An old family album - Page 6

Sophia_ · #26 11-20-2009, 02:03 PM

Origin of the Lewis Name:

The Lewis family were originally French Huguenots and left France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Three brothers, William, Samuel and John, fled to England. While crossing the English Channel they changed the original name of Louis to Lewis. Shortly afterward William removed to the north of Ireland, where he married a Miss McClelland. Samuel fixed his residence in Wales, while John continued in England. General Robert Lewis and Colonel John Lewis were sons of Samuel and came to America in 1635.

Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Llandoff, Wales, March, 1713, and came to America in 1734. Family tradition tells us we are related to Francis Lewis.

Nathan Lewis was born in Wales about the year of 1724 and arrived at the Port of Baltimore about 1760 or 1765. After a short time they moved to Sullivan Co., North Carolina. Nathan Lewis was the father of 5 children, all or most of them being born in Wales. Their names were: David, born in 1758; George and Washington, sons, and two daughters of which only one name, Rachel, is given. After the death of Nathan Lewis and his wife the estate was sold and his children all left that part of the country.

Washington Lewis went to Alabama and one of his descendants, David Peter Lewis, born July 3, 1834, son of Peter C. Lewis, was Governor of the State of Alabama from 1872 to 1874.

General Robert Lewis, native of Wales and son of Samuel Lewis, with his wife and small son William L. Lewis, born in 1632, sailed from England for America April, 1635. John, the second son of General Robert Lewis, born in 1640, was the second member of the Lewis family born in America. William became Major William L. Lewis and died in Virginia in 1667 leaving no heirs. General Robert Lewis died in 1645. His standing in England may be gauged by the fact that he brought to America with him a grant from the Crown of 33, 333 1/3 acres of land. This land was located in what is now Gloucester County, Virginia.

Related to the Lewis Family:

Daniel Boone

Sophia_ · #27 11-20-2009, 02:16 PM

This man's sister married a Lewis. Also, his grandmother married a Lewis.

punksnotdead · #28 11-20-2009, 02:40 PM

Sophia_ · #29 11-20-2009, 09:00 PM

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Given the extent of the intermarriages between the Lewis family and the first families of Virginia, it is probable that this family has produced a greater proportion of eminent statesmen, soldiers, and frontiersmen than any family in America.

"I became a soldier, so that my son could be a farmer, so that his son could be a poet"
~~Thomas Jefferson

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The Lewis Family-- There were many first settlers of the Lewis family in America, but it is said that they all originally came from the same Welsh stock, showing their descent from Howell, Lord of Nannan, Wales, who in turn descended from Cynfyn, who died in 972, and was King of Wales, whose ancestor was Howell Dha, King of all Wales, who married Isabel, daughter of Picot de Say, a Norman baron.

Thomas Jefferson, because of his personal acquaintance and relationship in the Lewis family, sent Meriwether Lewis to the North-West and Joshua Lewis to New Orleans. Joshua Lewis was major of New Oleans, and Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.

When the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Joshua Lewis, along with Edward Livingston, and James Brown to receive the purchase from the French.

Map circa 1804 from website "Lewis and Clark journey of Discovery"

Sophia_ · #30 11-21-2009, 11:12 AM

Emma Lewis Hale Smith. Her mother was a Lewis and her father was a Hale. She was the first wife of Joseph Smith Jr., Prophet of the Mormon Church.
My mother was a Lewis and my father's g grandmother was a Hale.

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Emma was born 10 July 1804 to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. The Hales farmed near Harmony, Pennsylvania, and operated a country inn. Emma and Joseph met when he boarded at her father’s inn while working in the area. Isaac bitterly opposed their courtship, but Joseph proposed to Emma, and she, “preferring him to all others” she had met, accepted. 2 They were married at the home of Squire Thomas Tarbell in South Bainbridge, New York, on 18 January 1827.

A photograph of her husband-- Joseph Smith Jr.