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at St. Matthew's, Ne\vl)ein : organized a c^iun^i at
HillslK)ro. aud was onlaineil deacon by Bisliop
Raveiiscroft in Ibi^T and prie.st in 18'2S. He was
assistant to the Rev. Harry Croswell, rector of
Trinity church. New Haven. Conn., 1829; assist-
ant to the venerable Bisliop Wiiite at Christ
church. Philadelphia,
Pa., 1S29-30; profes-
sor of sacred theol-
ogy in Trinity col-
lege, 1830-31: rector
of St. Stephen's
church, New York
city, 1831 : and of St.
Thomas's church,
1831-43. He declined
the appointment as
missionary bishop of
Louisiana, Arkansas
and Florida in 1835.
The same convention
made liim histori
ographer of the
church and he visited Europe in 1836, where he
obtained eighteen large folio volumes of MS., giv-
ing important data concerning the early church
in America. After preparing two volumes,
including the church in Virginia and Maryland,
he declined to continue his work, as it had been
adverselj- criticised. With the Rev. Caleb S.
Henry, D.D., he founded the New York Bevieic,
which continued to be published, 1837^3. In
1839 he established St. Thomas's Hall, Flushing,
N.J., which school flourished for a time but
finally met with reverses and largely involved
Dr. Hawks in debt. This misfortune led him in
1843 to resign the rectorship of St. Thomas's
church and he removed to Holly Springs, Miss.
The diocesan convention elected him bishop of
Mississipi)i. but the general convention as.sembled
in PhiUidelphia, Pa., in October, 1844. made oppo-
sition to his confirmation on account of the finan-
cial troubles at Flushing, L.I. John Macpherson
Berrien defended him from the charges, and he
spoke in his own behalf with the effect to carry
the majority of the convention, and the matter
was left in tlie power of tlie diocese of Mississippi,
but l)efore it could convene to take action he
dedineil the bishopric and removed to New Or-
leans, La., where he had been chosen rector of
Christ church, and he served, 1845-49. He was
an original tru.stee of the University of Missis-
sippi, .serving 1844-45; hel[)ed to found and Avas
elected the first president of the University of
Louisiana, .serving 1845—49, and in 1849 returned
to New York city as rector of Calvary church.
His friends in that parish discharged his finan-
cial obligations, amounting to $30,000, and he
gave to the church a period of unusual pros-
perity. He was elected bishop of Rhode Island
in 1852. but declined to serve. He also decUned
the chair of history in the University of
North Carolina in 1859. In 1862 he resigned
the rectorship of Calvary church, and removed
to Baltimore, Md., as rector of Christ church. In
1865 he returned to New York and gathering
about him a congregation began tiie Chapel of
the H(»ly Saviour on Twenty-fifth street. He offi-
ciated at the laying of the corner stone. Sept. 4,
1866, his last public act. He was president of
the American geographical and statistical society,
1855-61, and vice-president of the American
ethnological society, 1855-59. He received the
degree of S.T. D. from Columbia college in 1832
and that of LL.D. from the L'niversity of North
Carolina in 1847. His publications include: lie-
ports of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (4
vols., 1823-28); Early Church of Vmfinia (183G);
Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the
United States of America (2 vols., 1836-39) ; Com-
mentary on the Constitution and Canons of the P. E.
Church in the United States (1841); Adventures of
Captain John Smith (1842); Adventures of Henry
Hudson (1842) ; Adventures of Daniel Boone (1844) ;
Auricular Confession, etc. (1850); E(iypt and Its
Monuments (1850); Histoi-y of North Carolina (3
vols., 1858-59); and The English Language (1867).
He translated Antiquities of Peru (1854) : and
edited State Papers of Alexander Hamilton (1842) ;
Perry's Expedition to the China Seas and Japan
(1852-54) ; Appleton\s Cyclopcedia of Biography
(1856) : and Romance of Biography (12 vols.). With
the assistance of the Rev. W. S. Perry he pre-
pared Vol. I. and II. of Documentary History of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States
(1863-64). A memorial volume with sketch of
his life by the Rev. N. L. Richardson was issued
in 1868. He died in New York city, Sept. 27. 1866.
HAWLEY, Bostwick, clergyman, was born in
Camillus. N.Y., April 8, 1814; son of Isaac and
Lucina (Bowen) Hawley: grandson of Agur and
Anna (Hinman) Hawley, and of Elijah and Peggy
(Cody) Bowen: and a descendant of Joseph
Hawley, wko came from Derbyshire, England,
and settled at Stratford, Conn., in 1629-30; and
of Richard Bowen, who came from Kittle Hill,
Gower, Glamorganshire. Wales. 1839-40, ami set-
tled at Boston, Mass. He was graduated at Wes-
leyan university in 1838, and taught ancient
languages at Cazenovia seminary, 1838—42. He
was married Aug. 2, 1840, to Elizabeth R. Webber
of Middletown, Conn. He joined the Oneida,
N.Y., conference in 1842. and was stationed at
Utica, 1842-43, Ithaca, 1844-45, Wilkesbarre, 1846-
47, Wyoming, 1848, and Oxford, N.Y., 1849. He
was transferred to the Troy conference in 1850,
and was pastor at Lansingburg, N.Y., 1850-51;
Pittsfield, Mass., 1852-53; Saratoga Springs. 1854-
