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JOSEPH HEWES  was born in 1730 in Kingston, New Jersey. His parents were Quaker by faith. They were Connecticut farmers who moved to New Jersey in 1728 in search of a more quiet and secure life away from marauding Indians and free of religious prejudices. In the 1720's, many parts of New England were suffering from the frequent hostility of Indians who would roam through the forests and communities raiding the inhabitants and marking their route with the most shocking barbarities. The Indians murderous spir

Hewes, after receiving a public education, was enrolled in Princeton College. He graduated and moved to Philadelphia, where he entered a counting house and was trained to be a merchant. On leaving his employer, he entered into the mercantile business for himself, and soon became an active and prosperous merchant. At the age of thirty, he moved to North Carolina and settled in the village of Edenton, where he became a ship owner and a merchant. The same prosperity, which he had attained in Philadelphia, foll

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