History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ^-e ,tcni&-. SHARON. 471 Of Jacob Hewins nothing is yet known previousto his purchase of a house of Samuel Mason in Dor-chester, 19th February, 1655-56. It has been sup-posed that he came from England, but when Hewins, the artist, was there in 1833, hemade many inquiries, but could find no trace or recordof the name. In 1871, however, his son, Mr. CharlesA. Hewins, of West Roxbury, found the family name,Hewins, in Stratford-upon-Avon. There were severalfamilies of th
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ^-e ,tcni&-. SHARON. 471 Of Jacob Hewins nothing is yet known previousto his purchase of a house of Samuel Mason in Dor-chester, 19th February, 1655-56. It has been sup-posed that he came from England, but when Hewins, the artist, was there in 1833, hemade many inquiries, but could find no trace or recordof the name. In 1871, however, his son, Mr. CharlesA. Hewins, of West Roxbury, found the family name,Hewins, in Stratford-upon-Avon. There were severalfamilies of the name in the immediate vicinity and atBirmingham. Mr. Thomas Hewins, of Stratford-upon-Avon, since dead, was an organ builder and theorganist of the beautiful and famous church in Strat-ford where Shakespeare is buried. In the late work of Mr. Halliwell Phillips, who hasspent the last thirty years in searching with greatdiligence for every fact and record connected withShakespeare, we find the Hewins name in connectionwith the Shakespeare family. Shakespeares motherwas Mary Arden, the sixth daughter of Robert eldest
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