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Rh 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 governor. He was also one of the first committee of safety, and a delegate to congress in 1775-'8. In