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As an instance of the miswriting of this name, when Mrs. Frances Phripp, in 1742, stood as godmother to one of the Tucker children, she was entered in their bible as Mrs. Frances Phreep. Late Mrs. Mary Phrip Phripp, in the same office, was Mrs. Streep. The name died out in Norfolk when Matthew died without children of his own, and in 1780 devised a large estate to those of his sister, Mrs. Stephen Wright. He had a brother who married Mrs. Mary Anne Walke (her third husband),
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leaving a son and daughter, the wife of Dr. James Ramsay. The son married in 1793 Miss Sallie Kieling, but must have left Norfolk, or died without issue.
VIII. Dinah Mason, the last and eighth daughter of Colonel Lemuel Mason, married (after 1695) a Thoroughgood, but which one of the family none can say. In the Wilson family we find a Lemuel Wilson, and. a generation later a descendant Dinah. In 1714, Mrs. Mary Mason devises to sons Thomas Cluster, John Cluster, and Elizabeth. In 1686, a deed of gift from Lemuel and wife, Anne, to John Griffin and wife, Isabella, Thomas, son of Tristam Mason, sells land with consent of wife, Alice.
FANNY B. HUNTER.
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CHAPTER XVIII
THE LEWIS FAMILY.
Omne
ne Solum
Est
Forti Patria
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Arms-Argent, a dragon's head and neck crased, vertical, holding in the mouth a bloody hand proper.
Crest-A dragon's head and neck erased vertical.
Motto-Omne solum, forti patria est.
It is a question very often discussed of late as to whether the hour makes the man or the man the hour. To a student of the history of Virginia an answer is very soon given, for sinee the settlement of Jamestown, in 1607, which was virtually the birth of this country, there has never arisen a crisis of any kind when Virginia, our mother State, has not had one or more of her sons ready to meet it. When the hour arrives the man appears. We may seareh the pages of history in vain for a nobler or as noble a group of men as Washington and his patriot Virginians in 1776.
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The Lewis family of Virginia is one of the most distinguished families in the State. It is connected by marriage with many of the best-known names, such as Washington, Marshall, Fielding, Merriweather, Daingerfield, Taliaferro and others. The men of the family from the time when they first settled in the colony, about the middle of the seventeenth century, have been men of action and distinction; they have won for themselves the most remarkable reeord as soldiers. It is recorded on the tombstone of "Pioneer John" that he furnished five sons for the Revolution. There were five colonels in the Revolution-Colonel Nicholas, Colonel Fielding, Colonel William, Colonel Charles and Colonel Joel-and quite a number of majors and captains. The Lewises also won a gallant record in the War of 1812, the Mexican War and in the Confederate States Army.
The Lewis family were originally French Huguenots, and left Franee after the revoeation of the Ediet of Nantes, 1685. Three brothers-namely, William, Samuel and John-fled to England. (See Smiles' "History of the Huguenots.") Shortly afterwards William removed to the north of Ireland, where he married a Miss MeClelland; Samuel fixed his residence in Wales, while John continued in England. Deseendants of each of these three brothers are supposed to have settled in Virginia.
About the middle of the seventeenth century four brothers of the Lewis family left Wales:
I. Samuel Lewis, went to Portugal; nothing is known of him.
II. William Lewis, d. in Ireland.
III. General Robert Lewis, d. in Gloucester Co., Va.
IV. John Lewis, d. in Hanover Co., Va.
1. I.
William Lewis1, one of the Welsh brothers; d. in Ireland. Married Miss MeClelland and left one son :
2. I. Andrew Lewis2. Married Miss Calhoun. Issue :
3. I. John Lewis3, b. 1678, in Ireland. Married Margaret Lynn.
4. II. Samuel Lewis2, b. 1680. No issue.
III. John Lewis3 (Andrew2, William1). In 1720 John Lewis left Ireland a fugitive, having stabbed Sir Inango Campbell, his
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Irish landlord, who attempted in a lawless and brutal manner to eviet him from his premises, of which he held a freehold lien. and had slain an invalid brother, before his eyes. HIe first took refuge in Portugal, and later fled to America and settled in Pennsylvania ; then in Augusta Co., Va. In Campbell's "History of Virginia" he is styled as Pioneer John Lewis. He is described as being tall and of great muscular strength, and was one of the best baekwoodsmen of his day. He built his house with port- holes in it, so that he could successfully contend with the savage tribes that infested the country. When Augusta County was organized he was the founder of Staunton, the county seat, and was one of the first magistrates appointed by the Governor. John Lewis died in 1762. On his tombstone it is recorded that he gave five sons to fight the battles of the American Revolution.
