HEWES. CONCERNING JOSEPH HEWES, the circumstances known are much less abundant and particular than we desire. Nearly half a century has passed since he died, he left no children, and no very near relatives now survive, from whom the details of his life could be ascertained. His parents were members of the society of friends, and at the time of their marriage resided in the colony of Connecticut, in one of the settlements the farthest removed from the coast of the Atlantic. In this situation they were obliged to bear the double persecution arising from the often excited hostility of the Indians, who roved through the forests in their vicinity, and the prejudice still remaining among the puritans of New England, against all that wore the quaker habiliments or professed the quaker doctrines. For persons of this persuasion, and indeed for all that were ambitious of a quiet and secure life, a residence in either Connecticut or Massachusetts, was at that period far from desirable. The government of Massachusetts had, in order to promote enterprise and encourage volunteers," raised the premium on Indian scalps and prisoners to one hun |