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- Child's Gazetteer of Jefferson County, Town of Wilna
David Hewitt came to Wilna about the year 1800, and built a log house where Charles Horr's grocery now stands, and where his son, John, was born in 1805, the second white child born in the village of Carthage. John Hewitt married Hepsey S. Bassett, daughter of Hezekiah, and two of their children are living, viz.: Wheeler B., in Denver, Colorado, and Clark G. in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Mr. Hewitt was a carpenter and machinist, and was well known throughout the county. He died November 20, 1878.
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