Dean Howells chamou de "um sentimento incomum para falar - eu ouço seu povo". Jewett fez sua reputação com a novela O país dos abetos pontiagudos (1896). [13] Um médico country (1884), um romance refletindo seu pai e suas ambições iniciais para uma carreira médica, e Uma garça-real (1886), uma coleção de contos estão entre seus melhores trabalhos. [14] Parte da poesia de Jewett foi coletada em Versos (1916), e ela também escreveu três livros infantis. Willa Cather descreveu Jewett como uma influência significativa em seu desenvolvimento como escritora, [15] e "as críticas feministas desde então defendem sua escrita por seu rico relato da vida e voz das mulheres". [9] Cather dedicou seu romance de 1913 Ó Pioneiros!, com base nas memórias de sua infância em Nebraska, para Jewett. [16] Em 1901, o Bowdoin College conferiu um doutorado honorário em literatura a Jewett, a primeira mulher a receber um diploma honorário de Bowdoin. [17] No obituário de Jewett em 1909, The Boston Globe comentou sobre a força que reside no “detalhe do seu trabalho, nos pequenos toques, na simplicidade”. [18]
Os trabalhos de Jewett sobre relacionamentos entre mulheres muitas vezes refletiam sua própria vida e amizades. [19] As cartas e diários de Jewett revelam que quando jovem, Jewett teve relacionamentos próximos com várias mulheres, incluindo Grace Gordon, Kate Birckhead, Georgie Halliburton, Ella Walworth e Ellen Mason. Por exemplo, a partir de evidências em seu diário, Jewett parece ter uma paixão intensa por Kate Birckhead. [20] Jewett mais tarde estabeleceu uma estreita amizade com a escritora Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915) e seu marido, o editor James T. Fields, editor do Atlantic Monthly. Após a morte repentina de James Fields em 1881, Jewett e Annie Fields viveram juntos pelo resto da vida de Jewett no que foi então denominado um "casamento de Boston" nas casas de Fields em Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, e em 148 Charles Rua em Boston. Alguns estudiosos modernos acreditam que os dois eram amantes. [21] Ambas as mulheres "encontraram amizade, humor e encorajamento literário" na companhia uma da outra, viajando juntas para a Europa e hospedando "literatos americanos e europeus". [9] Na França, Jewett conheceu Thérèse Blanc-Bentzon, com quem ela havia se correspondido e que traduziu algumas de suas histórias para publicação na França. [22] A poesia de Jewett, grande parte dela não publicada, inclui aproximadamente trinta poemas de amor ou fragmentos de poemas escritos para mulheres que ilustram a intensidade de seus sentimentos em relação a elas. [23] Jewett também escreveu sobre ligações românticas entre mulheres em seu romance Deephaven (1877) e em seu conto “Martha’s Lady” (1897). [24]
Em 3 de setembro de 1902, Jewett se feriu em um acidente de carruagem que quase encerrou sua carreira de escritora. Ela ficou paralisada por um derrame em março de 1909 e morreu em sua casa em South Berwick após sofrer outro derrame em 24 de junho de 1909. [25]
A Sarah Orne Jewett House, a casa georgiana da família Jewett, construída em 1774 e com vista para a Central Square em South Berwick, é um marco histórico nacional e um museu histórico da Nova Inglaterra. [26] Jewett e sua irmã Mary herdaram a casa em 1887. [27]
Bibliografia:
Auchincloss, L., Pioneiros e cuidadores: um estudo com nove romancistas americanas (1965). Baum, R. M., Um catálogo descritivo da coleção Sarah Orne Jewett: a biblioteca Parkman Dexter Howe (1983). Bicksler, M. R., "Mulheres na Ficção de Sarah Orne Jewett" (tese, 1995). Blanchard, P., Sarah Orne Jewett: seu mundo e seu trabalho (1994). Buchanan, C. D., Sarah Orne Jewett: histórias (1994). Buseman, L. J., "The Realism of Sarah Orne Jewett's Characterization of Men" (tese, 1993). Cary, R., ed., Apreciação de Sarah Orne Jewett (1973). Cary, R., Sarah Orne Jewett (1962). Donovan, J., Sarah Orne Jewett (1980). Dullea, G. J., "Duas vozes da Nova Inglaterra: Sarah Orne Jewett e Mary Wilkins Freeman" (tese, 1996). Evans, M. A., "Portos profundos e jardins em ruínas: possibilidades de comunidade e espiritualidade em Sarah Orne Jewett e Mary Wilkins Freeman" (tese, 1992). Ferris, R. M., "Pure or Perverse? Women's Romantic Friendships and the Life and Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett" (tese, 1996). Fields, A., ed., Cartas de Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). Frost, J. E., Sarah Orne Jewett (1960). Gale, R. L., Uma companheira de Sarah Orne Jewett (1999). Hoffman, P. E., "The Search for Self-Fulfillment: Marriage in the Short Fiction de Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman e Sarah Orne Jewett" (tese, 1991). Hulme, C., Sarah Orne Jewett: uma grande e muito subestimada escritora (tese, 1988). Harkins, E. F. e C. H. L. Johnston, Pequenas peregrinações entre as mulheres que escreveram livros famosos (1902). Matthiessen, F. O., Sarah Orne Jewett (1929). McCauley-Myers, J. P., "The Silent Influences in the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett" (tese, 1991). McGuire, M. A., "Sarah Orne Jewett" (tese, 1995). Nagel, G. L. e J. Nagel, Sarah Orne Jewett: um guia de referência (1978). Sargent, R. S., Sempre nove anos: a infância de Sarah Orne Jewett (1985). Sherman, S. W., Sarah Orne Jewett, uma Perséfone americana (1989). Silverthorne, E., Sarah Orne Jewett: a vida de um escritor (1993). Sparks, L. V., Contrapartes: A Ficção de Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett e Kate Chopin (1993). Stoddart, S. F., "Letras selecionadas de Sarah Orne Jewett: uma edição crítica com comentários" (tese, 1988). Thorp, M. F., Sarah Orne Jewett (1966). Weber, C. C. e C. J.
Weber, Uma bibliografia dos escritos publicados de Sarah Orne Jewett (1949). Westbrook, P. D., Acres of Flint, Writers of Rural New England 1870-1900 (1981).
Trabalhos de referência:
AA. AW. American Short Story: Uma coleção dos mais conhecidos e mais memoráveis contos dos grandes autores americanos (1994). DAB. Grandes contos americanos I (1995). Grandes escritoras: a vida e a obra de 135 das escritoras mais importantes do mundo, desde a antiguidade até o presente (1994). Escritoras mulheres americanas modernas (1993). NAW (1971). NCAB. Oxford Companion to Women's Writing nos Estados Unidos (1995). Redescobertas: histórias curtas americanas por mulheres, 1832-1916 (1994).
Outras referências:
Conferência Sarah Orne Jewett (1986). Melhores contos de Sarah Orne Jewett (gravação, 1994). Histórias da Nova Inglaterra, antes e agora (gravação, 1996).
