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Why is Hewitt’s study of the cosmologies both embraced and rejected by many scholars and yet relatively obscure to many communities? What ancient traditional values, ceremonies, and philosophies are con -
John Hewitt was a poet, historian, activist, and humanist: a founding member of the Belfast Peace League, and of the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, Northern Ireland. Hewitt was born, and died, in Belfast, but spent many years in Coventry as Art Director of the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.
Aug 20, 2015 · When John Harold Hewitt was born on 28 October 1907, the city perhaps had passed its zenith, but the natal place—Cliftonpark Avenue—and its attachment to a predominantly Protestant district, indicated the fractured condition of civil society.
J.N.B. Hewitt. John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 – October 14, 1937) was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York.
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John Hewitt was born on January 8, 1777 in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England. Although he learned his father’s trade of cabinetmaking, he became a machinist at the nearby Boulton & Watts engine works in Soho. John Hewitt immigrated to the United States in January of 1796 and soon gained employment at Nicholas J. Roosevelt’s foundry along the Passai...
The Records consist of one volume containing daily entries of furniture orders, credit accounts for craftsmen, and invoices of shipments from John Hewitt’s cabinetmaking business in Belleville, New Jersey and New York City. Large portions of these transactions are undated, however the volume dates from 1800-1814. The largest section of the record b...
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 84, John Hewitt Cabinetmaker Records, The New Jersey Historical Society.
Acquisition Information
The record book was donated by Mrs. Alex M. Linnett through Dr. William S. Disbrow in January of 1921. At the time the book was accessioned, it was separated from four record books used by Caleb W. Bruen, a Newark distiller and cabinetmaker. Return to the Table of Contents
Nevins, Allan. Abram S. Hewitt, With Some Accounts of Peter Cooper.New York : Harper & Brothers, 1935. Return to the Table of Contents
- Hewitt, John, 1777-1857.
- 0.1 linear feet / 1 volume
- 1800-1814
- John Hewitt (1777-1857), CabinetmakerRecords
Apr 15, 2016 · John Hewitt, Our Avenue Our Avenue is only one example of Hewitt’s poetry which tells the story of Belfast. It describes a street on which he lived in his youth, painting an image of Belfast in the early half of the 20th century, before it became the fast-paced modern city we know today.
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Nov 9, 2017 · Woodward, Guy, ‘ “We must know more than Ireland”: John Hewitt and Eastern Europe ’, in Ireland, West to East: Irish Cultural Interactions with Central and Eastern Europe, eds O’Malley, Aidan and Patten, Eve, Oxford, Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
