Joseph Hewitt (bef. 1696 - bef. 1787)

Born before 13 Sep 1696 in Stonington, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Chesebrough) Hewitt — married 5 Oct 1720 in Stonington, Connecticut

Descendants

Died before 2 Jan 1787 at about age 90 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Captain Joseph Hewitt, son of Benjamin Hewitt and Marie Fanning, was born probably shortly before his baptism at Stonington, Connecticut, 13 December 1696. He died at North Stonington, Connecticut, before 2 January 1787 when his will was proved.^[1]

Joseph married (1) Mary Chesebrough, daughter of Samuel Chesebrough and Priscilla Alden, at Stonington, 5 October 1720; he married (2) Mehitable Brown, at Stonington, 4 June 1755.^[1]

Captain Joseph Hewitt served in Major Robert Denison's company of Connecticut Militia, 10 April to 10 Dec 1755. He served again, 23 March to 11 December 1764 in Captain John Tyler's company, of Lt. Col. Israel Putnam's regiment of Connecticut troops. Subsequent records refer to him as Captain for the remainder of his life.^[1]

Captain Joseph Hewitt is mentioned in several land records:^[1][2]

• He bought from Charles Wheeler part of a tract in Stonington that Joseph had previously sold to Thomas Wheeler, deed of 25 Jan 1748.
• Joseph Hewitt, Jr., sold to his "honored father Capt. Joseph Hewitt," property in Stonington, 22 October 1760.
• Joseph Hewitt and wife Mehetable released her dower rights in 44 acres that Jesse Swan of Stonington sold to Asa Swan of Stonington on 10 March 1760.

Joseph left a will dated 18 November 1784, and proved 2 January 1787, though the estate was insovent. In it he named:^[1]

• wife Mehitable and giving her the use and improvement of 1/3 of the real and personal estate
• Son Joseph a gun and £50;
• daughters Hannah Wheeler and Prudence Lewis, one dollar each;
• daughter Anne Whipple, two dollars;
• grandson Josiah Grant Hewitt his house and farm and all other real and personal estate. He was also named executor.

Children

With Mary Cheseborough:

1. Nathaniel Hewitt1 born 11 August 1721
2. Samuel Hewitt born 11 May 1723
3. Mary Hewitt born 20 January 1725/26
4. Hannah Hewitt born 28 November 1728
5. Joseph Hewitt born 2 May 1731, died after 8 November 1784 (named in father's will)
6. Alden Hewitt born 15 November 1734
7. Priscilla Hewit born 28 May 1737, died before November 1766
8. David Hewitt born 28 Oct 1739
9. Prudence Hewitt born 10 Oct 1742, d. aft. 14 Jun 1802
10. (…) Hewitt1 born and died 26 May 1744
11. Anne Hewitt born 26 May 1746

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999), 598-600,
2. ↑ Virginia Hewitt Watterson, Compiler, Descendants of Captain Thomas Hewitt of Stonington, Connecticut (Carlsbad, California: p.p., 1996), 8.

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