Sarah Orne Jewett: uma famosa autora do Maine
Nascida em South Berwick, Maine, em 1849, Sarah Orne Jewett é famosa por suas contribuições à literatura clássica americana.
Sarah Orne Jewett é considerada uma das mais importantes autoras da literatura clássica americana. Nascida em South Berwick Maine, sua literatura está repleta de personagens e cenas influenciadas por experiências de infância e por seu agudo poder de observação. David Godine afirma em sua introdução a The Country of the Pointed Firs que, & # 8220Ela não tanto inventou seus personagens, mas os concretizou em conversas ouvidas e impressões há muito lembradas. & # 8221 Sarah Orne Jewett passaria grande parte de sua vida em Boston, entre os literatos da época, mas suas obras literárias refletem seu profundo apego à sua casa em South Berwick e à sua apreciação pelas pessoas e sensibilidades do campo.
Sarah Orne Jewett & # 8217s Primeiros anos
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett nasceu em 3 de setembro de 1849 em South Berwick, Maine. Seu pai, Dr. Theodore Jewett, vinha de uma velha família de marinheiros e sua mãe, Caroline Perry Jewett, era de uma família de New Hampshire com laços ricos com a política de New Hampshire. Junto com suas irmãs Mary Rice (nascida em 1847) e Caroline Augusta (nascida em 1855) Sarah teve uma infância confortável cercada por uma grande família extensa. Seu avô, o capitão Jewett, morava na casa ao lado, e os dias eram passados de ida e volta entre as duas casas.
Sarah não era uma criança saudável e sofria de artrite reumatóide. Ela costumava faltar à escola e fazia longas caminhadas solitárias pela floresta. Ela gostava da solidão, e a paz e a tranquilidade da natureza a acalmavam e mais tarde influenciariam sua escrita. Ela se tornou muito próxima de seu pai, a quem Sarah chamava de & # 8220 o homem mais sábio e melhor que já conheci & # 8221. Freqüentemente, ele a levava com ele em suas visitas aos pacientes e ela adquiriu um conhecimento de remédios de ervas, folclore e a situação dos pobres e dos idosos. As histórias que ouviu e as pessoas que conheceu um dia encontrariam seu caminho para as vinhetas da vida no campo pelas quais ela se tornaria famosa.
South Berwick e além
Sarah Orne Jewett se formou na Berwick Academy em 1865. Foi nessa época que ela começou a expandir seus horizontes e viajou para lugares como Boston, Newport, RI e Cincinnati. Ela era uma leitora voraz e mantinha um livro com trechos dos livros que lia. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Greenleaf Whittier, Julia Ward Howe e Harriet Beacher Stowe foram algumas de suas primeiras influências e alguns deles mais tarde se tornariam seus queridos amigos. Foi nessa época que ela escolheu a escrita como sua vocação e o celibato como sua escolha de estilo de vida. As mulheres solteiras sempre desempenharam um papel importante na educação de Sarah & # 8217s e & # 8220 em geral, as mulheres que construíram uma vida útil para si mesmas eram respeitadas & # 8221. A irmã de Sarah, Mary, também continuou sendo uma solteirona, e ser solteirona era uma situação aceita.
Ela começou a escrever contos e em 1869 teve seu primeiro conto publicado no Atlantic Monthly. Sua amizade de longa data com o editor William Dean Howells começou nessa época e duraria muitos anos.
Sarah ingressou na Igreja Episcopal em 1871 e através do professor de Harvard Theophilus Parsons, ela começou a estudar os ensinamentos de Emanuel Swedenborg. As ideias de Swedenborg sobre interdependência amorosa e a crença na transmigração da consciência se tornariam temas em seu trabalho.
De Deephaven ao país dos abetos pontiagudos
Seu círculo de amizades começou a crescer e ela viajou ainda mais longe, para lugares como Filadélfia, Wisconsin e Chicago. Em 1877, William Dean Howells sugeriu que ela reunisse vários de seus esboços individuais e os publicasse em um único volume. O resultado foi Deephaven e foi seu primeiro trabalho que destacou o Jewett maduro.
Em 1880, Sarah iniciou uma longa amizade com Annie Fields, esposa de James T. Fields. Este se tornaria um dos mais famosos casamentos & # 8220Boston & # 8221 e Sarah passava parte de cada primavera na casa de Annie & # 8217s em Boston e parte de cada verão em Manchester-by-the-Sea. Ela também passou um tempo considerável em South Berwick ajudando a cuidar de sua mãe, que morreu em 1891. Em 1882, Sarah e Annie foram para a Europa e em 1884, A Country Doctor foi publicado. Sarah continuou a sofrer de artrite e foi para o novo hotel de Henry Flagler em St. Augustine, Flórida, em 1888, para tratamentos.
Após uma segunda viagem à Europa e um cruzeiro pelas ilhas caribenhas com Annie Fields, The Country of Pointed Firs foi publicado em 1896. Esta foi Sarah Orne Jewett no seu melhor e Willa Cather disse do livro, & # 8220É tão apertado, no entanto, de construção tão leve, tão pouco sobrecarregado com o materialismo pesado que se deteriora e se torna antiquado. Será uma mensagem para o futuro, uma mensagem em uma linguagem universal. & # 8221
Sarah Orne Jewett - História
Seleções do História e genealogia dos judeus da Américatraçando a linha direta de Sarah Orne Jewett
e fornecendo anedotas históricas de sua família
HISTÓRIA E GENEALOGIA
DO
JEWETTS OF AMERICA
UM REGISTRO DE EDWARD JEWETT, DE BRADFORD,
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, INGLATERRA,
E DE SEUS DOIS FILHOS EMIGRANTES,
DIÁCONO MÁXIMO E JOSEPH JEWETT,
INSTALADORES DE ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS,
NO 1639
TAMBÉM DE
ABRAHAM E JOHN JEWETT,
PREJUDICADORES DE ROWLEY
E DE OS JUDEUS QUEM
ESTABELECIDO NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
DESDE O ANO 1800
POR
FREDERIC CLARKE JEWETT, M. D.
BALTIMORE, MD.
Membro da Sociedade Histórica de Maryland
VOL. eu
A FAMÍLIA JEWETT
DA AMERICA
ROWLEY (INCORPORADO) MASSACHUSETTS
[Nova York, The Grafton press, 1908]
INTRODUÇÃO
Em 1855, a seguinte circular foi enviada aos membros conhecidos da família Jewett:
O objetivo da reunião será dar uma oportunidade para conferência mútua e saudações alegres, para renovar e fortalecer os grupos de fraternidade comum, e, em particular, para adotar medidas para obter tais fatos históricos que irão aperfeiçoar a genealogia do Jewett Família e perpetua esses fatos pela publicação em um volume bem impresso e bem encadernado. A presença de todos os descendentes da Família Jewett é, portanto, respeitosamente solicitada e todos os que recebem esta Circular são solicitados a estender a notificação e o convite a tais membros e parentes da família, a podem ser conhecidos por eles. Eles também são solicitados a transmitir, em uma data antecipada, para Dea. Joshua Jewett, de Rowley, qualquer interação genealógica ou fatos históricos relativos aos objetos propostos, e espera-se com confiança que ninguém possuindo tal informação deixará de fornecê-lo para o uso e os propósitos da reunião.
