Nicholas Lewis
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Nicholas Lewis (1734 - 1808)

Colonel Nicholas Lewis
Born in Henrico County, Colony of Virginiamap
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Husband of — married 1760 (to 8 Dec 1808) in Albemarle County, Virginiamap
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Died at age 74 in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States of Americamap
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Biography

1776 Project
Colonel Nicholas Lewis served with Albemarle County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.
1776 Project
Colonel Nicholas Lewis performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Nicholas Lewis is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A070094.

Colonel Nicholas Lewis was born January 19, 1734, in Virginia and died December 8, 1808, in Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia. During the American Revolutionary War, Nicholas was a member of the Committee of Safety and a Magistrate, in 1782 and 1783. Nicholas signed the Albemarle Declaration of Independence on April 21, 1779. [1] [2]

Nicholas Lewis is honored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as DAR Ancestor #A070094. DAR records indicate that his wife's name was Mary Walker. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of their sons, Thomas Walker Lewis, who married Elizabeth Meriwether; John Baptist Lewis, who married Elizabeth Harvey; Robert Warner Lewis, who married Elizabeth Wood, and Nicholas Lewis, who married Mildred Hornsby; and of their daughters, Mary Lewis, who married Isaac Miller; Mildred Lewis, who married Davis J. Wood; Margaret Lewis, who married Charles Lewis Thomas; Jane Walker, who married Hudson Martin; and Elizabeth Lewis, who married William Douglas Meriwether. [3]

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Nicholas (2) was the second son of John who bore the name Nicholas.

Researchers Notes

Nicholas was born at "Belvoir," the Lewis Family Home, in 1734. He was the son of Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether Lewis. He was a surveyor and planter. Nicholas passed away in 1808, and was buried at Lewis Graveyard (now part of Riverview Cemetery), Charlottesville City, Virginia.[4]

Born at "Belvoir" Lewis Family Home. Married Mary Walker Nov. 2, 1758 at Castle Hill her home. He was a surveyor and planter who fathered 12 kids at " The Farm" where he died. He and his wife were buried in the Lewis Graveyard now part of Riverside Cemetery.

Nicholas Lewis (1734-1808)[1] was an Albemarle County landowner and friend of Thomas Jefferson. Lewis was also an officer in the American Revolution, a County magistrate, Surveyor, and Sheriff.[2] After the death of Nicholas Meriwether, his grandfather, in 1744, Lewis inherited The Farm, 1,020 acres on both sides of the Rivanna River east of Charlottesville. The estate was the headquarters of British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, who occupied Charlottesville for a day in 1781 to pursue Jefferson and the rest of the Virginian legislators.

In 1772, Lewis and Jefferson faced a dispute against John Moore about the Rivanna River crossing of the eastern route of the Three Notched Road. Moore supported the crossing at his ford, while both Jefferson and Lewis supported the road going through Secretary's Ford and through Jeffersons Lego plantation. Both roads were built, but Lewis did not live to see their route as the public road that Jefferson finally secured in 1818.[3]

Jefferson entrusted Lewis and Francis Eppes of Eppington to run his farms while he was in Paris as minister to France. Lewis was also one of the witnesses of the settlement document Jefferson wrote for his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph when she married Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790.[4]

As a neighbor and trusted friend, Thomas Jefferson entrusted Nicholas Lewis with his financial affairs while he was minister to France in 1787.[7]

About his mother, Jane Meriwether From: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meriweth/resource_links/family_group_research/ m128_jane_ca17056-1758_robe.html: Jane (M128), born abt 1705 in New Kent County, is the eighth child and fourth daughter of Nicholas Meriwether II and Elizabeth Crafford/Crawford. Nothing is known of her childhood. About 1725, Jane married Robert Lewis (abt 1704-1765), son of Councilor John Lewis (1669-1725) of Warner Hall and his wife Elizabeth Warner (1672-1719) the daughter of Augustine Warner II and his wife Mildred Read/Reade. Mildred Reade is the daughter of George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau, whose father Nicholas Martiau (The adventurous Huguenot) is a founder of Yorktown. After their marriage, Jane and Robert resided on Robert Lewis’ property “Chemokins”, in St. Peters Parish, where their first several children were born. About 1730, Jane and Robert Lewis immigrated to her father, Nicholas Meriwether II’s property in what would become Albemarle County about 1744. The eventual Lewis plantation was named “Belvoir.” (Note that there are wide variations published on these birth dates and the birth order of the children and the Society has not verified the accuracy of any. This version is our current best guess, based on some preliminary research and a review of existing Lewis genealogies. We hope to have this better documented for Volume I, but are dependent upon you, gentle reader and fellow researchers, to help us identify these dates and other important events.) Their known children are:

  1. John (1726-1788)
  2. Jane (1727/8- bef 1775)
  3. Elizabeth (1729- bef Sep 1757)
  4. Anne (abt 1731-??)
  5. Mary (abt 1732-1813)
  6. Nicholas (1733/4-1808) (Guardian of Capt. Meriwether Lewis)
  7. Charles (abt 1735-1779)
  8. William (abt 1736-1779) (Father of Capt. Meriwether Lewis)
  9. Mildred (1737-1825)
  10. Robert (abt 1739-abt 1781)
  11. Isabella (bef 1743-bef Sep 1757)
  12. Sarah (abt 1745-?)

