1780 he became judge of the criminal and circuit court of South Carolina, and not long afterward, while the British lay encamped before Charleston, he presided at the trial of some colonists who were convicted of holding treasonable correspondence with the enemy, and were executed within sight of the British lines. He held at the same time a mili- tary commission, and in the Beauford skirmish of 1780 he received a wound of which he bore the scar till his death. At the siege of Charleston, 12 May, 1780, he commanded a battalion of volunteers, and, on the surrender of the city to Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot, he was taken prisoner, and sent with Edward Rutledge, Richard Hutson, and other patriots to St. Augustine, Fla., where he was confined one year. Here he amused himself by composing patriotic words to such British national songs as " God save the King," that the prisoners might indulge their republican sentiments under cover of loyal tunes. During his imprisonment a party of the British visited his plantation and car- ried away all his slaves, which were afterward sold by their captors to the sugar-planters in Jamaica. On his release he took passage for Philadelphia, fell overboard, and escaped drowning by holding to the ship's rudder. On his return to South Car- olina he resumed his judicial duties, was a member of the Constitutional convention of 1790, and the next year retired to his estate.
HEYWOOD, Charles, officer of marines, b. in
Waterville, Me., 3 Oct., 1839. He was appointed a
2d lieutenant in the marine corps from New York
on 5 April, 1858, commissioned 1st lieutenant in
May, 1861, and captain on 23 Nov., 1861. He was
in active service during the civil war, and was
attached to the North Atlantic, and subsequently to
the Gulf, squadron as fleet marine-officer. He was
engaged at the battle of Hatteras Inlet on 28 Aug.,
1861, and continued to serve on the sloop " Cum-
berland " till that vessel was sunk on 8 March,
1862, by the Confederate ram " Merrimac." For his
conduct during this engagement he was brevetted
major. He was attached to the frigate " Sabine "
on special service in 1863, and to the steam sloop
" Hartford," the flagship of Farragut's squadron,
in 1864-'5. He took part in the battle of Mobile
Bay, and was brevetted for gallantry in that action.
He was promoted major on 1 Nov., 1876. In 1886
he was on duty at the navy-yard in Brooklyn, N. Y.
HEYWOOD, John Healy, clergyman, b. in
Worcester, Mass., 30 March, 1818 ; d. in Louisville,
Ky., in 1880. He was graduated at Harvard in
1832, and at the divinity-school there in 1840, en-
tered the ministry and was called to the 1st Uni-
tarian church at Louisville, Ky., succeeding Rev.
James Freeman Clarke. He strove to obtain a pub-
lic-school system of high order for Louisville, and
was for fourteen years president of the city school
board, and for many years more a member. Dur-
ing the war he gave unremitting attention to the
U. S. sanitary commission and to the relief of
the needy in many other ways. The Old Ladies'
Home in Louisville was partially an outgrowth
of his activity. He was two years editor of the
" Louisville Examiner," and a writer for the
" Christian Register," " Unitarian Review," and
other periodicals. He continued his pastorate in
Louisville for over forty years, the oldest ministe-
rial charge in the city.
HEYWOOD, Levi, inventor, b. in Gardner,
Mass., 10 Dec, 1800 ; d. there, 21 July, 1882. After
attending school, he taught during the winters in
1820-'2, kept a country store with his brother in
1823-'9, and in 1826 began to make wood-seated
chairs. In 1853 the Heywood chair-manufacturing
company was organized. Mr. Heywood was among
the first to experiment in shaving and splitting
cane, and made many useful inventions, including
a tilting-chair, machines for splitting, shaving, and
otherwise manipulating rattan, and machinery Cor
bending wood. He also invented a process for in-
jecting rattan with India-rubber as a substitute for
whalebone. He was active in public affairs, was a
member of the State constitutional convention in
1853, and of the legislature in 1871. The town of
Gardner owes much of its prosperity to him, and
he gave liberally for the support of schools t here.
— His brother, Walter, b. in Gardner, Mass., 1$
Feb., 1804, was for some time associated with Levi
in his business, and in 1869 organized the Walter
Heywood chair company at Fitchburg, Mass., and
became its president.
HIACOOMES, Indian preacher, b. about 1610 ;
d. at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., about 1690. lie
was the first Indian converted to Christianity in
New England, being persuaded to embrace the
Christian religion by Thomas Mayhew, after Mar-
tha's Vineyard, where he lived, was settled by
white people in 1642. He learned to read, and in
1653 began to preach to his fellow-Indians. He
made many converts, and boldly rebuked the pa-
gan Indians for adhering to their superstitions,
while he himself was often threatened by the In-
dian priests, whose sorceries he defied. A church
was built at Martha's Vineyard for his congrega-
tion of Indian Christians, and he was ordained its
pastor by Eliot and Cotton on 22 Aug., 1670.
HIBBARD, Ellery Albee, jurist, b. in St.
Johnsbury, Vt, 31 July, 1826. He obtained an
academic education by his own efforts, studied
law in Haverhill and Exeter, N. H., was ad-
mitted to the bar in July, 1849, and practised in
Plymouth, N. H., till 1853, and subsequently in
Laconia, N. H. He was a member of the New-
Hampshire house of representatives in 1865-'6, and
was elected a representative in congress from New
Hampshire by the Democrats and Labor Reformer*
in 1870. After the conclusion of his term he be-
came judge of the supreme court of New Hamp-
shire, but in 1874 declined re-appointment under
the revised laws, and returned to his practice.
HIBBARD, Freeborn Garretson, clergyman, b. in New Rochelle, N. Y., 22 Feb., 1811. His father, Rev. Billy Hibbard, was a well-known clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. The son entered the ministry of the same church in the New York conference at the age of eighteen,
before he had completed his college course, and continued in this work, chiefly in western New York, from 1830 till 1856, when he was elected editor of the "Northern Christian Advocate," printed in Auburn, N. Y. In 1860 he resumed
the pastorate, and became presiding elder of the Geneva district. Dr. Hibbard's principal works are "Christian Baptism, its Subjects, and its Import, Mode, Efficacy, and Relative Order" (New York, 1845); "Geography and History of Palestine" (1851); "The Psalms, Chronologically Arranged, with Historical Introductions, and a General Introduction to the Whole Book" (1856); and "The Religion of Childhood, or Children in their Relation to Native Depravity, to the Atonement, to the Family, and to the Church" (1864). He has also edited the "Sermons" (1869) and "Works" (1872), and published a "Biography" of Bishop Leonidas L. Hamline (1880). The "Commentary on the Psalm" (1882) in the Whedon series of "Commentaries on the Old Testament " was written by him. He also published a " History of the late East Genesee Conference " (1887).