Prof. CC Jewett, Washington, DC Prof. GB Jewett, Amherst, Mass. SW Jewett, Middlebury, Vt. Elam R. Jewett, Buffalo, NY Rev. CC Taylor, Kalamazoo, Mich. Rev. C. Hutchins, New Albany, Ind. Rev. Augustus Jewett Terre Haute, In. Dr. Luther Jewett, Lafayette, Ind. PH Jewett, Esq., Lexington, Ind. JT Jewett Chicago, Ill. Nathaniel Grover, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. John R. Jewett, Lyons, Mich Dr. Luther Jewett, St. Johnsbury , Vt. Rev. SG Tenney, Alstead, NH Prof. P.?. Jewett. New Haven, Conn. Rev. BD Jewett, Colchester, Conn. Dr. Joseph F. Jewett, Grandby, Conn. Rev. Richard T. Searle, New Marlboro, Mass. Levi Jewett, New Marlboro, Mass. Rev. Jeremiah Searle, Woodbourne, NY John P. Jewett, Boston, Massachusetts. Henry J. Jewett, Esq., Leona, Texas Jedediah Jewett, Portland, Maine Miss Sarah Jewett, Portland, Maine Luther Jewett, Portland, Maine George Jewett, Portland, Maine Rev. William R. Jewett, Plymouth, NH Dr. Jeremiah P. Jewett, Lowell, Mass. William Jewett, Scarboro, Maine Jeremiah J. Tenney, Lawrence, Mass. Dr. Charles Jewett Eleazer Jewett, St. Albans, Vt, Nathaniel C. Taylor, Rowley, Mass, David H. Hale, Rowley, Mass. Moses T.Whittier, Rowley, Mass. Charles Jewett, Niles, Mich.
ORDEM DE EXERCÍCIOS NA REUNIÃO DO JEWETT
FAMÍLIA EM ROWLEY 14 DE JUNHO DE 1855
Uma procissão será formada no Common às dez horas, e, encabeçadapela Bond's Cornet Band, de Boston, visitará os principais locais de interesse,
a residência do venerável Dr. Joshua Jewett, e o Old Jewett Home-
lugar, onde, sob os majestosos olmos, um breve discurso será proferido por John
P. Jewett, de Boston, e um poema original, intitulado "The Old-Homestead",
composta por William Jewett Pabodie, do Providence, será cantada, para o
música de "Bonny Doon", após a qual a procissão será mais para o encontro
inghouse, local em que os serviços serão os seguintes:
1. VOLUNTÁRIO, pela Banda. Abertura de "The: King of Baby1on".
2. HINO ORIGINAL lido pelo Dr. Joshua Jewett, alinhado, no estilo antigo, e cantado por toda a Família Jewett.
3. ORAÇÃO, do Rev. John Pike, de Rowley.
4. ANTHEM, pelo Coro.
5. ORAÇÃO, pelo Professor C. C. Jewett, de Washington, D. C.
6. REFRÃO, pelo Coro.
7. BENEDICTION, pelo Rev. Spofford D. Jewett, de Colchester, Conn.
1. A LISTA DOS OFICIAIS será lida, e o PRESIDENTE DO DIA apresentado ao público, pelo Delegado-Chefe.
2. BREVE COMENTÁRIOS, pelo Presidente, Dr. Joshua Jewett de Rowley.
3. INVOCATION, pelo Rev. William R. Jewett, de Plymouth, N. H.
4. JANTAR, preparado por J. B. Smith, de Boston, o ilustre bufê.
5. BREVE ENDEREÇO GENEALÓGICO, pelo Presidente.
6. CANTAR DE UMA CANÇÃO ORIGINAL, "Our Family Pledge". Melodia, "Auld Lang Syne."
7. BRINDES, TROCA DE SENTIMENTOS e PARABÉNS FAMILIARES intercalados com música da Banda.
Dr. Joshua Jewett, de Rowley.
Elam R. Jewett, de Buffalo, N. Y.Luther Jewett, de Portland, Me.
Rev. Geo. B. Jewett, de Nashua, N. H.
Dr. Luther Jewett, de St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Prof. P. A. Jewett, de New Haven, Conn.
Dr. Joseph F. Jewett, de Granby, Conn.
Dr. Jeremiah P. Jewett, de Lowell.
S. W. Jewett, de Vermont. Jedediah Jewett, de Portland. Henry J. Prentiss, de Boston.
Gen. Henry K. Oliver, de Lawrence. _
Daniel H. Hale. John Richards. John Harris.
Moses T. Whittier. B. H. Smith, de. Rowley.
Charles Jewett, de Michigan.
A ANTIGA HOMESTEAD, Dr. William JEWETT PABODIE
AFINAÇÃO, "Bonny Doon"
Como peregrinos a alguns, santuário sagrado,
Como andarilhos para a casa de seu pai,
Para isso, o berço de nossa raça,
Com corações alegres, porém reverentes, viemos.
Quase duzentos anos se passaram,
Desde a primeira vez que esta árvore do telhado antigo se ergueu,
Um abrigo, no deserto,
De ventos uivantes e inimigos selvagens.
'Twas aqui nossos pais viveram e morreram -
Desta lareira, em doce acordo,
De manhã, levantou-se a voz da oração,
À noite, hinos para a Banha.
Abaixo desses olmos, seu trabalho feito,
Eles se reuniam frequentemente, uma multidão alegre,
E passou as horas do crepúsculo,
Enquanto espiava as rãs sua canção noturna.
E muitas vezes, dentro, o zumbido da roda
Produzia um som agradável no dia de verão,
Ouvido pelo viajante, enquanto ele labutava,
Ao longo dos caminhos sombrios e empoeirados.
Ainda no canto tiquetaqueia o relógio,
Isso marcou as horas de alegria ou angústia,
Para aqueles cujos corações se transformaram em cinzas
Mais de cem anos atrás.
E ainda se vê a velha poltrona,
Onde estava o senhor, no final do dia,
E virou com admiração a página sagrada,
Seu guia através do caminho incerto da vida.
Pois eles eram sim uma raça piedosa -
Nem considere inútil se gabar de dizer,
Um diácono sempre agraciou a linha,
De 'Zekiel até Joshua.
Debaixo da grama eles dormem agora,
Mas ainda uma forma nobre sobrevive,
Para nos mostrar todo o seu valor imaculado,
A beleza diária de suas vidas.
Oh, que suas virtudes ainda descam,
Enquanto a asa incansável do tempo se expande,
Que todos finalmente possam se encontrar,
Reúna-se em "uma casa não feita com as mãos".
NOSSA FAMÍLIA COMPROMISSO, DE JEDEDIAH JEWETT, ou PORTLAND, ME.
