By Eben Putnam

Three principal families were found to include nearly all the name under varied spellings, who had attained prominence in New England.  These were the families founded by Lt. Joshua Hewes of Roxbury, George Hewes of Salisbury, and Abel Huse of Newbury. It presents the origin and history of the name Hewes Hughes, and Huse. Lieutenant Joshua Hewes; a New England pioneer, his homestead and some of his descendants, soldiers in colonial wars  from New England, materials for a genealogical history of other families of the name, and a sketch of Joseph Hewes, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

(673p. (846 actual p., Illus, Index, 1913.