Gem of the Western World " (New York, 1850) ; " A Memorial of Prances S. Osgood " (1851) ; and is the author of " Songs of our Land " (New York, 1845> ; " Heroines of History " (1856) ; and " Poems, Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary " (1864).
HEWLETT, Richard, soldier,"b. in Hempstead,
N. Y., about 1712 ; d. near Gagetown, New Bruns-
wick, in 1789. He was a captain in the Prench
war of 1757-'9, and participated in the capture of
Fort Frontenac. During the Revolution he was
an active loyalist, and received from the " Asia," a
British man-of-war. a great quantity of firearms
and cannon, secreting them on his premises. So
obnoxious was his course to the colonists that
Gen. Henry Lee issued an order that " Richard
Hewlett should have no conditions offered him,
but must be secured without ceremony." When
De Lancey's corps was raised, he was appointed
lieutenant-colonel of the 3d battalion, and in 1777
commanded the garrison of 260 men at Setauket,
L. I., when it was attacked by Gen. Parsons, who
demanded its surrender. Hewlett asked his sol-
diers whether he must submit, and, receiving the
response " No," exclaimed : " I will stick to you
then as long as there's a man left." After a can-
nonade of three hours, the patriots retreated.
Hewlett received mention in the general orders
that were issued after the affair. He also com-
manded the 130 Tories who came from the west
end of Long Island, and pillaged the citizens of
Southhold, Oyster Pond, in 1778. At the close of
the war he was retired on half pay, removed to
St. Johns, N. B., and became a grantee of the town,
and its mayor. — His son, Thomas, was a captain
in the N. Y. loyal volunteers, and was killed in
1780 at Hanging Rock, N. C, while looking out of
a block-house " to see what the rebels were about."
HEWSON, Thomas Tickell, physician, b. in
London, England. 9 April. 1773 ; d. in Philadel-
phia, 17 Feb., 1848. His father, the celebrated
anatomist, William Hewson, died in 1774, and
Thomas removed with his mother to the United
States in 1786. He was graduated at the Phila-
delphia medical college in 1789, returned to Lon-
don, and was house-surgeon in St. Bartholomew's
hospital, afterward taking a course of medical lec-
tures in Edinburgh. Returning to Philadelphia
in 1796, he established himself in practice, was
physician to the Walnut street prison in 1806-'18,
and rendered valuable service during the epidemic
of 1817-18. He was censor and secretary of the
College of physicians, Philadelphia, from 1802 till
1835, professor of comparative anatomy in 1816,
and president from 1835 till his death. For many
years he was surgeon to the Philadelphia alms-
house, thirteen years physician to the Pennsylvania
hospital, physician to the orphan asylum, and took
an active part in the formation of the National
pharmacopoeia. In 1822 he established a school of
medicine in which he taught anatomy and prac-
tice. He was a member and officer of various
medical societies, and translated Swediaur's " Trea-
tise on Syphilis" (Philadelphia, 1815). — His son,
Addinell, physician, b. in Philadelphia, 22 Nov.,
1828, was graduated at Jefferson medical college
in 1850, studied in Paris, and in Dublin under Sir
William Wilde, and, on his return to the United
States, was appointed resident physician to the
Pennsylvania hospital. He was visiting surgeon
to the Episcopal hospital in 1852-'3, from 1853
1 1876 physician to Wills hospital, and since
1861 has filled that office in the Pennsylvania hos-
pital. He edited Sir William Wilde's "Aural Sur-
gery," at the author's request (Philadelphia, 1853) ;
the American edition of Laurence's " Diseases of
the Eye " ; and, besides many professional papers,
has published in book-form " The Use of Earth in
Surgery " (Philadelphia, 1887).
HEY, William, English jurist, b. in England;
d. there in 1797. He was appointed chief justice
of Canada, 25 Sept., 1766. In 1773 he proceeded
to England in connection with the bill providing
for the more effectual governing of the province
of Quebec, and on its passage through the house
of commons in 1774 gave important evidence rela-
tive to it before a special committee. By com-
mand of the Earl of Dartmouth, secretary of
state for war and the colonies, he prepared a
draught of a provincial ordinance to be submit-
ted to the governor and legislative council in Can-
ada. It provided for the re-establishment of the
English laws relating to habeas corpus, trial by
jury in civil cases, and the laws relative to com-
mercial matters. Chief-Justice Hey arrived with
it in Quebec in June, 1775, and in the ensuing
September laid it before the council. Soon after-
ward he returned to England. In 1774 he was
elected to parliament, but vacated his seat in 1776
on being: appointed a commissioner of customs,
which office he filled till his death.
HEYER, Christian Frederick, missionary, b.
in Helmstedt, Brunswick, Germany, in 1793 ; d. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 7 Nov., 1873. He emigrated in
1810 to the United States, studied theology, was
licensed in 1817, and preached a short time in
Philadelphia. He was ordained as a missionary in
1820, and labored in organizing Lutheran churches
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, and western
Pennsylvania. In 1840 he was elected to go as a
missionary to India, and during the following
winter attended medical lectures in Baltimore.
He arrived at Guntur, in the presidencv of Madras,
on 31 July, 1842, and remained there till 1847,
when he visited the United States. He went back
in 1848, and settled at Rajahmundry, on the Goda-
very. He established missions among the Telugus,
who inhabit the eastern coasts of the peninsula.
In 1857 he left India, and was engaged in minis-
terial work in Germany for eleven years. Return-
ing to Rajahmundry in December, 1869, he re-
mained there a year, and then came to the United
States, and was chaplain of the Lutheran theologi-
cal seminarv in Philadelphia until his death.
HEYWARD, Thomas, Jr., signer of the Dec-
laration of Independence, b. in St. Luke's parish,
S. C, in 1746 ; d. there, 6 March, 1809. His father,
Col. Daniel, was
a wealthy planter.
Thomas was edu-
cated under pri-
vate tutors, and
studied law in the
Temple in Lon-
don. After sev-
eral years of Eu-
ropean travel he
returned to South
Carolina. He ear-
ly opposed Brit-
ish supremacy, be-
came a leader of
the Revolution-
ary party in his
state, and was a
member of the
first assembly af-
ter the abdication
of the colonial
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