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	Joseph Hewes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Hewes was a native of Connecticut, where he was born in 1730.
		Hewes moved to North Carolina at the age of 30 and won over the people of the state with his charm and honorable businesslike character.
		Hewes was elected to the North Carolina legislature in 1763, only three years after he moved to the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Hewes (828 words)

	Joseph Hewes, Signer of Declaration of Independence
		Joseph Hewes was a Quaker and an Episcopalian.
		Hewes was among the earliest of the decided patriots of North Carolina, and used his influence in bringing about a Convention of the people of the State, to second the call of Massachusetts for a General Congress.
		Hewes was a member of Congress for 1776, and North Carolina having early taken a decided stand in favor of independence, his own views upon this question were fully sustained by his instructions, and he voted for, and signed the Declaration thereof.
	www.adherents.com /people/ph/Joseph_Hewes.html (1070 words)

	Joseph Hewes
		Joseph Hewes (January 23, 1730 - November 10, 1779), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of North Carolina.
		He was elected to the Provincial Assembly in 1766: it was dissolved by the royal governor in 1775.
		Hewes was appointed to the Committee of Correspondence, elected to the Provincial Legislature, and represented North Carolina at the Continental Congress in 1775.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joseph_Hewes.html (120 words)

	Joseph Hewes
		Joseph Hewes was born in Kingston, N.J., in 1730, and was educated at what is now Princeton.
		In this capacity Hewes played a major part in the procurement and outfitting of Continental vessels, and had the distinction of securing a commission in the Continental Navy in December 1775 for one of the sea's greatest heroes-to-be, John Paul Jones.
		Joseph Hewes (AP-50), formerly Excalibur, was built in 1930 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.; acquired by the Navy 8 January 1942; and commissioned I May 1942, Captain Robert McL.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/j4/joseph_hewes.htm (426 words)

	HEWES, Joseph (1730-1779) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A letter from Joseph Hewes to John Campbell describing the public attitude in North Carolina, general distress and inflation, coinage weights and values, and the need for a mint.
		Joseph Hewes is represented in Series 3, the Henry A. Willard Collection of autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		Joseph Hewes was one of the executors of the estate.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=H000551 (304 words)

	USS Joseph Hewes DE/FF/FFT-1078
		JOSEPH HEWES was the first USN ship to make an operational transit of the Suez Canal after it was reopened in 1975.
		JOSEPH HEWES was approximately 10-12K yards from the Marines when they were bombed by the terrorists at BIA (Beirut Intl Airport) on October 23, 1983.
		JOSEPH HEWES then operated for a while with USS NEW JERSEY, during her infamous 390 days away from her homeport of Long Beach, 1983-1984.
	www.ussjosephhewes.com /history.aspx (462 words)

	Hewes P.E.
		David Hewes is not well-remembered in western history, although he left his mark on such diverse projects as land development in Orange County and the linking of the first trans-continental railroad.
		In Orange County the name Hewes lives on as a school, a street that skirts the eastern edge of Orange and, to some older residents, Hewes once was the name of a park and a hill.
		Hewes Ranch was planted in barley, grapes, and other crops and in one year, reportedly had an income of $72,000.
	www.tustin.k12.ca.us /hewes/hewesinfo.htm (1455 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (Joseph Hewes)
		Born in 1730 at Maybury Hill, an estate on the outskirts of Princeton, N.J., Hewes was the son of a pious and well-to-do Quaker farmer.
		Joseph Hewes sponsored the American career of his friend John Paul Jones, who became the most famous naval officer of the Revolution.
		In 1777 Hewes lost his bid for reelection to Congress, one of the few failures in his life, and in 1778-79 he found solace in the State legislature.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/declaration/bio18.htm (662 words)

	JOSEPHHEWES
		Contact US Joseph Hewes was born into a prosperous Princeton, New Jersey Quaker family in 1730.
		Hewes became quite active politically, serving on the North Carolina Assembly from 1766 until 1775, on the committee of correspondence in 1773, and the provincial assemblies from 1774 until 1775.
		Hewes was additionally involved in the overthrow of the royal government by the Whigs.
	www.multied.com /bio/revoltbios/HewesJoseph.html (196 words)

	Joseph Hewes
		HEWES, Joseph, signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Kingston, New Jersey, in 1730; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 November, 1779.
		Joseph, after receiving a common school education, went to Philadelphia and engaged in business, removing to Edenton, North Carolina, in 1763.
		In the beginning of 1775 the Society of Friends, to which he and his family belonged, held a general convention denouncing the proceedings of congress, and such was Hewes's patriotism that he at once severed his connection with the Society and became not only a promoter of war but of gay and worldly habits.
	www.famousamericans.net /josephhewes (322 words)

