Judge Freeborn Garrettson Jewett

Family

Sources

1. 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 … was born in Sharon, Conn., Aug. 4, 1791. He married Dec. 14, 1814, Fannie Warner. … Child: 2967 William H., born ; married Eliza Riddle of Delaware.

2. 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.”

   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.

3. 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.”

   He married Fannie Warner… In 1816, Freeborn’s wife, Fannie, presented him with his first and only child, a son, whom they named William. … Freeborn Garrettson Jewett’s son, William Jewett, attended Yale and, like his father, became an attorney. He died at the age of 43.

4. Identity: first Chief Judge, NY Court of Appeals; U.S. Representative; buried Lake View Cemetery, Skaneateles, with wife Fannie and son William (NY Courts bio).

   Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (August 4, 1791 – January 27, 1858) … Spouse: Fannie Warner (m. 1814). Children: 1.