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IV. James.
V. Dr. Robert T., a surgeon C. S. N.
VI. Ann, married Mr. Hay, of Missouri, U. S. consul at Jaffa. He d leaving one child, John Baldwin Hay. now (1878) United States consul- general at Constantinople, Turkey. Mrs. Hay has charge of a mission school at Jaffa.
Dr. Robert T. Baldwin, a surgeon in the U. S. A. in the war of 1812; married first, Sally Mackey (no issue ); second, Portia Hopkins, and had issue :
I. Cornelia, married J. Peyton Clarke.
II. Mary Briscoe, married Rev. J M. P. Atkinson, D. D., president of Hampden-Sidney College.
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III. Dr. Robert.
IV. Ludwell.
V. John, d 1877.
Dr. Archibald Stuart Baldwin married Kitty Mackey, sister to his brother Robert's first wife. Issue :
I. Mary, married Mr. Tidball, a lawyer ; moved to California.
II. Margaret, married Robert Whitehead, a lawyer of Nelson county, Va.
III. Catherine, married Dr. Sigismund Neil.
IV. Dr. Robert F., superintendent State Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va .; a colonel and surgeon in C. S. A .; d 1879.
V. Dr. John, married a d of Hon. Richard W. Barton, M. C. from Vir- ginia, &c Hed in 1862.
VI. Dr. Cornelius, married a d of Marshall Jones, of New Or- leans.
VII. Sallie.
VIII. Fannie.
Mary Briscoe Baldwin married William W. Donaghe. Issue:
I. Margaret, D., married Rev. Robert White, D. D.
II. Dr. Briscoe B., married Miss Brooke.
III. Mary A., unm.
IV. Annie, married H. Jouette Gray.
V. William W., married Lucy Callaghan.
William Daniel Baldwin married Margaret, d of John C. Sowers. He d aged twenty-seven, leaving only one child, Mary Julia Baldwin.
THE KOINER FAMILY.
Maj. Absolom Koiner has kindly furnished the following brief account of his family :
"The Koiner family, one of the most numerous in the county, with branch- es of it settled in nearly all of the states south and west of New England, is of German origin, and has been traced as far back as the year 1650, on the Parish records of Winterlingen, Wurtenburg, where a portion of the family still remains. The family name from 1650 to the 29th of January, 1720, when Michael Koinath, the progenitor of the American family was born, was variously spelled, viz: Koinath, Kaeinath, Konot, Koynat, Keinot, Keinath, Keinodt, Kainath, and Michael's birth is registered Koinath .- Michael emigrated to America between 1740-45, and settled in Lancaster county, Pa. The records of the Lutheran church at New Holland, in said county, contains "the marriage of Michael Keinet or Keined, son of Con- rad Keinet, of Wurtenburg, to Margaret Diller, daughter of Casper Diller on the 21st of February, 1749." The Dillers are a numerous family to this
day, and are chiefly Lutherans. Tradition has it, that Michael Koiner made repeated trading voyages across the Atlantic, and on his last voyage a sister accompanied him to America. Caught in a storm, he was com- pelled to throw his goods (firearms) overboard, and his sister was swept into the sea. On his return to Pennsylvania he engaged in smithing trade to restore his lost fortunes. He was a man of medium size, of great ener- gy and firmness. He was one of the first to clear away the brush wood, and build at Millerstown, Pa., where his son Casper was born, and proba- bly others. Subsequently he moved west of the Susquehanna river into
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that part of Cumberland county which is now Franklin county, and settled on the Yellow-breaches creek. He here became the owner of land. He had ten sons and three daughters, namely, according to seniority : 1,- George Adam ; 2, Conrad ; 3, George Michael; 4, Mary; 5, Elizabeth ; 6, Casper ; 7, Catharine ; 8, John; 9, Martin; 10, Jacob ; 11, Christian ; 12, Philip ; and 13, Frederick. The daughter's names, after marriage, were Mary Hedabaugh, Elizabeth Balsley, wife of Christian ; Catharine Slagle, wife of Jacob. The families of the first and last named daughters have gone to the west. His sons, George Adam and Casper, came to Au- gusta county, Va., first. About the year 1787 their father came and pur- chased farms ; the first, a tract of 300 acres for £335, conveyed to him on the 22nd Aug., 1787, as Michael Coynant, of Cumberland county, Pa.