TUNE, "Auld Lang Syne"
Estamos reunidos aqui, uma banda familiar,
Na costa do Velho Rowley,
Embora espalhados por toda a terra,
Não nos separamos mais.
Então aqui está uma mão, a mão de um Jewett
Que cada um comprometerá o outro,
Que sim por Deus e pela verdade, nós permaneceremos,
E nunca se esqueça de um irmão.
Do leste coberto de pinheiros e do oeste fértil,
Vamos nos reunir aqui hoje
Que esta re-união agora seja abençoada,
E ser lembrado sim.
Então aqui está uma mão, etc.
Nosso pai está primeiro com bandas de peregrinos,
Deixou tudo pelo que os homens vivem,
Isso para seus Filhos, em outras terras,
Eles podem dar liberdade justa.
Então há uma mão, etc.
Sobre seu escudo eles blazonearam profundamente,
The Lily, emblema justo
E para o nosso brasão, eles nos mandam manter,
A Águia, ave do ar.
Então aqui está uma mão, etc.
Imaculados, vamos manter esse nome,
Como a matriz brilhante de lírio,
E sempre para cima seja nosso objetivo,
Com o ousado pássaro do dia.
Então aqui está uma mão, etc.
Esperava-se que o Dr. Charles Jewett, de Michigan, fornecesse o hino original, mas não tendo recebido o seu, o seguinte foi substituído por:
HINO ORIGINAL, de H. J. Prentiss
Afinação, "América"
Até esta bela terra,
Liderado pela mão do Todo-Poderoso
Nossos pais vieram
Confiando, ó Deus, em Ti,
Eles cruzaram um mar tempestuoso,
Determinado a ser livre, -
Em Teu grande nome.
A videira que plantaram aqui,
Na esperança e temor piedoso,
E encontrou repouso
Sem ninguém para amedrontar,
Eles procuraram sua sombra agradável,
Suas orações fervorosas foram ditas,
E o céu surgiu.
O brilho da coluna de fogo
Exibido Teu cuidado constante.,
Pela noite e tempestade
De dia, a nuvem amigável
Seu caminho para a frente mostrou,
Com a luz seus passos brilharam
Debaixo do teu braço.
A Deus nossos agradecimentos são devidos,
Quem os trouxe com segurança
A água selvagem:
Então deixe nosso louvor surgir
Para Aquele que governa os céus,
Quem ouve os gritos fracos
De cada criança.
Oh, que seus filhos sejam
Uma progênie digna
De pais nobres
Seu objetivo seja verdadeiro e correto,
E, no santo nome de Deus,
Mantenha pura a chama de seu altar,
Como fogos vestais.
Desde a reunião realizada em Rowley, vários membros da família tentaram compilar uma história e, assim, preservar os muitos registros valiosos que estão desaparecendo rapidamente. Entre aqueles que fizeram esforços notáveis para esse fim estavam o Dr. Joseph F. Jewett, de Granby, Connecticut, que morreu antes de poder concluir o trabalho, o Dr. Frederic A. Jewett de Brooklyn, NY, e Thomas A. Jewett, ESQ ., de Gardiner, Maine, que, devido à pressão dos negócios, foram obrigados a abandonar o assunto.
Cerca de quatorze anos atrás, o autor empreendeu a tarefa e, embora o resultado não seja, talvez, tudo o que poderia ser desejado, ele sente, dadas as circunstâncias, que coletou sobre todos os dados obtidos neste momento.
A família de Jewett é, sem dúvida, de origem normanda, mas quando se estabeleceram na Inglaterra e a origem do nome são cercadas de considerável mistério. A primeira sílaba do nome como agora soletrado sugere a questão de saber se é ou não derivado do judeu, que é um nome de família. A terminação "et" ou "ett" talvez pudesse ser explicada analogicamente por referência a um nome como Hewett, supostamente derivado de Hugh, Hew, etc. O nome Judeu ou Judeu não implica que o fundador da família foi um hebreu, mas, como Newton supõe, por ter matado judeus na Síria quando tais atos foram considerados meritórios. Ele e Guillian supõem que o nome Ives era originalmente Jeus, que se tornou Jues, e então, pela mudança comum de "I" por "J" e "U" por "V", Ives. O brasão desta família já teve três cabeças de judeu cortadas. As armas da família do judeu e seus derivados são, no entanto, inteiramente diferentes das de nossa família e das de todas as famílias cujo nome tem claramente uma origem semelhante ao nosso. Em todos esses nomes, o "T" parece ser uma das letras radicais, e a presença uniforme da letra "T" parece fatal para este suposto de origem.
Bardsley em "English Sobrenomes", conclui que "o nome Jewett vem do diminutivo de Julieta" e cita várias entradas dos Rolls dos séculos XIII e XIV para estabelecer sua teoria.
O "Armorial General Pr c d des terms du blason." Par J. B. Riestap, "Deuxi me Edition, etc.," dá uma família francesa, viz., Ivatte de Boishamon-Bretagne, que se estabeleceu na Inglaterra por volta de 1417. O brasão desta família era D'azur au chevron a'arg., Acc., Re trois quinte feuilles du m me. O nome desta família foi mudado para Juatte, Jeuett, Jowitt, etc. As armas, no entanto, das famílias de Jeuett e Jowitt são bastante diferentes das nossas, mas parecem ser de uma data muito posterior.
O brasão dos Jewett of London Gales era: Em uma cruz argent, cinco flor-de-lis da primeira. Ele carrega prata, em uma cruz de zibelina, cinco flor-de-lis da primeira com o nome de Le Neve. Esta foi a armadura da corte na época de Henrique IV. appertaining to Robert Le Neve, of Tiverskill, in the Country of Norfolk.
The arms of Ivat confirmed to Thomas Ivat, of London, June 27, 1628, are similar to ours, viz., Ivatt or Ivat, Argent, on a cross gules, five fleur-de-lis of the field (another, the tinctures reversed). Crest -- Out of a mural coronet, an armed cubit arm holding in the gauntlet all pps. a fleur-de-lis or.
The name of Jueta or Iveta occurs in the Liber Winton. This book contains the survey of the City of Winchester taken by order of King Henry I. between the years 1107 and 1128. From that time we find what is supposed to be the name in a great variety of forms. The older forms seem to have been Juatt, Juet, Juett, Ivet, Ivett, Jvat, Ivat, Juit, Juite,. (there was a Sir Henry Juite, Baronet, living in Ireland in 1850), Juitt. The Latin forms are Juet, Jouitt, Jeuit, Jewitt, and Jewett.
In a aeries of articles entitled "American Armorial Families," arranged by Mortimer Delano, Pursuivant of Arms, and published in 1896. he states: "In the following roll will be found those American families that have a well established right to court armor, by inheritance, grant, or otherwise." In this list it given:
Jewett -- Massachusetts. Gentlemen.
"Descent: Maximilian & Joseph Jewett from Bradford 1638 to Rowley, sons of Edward Jewett, of Bradford, Yorkshire, m. 1606, d. 1615 descent from Henri de Juatt 1096-9.
