Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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happen in these years just past they would cheerfully have consigned us to the fate of the Salem witches.
If the coming fifty years are as wonderful as the past fifty,
who can foretell what may happen? Today, June 21, 1922, Marconi, the wireless wizard, is making special effort to communicate
with Mars, and if he does not succeed today who will dare say he
may not be successful some future day? And the wildest tales
of Jules Verne may prove to be as common place as the auto or
the aeroplane.
Don't we wish we might live to see what is about to happen?
But then if we did live to be as old as Methuselah we might be
like little children who beg to "stay up a little longer" to see
what will happen in the Universe of God.
THE JEWETT FAMILY.
By MRS. EVA JEWETT MORSE, Mason, Micl., 1900.
Somewhere between the years 1640-50 Joseph Jewett, son of
Edward and Mary Jewett, with his family emigrated from his
birthplace, Bradford, England, to America, settling in Rowley,
Mass., where three generations were born. My forefather,
Eleazer Jewett, moved to Norwich, Conn., in 1698, and there my
greatgrandfather, Ichabod Jewett, was born on July 5, 1738. In
his young manhood he went to Coventry. Conn., where lie married and settled. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War
he enlisted in Buell's company, and soon after became captain,
and his name can be found in the official record in the Adjutant
General's office. He had two sons in the army with himself, and
two other sons acted as scouts. The powder flask which Ichabod
Jewett used while in the army has been handed down to a male
member of the family through the generations, and is now in the
possession of Joseplh Jewett, of this city, a veteran of the Civil
War.
My own grandfather, Eleazer Jewett, was born at Coventry,
Conn., in 1769. He went from there to Langdon, N. H., where he
settled, and in 1792 married Submit Porter. Ten children were
born to them. My father, Joseph Porter Jewett, was the seventh