On 25th September, 1790, there was conveyed to him 200 acres by Hef- flepower. On the 21st October, 1790, 303 acres, on South River, by Arch- ibald Bowling, for £400. The latter is the farm on which he settled and lived for about six years preceding his death. This farm has been in his family to the present, and is now owned and occupied by Casper B. Koin- er, his great-grandson. Michael, the patriarch, died 7th of November, 1796. His wife's age was 79 years. Both were buried at Koiner's, now Trinity church, near the South River. He and his family primarily be- longed to the Lutheran branch of the Protestant church. All the family of the progenitor came to Virginia except his son Conrad, who remained in Pennsylvania, and reared a numerous family there. His sons George Adam, Casper, Martin, Philip, Frederic and George Michael remained and died in Augusta county, Va. The rest, who came from Pennsylvania, subsequently emigrated to other states,-John, at an early day, to Ohio, and founded a prosperous family ; Christian to West Virginia, and Jacob not remembered.
"The farms of these early setlers have, with great uniformity, remained in the hands of their posterity, to wit : The farm of George Adam is still in the possession of his grandson, George K. Keiser ; that of Casper in the possession of his son, Simon ; that of Martin, on the Glades, in the posses- sion of a daughter descendant of the Bell family ; that of Philip in the pos- session of his son, David W .; and that of George Michael in the posses- sion of his son, Michael A.
"The oldest three sons were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and Phil- ip, one of the younger, was an officer in the war of 1812, with others of the second generation·
"Casper, one of the first to emigrate from Pennsylvania to Virginia, was the father of the most numerous and prosperous family. He had nine sons and two daughters, viz : I, Jacob ; 2, Michael ; 3, John ; 4, Philip ; 5, Da- vid ; 6, Samuel ; 7, Martin ; 8, Simon ; and 9, Benjamin. The daughters were, I, Mary, the wife of George Koiner; and 2 Susan, the wife of Dr. Samuel G. Henkel. Each of these, with scarcely an exception, had large and prosperous families, who are mainly still residents of Augusta county. With a few exceptions, only, agriculture has engaged their attention, at- tended with uniform development and success."
GEN. R. H. LEE.
The following interesting letter to the late Major Robert Grattan, refer- ring to a company of horse composed almost exclusively of Augusta men who marched to Western Pennsylvania to aid in suppressing the whiskey
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insurrection, will be read with interest by all, more especially by the de- scendants of those patriotic men :
HARRISONBURG, VA., September 23, 1882 :
COL. JOHN L. PEYTON :
Dear Sir,-Enclosed you will find the letter I spoke to you of. I am sorry I could not send it to you sooner. You see it is addressed to Capt. Grattan, who was my grandfather, and was generally known in after years as Major Robert Grattan. The company of cavalry which he commanded was composed of volunteers principally from Augusta county, and I have heard my father say that his father had often spoken to him of the splen- did physique of the men. Among them were Millers, Turks. Bells, &c. My grandfather was the smallest man of the company, and he stood six feet in his stockings. The letter of Gen. Lee is wholly in his own hand- writing, as you observe, and is quite complimentary in its terms.
Very truly yours,
GEO. G. GRATTAN.
SIR-
HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 17, 1794. PITTSBURG.
As soon as you can make it convenient, after joining your troops, you will please to move by the way of Morgantown to Staunton. Being fur- nished with means to subsist your men and horses, you will of course take your own measures for that purpose. I prefer your taking a route to Morgantown from McFarland's, on the west side of the Monongehala river, if any can be found convenient. You will deposit your tents, &c , agreeably to general orders, at Winchester. The arms you will retain, provided you hold yourself responsible to the United States for them. If so, favor me with a letter to this effect, enclosing a return of the arms.
I cannot conclude this letter without making my acknowledgments to you, your officers and soldiers in their cheerful and manly demeanor dur- ing the expedition. To me they have given great satisfaction ; to them- selves they have done great honor. I wish you and them a happy meet- ing with your friends, and shall always take pleasure in manifesting, by every means in my power, the high esteem I entertain of the merit of your troop. Sincerely,
RICH'D H LEE.
