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George Jewell (d. Nov 1637)

George Jewell died Nov 1637 in Maine.

Notes for George Jewell:
GEORGE JEWELL

23 July 1632, Thomas Cammock to Robert Trelawny: Cammock reports that at his arrival on the Maine coast, at his first coming on shore, "going on Mr. Jewell's stage, I had an unfortunate fall" [Trelawny Papers 3:18].
Saco Court, 30 April 1637: "Mr. Richard Gibson an action of debt against George Jewell, marriner" [MPCR 1:7].
Saco Court, 3 July 1637: "George Jewell an action of debt of Ł7 against Theophilus Davies" [MPCR 1:8].
November 1637: "One Jewell, master of a bark, was drowned. The manner was this. He was bound to the Isle of Sable, to relieve our men there. His bark had lain near a week at Natascott, waiting for him, but he staid at Boston drinking, and could not be gotten away. Mo. x. When he went, there was committed to his care a rundlet of strong water, sent to some there, he promising, that upon his life, it should not be touched; but, as he went down in his bark's skiff, he went on shore at the castle, and there drank out about a gallon of it, and at night went away; but, it being very cold and dark, they could not find their bark, and Jewell his hat falling into the water, as they were rowing back to look for it, he fell into the water, near the shore, where it was not six feet deep, and could not be recovered" [WJ 1:291].
COMMENTS: Noyes, Libby and Davis note records for a George Jewell at Barnstaple, Devonshire, where there are also records for a Henry Donnell, the name of the man who succeeded Jewell at his stage in Maine [GDMNH 379].