Zachary Lewis Jr. (1702 - 1765)

Born 1 Jan 1702 in Middlesex, King Queen, Colony of Virginia

Husband of Mary (Waller) Lewis — married 9 Jan 1725 in Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1765 at age 63 in Spotsylvania, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Zachary Lewis Jr. was a Virginia colonist.

THIS BIO REPRESENTS THE ZACHARY LEWIS THAT MARRIED MARY WALLER ^[1]

Marriage

Zachary Lewis married, on 9 Jan 1725 in Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania, Virginia, Mary Waller, daughter of Colonel John Waller (1673-1754) and Dorothy (King) Waller (1674-1759).

Children Named in Will

• John Lewis,
• Zachary Lewis,
• Benjamin Lewis
• Waller Lewis
• Mary Meriwether (m. Frank Meriwether)^[2]
• Betsy Littlepage, (m. James),
• Lucy Ford
• Dorothea Smith

Other children not listed in will^[3]

• Ann m. Hon. George Wythe d. 1748;
  
• Mourning b. & d. 1734>
  

Will

[Will Book D p.22]LEWIS, ZACHARY, Spotsylvania Co., d. July 7, 1764, p. Feb. 4, 1765. Wit. Lewis Shackleford, Mary Shackleford, John Waller. Ex. sons John, Zachary, Waller, Benjamin, and my wife's brother, Mr. John Waller. Leg. son, John, land in Spotsylvania Co., adjoining where I now live; son, Zachary, lands purchased of Joseph Thomas, Robert Turner and Anthony Golson; son, Waller; son, Benjamin; to sons John, Zachary, Waller and Benjamin, 900 acres of land and grist mill lying in Orange Co., which I purchased of Graves and J. Sneed, also my lands and tenements lying in Culpeper Co., at the Great Mountains; wife, Mary; daughters, Meriwether; Betty Littlepage; Lucy Ford; Dorothea Smith; son-in-law, James Littlepage. (Page 163)^[4]

John Waller Sr.'s Will

Daughter, Mary Waller, now the wife of Zachary Lewis; granddaughter, Betty Lewis; granddaughter, Lucy Lewis; granddaughter, Dorothy Lewis; grandson, Waller Lewis; great-grandson, John Zachary Lewis; grandson, John Lewis, my secretare that I left at Mrs. Margaret Gordon's, in the room I used to lie in when there.^[3]

Research Notes

There were many Lewis family members in the western part of Spotsylvania. Wealthy Zachary Lewis (1702-1765) of nearby “Bel-air” plantation was a burgess (1757-58, 1758-61), a church vestryman for St. George’s parish, and an attorney.

Zachary Lewis served as the King’s attorney and was part of a partnership which acquired vast tracts of land on the New and Clinch rivers. He represented the King’s interests and in 1737 brought the Court’s attention to certain colonists who “did keep unlawful and tumultuous mootings and meetings tending to rebellion, and ask the court to take order thereon, whereupon the court ordered that the sheriff take such person into custody, till they give security for appearing at next term of court and show cause why they have unlawfully assembled.”^[5] The malefactors were brought into custody and begged the court’s forgiveness, but it was clear that, decades before the Revolution, the seeds of discontent were already thriving.

He and his son, John Lewis (1729-1780) would take Lawyers Road (Route 601) on their way to serve at the Orange County Courthouse. For a time he also traveled with his associate and eventual son-in-law, George Wythe, who would later be elected a burgess and later still be the first Virginian to sign the Declaration of Independence. George Wythe also gave the first signature on Patrick Henry’s law license, having administered part of his bar exam. It is interesting to note that future firebrand Patrick Henry and John Lewis, son of the King’s attorney, were close friends.^[6]

Deed Witnessed

Name: Zachary Lewis: Description: Witness

Date: 31 Aug 1751

Location: Spotsylvania Co., VA

Property: 1/2 of 108 a. in Spts. Co.

Notes: This land record was originally published in "Virginia County Records - :Spotsylvania County, 1721-1800, Volume I" edited by William Armstrong Crozier.

Remarks: Benjamin Holloday of Spts. Co. and Susanna, his wife, to Robert Shepherd of same county. Whereas sd. Bejamin Holloday had sold unto one George Shepherd a tract of 108 a. in Spts. Co. and before conveying same the sd. George Shepherd died and by his will...

Book: E

Daughter Elizabeth Lewis Littlepage Holladay

• (Dau named in Will) Elizabeth Lewis Littlepage (m b4 1764) Birth 10 SEP 1732 VA, Spotsylvania Co
• Marriage at least 2X [P.655]
• Col. James Littlepage and Betty Lewis Littlepage had 2 children: (i.) Gen. Lewis Littlepage b. 12/19/1762, d. 7/19/1802. (ii.) Mary Littlepage, m. Robert S. Coleman of Spotslyvania County, VA.
• Betty Lewis married (2nd) Maj. Lewis Holladay of Spotsylvania County and had two children: (i.) Waller Holladay; (ii.) Nancy Holladay.

Sources

1. ↑ World Connect supports Walker Marriage (sourced)
2. ↑ Col John Waller Will
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia : Also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland; Horace Edwin Hayden; E.B. Yordy, printer, 1891 - Virginia - 759 pages
   • (Lewis Family pgs 379-394 ; Littlepage Family pg. 395-421)
   Digital Copy p.379 Lewis Family of Virginia]
4. ↑ WILL BOOK D 1761-1772; page 22 Geni Will Transcription]
5. ↑ Historical and Genealogical Notes. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Jul., 1896), p 68.
6. ↑ https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/on-the-road-to-lake-anna/

See also:

• http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2007_01/uvaBook/tei/b000445077.xml;chunk.id=d26;toc.depth=1;toc.id=d26;brand=default;query=lewis#1
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 25 November 2021), memorial page for Zachary Lewis II (1 Jan 1702–20 Jan 1765), Find A Grave: Memorial #204664039, citing Bel-Air Cemetery, Lewiston, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by vcudean (contributor 48748331)
• Andrew Lewis Riffe. “The Wallers of Endfield, King William County, Virginia”. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 59.4 (1951): 458–493.
• Digital Transcription THE WALLERS OF ENDFIELD], KING WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA BY Andrew Lewis Riffe; with notes by CLAYTON TORRENCE
• Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families Merrow Egerton Sorley Genealogical Publishing Com, 1935 - Reference - 887 pages (p. 826)
• Lewis Family (Sourced)
• Zachary Lewis World Connect (sourced)