Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Joseph Jewett Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1224 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Jewett 
  • Mother:
  • Ann -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Feb 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • 30 Oct 1694 
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  • Ruth Wood
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  Priscilla Jewett

  Joseph Jewett III (Ahnentafel No:612 )

• Sources for Joseph Jewett Jr.

  • ¹ Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1905), 119.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 111, Birth record for Joseph Jewit.
  • ³ Boynton, John Farnham and Caroline (Harriman) Boynton, The Boynton Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William and John Boynton, Who Emigrated from Yorkshire . . ., n. p.: n. p. (1897), 54.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2010, Vol. 43, p. 267.
  • ⁵ Jewett, Frederic Clarke, M.D., History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Vol. I, New York: The Grafton Press (1908), 17, gives Joseph's birth date incorrectly as 01 FEB 1656.
  • ⁶ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 476.

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