	SIXTH GENERATION, PART ONE
		Joseph Rich son of Joseph Rich of West Nottingham in the County of Chester & Province of Pennsylvania, AND Sarah Coulson, daughter of Thomas Coulson were married 27 of 2nd Month 1742 at a public meeting held in West Nottingham.
		JOSEPH COULSON was born in 1726 in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died in 1802, at the approximate age of seventy-six.
		Therefore Mordecai James, Joseph Hewes, David Rees, John Pugh & John Jordan are appointed to treat with them, and give enquire of the reason of their said conduct, and give such advise in the case as the nature thereof may require.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/teletubby/630/sixth1.htm (2677 words)

	Joseph Hewes
		Joseph Hewes was born in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Princeton College.
		He was appointed to the Committee of Correspondence, elected to the Provincial Legislature, and sent along to the Continental Congress in 1775.
		Hewes was known as a tireless worker in committee and the leading expert on maritime concerns.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/signers/hewes.htm (192 words)

	Halifax Resolves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress in Halifax County on April 12, 1776.
		The resolution empowered Richard Caswell, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, and John Penn - North Carolina's delegates to the second Continental Congress - to join with those from other colonies to declare independence from British rule.
		The 83 delegates present in Halifax at the Fourth Provincial Congress unanimously adopted the Halifax Resolves, which also encouraged delegates from all the colonies to the second Continental Congress to declare independence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halifax_Resolves (298 words)

	North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library - Historic Edenton and countryside
		But she and her husband, William Littlejohn, built the present house and were living in it in 1791, when their young daughter Jane was drowned within sight of it, the only one lost when the boat was ripped open on a sunken wreck while she and a group of friends were on a sailing party.
		One of the members of their household was Joseph B. Skinner's younger brother, Thomas Harvey Skinner, who later was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York and one of the founders of Union Theological Seminary.
		Blair and Joseph Hewes were business partners until Blair's death (1772); and Hewes was one of the most intimate friends of the family until his death (1779).
	digital.lib.ecu.edu /historyfiction/document/hea/entire.html (5582 words)

	Gold Presentation Watch Fob
		Hewes had a large spike made and gave it to Senator Stanford to be driven as the Last Spike in the joining of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869.
		Hewes had several small gold spikes, replicas of the original and gave them to his friends.
		Joseph Bryant Sweetser was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts in 1813.
	www.witherells.com /inventory/popup/fob.htm (876 words)

	Delaware Chapter XXVII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joseph was born in 1752, married Mary Levis, of Springfield, Delaware Co., Pa., and died in 1832.
		Joseph, fourth son of Joseph and Mary Shipley, born 1795, at the age of eighteen entered the counting-house of Samuel Canby, in Philadelphia.
		Joseph, the youngest son, owned one of the first tanneries in the town.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/DE/Delaware/delaware27.htm (5404 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		HEWES, JOSEPH [Hewes, Joseph], 1730-79, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b.
		As a member of the Continental Congress (1774-77), Hewes helped establish the American navy and obtained a commission for John Paul Jones in 1775.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:hewes-jo (75 words)

	Phebe Hewes, Lieutenant Joshua Hewes - A New England Pioneer and Some of His Descendants
		PHEBE HEWES, daughter of John Hewes of Royston, came to New England, probably with her brother Joshua Hewes, and was at Roxbury, where she married 30 Nov., 1639, Richard Gorde of Roxbury, who came to New England, in April, 1635, in the Elizabeth and Ann, aged seventeen.
		JOSEPH GORDE, born 19 Sept., 1647; died aet.
		JOSEPH GORDE, born 13 April, 1651; married 23 March, 1681, Ann Chaplin.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mikegoad/html/doc00168.htm (328 words)

	Martin Luther King and the Amistad Africans
		Brown is identified as Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who served on the Court of John Marshall and who wrote the Supreme Court decision regarding the trial of the Amistad Africans.
		The Joseph Story/Willie Brown past life match is one of the most remarkable cases in Revolutionaries, as it not only demonstrates how a soul can change race from lifetime to lifetime, it also shows how remarkably similar personality traits can remain from one incarnation to another.
		When I was working on the Joseph Story/Willie Brown case, I became aware of a meaningful coincidence, or synchronicity, involving Martin Luther King's funeral that made me conceive of a potential past-life connection between Willie Brown and Martin Luther King.
	johnadams.net /cases/samples/King-Cinque (1458 words)

