The English Ancestral Family and American Descendants of William and Deborah Hewes of Ouldmans Creek Plantation, Salem County, New Jersey and of Marcus Hook, Chester County, Pennsylvania
by Barbara Jean Cox
Category: Reference

This family history begins with Rognwald, Count of Maerc, Normandy, born about 850 A.D.. After 1070, records beginning with William de la Heuse place the family in England, mostly Somerset. William Hewes was born 1 March 1623 at St. Decumans parish, North Somerset, England. In 1657, William married Deborah Pedrick (born ca. 1640 and died after 1705). In the early 1670s William and Deborah Hewes immigrated to New Jersey. He died in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1698. Their descendants have spread across the United States.