. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . ected president of the com-pany in 1850 and 1852. His health became impaired in1855 and has so continued to the present time. Coming to the county at a period when the variouselements of society were more widely separated, and itwas less imbued with the intrigues of city politics, hewas enabled the more readily to impress upon the com-munity by which he was surrounded the influence of hisupright character. Without brilliant attainments he hadat his command a general fund of u
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . ected president of the com-pany in 1850 and 1852. His health became impaired in1855 and has so continued to the present time. Coming to the county at a period when the variouselements of society were more widely separated, and itwas less imbued with the intrigues of city politics, hewas enabled the more readily to impress upon the com-munity by which he was surrounded the influence of hisupright character. Without brilliant attainments he hadat his command a general fund of useful knowledge andcommon sense; and either in his official or his businesscareer his judgment was rarely at fault. Never hesitat-ing in asserting his principles, he yet deferred to theopinion of others, and in his intercourse with men soughtto gain as well as impart information. In his social andprivate life the kindly glow of his warm heart shed hap-piness and delight upon every one that it reached; andthe ancestral halls of the old brick homestead cannever lose the charm evoked by the memory of hispresence. 432. WILLIAM HEWLETT. THE HEWLETT FAMILY. The Hewletts have been identified with Queens countysince about the time Long Island was first settled bywhite people, but the date of their emigrating fromEngland, the particulars of their occupying what is nowRikers Island, and the history of their final settlementon the south coast of Queens county are matters oftradition rather than history. Traditions agree, how-ever, that the ancestor was George Hewlett, who, withhis four sons, came to America about 1660. Aftersharing the hospitality of the Riker family for a shorttime they took possession of the two small islands for-merly known as Hewletts Islands, now called TheBrothers. They remained here but a few years atmost then removed to the south side of Long Islandand settled at a place now called Merrick, in the townof Hempstead. In due time the sons made settlements for themsel
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