Col. Stanton Hewitt

DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN THOMAS HEWITT OF STONINGTON, CONN.. Compiled by Virginia Hewitt Watterson, 1996. Found in the Joseph Smith Library, Salt Lake City, Ut. Page 74.

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Stanton Hewitt, Jr. married Mary Avery and they resided in North Stonington, Conn. Both were buried in the Hewitt Cemetery, No. Stonington, Conn. He was a farmer, grist and saw mill owner, and innkeeper in No. Stonington. He served as a Colonel in the cavalry during the War of 1812. He was elected Represtntative and Senator from North Stonington, Conn.

GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, page 886.

Col. Stanton Hewitt spent his boyhood in Ledyard and North Stonington and spent some years on Hewitt Hill with his uncle Eli Hewitt. After marriage he lived in a house he build in North Stonington and later moved to the house now occupied by his son Charles Edwin Hewitt, which was built by William Avery, his father-in-law, about 1790. He owned a grist mill and a shingle mill in North Stonington and was a well known citizen. His wife was a worthy member of the Congregational Church. Col. Hewitt was also prominent in political life, was twice elected to the Legislature, and once ran for the Senate. He received his title as an officer in the local militia.

VITAL RECORDS OF NORTH STONINGTON, NEW LONDON CO., CONN., Book 1, page 38

HEWITT, Stanton, son of Stanton & Lucinda, b. July 11, 1788.

"He was a farmer and inn keeper; representative to the general assembly ; colonel of cavalry in the war of 1812."

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 702