CAPT. GRATTAN.
LIST OF DEEDS.
The following is a list of deeds of land made by William Beverly on his manor, the number of acres and the name of the person to whom sold between the years 1738 and 1744:
John Lewis, 2,071 acres, February 20, 1738 ; William Cathey, 446 acres, September 28, 1738; Samuel Givens, 311 acres, September 27, 1738 ; George Hutcheson, 380 acres, February 20, 1738; George Hutcheson, 530 acres, February 21, 1738; George Hutcheson, 667 acres, February 20, 1738 ; Thomas Black, 599 acres, June 4, 1739 : James Caldwell, 600 acres, February 20, 1738 ; George Robinson, 892 acres, February 20, 1738 ; Jas. Davis, 570 acres, February 20, 1738; Dan. Mahahan, 510 acres, February 20, 1738 ; P. Campbell, 1,546 acres, February 20, 1738; Th. Henderson, 391 acres, February 20, 1738; John Wilson, 340 acres, June 5, 1739; Wm. Smith, 135 acres, June 5, 1739; John Trimmel, 447 acres, June 5, 1739 ; John Anderson, 747 acres, June 5, 1738 ; Samuel Guy, 324 acres, June 5, 1738 ; John Davison, 785 acres, June 5, 1738; Samuel Davison, 253
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James McClure, 408 acres, June 5, 1738 ; Andrew McClure, 370 acres, February 20, 1738; Fra. McClure, 196 acres, June 5, 1739; John Wilson, 200 acres, June 5, 1739; Joseph Tees, 465 acres, June 5, 1739; Martha Mitchell, 279 acres, October 1, 1739 ; George Home, 375 acres, October I, 1739; John Moffett. 396 acres, February 29, 1739 ; John Robert and William C. Weysties, 1,614 acres, February 29, 1739 ; and the following between this time and 1744 : John Mills, 650 acres ; James Desper, 576 acres ; Robt. Turk, 1,313 acres ; William Sedgerwood, 387 acres ; James Carr, 473 acres ; Finley McClure, 441 acres; Robt. King, 750 acres ; Al- exander Breckenridge, 245 acres; Samuel Hughes, 440 acres ; Th. Kirk- patrick, 296 acres ; James Fulton, 637 acres; Sarah Ramsey, 390 acres ; William Johnston, 100 acres; Robert Page, 202 acres ; Pat. Martin, 321 acres ; John Searight, 413 acres; Wm. Wright, 413 acres; John Hutche- son, 292 acres ; David Edmiston, 350 acres ; John Hart, 400 acres ; James Risk, 800 acres ; Pat. Cook, 590 acres ; Robt. Campbell, 350 acres; Nat. Patterson, 201 acres ; James Robinson, 395 acres ; Moses Thompson, 1,040 acres; Moses Thompson, 410 acres; William Vance, 400 acres ; Joseph Reid, 454 acres ; George Caldwell, 405 acres; R. McDonald, 141 acres ; D. Byrne, 567 acres ; George Anderson, 41 1 acres ; Robert Patter- son, 331 acres ; John Pickens, 764 acres ; Robert Crockett, 322 acres ; Jas. Lesley, 226 acres ; D. Campbell, 466 acres ; Robert McClenehan, 331 acres ; John McCutchen, 920 acres; James Patton, 474 acres; William Hutcheson, 372 acres; Robert Young. 373 acres; Pat. Hays. 600 acres ; John Breckenridge, 684 acres ; William Robinson, 403 acres; Sam. Doag, 647 acres ; Joseph Reed, 100 acres ; Fr. Beaty, 588 acres; Ar. Hambre- ton, 515 acres ; J. McUlluck, 230 acres ; Robt. Black, 201 acres ; Andrew Russell, 496 acres; William Skillim, 635 acres; George and Robert Breckenridge, 761 acres; Jacob Lockart. 436 acres; John Craig. 335 acres ; Robert Cunningham, 483 acres ; Alex. Campbell, 559 acres ; Wm. Thompson, 94 acres.
LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE OF POINTS IN STAUNTON.
" The Virginias" for September contains the following, which will not only prove interesting to hundreds of our readers, but may be of value to some :
We are indebted to Supt. J. E. Hilgard for the exact latitudes and lon- gitudes of points in the city of Staunton, Va , determined by observations of Assistant A. T. Mosman, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey :
N. Latitude.
W. Longitude.
Astronomical station, Sears Hill.
. 38° 081
46°. 54
79° 041 1911. 08
N. mer. monument, Lushbaugh Hill
.38
09
39.
84
79
04
19.
08
Stand-pipe at reservoir.
38
09
12.
89
79
04
44.
52
Station City-view Hill.
38
08
49. 99
79
03
29.
91
S mer. monument, Gaymont.
.38
07
57.
53
79
04
04
04
04
03
57.
25
Lutheran church, tower ornament.
.38
08
58.
21
79
04
25.
29
Second Presbyterian church, S. E. corner tower
38
09
OI.
30
70
04
30.
48
Episcopal church, N. E. corner tower.
.38
08
56.
33
79
04
31.
43
Betsy Bell Mountain.
.38
08
14
79
03
21
Mary Grey Mountain
.38
07
51
89
02
55
19. 36.
20.
72
First Presbyterian church, rod on spire.
.38
09
OI.
89
79
70
Western Lunatic Asylum, steam chimney.
.38
08
40.
63
Court-house, ball on belfry.
38
08
55.
89
Baptist churah spire ..
.38
08
56.
79
79
17.
09
16
46
39
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Some one will ask of what use is it to have so many accurate determina- tions of points in one city. We answer that by using these absolutely determined and intervisible points for reference a competent civil engineer can make a survey of lots, etc., that can be restored at any time even if all local evidence of its corners are destroyed, and by like references an accurate map, impossible without the aid of such geodetic determina- tions, can be made of the city and its surroundings. The 9-sheet map of Virginia makes the position of Staunton-Lat 38° 08' 30"; Long. 79º 63" ; Gray's atlas makes it Lat 38° 09"; Long. 79° 04".
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
Both justice and decency require that we should bestow on our forefathers an honorable remembrance .- THUCYDIDES.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.
HON. THOMAS LEWIS.
Thomas Lewis, the eldest son of the Founder, was born in Donegal, Ireland, April 27th, 1718, and died in Augusta, January 31st, 1790. He was a man of strong and cultivated mind, of spirit and enterprise, and during the colonial period and the Revolutionary war rendered important services to the country. In 1746, he was appointed colonial surveyor of Augusta, and much of Washington's great wealth was acquired by sur- veys of land under his authority and in common with him. He and Col. John Wilson represented the county in the House of Burgesses almost unin- terruptedly from 1745 to 1767, and they voted, in 1765, for Patrick Henry's celebrated resolutions declaring that this "general assembly have the only exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabi- tants of this colony; that any efforts in an opposite direction are illegal, unconstitutional and unjust, and have a manifest tendency to destroy Brit- ish as well as American freedom." In 1775, he was unanimously elected delegate to the Colonial Congress, and was one of the first to enroll his name among the "Sons of Liberty." He was commissioner of the old confederacy of the thirteen colonies, in 1778, to treat with the Indian tribes who had been defeated at the battle of Point Pleasant, and successfully concluded his negotiations, thus setting free from the defence of the west- ern border thousands of our best troops. who hastened to join the stand- ard of Washington and fight for the independence of their country. He was a member of the convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States, and by a vote so nearly divided that the patriot yet rejoices at his country's escape from the anarchy which would have been the con- sequence of a different result. He urged with eloquence and ability the adoption of the Constitution and voted for its ratification. After the Revolution. Washington made him a visit at Lewiston, in Rockingham. and there arranged their land claims. Gov. Gilmer says in his Sketches of Upper Georgia. p. 548 : " My father, then a youth of nineteen, return- ing from my Grandfather Lewis', where he had been visiting my mother, met Washington fording the Shenandoah river in the dusk of the evening.