"Armorial Bearings -- House of Juatt, England .
"Arms: Argent, on a cross gules, five fleur-de-lis argent.
"Crest: An armed arm proper holding a fleur-de-lis or. All upon the wreathed helmet.
"Mantling: Argent and gules."
The above Henri de Juatt was a Knight of the First Crusade, 1096-1099. Our name frequently occurs on the records of the 13th and 14th centuries and with greater frequency in the later records. July 5, 1486, King Henry VII., of England, granted to Henry Jewet certain offices for life, viz., "Forrester of Windsor Forest and Parker of Sunnyng-Hill Park within Windsor Forest," but no reason is given in the grant for these honors.
Following down to a little later date we find in Vol. XVIII. of the " Harlien Society (English) Reports": "The arms of Jewett, of Chester, England -- Argent, on a cross Gules, five fleur-de-lis of the first, in dexter chief a crescent of the second." "William Jewett, of the Cittie of Chester, alderman and Justice of Peace, and was maior thearof Anno D'ni 1578, a seconnde sonne to Thomas Iwett, of Heyton, in Bradforde Dale in the Countye of York w ch Thomas mariede Elizabeth doughter to * * * Shakellton of Myddopp in Heptonstall within the vicaredge of Holly-fax Com. Ebor' And mother to the saide William whitch William Iwett mariede Margery doughter to Robert Ballyn late of the Cittle of Chester w ch Robert Bellyn married Cicelye doughter to John Poole seconnde sonne to Sr John Poole in Warral County of Chester knight.
"And hee the said Wm. Iwett saythe that there [their] badge is a nightingale. But how or in what sort hee cannot Instructe mee and therefore have I omytted the setting downe of yt till I may doe it p'fectlye.
Edward Jewett, father of the Jewetts who first came to America, was born is 1580 and lived in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The arms borne by him and which were brought to this country by Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, and which they were so careful to preserve on the records here is thus described on old records in both France and England: "He beareth, Gules, on a Cross argent, Five fleur-di-lis of the first, Crest, an eagle's Neck between two Wings displayed argent, by the name Jewett."
This is the coat-of-arms recognized by the Viscount de Fronsac, chancellor of the Aryan Order of St. George in 1891, in an article written by him and with which he gives a fine illustration and states, "these are the arms of the Jewetts of Maine and Texas."
As stated above, our crest is, "an eagle's Neck between two Wings." The motto is "Toujours le m me."
Much information may sometimes be afforded in genealogical research by the coat-of-arms. It will be seen on comparing the arms of the Jewetts of Chester, arms of Iyat, arms of Jewetts of London Gales, and of the "House of Juatt," that they are very similar to our own, and that all evidence points to the view that the Jewetts descend from the "House of Juatt, of England," and is the opinion of the Author, from Henri de Juatt, the knight of the First Crusade. It is true there is a difference in the crest, but this is not a part of a coat-of-arms. The crest is an adjunct to the coat-of-arms, but is often carelessly spoken of as forming part of it. It is often a play upon one's name, or is suggested by the name. Thus the crest of the Harts may be the animal of that name or a heart.
Edward Jewett, father of Deacon Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, lived in Bradford, England, where he was a clothier. By clothier it is not to be understood that he sold clothes, but was a maker or manufacturer of cloths. In those days, in England, the designation clothier was used only in the sense of the merchant manufacturer of woolen cloth who had in his employ a larger or smaller number of families engaged in the various manual employments connected therewith.
Edward Jewett lived long before the days of factories. In his time the making of cloth was carried on in Yorkshire in private houses, the several parts of the process being conducted by different members of the family according to their age and sex. The clothiers of Yorkshire were considered among the most industrious and frugal people of the kingdom. They were of necessity capitalists. They employed weavers, fullers, etc., and furnished them with material. In part they were accounted among the millionaires of England. Edward Jewett seems to have been a man of property, and to have left goodly portions to his children. The twenty families that accompanied Mr. Rogers to New England are described by Winthrop, "most of them of good estate." From the fact that the families of clothiers were trained from early life to knowledge of the different parts of the operation of making cloths, we any infer that the two sons of Edward Jewett who settled here were also clothiers. This is confirmed by the well-known fact as stated by Johnson in his " Wonder Working Providence," "that the settlers of Rowley were the first people that set upon making cloth in this Western World." He adds that many of them had been clothiers in England.
Maximilian and Joseph Jewett did not come to this country as adventurers. They were men of respectability, "of good estate," and could probably have no hopes of improving their worldly condition by emigration. They were lovers of liberty, and men of distinct and well-marked religious views. They were non-conformists. They had too sturdy an independence, as well as too strong a sense of duty, to abandon what they held a truth even in the midst of the bitterest persecution. For this reason they left their homes and sought in the wilds of America a resting place from oppression, a spot where they and their children might enjoy freedom to worship God. They were men of thought and character.
The period at which they emigrated to America was one of the darkest for the Puritans. Many ministers had been silenced or suspended. Fines and the pillory, mutilation and torture, were remorselessly resorted to by the friends of Archbishop Laud to compel conformity to the ceremonies of the Established Church. The ministers of Charles the First were full of hope that they should exterminate the pestilent heresy from the land.
Hunted down by tyranny, refused even the liberty of flight, the Puritans were almost in despair. All who could leave, fled, most of them to America. The same year in which our fathers emigrated, eight ships preparing to sail for this country were by order of the Privy Council detained in the Thames.
The persecution under Archbishop Laud seems to have fallen with peculiar weight upon the clothiers. This may have been owing to the fact that many of the clothiers were descendants of Dutch and French Protestants. Mr. Pryer in enumerating the petition for redress of grievances to Parlement in 1640-41 instances under the head of trade, "Divers Clothiers having been forced away who had set up their manufacture abroad to the great hurt of the kingdom." Smith, in the history of wool, cites the rigor of Archbishop Laud's execution of the acts of conformity as the cause which drove many clothiers out of the kingdom.
In the year 1838 there came from England to the new world, in all, twenty ships and at least three thousand persons. Among them were our ancestors, who sailed from Hull in the ship John of London, with about twenty other Puritans and their families (some sixty persons in all), under the leadership of Ezekiel Rogers, and landed in Boston about the first of December, 1638.
The Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, a learned and eloquent minister of Rowley, England, having been suspended for non-conformity, collected from his hearers and his other Yorkshire friends this little company, and with them came to America. It is stated that so great was the respect for Mr. Rogers that though he was suspended from the active duties of his office he was allowed to enjoy the profits of his living for two years afterwards, and permitted to name a substitute who was afterwards himself suspended for refusal to read the sentence against his predecessor. These two years we may suppose were employed by Mr. Rogers in gathering his future band of emigrants. His project seems to have excited considerable attention among the nobility and gentry. He states that he felt himself under obligations, for the sake of many persons of high rank, to make choice of a good location here.
Some of his company were doubtless his former parishioners, but the Jewetts lived is Bradford, one hundred miles from Rowley. Mr. Rogers may have gone to Bradford for the purpose of obtaining accessions to his company, or our ancestors may have heard of the intentions of the great minister, and sought him out.