John Lewis and Margaret Lynn, his wife, had issue :
5. I. Samuel Lewis4, served with distinetion as a captain in the war between the English and French colonists. His brothers, Andrew, William and Charles, were members of his company, and all four were at Braddock's defeat, and three of them were wounded. Samuel was afterwards eonspie- uous in the defense of Greenbrier County and the border settlements from the Indians. He was born 1716; d. unmarried.
6.
II. Thomas Lewis4, b. in Ireland, 1718.
7. III. Andrew Lewis4, b. in Ireland, 1720.
8. IV. William Lewis4, b. in Ireland, 1724.
9. V. Margaret Lewis4, b. in Ireland, 1726.
10. VI. Anne Lewis4, b. in Ireland, 1728.
11. VII. Charles Lewis4, b. in Virginia, 1736. Aliee Lewis4. Married Mr. Madison.
IV. Col. Andrew Lewis+ (John3, Andrew2, William1), son of John Lewis (Pioneer) and Margaret Lynn, daughter of the Laird of Loeh Lynn, chieftain of the once powerful Clan of Loeh Lynn ; b. in Ireland, 1720. He emigrated with his father to America, and settled in Augusta Co., Va. He took a very active part in the Indian Wars. In 1754 he was twice wounded in the battle of Fort Necessity, under General Washington, by whom he was ap-
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pointed major of his regiment. General Lewis was, with four of his brothers, in a company of which the eldest was eaptain, at Braddoek's defeat, in 1758. General Andrew Lewis was several times a member of the Colonial Legislature.
An Indian war being anticipated, Lord Dunmore appointed General Lewis commander of the Southern forees. September 11, 1774, General Lewis, with eleven hundred men, eommeneed his mareh through the wilderness. After a mareh of one hundred and sixty miles they reached Point Pleasant, at the junetion of the Great Kanawha and Ohio rivers, and there on October 10, 1774, he signally defeated the Shawnee Indians. He is known as the hero of Point Pleasant. His strikingly majestie form and figure never failed to remind me 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." His statue is one of those around that of the father of his country, in Capitol Square, Rieh- mond, Va .; it is marked with the name of Andrew Lewis, the "Hero of Point Pleasant."
General Washington, under whom Lewis had served in various eapaeities, had formed sueh a high estimate of Lewis's eharacter and ability, it is said, that when the chief command of the Revolu- tionary army was proposed to Washington he expressed a wish that it had been given to General Lewis. General Lewis died in 1781.
General Andrew Lewis married (1749) Elizabeth Givens, of Augusta Co., Va., and left issue :
12. I. Captain John Lewis5, who was an officer under his father at Grant's defeat, when he was made prisoner and carried to Quebee and thenee to Franee. Married Patsy Love of Alexandria, Va. Issue :
13. I. Andrew Samuel Lewis". Married Miss Whilby.
14. II.
Charles Lewis". Married daughter of Gen. Abraham Trigg, of Virginia.
15. III. Elizabeth Lewis". Married, sceond, Mr. Ball; third, Mr. Marshall. (Her first husband was Mr. Luke, of Alexandria, Va.)
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16. II. Thomas Lewis3. Married Miss Evans, of Point Pleasant, Va.
17. III. Colonel Samuel Lewis", U. S. A .; d. unmarried in Greenbrier Co., Va.
18. IV. Colonel Andrew Lewis", U. S. A. of the Brent Mountain, b. 1759. Married Eliza, daughter of John Madison, of Montgomery Co., Va .; d. 1844. Issue :
19. I. Charles Lewis6, d. unmarried.
20. II. Thomas Lewis®, a distinguished lawyer who killed and was killed by Mr. MeHenry in a duel with rifles at the distance of thirty yards, the first duel at elose quarters ever fought with rifles in Virginia. Left no issue.