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Washington asked him how he should go to Mr. Lewis'. My father, tak- ing him for some big Dutchman of the neighborhood, who was poking fun at him on account of his frequent visits to the Lewis family, answered, " follow your nose."
It is a noticeable fact in a country of such rapid changes as ours that his descendants still own and reside upon his estate of Lewiston, near Port Re- public, in the present county of Rockingham. His great-grandson, Hon. John F. Lewis. is the present Lieut-Governor of Virginia ; another great- grandson, Hon. L. L. Lewis, is Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and a great-great-grandson, D. S. Lewis, United States At- torney for the Western District of Virginia.
Gen. Samuel H. Lewis, a grandson, in a letter of date April 6th, 1855, addressed to Hon. Samuel Price, of Lewisburg, W. Va., thus speaks of him : " The defective sight of Thomas Lewis prevented him from joining his gallant brothers in the field. With the aid of glasses, which he always used, he was hardly able to tell an Indian from a white man at the distance of twenty paces." The letter alluded to above says further : "I have heard that he was six feet in height, robust but not inclined to corpulency ; his eyes and hair were dark ; his complexion fair. I have heard him spoken of as a handsome, fine-looking man. The caste of his profile I cannot describe, but I do not think it was Roman or aquiline, as I have heard it said that my elder brother, Thomas, resembled him in features. He was exceedingly near-sighted, and was under the necessity of using glasses habitually. There is no family portrait extant of him that I know of. He was of a grave and serious temper ; strict, perhaps rigid, in his notions of moral and religious duty. Though a supporter of and a regular attendant upon the services of the Established Church, he was not a communicant. He was possessed of a liberal education, and was probably one of the best mathematicians of his day in the State. He had a literary taste, and when not engaged in business or occupied with company, was generally to be found in his library. His collection of books was very extensive and valuable, embracing many of the most important works then extant in history, biography, moral philosophy, political economy, national law, theology and poetry. In his theological department were Tillotson, Bar- row, South, 'the Boyle Lecturer,' and other standard works of the English church. He was born in Donegal county, Ireland, on the 27th of April, 1718, and died at his residence, in Rockingham county, on the Shenan- doah river, three miles from Port Republic, on the 31st day of January, 1790. In his will he fixed the place on his own estate where he wished to be buried, and desired that the burial service might be read from the Book of Common Prayer by his friend, Peachy Gilmer. He died of a cancer in the face. He was, as I have always understood, the eldest son of John Lewis. He married on the 26th of January, 1749, Jane, the daughter of
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William Strother, Esq., of Stafford county, whose estate, opposite to Fred- ericksburg, joined the residence of the father of Gen. Washington, with whom (G. W.) she was a school-mate, and nearly of the same age. She died in September, 1820. Thomas and Jane Lewis brought up a family of thirteen children."
GEN. ANDREW LEWIS, BORN 1720, IN IRELAND, DIED 1781, IN VA.
The following sketch of this distinguished soldier is from the pen of Fred'k Johnston, of Salem :
"Those who have seen the equestrian statue of George Washington near the Capitol of Virginia in Richmond, must have observed among the no- ble figures placed below and around that of the Father of his Country one marked with the name of Andrew Lewis, the hero of Point Pleasant. His strikingly majestic form and figure never fail to remind me when I look at it, (as I have often done, and each time with increasing admiration) of the memorable remark made by the Governor of the Colony of New York, when General Lewis was a commissioner on behalf of Virginia at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in New York, in 1768, that "the earth seemed to tremble under him as he walked along." He it was who is the subject of this "sketch."
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Andrew, the second son of John Lewis, resided on the Roanoke, in Bo- tetourt county, as did his brother Charles. The will of Andrew Lewis. which is on record in the county court of Botetourt-dated in 17So, and admitted to record in February, 1782, showing that he died between those periods-devises to his son William two thousand acres of land lying on Roanoke river. This embraces the fine body of lands lying west of Salem for many years owned by Dr. John Johnston, on which there is a magnifi- cent spring, which, in years gone by, furnished the water power for a man- ufacturing mill, that has long since disappeared. It also embraces the very valuable farm know as "Dropmore," containing one thousand acres. bought from Capt. William Lewis by Nathaniel Burwell, and was sold in the 1869 for $100,000-one hundred dollars an acre-probably the largest sale of the same quantity of land that was ever made in Virginia. As will be more particularly stated hereafter, Gen. Andrew Lewis, who owned this land at the time of his death in 1781, was buried on an eminence overlook- ing the beautiful valley of Roanoke river, spreading out for six miles above and below the spot where the grave is now marked, from which spot I hope his dust will be removed at an early day to the public cemetery near by.