Upon their arrival in Boston their first act illustrates their dignity and courtesy as well as their piety. John Williams states, in his "History of New England," that "Ezekiel Rogers son of Richard Rogers, of Weathersfield, in Essex, a worthy son of so worthy a father, lying at Boston with some who came out of Yorkshire with him, where he had been a painful preacher many years, being desirous to partake in the Lord's Supper with the church of Boston, did first impart his desire to the elders, and having given them satisfaction, they acquainted the church with it and before the sacrament, being called forth by the elders, he spoke to this effect, viz., that he and his company (viz., divers families who came over with him) had of a good time, withdrawn themselves from the church communion of England, and that for many corruptions which were among them. But first he desired, that he might not be mistaken, as if he did condemn all there for he did acknowledge a special presence of God there in three things: 1st in the soundness of doctrine in all fundamental truths 2nd in the excellency of ministerial gifts 3rd in the blessing upon the same, for the work of conversion and for the power of religion, in all which there appeared more, &c., in England than in all the known worlds besides. Yet there are such corruptions, as, since God let them see some light therein, they could not, with safe conscience, join any longer with them. The first, is their national church second, their hierarchy, wholly anti-christian third, their dead service fourth, their receiving (nay compelling) all to partake of the seals fifth, their abuse of excommunication, wherein they enwrap many a godly minister, y causing him to pronounce their sentences &c., they not knowing that the fear of the excommunication lies in that. Hereupon they bewailed before the Lord their sinful partaking so long in those corruptions, and entered a covenant together, to walk together in all the ordinances &c."
Winthrop also states: "A plantation was begun between Ipswich and Newbury. The occasion was this: Mr. Eaton and Mr. Davenport having determined to sit down at Quinipiack, there came over one Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, of Weathersfield in England, and with him some twenty godly men, and most of then of good estate. They laboured by all means to draw him with them to Quinipiack. He consulted with the elders of the bay, by their advice, he and his people took that place by Ipswich"
Thus was the town of Rowley, Massachusetts, founded and settled by Mr. Rogers and his hardy band of Puritans, of which Maximilian and Joseph Jewett were prominent members. In 1639, "Being settled in Rowley, they renewed their church covenant, and their call to Mr. Rogers to the office of pastor, according to the course of other churches."
The town was incorporated "1639: 4 day of the 7th month, ordered that Mr. Ezekiel Rogers' Plantation shall be called Rowley." The place was named in honor of Mr. Rogers, he having been the minister in Rowley, England, a number of years.
The history of our family, quiet and unpretending as it has always been, is associated with the most stirring and impressive events of modern times. Our ancestors were actors in the most important scenes of the moving panorama of human progress. To the English Puritans--their enemies themselves being the judges -- are to be attributed the strongest steps in the march of freedom. The great principles of civil and religious liberty were first fully developed and established by their efforts and sacrifices. The colonization of this country by such men first gave an assured resting place for these principles upon earth, and when viewed in all its bearings and consequences can be said to have done more for the progress of our race in the paths of true civilization than any and all other assignable human causes.
All of the Jewetts of this country spring from the common ancestor with the exception of four families who have come from England since 1800, and these are undoubtedly of the same family. This work includes these families.
1 EDWARD JEWETT, was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, about 1580. He married there Oct. 1, 1604 Mary Taylor, daughter of William Taylor. This marriage is recorded in the Bradford Parish Register. He lived in Bradford, England, where he was a cloth manufacturer and where be died. His will, dated Feb. 2, 1614, |was proved by his widow July 12, 1615. This will is on file in the archbishopric of York. The following is a true copy.
"In the name of God Amen, the second day of February in the year of our Lord God 1614 in the XIIth year of the reign sovereign Lord James by the grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith etc., and of Scotland the eight and forty whereas nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the house of death. Therefore, I Edward Jewett of Bradford, within the dicos of York, Clothier, though sick and deseased in body yett sounde in minde and memorye I praise God therefore doo in this uncertainty of life knowninge that even in health we are subject to death make, publish and declare this my last will and testant in the names and form following (that is to say)
"First and principally I give up and comend my soule in the hands of Almighty God my creator and redeemer hoping and assurredly trusting to have full and free pardon and remission of all my sinnes by the precious death and burial of Christ Jesus my alone Saviour and for jestification by his righteousness and my body I yeald to earth to be decently buried at the decreation of my friends. Item, I give and bequeth two full parts of all my goods Cattles Chattles & Credits (in three parts to be divided) unto William Jewett, Maximilian Jewett, Joseph Jewett and Sara Jewet my children equally to be divided amongst them after my debts be paid and funeral expenses discharged. The third part and residue of all my said Cattles, Chattles & Credit I give and bequeth unto Mary my wife whom I make the sole executris of this my last will and testament. And I do entreat William Taylor
my father in law, Henry Taylor my brother in law, Samuel Taylor and Thurstum Ledgerd the supervisors of this my last will and test't. Item, my will and mind is that my children shall have their porcous paide unto them at such times as they shall sevarly accomplishe their ages of XX years or otherwise lawfully demand the same. Lastly I do commit of all my said children with theire severall porcous during theire several minorities unto the said
Mary my wife.
" Witnesses hereof William Smith, Jonas Watson & Lewis Watson."
Children, born in Bradford, England:
2 William, bapt. Sept 15, 1605.
3 Maximilian, bapt. Oct 4, 1607, married (1st) Ann -----------: (2d) Elinor Boyton.
4 Joseph, bapt. Dec. 31, 1609, married (1st) Mary Mallinson: married (2d) Ann Allen.
3 DEACON MAXIMILIAN JEWETT (Edward 1 ), was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England baptized there Oct. 4th, 1607. He and his wife Ann, and his brother Joseph sailed from Hull, England in 1638 in the ship João, with a colony under the leadership of Rev. Ezekial Rogers. They arrived at Boston about the first of December, 1638, spent the winter in Salem, and in the spring of 1639 founded the town of Rowley, Mass.
He was admitted freeman May 13, 1640. "Was chosen Deacon of the church, Dec. 13, 1639, in which place he served forty-five years and for two hundred and twenty years a descendant of him or his younger brother, a fellow passenger has been in that office or minister, the whole time except eight years." (Savage "Genealogical Dictionary.")
The following is from the records of the town of Rowley showing land granted to Maximilian Jewett at different times, viz.:
"Bradford streete -- To Maximilian Jewett one Lott Containinge two Acres and bounded on the South side by Joseph Jewets house Lott: part of it lyinge on the west side, part of it on the East side of the streete."
(This is the two-acre lot on which he built his home.)
"Bradford streete field -- To Maximilian Jewet foure Acres and a halfe of upland lying upon the North side of Joseph Jewets planting lott the East end butting upon his owne lott."
"Imp. Batchelours meadow -- To Maximilian Jewet one Acre and a quarter, lying on the North side of Joseph Jewets Measow: butting as aforesaid."
