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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-