21. III. Lewis®, d. young.
22. IV. Lewis6, d. young.
23. V. Agatha Lewis", b. 1778. Married Col. Elijah Me- Clanahan, of Botetourt Co., Va.
24. V. Annie Lewis5. Married Roland Madison, of Ken- tueky. Issue :
25. I. John Madison".
26. II. Eliza Lewis Madison". Married Mr. Worthington, of Maryland.
27. III. Andrew Lewis Madison", d. captain in U. S. A.
28. IV. Roland Madison", Jr., lived (1873) in Rushville, Indiana.
29. VI. William Lewis", b. 1764. Married, first, Lucy, daughter of John Madison; second, Naney Me- Clenahan.
1. I. General Robert Lewis1, brother of William Lewis1, with his wife and two sons eame to Virginia in 1645, in the good ship "Blessing." The names of the sons were:
2. I. John Lewis2, Sr.
3. II. William Lewis2, of Chemokins, St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co., Va.
II. John Lewis2 (Robert1). Married Isabella Warner, daughter of Augustine Warner, of Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., Va., Speaker of the first House of Burgesses. They had issue:
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4. I. Major John Lewis3, Jr., of Gloucester Co., Va., a member of the Virginia Council, b. Nov. 30, 1669. Married Frances Fielding. She d. 1731; he d. 1754.
5. II. Warner Lewis3. Married Eleanor, widow of William Gooch, son of Sir William Gooch, Governor of Virginia, and daughter of James Bowlcs, of Maryland.
6. III. Lewis3. Married Col. Willis, of Fred-
ericksburg, Va.
7. IV. Lewis3. Married Francis Merriweather.
8. V. John Lewis3.
9. VI. Isabella Lewis3. 10. VII. Anna Lewis3.
III. Major John Lewis3 (John2, Robert1), of Gloucester Co., Va., member of the Virginia Council, b. November 30, 1669. Married Frances Fielding ; d. 1731. Hc d. 1754. Issuc:
11. I. Colonel Robert Lewis4, of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va.
12. II. Colonel Charles Lewis4, of the Byrd.
13. III. Col. Fielding Lewis4. Married, first, Catherine; second, Betty Washington.
IV. Warner Lewis4 (Warner3, John2, Robert1), son of Warner Lewis3 and Eleanor Gooch. Married, first, Mary Chiswell; second, Mary Fleming.
Issue by first marriage :
14. I. Warner Lewis5. Married Courtenay Norton. Issuc : 1. Courtenay Warner Lewis6. Married Mr. Selden, of Gloucester, Va.
IV. Fielding Lewis (Warner3, John2, Robert1), second son of Warner Lewis and Eleanor Gooch. Married Agnes Harwood. They lived at Wcyanoke, on the James River. Fielding Lewis held a highi place in society, and was considered one of the fathers of Virginia agriculture. His portrait, with that of John Taylor, of Caroline, and other distinguished agriculturists, may now be secn in the rooms of the Agricultural Society of Richmond, placed there by order of the society. Issue :
15. I. Margaret Waddrop Lewis5.
16. II. Frances Fielding Lewis5.
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17. III. Anne Lewis".
18. IV. Franees Lewis5.
19. V. Eleanor W. Lewis".
Margaret W. Lewis" married Thomas Marshall, eldest son of Chief Justice Marshall. Their deseendants are given in Volume I, Chapters V, VI, VII.
Eleanor Warner Lewis". Married Robert Douthat. Their de- seendants now living in Baltimore are :
I. Mr. Montgomery O. Selden, his children Allen and Eliza- beth Selden.
II. Mr. Bolling Selden, his children Mrs. Swope, Susan P. Selden, Agnes Lewis Selden and Aliee Selden.
The descendants of Mrs. Courtenay Warner Lewis, who married Mr. William Selden, of Gloucester, are:
Mrs. Charles Dimmoek, Mrs. William Dimmoek, and Mrs. Loyd Tabb. This branch of the family inherited Warner Hall in Gloucester.
V. Franees Fielding Lewis" (Fielding+, Warner3, John?, Robert1), daughter of Fielding Lewis and Agnes Harwood, his wife. Married Archibald Taylor, of Norfolk, Va. Issue :
20. I. Fielding Lewis Taylor", a colonel in the Confederate army, who was killed in a battle. Married Farley Fauntleroy. Issue :
21. I. Arehibald Taylor". Issue :
Married Martha Fauntleroy.
