Maybury Hill is a historic house at 346 Snowden Lane, in

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, Mercer County,

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, United States. Built about 1725, it was the birthplace and boyhood home of

Joseph Hewes Joseph Hewes (July 9, 1730– November 10, 1779) was an American Founding Father, a signer of the Continental Association and U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a native of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was born in 1730. Hewes's parents wer ...

(1730-1799), a signer of the

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. The house, an architecturally excellent example of Georgian domestic architecture, was designated a

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in 1971 for its association with Hewes. It is a private residence not open to the public.

Description and history

Maybury Hill is located in a residential setting of northern Princeton, on the west side of Snowden Lane between Maybury Hill Road and Overbrook Drive. It is a -story masonry structure, with woodframe ells to the side and rear. It is built out of fieldstone which was finished in the 20th century in concrete, and is covered by a gabled roof. It has brick chimneys at each gable end. The interior follows a typical central hall plan, with a staircase rising in the main hall, a parlor to the left extending the full depth of the main block, and a dining room and kitchen to the right. Original features in these rooms include exposed beams and wooden paneling, and a tiled fireplace in the dining room. With The house was built about 1725, originally as a single block with a detached kitchen structure. Damaged by fire, it was reconstructed in 1735. In 1753 an ell was added, joining the main block to the kitchen and giving the house its overall L shape. It was leased by Arron Hewes between 1730 and 1755, and it is there where is son Joseph Hewes was born in 1730. Educated at

, Hewes entered business and politics in

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, operating a mercantile business and serving in the North Carolina colonial legislature. During the

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he served in the

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, and signed the

. He died in

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in 1779 while serving in Congress.

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