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- Title: The Lewis Family of the Seventeenth Century
Author: John Meriwether McAllister
Publisher: E.W Stephens Publishing Company Missouri, 1906
Call Number: CS71.L675
Page: 57
Source Text: According to the author, John Meriwether McAllister, who obtained his information from WILLIAM TERRELL LEWIS, "DAVID LEWIS Sr., fifth child of JOHN LEWIS Sr., was born in Hanover, Va, about the year 1685. About the year 1717, he married his first wife Miss [Elizabeth] TERRELL, daughter it is said of Joel Terrell, by whom he raised eight children; she dying in 1734, he married his second wife, by whom he had no issue, and her name is not known...." [PLEASE NOTE: JOEL TERRELL was not her father, but her brother.]
"About the year 1750, DAVID LEWIS moved from Hanover county and settled in Albemarle county, Va. Albemarle was then a new county, having been carved out of Goochland in 1744. In 1753, after he moved to Albemarle county, he married his third wife, the widow of Dr. Hart, of Philadelphia, Pa, whose maiden name wasa MARY MCGRATH, by whom he raised three children. After the death of his third wife he was engaged to be married the fourth time, but died very suddenly before the consumation of the nuptials. He, being quite advanced in life was quite bald consequently wore a wig and on retiring at night would hang his wig on the tester over his head. He being subject to nightmares would often awake during the night after dreaming the witches were riding him. On one occasion he awoke during a frightful dream that the witches were riding him. He sprang up in his bed, making, at the same time, a desperate effort to free himself from the clutches of the witch. During his struggle to exticate himself from the night fiend he knocked down his wig which fell upon him. He seized it with avidity and tore it to pieces, exclaiming, at the same time 'Oh I have caught you at last, have I? You have riding me for a long time'. The next morning when he rose and looked on his ruined wig he remarked, dolefully: 'There is fifteen shillings gone'".
"He was once engaged in the mercantile business and had an interest in a cargo of goods then being imported in England... After DAVID LEWIS Sr., moved a settled near where Charlottesville now stands, in Albemarle county, he was offered five hundred acres of the best quality land in Virginia lying some forty or fifty miles west of the then settlement for a pair of buckskins, which he could have killed almost any day and dressed the next, but he thought at that time the back country would not be settled in an age, and that the land would be of no value to him.
In his old age he sometimjes taught school gratuitiously for the benefit of the poor. He never inflicted corporate punishment upon his pupils, but if any of them violated his rules during the week, he would on Friday evening, tie a bundle of rods to their backs and send them home.
He was a very large man with light hair and blue eyes, of strict integrity, benevolent character, and an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church.
DAVID LEWIS, Sr. died in Albemarle county, Va, in 1779, from flux, brought on by over-exertion and dring too much cold water on a hot summer day, in August, after cutting down a tree in which there was a hawk's nest. His will was probated at the September term of the Albemarle County Court in 1779..."
Confidence: 3
- Title: Genealogy of The Lewis and Kindred Families
Author: William Terrell Lewis
Publisher: 1893 by the Louisville Courier Journal Print Co., Kentucky
Call Number: CS71.L675
Source Text: According to the author, William Terrell Lewis, "DAVID LEWIS was the fifth child of JOHN LEWIS the emigrant, born about 1685 in Hanover county, Virginia, married first about 1717, Miss TERRELL, daughter, it is said, of Joel Terrell, She died in 1734. The name of his second wife is not known by whom he had no issue. About the year 1750, DAVID LEWIS moved from Hanover [county] and settled in Albemarle county, Virginia. Albemarle was then a new county, having been carved out of Goochland. In 1758 he marrued his third wife in Albemarle county. She was the widow of Dr. Hart, of Philadelphia, whose maiden name was MARY MCGRATH. Her sister, Elizabeth McGrath, married JOHN LEWIS Jr., DAVID's brother. DAVID LEWIS was engaged to be married a fourth time, but died very suddenly just before the nuptials in the year 1779. His will was probated at the September term of the Albemarle County Court in 1779. JOEL LEWIS, John Martin, JAMES LEWIS and TALIAFERRO LEWIS were his executors."
Confidence: 3
- Title: Genealogy of The Lewis Family, A Family History
Source Text: According to the source, "DAVID LEWIS Sr. moved from Hanover County to Albemarle County, which had been carved out of Goochland county, in 1744, where he married his third wife... DAVID was a landed proprietor and captain of the militia in Albemarle county, and served in the French and Indian War [1763]. David Lewis was born on May 5, 1685 in Hanover County, Virginia. He died in 1779 in Albemarle County, Virginia. In 1734, he and his brother - in - law, JOEL TERRELL entered 3000 acres in Albemarle county, land located just west of where the University of Virginia now stands in Charlottesville. His brother, Abraham also entered 800 acres, including the land on which the University of Virginia now stands, but never moved there. DAVID LEWIS was a captain in the militia in 1745, and a magistrate in 1746. His plantation was just a few miles west of Shadwell where THOMAS JEFFERSON was born in 1743. " According to the LEWIS genealogy, "he was a very large man with light hair and blue eyes, and blue eyes, of strict integrity, benevolent character, and a nonexemplary member of the Presbyterian Church."
Confidence: 2
- Title: Some Prominent Families of Virginia Volume II
Source Text: According to the source on page 621, "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 record as soldiers. It is recorded on the tombstone of 'Pioneer John' that he furnished five sons for the Revolution..." On page 630: "DAVID LEWIS 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."
Confidence: 3
- Title: Ron Stephens 12 July 2005
Source Text: According to the source, DAVID LEWIS Sr. died in Albemarle county, VA, in 1779. "brought on by over-exertion and drinking too much cold water on a hot summer day, in August after cutting down a tree in which there was a hawk's nest."
Confidence: 3
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