22. I. Arehibald Taylor8.
23. II. Thomas Taylor8, served under Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Confederate army. He was killed at the Battle of Shiloh.
V. Eleanor Warner Lewis" (Fielding+, Warner", John2, Robert1), daughter of Fielding Lewis and Agnes Harwood, his wife. Married Robert Douthat, of Weyanoke. Issue :
Robert Douthat". Married, first, Mary Ambler I Marshall ; seeond, Betty W. Wade. Issue Vol. I.
The issue of William H. Selden and Jane Douthat, were:
I. Robert Selden.
II. Eleanor Selden.
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III. William Selden.
IV. Bolling Selden.
V. Agnes Selden.
VI. Montgomery Selden.
VII. Lewis Selden.
IV. Col. Robert Lewis+ (Major John Lewis3, John2, Robert1), of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. Married Jane, daughter of Nicholas Merriweather ; d. 1757. His will is recorded in Albemarle Co., Va.
IV. Col. Charles Lewis+ (Major John Lewis3, John2, Robert1), of the Byrd. Married Luey, daughter of John Taliaferro, of the Manor Plantation, of Snow Creek, Spottsylvania Co., Va., about 1750.
IV. Colonel Fielding Lewis+ (Major John Lewis3, John2, Robert1), son of Major John Lewis and Franees Fielding, his wife. Married (1746) Catherine Washington, a cousin of General Washington ; seeond, Betty Washington, sister of General Wash- ington.
Col. Fielding settled near Fredericksburg, Va. He was a member of the House of Burgesses, a merchant and vestryman. There is in the possession of a deseendant of Col. Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington, an old family Bible, a hereditary relic for five generations, having been given by Mary Ball Wash- ington to her only daughter, Betty (Mrs. Fielding Lewis), and transmitted directly to her descendants. During the Revolution, in 1776, Col. Fielding Lewis was an ardent patriot and did special service by superintending the manufacture of arms for the use of the army.
Col. Fielding Lewis and Catherine Washington, his first wife, had issue :
24. I. John Lewis5, b. 1747. Married five times.
25. II. Franeis Lewis5, d. young.
26. III. Warner Lewis5, d. young.
Issue by second wife :
27. IV. Fielding Lewis5.
28. V. Augustine Lewis5.
29. VI. Warner Lewis5.
30. VII. George Washington Lewis5.
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31. VIII. Mary Lewis5.
32. IX. Charles Lewis".
33. X. Samuel Lewis5.
34. XI. Bettie Lewis".
35. XII. Lawrence Lewis5.
36. XIII. Robert Lewis5.
37. XIV. Howell Lewis5, b. 1771. Married Miss Pollard, and left issue.
V. John Lewis" (Fielding+, John?, John2, Robert1), son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Catherine Washington, his first wife, b. 1747. He was a graduate of Oxford, England, and died in Logan County, Kentucky. Married five times, first, Lucy Thornton; second, Elizabeth, daughter of Gabriel Jones; third, Miss Jones ; fourth, Mary Ann Fontaine, widow of Bowles Armistead; fifth, Mrs. Mercer, née Carter.
V. Fielding Lewis5 (Fielding+, John3, John2, Robert1), fourth son of Col. Fielding Lewis. Married and died in Fairfax Co., Va., leaving no male issue. Issue :
38. I. Catherine Lewis". Married Henry Chew Dade.
39. II. Lucinda LewisG. Married Gilson Foote.
V. George W. Lewis5 (Fielding+, John3, John2, Robert1), seventh son of Col. Fielding, b. June 24, 1755. He was a captain in Colonel Baylor's regiment of cavalry, during the Revolutionary War, and commander of General Washington's life-guards. It is said that General Mercer expired in his arms at the battle of Princeton. Married Miss Daingerfield and lived in Clarke Co., Va .; died at his county seat, Marmion, in 1871. He enjoyed the highest confidence of General Washington and was sent by him on a secret expedition to Canada.