"1st. division of salt Marsh -- To Maximilian Jewet two Acres of salt Marsh, lying upon the East side of Joseph Jewets Marsh: butting as aforesaid."
"To Maximilian Jewet the Deacon there was laide out thirtie and one Acres of land, be it more or less bounded by James Dickensons on the west: by Jonathan Remmington east, by the Ministers land north, by George Killborn south being fortie rods and ahalf wide at the north end and twintie five wide at the south end."
"Upland laid out at the field called Bradford streete plains -- To Maximilian Jewet six Acres lying on the West side of Leonard Harrimans upland the North end abutting ptly on John Boitons lott and ptly on a swamp, the South end on a Swamp."
"2nd. division of fresh March -- To Maximilian Jewet one Acre, sixty rod wherof, lyse on the West side of Joseph Jewets Meadow: the North end butting on a Creeke, the South end on some Rough Meadow unlaid out: the other hundred rods ioynes on the aforesaid Creeke, about fourty rod distance from his aforesaid sixty."
"To Maximilian Jewet for seven gates a percell of marsh bounded by the River on the southerly side the northwest end butting against the division line that parts this division being in length about 32 Rods the south east end buting against another streight divideing line that parts them and the next division only this extends with a corner by reason of a creeke, longer next to the river and soe toward the easterly side takes the line on the east of the creeke."
To Maximilian Jewet a piece of marsh on the south of James dickinsons and his mother Whiples marsh the north west and south parts of it bounded by a creeke the north east by a pond."
"To Maximilian Jewet -------- Acres of Salt marsh pt of it in Consideration of an high way laid out through his lott to hogg Iland, bounded on the West side by Joseph Jewets marsh the North & North east sides of it Thomas Dickinsons Marsh and the South end by a great creeke."
"To Maximilian Jewet an Acre an halfe of salt Marsh lying at the Southeast end of his third Division of Salt Marsh in Consideration of his division of fresh meadows laide in Pollepod Meadow and of a way that lyes through his Meadow to hogge Iland."
"2d. division salt Marsh -- To Maximilian Jewet two Acres, lying on the North side of Joseph Jewets Marsh: butting as aforesaid."
"2nd. division upland -- To Maximilian Jewet two Acres part whereof ioynes to his owne salt Marsh, the rest of it lyeth on the West side of the aforesaid high way on the North side of Joseph Jewets upland: butting as above."
"3d. division Salt Marsh -- To Maximilian Jewet two Acres, one whereof ioyning to east side of Humphrey Reyners salt Marsh: the North end Butting upon the upland. The other Acre, lying on the North side of Joseph Jewets third division of salt Marsh, the west end butting on his owne second division of salt Marsh."
"Upland laid out in the ffield Called Batchelours Plain -- To Maximilian Jewet seaven Acres lying on the East side of Joseph Jewets land abutting as aforesaid." .
"3d. division ffresh Marsh -- To Maximilian Jewet -- one Acre, lying on the East side of Joseph Jewets Meadow: the North end butting on the up-land the south end on a Creeke."
"To Maximilian Jewctt one Acre & an halfe of upland lying on the north aide of William Scales his Lott abutting as aforesaid."
"1661-- At the same Towne meeting it was also granted and voted that Deacon Jewett should have a way layed out to his land laying on the foreside of prospect hill."
"March, 1671 -- To Deacon Jewett as his right and the right of John Spofford there was laide out ninete and five Acres of land beinge the twelfth and thirtenth lot in order, and is bounded by Thomas Dickinson on the west, by m re Kimbals lot on the east: six hundred and twentie two pole by the river on the North: it beinge thirtie and one poles and a halfe wide by the river side: yet but twentie four poles perpendiculer, each angle by the river are bounded by stubs, at the south end it is bounded by the villedge line twentie six pole and 3-4 yet it is but twentie and five pole perpendiculer: the south west angle is a stake and stones, the south east angle is a white oak."
In 1658 he had land granted him in Merrimac, then a part of Rowley. In 1673 Merrimac was incorporated as Bradford.
Sarah Orne Jewett - History
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Such a kind and earnest and friendly letter 4 as you sent me! I have read it over many times. I have been in deep perplexity these last few years, and troubles that concern only one's habits of mind are such personal things that they are hard to talk about. You see I was not made to have to do with affairs—what Mr. McClure 5 calls "men and measures." If I get on at that kind of work it is by going at it with the sort of energy most people have to exert only on rare occasions. Consequently I live just about as much during the day as a trapeze performer does when he is on the bars—it's catch the right bar at the right minute, or into the net you go. I feel all the time so dispossessed and bereft of myself. My mind is off doing trapeze work all day long and only comes back to me when it is dog tired and wants to creep into my body and sleep. I really do stand and look at it sometimes and threaten not to take it in at all—I get to hating it so for not being any more good to me. Then reading so much poorly written matter as I have to read has a kind of deadening effect on me somehow. I know that many great and wise people have been able to do that, but I am neither large enough nor wise enough to do it without getting a kind of dread of everything that is made out of words. I feel diluted and weakened by it all the time—relaxed, as if I had lived in a tepid bath until I shrink from either heat or cold.
I have often thought of trying to get three or four months of free- 3 dom a year, but you see when the planning of articles is pretty much in one person's hands head it is difficult to hand these many little details over to another person. Your mind becomes a card-catalogue of notes that are meaningless except as they related to their proper subject. What Mr. McClure wants is to make me into as good an imitation of Miss Tarbell 6 as he can. He wants me to write articles on popular science, so called, (and other things) for half of each week, and attend to the office work in the other half. That combination would be quite possible—and, I fear perfectly deadening. He wants, above all things, good, clear-cut journalism. The which I do not despise, except but I get nothing to breathe out of it and no satisfaction.
Mr. McClure tells me that he does not think I will ever be able to do much at writing stories, again, that I am a good executive and I had better let it go at that. I sometimes, indeed I very often think that he is right. If I have been going forward at all in the last five years, It has been progress of the head and not of the hand. At thirty-four 7 one ought to have some sureness in their pen point and some knowledge facility in turning out a story. In other matters—things about the office—I can usually do what I set out to do and I can learn by experience, but when it comes to writing I'm a new-born baby every time—always come into it naked and shivery and without any bones. I never learn anything about it at all. I sometimes wonder whether once one can possibly be meant to do the thing at which they are more blind and inept and blundering than at anything else in the world.
But the question of work aside, one has a right to live and reflect and feel a little. When I was teaching 5 I did. I learned more or less all the time. But now I have the feeling of standing still except for a certain kind of facility in getting the kind sort of material Mr. McClure wants. It's stiff mental exercise, but it is about as much food to live by as elaborate mental arithmetic would be.—Of course there are interesting people and interesting things in the day's work, but it's all like going round the world in a railway train and never getting off to see anything closer. I have not a reportorial mind—I can't get things in fleeting glimpses and I can't get any pleasure out of them. And the excitement of it doesn't stimulate me, it only wears me out.