	Three for independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		None lived out the 18th century, and Hewes was dead three years after the signing at the age of 49, “overworked and fatigued” according to one history.
		The oldest of the three North Carolina signers, Hewes was a native of New Jersey and a prominent Edenton merchant and shipper.
		Hewes and Adams were instrumental in forming the Continental Navy, but Hewes lost his bid for re-election to Congress in 1777.
	www.thetimesnews.com /1999/99-07/99-07-04/accent-2.html (1059 words)

	Hewes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1681 William Hewes appears in Delaware as a member of a jury in New Castle County and also connected to a "Market House Project with Joseph Hewes " in 1736 per Scharf {Scharf's History of Delaware, pg.
		According to John's will in 1788 there were at least 8 children in his family and if all were the children of Elizabeth then she was probably born sometime before 1730.
		The connection between the Hewes and Durham families continued when administration on the estate of Thomas Derham was granted to Thomas Hughes on August 10, 1795 {Arch.
	members.aol.com /jacklyn001/hewes.htm (488 words)

	Summary description of Joseph Hewes Papers, Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Miscellaneous papers, consisting of copies of letters and originals of two letters and a postscript to a third letter from Hewes, signer of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina and member of the Continental Congress.
		The two letters were written from Philadelphia, 6 February and 27 March 1776, to Robert Smith, Williamsburg, Va.; they concern the brig "Fanny," lying in the York River, and arrangements for chartering vessels to go to Europe to procure articles needed by the army and navy and to sell tobacco and other American exports.
		The postscript, 7 January 1776 [misdated 1775], is to a letter from Hewes to Samuel Johnston; it reports the arrival of vessels with powder and saltpeter.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/h/Hewes,Joseph.html (176 words)

	Bulletin Board for USS Joseph Hewes - FFT 1078
		I was stationed on the Joseph Hewes (FF1078) back in 1983-1986.
		Plans are already being made for the 2006 USS Joseph Hewes Reunion.
		My name is Keith Starkey I was on the joseph hewes from 1988-1991 looking for anyone who would like to try and set up a reunion for 2006 in charleston sc if interesed email me at kstarkeys@yahoo.com
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	joseph hewes ancestors - 3rd ancestor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is beyond a doubt, that it was the sense both of the parent country, and our ancestors, that they were to remain subject to parliament.
		Joseph Hewes and Richard Smith to a London Mercantile Firm July 31, 1775...
		Benjamin Harrison, and Richard Henry Lee, Esqs., delegates from Virginia, and Richard Caswell and Joseph Hewes, Esqs., delegates from North...
	ancestor.bokoggif.info /dir17/joseph-hewes-ancestors.html (373 words)

	AllRefer.com - Joseph Hewes (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AllRefer.com - Joseph Hewes (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Joseph Hewes[hyOOz] Pronunciation Key, 1730–79, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b.
		As a member of the Continental Congress (1774–77), Hewes helped establish the American navy and obtained a commission for John Paul Jones in 1775.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hewes-Jo.html (179 words)

	Descendants of George Hewes/Hughes
		Descendants of George Hewes 1 George Hewes b: Bef.
		Hewes b: Feb 26, 1844 in Stowe, Vermont d: Unknown.........................................
		6 Joseph Hewes b: Dec 5, 1820 d: Mar 16, 1842..................................
	genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com /hughes.htm (5361 words)

	USS Joseph Hewes DE/FF/FFT-1078
		The Joseph Hewes was acting as Orange force against the America Battle Group during their workups for deployment.
		The Joseph Hewes is very special to me. It was were I was initiated by a very special group of Chiefs and a fine Captain.
		Came aboard the Joseph Hewes a couple of days before going on that Med cruise only to find out that the mission had changed and we were going to South East Asia, so much for the working blues and dress blues.
	www.ussjosephhewes.com /guestbookshow.aspx (11937 words)

	USS Joseph Hewes (FF 1078)
		Each of the eight Reserve Training Frigates had its own reserve crew, and was also assigned four "nucleus crews" which would man the 32 decommissioned KNOX-class frigates in the case of a reactivation of these ships.
		Decommissioned on June 30, 1994, the JOSEPH HEWES was sold to Taiwan where she was recommissioned as LAN YANG.
		USS JOSEPH HEWES loses power when a main engine line shaft bearing breaks in stormy seas.
	navysite.de /ff/ff1078.htm (168 words)

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