George Washington Lewis and Miss Daingerfield, his wife, had issue :
40. I. Mary Lewis". Married Col. Byrd Willis. (See Willis Family, Chapter IX.)
41. II. Daingerfield Lewis".
42. III. Samuel Lewis".
43. IV. Bettie Lewis", b. 1765. Married Charles Carter. (See Carter Family, Chapter VII.)
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V. Lawrenee Lewis5 (Fielding4, John3, John2, Robert1), twelfth son of Colonel Fielding Lewis, b. 1767. He lived on his estate, Woodlawn, near Mount Vernon. He was the adopted son and executor of the will of General Washington. Married Eleanor Parke Custis, daughter of Washington Parke Custis, adopted ehild of Mrs. Washington. They had issue :
44. I. Lorenzo Lewis6.
45. II. Lawrence Lewis®.
46. III. Frances Parke Lewis6.
47.
IV. Washington Lewis6, lived in Clarke Co., Va. His descendants own many of the old family portraits, among them those of Col. Fielding Lewis and his second wife, Betty Washington.
V. Robert Lewis5 (Fielding+, John3, John2, Robert1), thirteenth son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, his second wife; was private seeretary to General Washington during his presidential term. Married Miss Brown and settled in Fredericks- burg, Va. Issne :
.48. I. Daughter Lewis". Married Rev. Edward McGuire, of Fredericksburg, Va.
49. II. Daughter Lewis". Married George W. Bassett, of Richmond, Va.
From Bishop Meade's "Old Families" we quote the following aeeount :
Among the families who belonged to Pohick Church was that of Mr. Lawrence Lewis, nephew of General Washington. He married Miss Custis, the granddaughter of Mrs. Washington. In many of the pictures of the Washington family she may be seen as a girl in a group with the General, Mrs. Washington, and her brother, Washington Parke Custis. There were two full sisters, Mrs. Law and Mrs. Peter. Mrs. Custis, the widow of Washington Parke Custis, married second, Dr. David Stuart, first of Hope Parish and then of Ossian Hall, Fairfax Co., Va. One of the sons of Lorenzo Lewis married a daughter of Beverly Johnson, of Baltimore, Md.
John Lewis, Sr., one of the original brothers, who emigrated from Wales to Ameriea, was born about 1640. He lived with the Mastyns, an ancient and wealthy family of Denbighshire, Wales. He died in Hanover Co., Va., 1726, where his will can be found on record. This John Lewis, Sr., was the great-great-grandfather
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of William Terrill Lewis. of Louisville, Winston Co., Miss., author of the Lewis genealogy, from which the dates of this article have been largely drawn. In his will John Lewis mentions the names of his children :
2.
I. Rebecca Lewis2.
3. II. Abraham Lewis2.
4. III. Sarah Lewis2.
5. IV. Angelica Lewis2.
6. V. David Lewis2.
7. VI. John Lewis2.
II. David Lewis2 (John1), Sr., fifth son of John Lewis, Sr., was born in Hanover Co., Va., about 1685. Married, first, Miss Terrill, by whom he had eight children.
William, James and John Terrill were brothers of Anglo- Norman descent. They came to America about 1660, as hunts- men for King James II, of England, and settled in Gloucester Co., Va. For their dexterity in hunting they were awarded by the King fifteen hundred acres of land, to be selected by them- selves. The Terrills are of Anglo-Norman origin and descend from Sir Walter Tyrell, a Norman knight who came into England with William the Conqueror, A. D. 1066. David Lewis, Sr., fifth child of the emigrant, moved from Hanover Co., Va., and settled in Albemarle Co., Va., about 1750, where he died in 1779. He married twice and left eleven children. William Terrill Lewis3, the eldest child of David Lewis, Sr., b. 1718, Hanover Co., Va., moved to Albemarle Co., Va., and was the third settler in that county. William Lewis, Sr., was one of the first men who volunteered their services in Albemarle Co., Va., to resist the high-handed measures of Lord Dunmore in 1774.
IV. Col. Robert Lewis+ (John3, John2, Robert1), of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va., son of Major John Lewis3 and Frances Field- ing Lewis, his wife. Married Jane, daughter of Nicholas Meri- wether. He died in 1757, leaving five children. Issue :
I. Robert Lewis5.
II. John Lewis5.
III. Charles Lewis5.
IV. Nicholas Lewis5.
. V. William Lewis3.