Jane died before Sep 1757 in Albemarle County, probably at “Belvoir.” About 1758, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth (Thornton) Meriwether, widow of Jane’s nephew, Thomas Meriwether (M1221). There were no children by this marriage and Robert died before December 1765, when his will was proved. (Robert was the paternal grandfather and Elizabeth was the maternal grandmother of Capt. Meriwether Lewis. The Meriwethers & Lewises of the day liked to keep family connections close.) The graves of both Jane Meriwether and Robert Lewis are unknown but it is supposed they were buried on the Belvoir property. added this on 6 Aug 2008 URL: http://MeriwetherSociety.org Text: Information about this individual has been collected by The Meriweither Society from many sources. As the Society is in the process of verifying the information, it should be treated as unconfirmed at this time. Please do not assume the information is correct.

Military Career

Little is known of Nicholas’ military career other than a brief note by Thomas Jefferson dated August 18, 1813:[5]

  • "Nicholas Lewis, the second of his father's brothers, commanded a regiment of militia in the successful expedition of 1776 against the Cherokee Indians; who, seduced by the agents of the British government to take up the hatchet against us, had committed great havoc on our southern frontier, by murdering and scalping helpless women and children, according to their cruel and cowardly principles of warfare. The chastisement they then received closed the history of their wars, and prepared them for receiving the elements of civilization, which, zealously inculcated by the present government of the United States, have rendered them an industrious, peaceable, and happy people. This member of the family of Lewises, whose bravery was so successfully proved on this occasion, was endeared to all who knew him by his inflexible probity, courteous disposition, benevolent heart, and engaging modesty and manners. He was the umpire of all the private differences of his country-selected always by both parties. He was also the guardian of Meriwether Lewis,...who had lost his father at an early age."

Nicholas Lewis was a revolutionary soldier and is recognized by a plaque placed at Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville City, Virginia.[6]

Sources

  1. GWATHMEY, HIST REG OF VA IN THE REV, P 472; WM & MARY QTRLY, VOL 5, P 101; WOODS, ALBEMARLE CO IN VA, PP 365, 367, 368, 375, 376
  2. ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 1, PP 3-9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19-22, 25-27
  3. Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Nicholas Lewis", Ancestor # A070094.
  4. Find A Grave Memorial# 14946048
  5. http://plheineman.net/American%20Revolution.htm
  6. Find A Grave Memorial# 14946048
  • Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.3, p. Serial: 10000; Volume: 2 Source Information: Hatcher, Patricia Law
  • http://plheineman.net/American%20Revolution.htm
  • The Lewis Family of Wales and America, by Edward Simmons /Lewis/: Publication: The Journal of American History, Volume XXII, THrid Quarter, Nmber 3, 1926

Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile Lewis-6172 created through the import of Allen-Carpenter - 2010-01-31.ged on Apr 26, 2012 by Thomas Allen.
  • WikiTree profile Lewis-4629 created through the import of Reinhardt20Sep11.ged on Sep 21, 2011 by Deborah Reinhardt.
  • WikiTree profile Lewis-6966 created through the import of WalshExport.ged on Oct 22, 2012 by Vic Watt.
  • surveyor of Castle Hall




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After the merges, the biographies were never consolidated. It might be better to take the note for Jane Meriwether and move them to her profile.
posted by Janne (Shoults) Gorman
Lewis-13626 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: Same parents, spouses
posted by [Living Shaffer]
Lewis-18761 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: same name, same parents, same dod
posted by [Living Prickett]
Lewis-18761 and Lewis-4629 appear to represent the same person because: same name same parents, same dod
posted by [Living Prickett]
Lewis-18761 and Lewis-6172 appear to represent the same person because: same name, same parents, similar birth info
posted by [Living Prickett]
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: (Note the "Merge Warning.")

This merge does not include Nicholas Lewis (1727) or Nicholas Lewis (1728 - 1808) . This is only the Merge of Lewis-4629 into Lewis-2583. Cheers, Cousin Bruce

posted by Bruce Porter
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: Note the "Merge Warning."

This merge does not include Nicholas Lewis (1727) or Nicholas Lewis (1728 - 1808) . This is only the Merge of Lewis-4629 into Lewis-2583. Cheers, Cousin Bruce

posted by Bruce Porter
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 do not represent the same person because: If you read the biography section there were two sons with the name Nicholas and these profiles represent those two son's
posted by Dale Byers
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: same person double on profile of parents
posted by Donna (McGill) Perkins
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 do not represent the same person because: There were two sons by the name of Nicholas. These should not be merged.
posted by Vic Watt
Lewis-4629 and Lewis-2583 appear to represent the same person because: while profiles have been marked as though there were two sons of the same name, there is no indication in the sources that two sons actually existed.
posted by Robin Lee