Now the kind of life that makes one feel empty and shallow and superficial, that makes one dread to read and dread to think, can't be good for one, can it? It can't be the kind of life one was meant to live. I do think that kind of excitement does to my brain exactly what I have seen alcohol do to men's. It seems to spread one's very brain cells apart so that they don't touch. Everything leaks out as the power does in a broken circuit.
So whether or not the chief is right about my never doing much writing, I think one's immortal soul is to be considered a little. His thrives on this perpetual debauch, but five years more of it will make me a fat, sour, ill-tempered lady—and fussy, worst of all! And assertive an all people who do feats on the flying trapeze and never think are as cocky as terriers after rats, you know.
I have to lend a hand at home now and then, and a good salary é a good thing. Still, if I stopped working next summer 8 I would have money engough enough to live very simply for three or four years. That would give me time to pull myself together. I doubt whether I would ever write very much—though that is hard to tell about for sure since I was fifteen I have not had a patch of leisure six months long. When I was on a newspaper I had one month vacation a year, and when I was teaching I had two. Still, I don't think that my pen would ever travel very fast, even along smooth roads. But I would write a little—"and save the soul besides." 9 It's so foolish to live (which is always trouble enough) and not to save your soul. It's so foolish to lose your real pleasure for the supposed pleasures of the chase—or of the stock exchange. You remember poor Goldsmith 10
"And 11 as an hare whom horns and hounds pursue, Pants for the place from which at first she flew"
It is really like that. I do feel like such an rabbit most of the time. I dont mean that I get panic-stricken. I believe I am still called "executive" at the office. But inside I feel like that. Isn't there a new disease, beloved by psychologists, called "split personality"?
Of all these things and many others I long to talk to you. In lieu of so doing I have been reading again this evening "Martha's Lady." 12 I do think it is almost the saddest and loveliest of stories. It humbles and desolates me every time I read it—and somehow makes me want willing to begin all over and try to be good like a whipping used to do when I was little. Perhaps after Christmas I can slip up to Boston 13 for a day. Until then a world of love to you and all the well wishes of this season, an hundred fold warmer and more heartfelt than they are wont to be. I shall think of you and of Mrs. Fields 14 often on Christmas Day.
As I pick up the sheets of this letter I am horrified—but I claim indulgence because I have left wide margins.
Sarah Orne Jewett House
Writer Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was born in her grandparents' eighteenth-century house, where she lived with her family until 1854, when a Greek Revival House was built next door. As Sarah gained attention as an author, she and her family continued to live in the two Portland Street homes in the center of South Berwick.
Jewett and her older sister Mary inherited their grandparents' house in 1887. Decorating the house for their own use, the sisters expressed both a pride in their family's past and their own independent, sophisticated tastes. The result is an eclectic blend of eighteenth-century architecture, antiques, and old wallpapers with furnishings showing the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Jewett drew on the house for inspiration for her novel Deephaven and often wrote at the desk in the upper hall overlooking the active town center.
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Top photo: Jewett House - Sarah&rsquos sister Mary continued to live in the house, with frequent visits from nephew Theodore Jewett Eastman. Mary died in 1930, leaving the old family home to Eastman who, just one year later, bequeathed it to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England.
Bottom photo: Parlor - The parlor is the best room in the house, as evidenced by its fine woodwork. This room reflects the Jewett sisters' passion for the lives of their ancestors and for preservation of the past. The wallpaper in the parlor is preserved from their grandfather's occupation of the house and the furniture is a mix of styles from many generations &ndash many of them antiques even when Sarah and Mary lived in the house.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
by Barbara Rimkunas
This "Historically Speaking" column appeared in the Exeter News-Letter on Friday, October 27, 2011.
“On the brink of the hill stood a little white schoolhouse, much wind-blown and weather-beaten…” wrote Sarah Orne Jewett. During the early part of the twentieth century, Jewett was an accomplished author – writing primarily about nature and life in small town New England. Although she wasn’t born in Exeter and never lived here, she had strong ties to the town through her ancestry and often visited for long periods.
Born in South Berwick, Maine, in 1849, Jewett was a doctor’s daughter. Her father, Theodore Jewett, had studied medicine at Harvard and completed his practical studies in Exeter under the capable guidance of Dr. William Perry. While in Exeter, Jewett had met and married Perry’s daughter, Caroline Gilman Perry. Once his studies were complete, Dr. Jewett returned to his family’s hometown of South Berwick.
Sarah was a sickly child, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, and was often absent from school. The nature of the disease caused acute flare-ups that would primarily affect her knees and shoulders. Once the swelling went down – and she sometimes reported that her knees would swell so badly that she couldn’t see her feet – the pain would linger for days or weeks. It might seem that this would lead her to be a bookish girl with endless hours spent on a couch reading, but for Sarah it was just the opposite. Classrooms were like prisons for her and only increased her discomfort. She preferred wandering the woods and fields of her village to sitting still at a desk. Arthritis is sneaky that way – it can make one immobile for stretches of time, yet it is best treated with movement. Children today, even with much better treatment, concur that sitting in school all day only makes things worse.
Luckily for Sarah, her father indulged her self-treatment and allowed her to skip school. He took her on his calls around town and she got to know village life in depth. She also visited her grandparents and cousins in Exeter very frequently. During the summer of 1857, she stayed in Exeter at her grandparents’ house on the town square to attend the summer term of school. Old Doctor Perry proved to be just as adept as his son-in-law at treating the girl with care. She was probably lucky that both her father and grandfather ignored the common treatments of the day and felt that fresh air and sunshine were the best treatments for her aching body. Dr. Perry’s medical text (currently in the collections of the Exeter Historical Society) - “First Lines of the Practice of Physic” by Dr. William Cullen, published in 1807- advocated topical bleeding, purging and a bland vegetarian diet for the treatment of chronic rheumatism.
Her father undertook to educate his daughter primarily at home after her reluctance to attend school was identified. She wrote later, “in these days I was given to long, childish illnesses, and it must be honestly confessed, to instant drooping if ever I were shut up in school. I had apparently not the slightest desire for learning, but my father was always ready to let me be his companion in long drives about the country.” She may not have liked to read or study, but she did adore taking in the sights and the characters they encountered on their travels.
“I used to linger about the busy country stores, and listen to the graphic country talk. I heard the greetings of old friends, and their minute details of neighborhood affairs,” she wrote. Her life was filled with the people of New England and her later writings would include dialogue that would read just as it sounded to her young ears.
At the age of 19 she began sending stories to magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and quickly made a name for herself. Although she suffered from arthritis flare-ups for the remainder of her life, she never allowed it to control her ambitions. She traveled the world, but always returned to South Berwick. Her serialized stories were published in book format, the most well-known include A Country Doctor, published in 1884, and The Country of the Pointed Firs, published in 1896.
In an undated letter, she wrote to the librarian of the Exeter Public Library, “I do not forget that I am a grandchild of the old town and of the Gilmans who always have had its well being so close to their hearts. Believe me.” She may be associated with South Berwick, but Exeter was dear to her.
