Anyone with info on Nicholas Lewis (1689), son of Maj. John Lewis, Jr. and Isabella Miller?

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Nicholas was born in 1689 in New Kent Co., Va and died in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester Co. Va.  He was married to Elizabeth Foster of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co.,Va.
in Genealogy Help by Ed Lewis G2G Rookie (220 points)
In my family tree, which is based almost entirely on other people's family trees, I have Major John Lewis, born in 1639 and his wife Isabella Miller, born 24 Aug 1640.  Of their six children none is named Nicholas and their last child Patience was born 1682. It would seem unlikely Isabella would have had a child at age 49.

According to Geni.com they had nineteen children.

According to:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com they had a child named Nicholas Lewis born circa 1671

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I make extensive use of "Google Advanced Search".  I just entered Nicholas Lewis on the second line and New Kent Virginnia Foster on the first so that the search would narrow down.  I immediately got a useful looking family tree at

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LEWIS/2000-03/0954523252

I say useful because it doesn't give primary sources, but the information on dates and places is relatively complete, so it feels somewhat reliable.  That takes your Lewises back a couple of generations.

The next Google result was

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.newkent/42/mb.ashx.

This one doesn't give you answers, but it gives you some useful questions and lists some actual sources that may be worth consulting.

The next Google result is the same question but on Genforum -- easier to read, and I'm sorry ancestry.com closed it.

The Google result is your query -- wikitree gets stuff out there fast!

The next one after that is

http://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe/parishregisterof00stpe_djvu.txt

which is the actual Parish Register for New Kent County.  This is unedited after it was scanned, so it's hard to read, but for documentation, it's pure gold, because it's a primary source, the original parish register.  This won't give you all you want to know, but anything you find here, you can count on!  

When I exhaust one Google search, I put some different words in based on what I already know, and Google usually gives me a few more interesting sources!
by Jack Day G2G6 Pilot (454k points)

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