Edward Hewett

Edward Hewett (d.1883) studied at Stepney College before he and his wife, Eliza, were appointed as BMS missionaries to Jamaica in 1842. During the next forty years he would pastor churches at Jericho, Mount Hermon, Mount Carey, the Second Baptist Church in Montego Bay, and Bethel Town. His first wife died in 1846; he next year he married Estheana Burchell (daughter of Thomas Burchell). Hewett died in 1883; his second wife in 1903. See John Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 191-192.