Terry & Nancy's Ancestors

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Col. Nicholas Lewis1,2,3

ID# 1254, (1728 - )

Parents:

  • Father: Col. Robert Lewis
  • Mother: Jane Meriwether

Key Events:

  • Born: in 1728 in "Belvoir", Albemarle Co., Virginia.4,5
  • Married: Mary Walker.6,3,7
  • Died: in "Belvoir", Albemarle Co., Virginia.7
  • Buried: in Lewis graveyard, on the west branch of the Rivanna, Charlottesville.8

Children with Mary Walker:

  • Jane W. Lewis
  • Mildred W. Lewis
  • Thomas Walker Lewis+ (1763 - 1807)
  • Mary Lewis
  • Nicholas Meriwether Lewis
  • Elizabeth Lewis+ (1769 - 1841)
  • Robert Warner Wood Lewis
  • Alice Thornton Lewis
  • John P. Lewis
  • Charles Lewis
  • Frances Lewis
  • Margaret Lewis+

Citations

  1. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 91, 92.
  2. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 389, extract from 1st Series, Vol. XI (1902) pp 39-47, 146, citing deed recorded in Hanover Co, dated 27 Apr 1734, in which he "gave five negroes to his five children."
  3. Anderson, Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott), Lewises, Meriwethers, and Their Kin, pg 67.
  4. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998, shows home, county, and state.
  5. Anderson, Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott), Lewises, Meriwethers, and Their Kin, pg 67 shows year, and that his father was ob "Belvior."
  6. Genealogical Publishing Co., Genealogies of Virginia Families - William and Mary Quarterly, vol III, pg 391, extract from 1st Series, Vol. XI (1902) pp 39-47, 146.
  7. Freeman, Deborah Anne Cobb, Family File "David and Deborah.GED," 31 Jul 1998.
  8. Meriwether, Minor, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 92.