John G. Hewitt (1758 - 1839)

Born 22 Jun 1758 in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Died 17 Jun 1839 at age 80 in Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States

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Biography

Name

John G. /Hewitt/^[1][2][3][4]

Birth

22 JUN 1758

Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA^{[5][6] [7] [8]}

Military

John Hewit was on muster roll (with rank of private) of Capt. John Stevens' Co. in Col. Burrell's Battalion of Forces raised in State of Connecticut. Muster list taken from 19 Jan to 25 Nov 1776. Roll taken in Camp Hill on 25 Nov 1776. ^[9] Comment: I never found this John Hewitt in DAR or SAR. IMHO the description doe not fit any other John Hewitt listed in DAR or SAR.

Death

2 Mär/17 Jun 1839

Oswego, Oswego, New York, United States

 John married 1st, Elizabeth Sibley, 1 Jan 1788 Elizabeth was born about 1770; she died in Edinburg, Saratoga Co., NY, 14 Mar 1813.  John married 2nd, Mahalia (Palmyteur) Simmons, a widow, 29 Jun 1815 Mahalia was born 4 Sep 1776. she married 1st, a man named Simmons and had 3 sons and 1 daughter by him; the date and place of her death is unknown.

     John enlisted from Canaan, Conn. For a term of one year during the Revolutionary War. He was on active duty as a private from 2 Mar 1776 to 31 Jan 1777 in Capt. John Steven's co., Col. Charles Burrel's regt. Of the Conn. Line. This company marched to Lake Champlain and Montreal. The British took him prisoner along with his brother Randall Hewitt, at a place called Cedars. John was released 9 days later and returned to Mount Independence, near Ticonderoga, where he served his remaining enlistment.

 On 18 Nov 1819, John applied for a pension for his service from the Town of Edinburg, Saratoga Co., NY. He stated in the application that he was a carpenter by trade but was disabled and unable to work from old age and a wound in his shoulder substained 15 years earlier. John had no real estate, only a few animals and utensils at that time. A government pension of $8 per month was granted to him on 17 Oct 1820.

    After the war and before 1794, John settled in Saratoga Co., NY near his brothers, Joseph and Philander Hewitt. He was living in Edinburg in Saratoga Co. from 1810 to 1830. Shortly after the 1830 census was taken, John moved his family, which at the time consisted of his wife, Mahalia, and 11-year-old son, John Weaver Hewitt, to Oswego Co., NY.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S134 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
2. ↑ Source: #S211
3. ↑ Source: #S71 Page: Ancestry Family Trees
4. ↑ Source: #S28 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lois Hewitt
5. ↑ Source: #S211
6. ↑ Source: #S28 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lois Hewitt
7. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F744-47N : 7 January 2020), John Hewit, 1758.
8. ↑ 150. Ephraim Hewitt, published in "The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives, also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn, and of other Winn families" by Cleveland, Edmund Janes, 1842-1902. Publication date 1899; Publisher Hartford, Conn., Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company; Digitizing sponsor Boston Public Library; Contributor Boston Public Library; Language English; 1000 pages; Available online at Archive.org, (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcleve01clev/page/128/mode/2up) page 128.
9. ↑ Ancestry Sharing Link Ancestry.com. U.S., Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data:View Sources. Accessed 07 Apr 2024 by Scheffer-943.

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• Vital Records of Canaan, Conn.
• Bible Record of the John Hewitt family owned by Mrs. Elmer Wendt of Bode, Iowa.
• National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension File #S43660.
• Interments in the Edinburg Cemeteries provided by Historian for the Town of Edinburg, Saratoga Co., NY, Priscilla L. Edwards Cornalius E. Durkee,
• Index to Marriages and Deaths in the "Saratoga Sentinel" 1819-1837, LDS film #532,996.
• US Census 1800-1830.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F744-47N : 3 December 2014), John Hewit, 22 Jun 1758; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Rich Oliver for creating WikiTree profile Hewitt-825 through the import of TheOlivers-3_2013-03-11_01.ged on Mar 11, 2013.

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Research Notes

FamilySearch Person: L1KG-TPH

Some Descendants of Thomas HEWITT | Fifth Generation | 88. John HEWITT (https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~nanc/genealogy/hewitt/aqwg07.htm#29701)