. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . tical honors, but on the con-trary preferred to follow a quiet life, his prominent char-acteristics being unostentatious benevolence, humility,and the unassuming life which he led. He died October5th 1866, leaving, as the result of his industrious and fru-gal life, a good property to his widow and his only son,William Henry Hewlett, who now together occupy thehomestead. The surviving Mrs. Hewlett and the sonare both members of the Episcopal church at inherits lar
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . tical honors, but on the con-trary preferred to follow a quiet life, his prominent char-acteristics being unostentatious benevolence, humility,and the unassuming life which he led. He died October5th 1866, leaving, as the result of his industrious and fru-gal life, a good property to his widow and his only son,William Henry Hewlett, who now together occupy thehomestead. The surviving Mrs. Hewlett and the sonare both members of the Episcopal church at inherits largely those sterling traits of characterwhich gave his father such a firm hold upon the con-fidence of all with whom he had business relations. Thisson, whose portrait appears above, is the last descendantof this branch of the family who bears the name Hew-lett. He succeeded at his fathers death to the manage-ment of the grist-mill on the premises, a mill whichin his fathers time was patronized by hundredsof those whose children and grand-children willread this page when the mill and the miller havepassed away. 434. ?i?m. JOSEPH LAWRENCE HEWLETT. The branch of the Hewlett family that has given nameto Hewletts Point, in North Hempstead, traces its de-scent from George Hewlett, who was one of those men-tioned on page 432 as early residing on Rikers Hewlett after a brief stay on Rikers Islandremoved to the central part of Long Island, and forseveral years was a resident of Hempstead. In 1746 oneof this family removed to what is now known as GreatNeck, and here in 1756 his descendants became ownersof that the neck which has since borne the nameof Hewletts Point. The title deed was executed byLuke conveyed about 250 acres to JosephHewlett. The document was acknowledged May 6th1757 and passed for record by Joseph Kissam, one ofHis Majestys Justices [assistant] of the court of Com-mon Pleas. The grantee named in this deed bequeath-ed the property at h
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