Person:John Hewson (16)

In September 1773 the [John] Hewson family...arrived in the port of Philadelphia, a neat rectangle platted perpendicular to the Delaware River’s western bank. Hewson's business and his home was situated...in Kensington, a suburb of sorts in the adjacent towns called the Northern Liberties.Source:Brackman, 2009

....more to be added. The above used just to show that John Huston was probably unrelated to the Huston's in Old Chester who immigrated to America at an earlier date, settling first in Delaware about 1700.

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Child List

John tells us in a letter to Rufus lincoln dated 1813 that he had a total of 17 children (3 sons, 14 daughters), 10 of whom were living ^[1] the identities of all these children is notknown, though additional work may yield their names. Brackman, 2009 identifies one son as "John", who carried on his fathers Calico printing business. John Hewsston Sr. identifies his eldest son as a Baptist minister, age 45 in 1813, but does not name him. A third son is left unnamed, but married and had children. John Sr. describes him in his first letter to Rufus Lincoln as follows:

I have great reason to be thankful that there is but one Scabby Sheep in my flock, who abandon'd his wife and 5 fine Chilldren, and left them to Starve, it proved the Death of his wife very soon — and his Chilldren we have amongst us — and all this for that Cursed Sin of drinking; he is 43 years of age had a fine Constitution, but got quite deranged in his mind; and now, as the only and last Step I could take to give him a chance to save both Body & Soul; I had had him taken up as as an Insane person, and Sent to the Pensylvania Hospital.

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