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Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt, Born in England 1766. Emigrated to American Colonies as a child. At age 15 served with George Washington in the Revolutionary war as a freight wagon driver. Hewitt fought at the Battle of Yorktown. A bronze plaque on a boulder in a Birmingham, Alabama, City Park, lists him among the "Heroes of the American Revolution." He married Mary Jane Kirkland, 1797.They had five children, John Hewitt, James Highnight Hewitt, Elizabeth "Betsy" Hewitt, Goldsmith "Whitius" Whitehouse Hewitt II, and Sarah Hewitt. Subsequent generations carried the name Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt, two of which fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, one was a private and in another company another was a captain, who later became a U.S. Congressman. (From information published at Hewitt Family Reunion, Birmingham, Alabama, 1993, and Hewitt Family Historian, Lloyd Kurtz.)Hewittjoe2001 (talk) 04:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Joe B. Hewitt (hewittjoe2001)