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V. William Lewis5 (Robert+, John3, John2, Robert1) was captain in the State line during the Revolution. Married Lucy Meriwether, daughter of Thomas Meriwether, by whom he had three children :
I. Meriwether Lewis6.
II. Reuben Lewis6.
III. Jane Lewis6.
VI. Meriwether Lewise (William5, Robert4, John3, John2, Robert1), generally called the "Oregon Explorer," son of Captain William Lewis, b. August 18, 1774. His father died when he was very young and he grew up under the care of his uncle, Col. Nicholas Lewis. Thomas Jefferson gives a very interesting sketch of Meriwether Lewis, who was for two years his private secretary. He says: "He was remarkable, even in infancy, for enterprise, boldness and discretion. When only cight years old he habitually went out in the dead of the night alone with his dogs into the forest to hunt the raccoon and opossum. At the age of thirteen he was put to the Latin school and continued until eighteen."
At the age of twenty he engaged as a volunteer in the body of militia called out by General Washington for service in the western part of the United States. At twenty-three he was promoted to a captaincy. In 1792 Thomas Jefferson proposed to the American Philosophical Society that they should sct on foot a subscription to engage some competent person to explore the region by ascend- ing the Missouri, crossing the Stony Mountains and descending the nearest river to the Pacific. Captain Lewis, being then sta- tioned at Charlottesville, warmly solicited Jefferson to obtain for him the execution of the expedition, although it was explained to him that the person engaged to go should be accompanied by a single companion only, to avoid exciting alarm among the Indians. This did not deter him, but the proposal did not succeed. In 1803 Congress approved the plan and voted a man of money to carry it into execution. Captain Lewis, who had been private secretary for Jefferson for two years, renewed his solicitations to have the direction of the party. His request was granted, and as it was necessary that he should have some competent person with him, in case of accident to himself, William Clarke, brother of General Rogers Clarke, was selected and approved, receiving a commission as captain. In April, 1803, a draft of his instructions
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was sent to Captain Lewis, and on the 5th of July, 1803, they left Washington and proceeded to Pittsburg. The two explorers, Lewis and Clarke, returned to St. Louis on the 23d of September, 1806, having been gone a little over three years. The old accounts of the expedition tell us, "Never did a similar event exeite more joy throughout the United States." Captain Lewis was soon after appointed Governor of Louisiana and Captain Clarke a general of its militia, and agent of the United States for Indian affairs in the department. Captain Meriwether Lewis died October 11, 1809, aged 35.
The Virginia Heraldry gives (February 11, 1906) :
"There seems to have been some doubt for a time as to which of Col. Robert Lewis' sons married Catherine Fauntleroy. Some genealogists stated that it was Robert, but it has been proved that he married his cousin, Franees Lewis."
I believe that there is now a record of the marriage of John Lewis and Catherine Fauntleroy in Washington. However that may be, there seems to be no doubt that John is the Lewis who married Catherine.
V. John Lewis5. (Robert+, John3, John2, Robert1), son of Col. Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether, his wife. Married Catherine Fauntleroy, daughter of Col. William Fauntleroy, of Naylor's Hole (he mentions his daughter Catherine Lewis in his will, dated 1757), and his wife, Apphia Bushrod, and great-granddaughter of Col. Moore Fauntleroy, who emigrated to America before 1643, and who was the twenty-first generation of descent from Henry I, of France (Browning's "Americans of Royal Deseent").
In Deed Book No. 5, of the Albemarle County Records (pp. 191, 192 and 299), he deseribes himself as "John Lewis, of Halifax Co., Va., in three separate deeds, in which his wife Catherine joins as party to same. He qualified as executor to his father's will in 1766 (Albemarle records). He left Halifax and went to reside on the Dan River, in North Carolina.
John Lewis and Catherine Fauntleroy, his wife, had issue :
I. Sallie Lewis", b. 1761. Married (Aug. 10, 1780) Philip Taylor. Mr. Williams, of Asheville, N. C., has an old prayer-book that belonged to Philip Taylor, an an-
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cestor of his, which contains the record of the marriage and the fact of her being the daughter of John and Catherine Lewis.
II. Apphia Fauntleroy Lewis6. Married David Allen, who lived on the Dan River, five miles from Danville, Pittsylvania Co., Va. A great-aunt, who died only a few years ago, by name Apphia Lewis Hightower, gave the facts to my cousin, with the names of the children. . She spent much of her time at the old plantation on the Dan River with her grandparents. Apphia Faunt- leroy Lewis and her husband, David Allen, had issue :
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