Capt Theodore F Jewett
American
Lineage
- Father Dearborn Jewett
- Son: Dr Theodore H Jewett
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1787/06/30 | Theodore Furber Jewett is born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Mary and Dearborn Jewett. | Born | |||||
| 1795/00/00 | When young Theodore Jewett is to be bound out (sent to live with neighbors or relatives who can provide an education or trade) he instead runs away and ships out on a "whaler" for the Pacific Ocean. | Life | |||||
| 1796/00/00 | Jewett is left for eight or nine months with two companions on an uninhabited island to guard stores and secure seals | Life | |||||
| 1812/06/22 | Sarah Orne, daughter of Capt James and Sarah Orne of Portsmouth, marries Capt Jewett in Portsmouth, NH. She died in Portsmouth 15 June 1819. | Groom | |||||
| 1821/02/15 | Olive Walker, daughter of Capt Tobias Walker of Portsmouth marries Capt Jewett. Born in Portsmouth in 1790, she died in South Berwick, Maine, 15 February 1826. | Groom | |||||
| 1825/00/00 | Theodore and Olive Jewett move from Portsmouth to the Haggens house in South Berwick in the 1820s. Jewett's rented the house for a number of years, while the John Haggens estate was settled, finally buy it in 1839. | Home | Sarah Orne Jewett House | South Berwick, ME | |||
| 1825/00/00 | Olive and Eliza - 386 tons, length: 111.7 feet, beam: 27.7, depth: 13.9 feet. William Hanscom, builder, South Berwick. Ferguson and Jewett and I D Parsons, owners. Theodore Jewett is master on first voyage, the Atlantic triangle trade route and Liverpool. | Master | Jonathan Hamilton House | South Berwick, ME | |||
| 1825/04/24 | Theodore F Jewett attends the theater in New Orleans where encounters old Gen Jackson, who was here on his way to Pensacola. | Life | |||||
| 1825/04/25 | Jewett insures 100 Bales of Cotton in New Orleans and sets sail for Liverpool. Quantity shipped from here this season has not been near so large as the last. Our own Ports-th Vessels are all Idle with the Exception of Brig Lucy and Liverpool Packet Load. | Work | |||||
| 1829/06/02 | Mary Rice marries Theodore F Jewett | Groom | Sarah Orne Jewett House | South Berwick, ME | Marriage of Mary Rice and Theodore F Jewett | ||
| 1830/00/00 | Theodore F Jewett establishes the Portsmouth Company Cotton Mills | Owner | Portsmouth Company Cotton Mills: Counting House | South Berwick, ME | |||
| 1846/00/00 | Samuel W Jewett, son Theodore Jewett, was the captain of the BERWICK built at the Timothy Ferguson and Theodore Jewett shipyard at Pipe Stave Landing in 1832. Captain Samual and the BERWICK were lost at sea in a collision off Cape of Good Hope in 1846. | Father | Jonathan Hamilton House | South Berwick, ME | |||
| 1846/00/00 | The merchant vessel OLIVE AND ELIZA runs a ground in the Dry Tortugas, with 118,431 barrel staves. | Owner | Dry Tortugas National Park | Dry Tortugas Islands | |||
| 1856/02/28 | Jewett marries Eliza Sleeper Lang, the widow of his brother Nathan, in South Berwick, Maine. Ms Sleeper, daughter of J Sleeper, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and died in South Berwick, 9 February 1870. | Groom | |||||
| 1860/01/23 | Theodore Furber Jewett dies. | Died |
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