Hewitt Family of Maryland Pennsylvania and Ohio and Allied Families

This Book Documents The Journey Of Seven Generations Of The Hewitt Family From The 1600S In Colonial Maryland To The Early Twentieth Century In Ohio. It Follows One Line Including Siblings As They Headed West Just Prior To The Revolutionary War And Settled For A Generation In Western Pennsylvania. You Will Meet Jacob Hewitt An Indentured Servant Who Made Good By Marrying Into The Maryland Gentry. His Land Legacy In Western Pennsylvania Allowed His Sons Robert Richard And Ephraim To Move West Into Ohio And Tennessee Where One Became A Frontier Judge And The Others Made Their Living As Farmers Innkeepers And Tradesmen. One Son Fought In The Revolutionary War And The Next Generation Served In The War Of 1812. Hewitt Women Nursed Children Through Fevers And Epidemics Endured Loneliness And Above All Faced Death As Part Of Life. Those Who Married Into The Hewitt Family Include The Cochran Davis Durham Edwards Fisher Gaither Gulick Hall Hull Jacks Kennedy Kenny Kyle Morrison Piersol Schmidt Terhune Williamson And Wood Families. Additional Lines Are The Ackerman Bell Bishop Chandler Dehart Elder Gaither Hartshorn Pierpont Selover Shute Smithson Sturm Thompson Warfield And Wyckoff Families. Numerous Vintage Photographs Maps And A Fullname Index Enhance The Text. 2005 6X9 Paper