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Family: Joseph Varnum / Ruth Jewett (F177)
m. 3 Oct 1697
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Male
Joseph Varnum
Birth 15 Mar 1672 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA 
Death 23 Dec 1749 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Marriage 3 Oct 1697 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Father Samuel Varnum | F180 Group Sheet Mother Sarah Langton | F180 Group Sheet
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Ruth Jewett
Birth 21 May 1681 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death 28 Nov 1728 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Father Joseph Jewett | F182 Group Sheet Mother Ruth Wood | F182 Group Sheet
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Sarah Varnum
Birth 14 Dec 1698 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death 30 Aug 1731 Massachusetts, USA Burial Spouse Samuel Platts | F183 Marriage 23 Feb 1714-5
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Ruth Varnum
Birth 5 Feb 1703 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death 1771 Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Spouse James Colburn | F175 Marriage 4 Dec 1719 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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Joseph Varnum
Birth 17 May 1710 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death 26 Aug 1763 Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Burial
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John Varnum
Birth 8 Sep 1721 Dracutt, Massachusetts, United States Death 26 Jul 1786 Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Burial
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Sources - [S340] Compiled from Family Papers and Officials Records by John Marshall Varnum, of Boston., The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts): A History of Geroge Varnum, his son Samuel who came to Ipswich about 1635, and grandsons Thomas, John and Joseph, who settled in Dracutt, and their descendants, (Name: David Clapp & Son, Printers; Location: Boston; Date: 1907;), The Varnums of Dracutt, Storage 929.2 VAR.
Among the very first entries in the records of Dracutt, commemorating an event which occured many years previous, is the announcement, made by John Varnum, borther to Joseph, at that time Town Clerk: "Joseph and Ruth Jouett of Roully was lawfully marrid in Octobear ye 3 day in the year 1697."
Ruth was the daughter of Capt. Joseph and Ruth (Wood) Jewett, and was born about 1681. Her tombstone in the little burial-ground, near the "Navy Yard" in Dracutt, adjoining the spot where for many years, up to 1900, stood the old Garrison House, the residence of Col. John Varnum, which sheltered in times of apprehended or actual danger the early settlers of the neighborhood recites:
Here lyes buried ye body of
Mrs. Ruth Varnum
wf of Colonel Joseph Varnum
who dyed November ye 28, 1728,
In ye -8 year of her age. - [S69] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Town Marriage Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year ;).
- [S345] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil;).
- [S359] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S375] Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;), Birth year: 1681; Birth city: Ipswich; Birth state: MA.
- [S340] Compiled from Family Papers and Officials Records by John Marshall Varnum, of Boston., The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts): A History of Geroge Varnum, his son Samuel who came to Ipswich about 1635, and grandsons Thomas, John and Joseph, who settled in Dracutt, and their descendants, (Name: David Clapp & Son, Printers; Location: Boston; Date: 1907;), The Varnums of Dracutt, Storage 929.2 VAR.