Some of the decendants of Gen. Lewis are now living in Roanoke coun- ty. Col. Thomas Lewis and his brother Andrew, and great-grand-chil- dren-also Maj. Andrew L. Pitzer, and other children of Madison Pitzer, who married Eliza Lewis. daughter of Capt. Andrew Lewis-also the chil- dren of Col. Elijah McClanahan. who married Agatha Lewis, daughter of Col Andrew Lewis. of Bent Mountain. Mrs. Colin Bass, now residing in Salem, is one of those children. Capt. Andrew Lewis married Jane Mc- Clanahan, a sister of Col. Elijah and James McClanahan, and at the close of his life resided on the farm now owned by Capt. Robert B. Moorman. half a mile west of Big Lick Depot.
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Col. Andrew Lewis, of Bent Mountain, formerly in Montgomery county. now in Roanoke, was one of the sons of Gen. Andrew Lewis, who died about the year 1844, at an advanced age-about 84. My personal recol- lections of Col. Lewis are very distinct, having often seen him in my boy- hood, at my father's house, and at his own house on Bent mountain,where he owned an immense body of lands that were valuable for pasturage and raising fine cattle in former days. and where, like Alexander Selkirk, he reigned as "monarch of all he surveyed," for a great number of years. also met with him a few times in the latter part of his life, after religion (which he embraced when near eighty years old) had softened some of the rough points of his character. Like all the Lewises,he was a man of com- manding figure and appearance, reminding one of the description given by Stuart in his "Historical Memoir" of General Andrew Lewis :- "He was upwards of six feet high, of uncommon strength and agility, and his form of the most exact symmetry. He had a stern countenance, and was of a reserved and distant deportment, which rendered his presence more awful than engaging."
Col. Andrew Lewis was twice married-first to a daughter of Thomas Madison, by whom he had three children. one, Charles, who died un- married, and Thomas, who was killed by McHenry in a duel fought with rifles. which was fatal to both parties. This event created great interest at the time of its occurrence, not only on account of the high standing and character of the parties, but of its tragical termination. The only daughter of Col. Lewis by this marriage was Agatha, who married Col. Elijah Mc- Clanahan. and left a large number of descendants. By his second mar- riage with Miss Bryant. he had one daughter, Kitty, who married Joseph King, and is still living on Bent Mountain with her son, Joseph R. King.
Doctor Andrew Lewis was another member of the Lewis family, who lived and died in Botetourt. He was a son of Capt. Wm. Lewis, who was twice married-first to a daughter of Thomas Madison, and afterwards to Nancy McClanahan. sister of Col. Elijah McClanahan. Dr. Lewis rose to great eminence in his profession-married Maria Walton, who is now liv- ing near Salem, and had three children-two daughters and one son .-- One of the daughters, Lucy, married George W. Shanks ; the other, Ma- ry, married Henry A. Edmundson. The son, Dr. Wm. W. Lewis. mar- ried a daughter of Rev. Dr. McFarland, and left a daughter and son, Frank Lewis, who is now at the Seminary, preparing for the ministry, being the only one of the Lewis name (so far as I know) who has devoted himself to that calling. Having thus traced the Botetourt branches of the Lewis fami- ly from their ancestor, John Lewis, of Augusta county, I will now return to my first plan of presenting a sketch of Andrew Lewis, commonly known and referred to as the "hero of Point Pleasant," which is gathered in part from "Howe's Historical Collections," page 204, on Botetourt county- but venturing to suggest a correction in one or two particulars, which will be pointed out-also Charles Campbell's "Introduction to the History of the Colony of the Old Dominion "-from the same author's larger work, "History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia," and from Foote's "Sketches of Virginia," 2d series, all of which are works of high authority.
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