Samuel Lewis
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Samuel Lewis (1702 - 1757)

Samuel Lewis
Born in Prince George's County, Province of Marylandmap
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Son of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
[spouse(s) unknown]
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Died at about age 55 in Prince George's County, Province of Marylandmap
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Biography

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Samuel Lewis was a Maryland colonist.

1702 Birth

Samuel Lewis was born in 1702 in Prince George's County, Maryland. [1][2]

1711 Samuel and Siblings Named in Mother Elizabeth's Deed of Gift

Samuel's father died before 1710. His mother Elizabeth, then a widow, made the following Deed of Gift to her Children 4 Feb 1711/12. [3]

  • From: Elizabeth Lewis, widow of Prince George's County
  • To: Son Thomas, a Bay Mare called Bonny
  • To: Son John, a dark bay mare
  • To: Son Stephen, the first increase of the bay mare given John
  • To: Daughter Sarah, the next increase
  • To: Daughter Priscilla, the next increase
  • To: Son Samuel , the next increase
  • To: Grandson John Davis, child of "my daughter Jane"
  • Signed: Elizabeth Lewis (mark & seal)
  • Witnessed: Edwd. Willett, Tabitha Willett (mark)

Siblings

Samuel was one of these siblings named in his mother's deed of gift:

  1. Thomas [3]
  2. John [3]
  3. Stephen [3]
  4. Sarah [3]
  5. Priscilla [3]
  6. Samuel [3]
  7. Jane [3]

1734 Samuel Lewis of Maryland deeds to Thomas Lewis of Virginia

Samuel Lewis of Prince George's County, Maryland, sells land on Difficult Run in Prince William County, Virginia, to Thomas Lewis of Prince William County, Virginia. It could well be that this Thomas Lewis is his son.

Oct. 4, 1734. Samuel Lewis of Prince George in Maryland to Thomas Lewis of Pr. Wm. Co., planter....for 15 lbs. Maryland money....260 a....on Difficult Run....granted out of the Proprietors Office unto John Lewis dated Feb. 9, 1725... deed of lease and release. Sam'l. Lewis

  • Wit: Cay. Dulany, Jon. Manley, John Minor.
  • Rec. of Thomas Lewis sum of 15 lbs.
  • At court Nov. 20, 1734 Samuel Lewis acknowledge this release with the receipt endorsed to Thomas Lewis. [4]

Land: "Cox's Rest" in Virginia

Samuel Lewis owned land called Cox's Rest which he had inherited from his grandfather Thomas Houser. Samuel Lewis in turn gave this land to his son Jonathan. [5]

Although he lived in Prince Georges Co, Samuel had land in Virginia. He received the land from his mother. It was a tract of 113 acres called "Cox's Rest" that had originally been part of his grandfather Thomas Horner's plantation. This was on the Patuxent River, located in Frederick Co in 1748, the portion that became Montgomery County. [6]

1738 Samuel Lewis witnesses deed in Prince William County, Virginia

In July 1731, John Mathews, a yeoman of Prince William County, Virginia, sells to Jacob Lasswell of Prince William County, a carpenter, land on Goose Creek in Prince William County. Samuel Lewis is a witness to this transaction and signs by mark.

John Mathews of Pro Wm., Yeoman to Jacob Lasswell of same, carpenter ... for 10 Ibs ... 124 a ••• on br. of Goose Cr ... line of survay for George Mathews ... land gr. George Mathews by the Proprietors July 7, 1731 •••• deeds of lease and release. John Mathews

  • Wits: David Dunbar, Joseph Cammell, Sam. (his mark) Lewis.
  • Rec'd. of Jacob Lasswell 10 Ibs.
  • At Court Feb. 27, 1738 this release was proved. [7]

1748 Death

Samuel Lewis died 13 Jun 1748 (aged 46) in Prince George's County, Maryland. [1][2]

Children

Various sources also name Samuel's children as:

  1. Elizabeth Lewis b: ABT 1731 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  2. *Mary Lewis b: ABT 1732 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  3. John Lewis b: ABT 1736 in Saint Johns Parish, Prince Georges, Maryland
  4. *Ann Lewis b: ABT 1734 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  5. *Priscilla Lewis b: ABT 1739 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  6. *Thomas Griffin Lewis b: ABT 1742 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  7. Stephen Lewis b: ABT 1744 in , Prince Georges, Maryland. Sharon Neal commented, "I do not have a wife's name yet, but they had a son Stephen Lewis. b. 1728 PGC, Maryland, died May 1784. [6]
  8. William Lewis b: ABT 1746 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  9. Daniel Lewis b: ABT 1747 in , Prince Georges, Maryland
  10. Jonathan. Not in other lists, but cited by Linda Odum as recipent of "Cox's Rest." [5]

At this time, Stephen and the three other children not asterisked above, John, William and Daniel, are also assigned to Samuel, as is Elizabeth, about whom no parentage is known.

Research Notes

Parents

Mike Marshall shows Samuel Lewis' parents as John Lewis, born in 1661, Calvert County, Maryland, and died 20 Apr 1711, Prince George's County, Maryland (Probate) (Age 50 years) and his wife Elizabeth Houser, who was born about 1686 in Calvert County, Maryland, and died 30 Jan 1757 in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland (Probate) (Age ~ 71 years) . They were married about 1702 in Prince George's County, Maryland. [1]

Sharon Neal, on the other hand, shows the parents of Samuel Lewis, born in 1702 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, as John Lewis and Elizabeth Horner. [6]

The unsourced Geni profile makes him the son of "John David Lewis, Sr", and his wife Elizabeth. The use of a double first name was not the practice in this time period and immediately makes he information suspicious. [2]

Marriage

Geni shows Samuel's wife as Winnifred Thomas. Unfortunately, the site contains no source for this information. [2]

There is a Winifred, daughter of Daniel Thomas, of Prince George's County, whose married name is Lewis, creating speculation as to which Lewis she was married to..

Thomas, Daniel, Sr., Prince George's County, 2nd June, 1741; 21st Sept., 1742.

  • To wife Ann, estate on which she now lives apart from testator,
  • To sons William, Daniel and John and daus. Grace Turnely and Winifred Lewis, and to child. of dau. Anne Berry, deceased, 1s. each.
  • To dau. Elizabeth Clancy, extx., residue of estate.
  • Test: Benj. Johnson, Stephen Gordon. MCW 22,505. [1]

Winifred Thomas married John Lewis, as documented by her parents' estate documents.

Many popular genealogies, however show her as married to a Samuel Lewis, and those which show her married to a John Lewis disagree as to which one.

Candidates for Winifred's Spouse

The relevant candidates for spouse are below:

  • Samuel Lewis, b. about 1702 in Prince Georges County, son of John Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Horner. By this marriage Winifred and Samuel had two children, John and Elizabeth.
  • John Lewis, b. about 1690, son of [[Lewis-1312|Thomas Lewis and his wife Katherine, whose last husband was named Watkins. By this marriage Winifred and John had one child, John Lewis
  • John Lewis, b. about 1683, son of son of John Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Horner. By this marriage, Winifred had Priscilla Lewis who married Faulkner. Note, however, that a study of the family of John Lewis and Elizabeth Horner shows no son John.
  • Hurley also notes another John Lewis, confused as her husband, born about 1676 because he was aged 88 in 1764 in Loudoun County, Virginia.[8]

Many popular genealogies show Samuel Lewis married to Winifred Thomas. However, the estate documents of Winifred's father identify Winifred's husband as John Lewis, whom Winifred's father makes his executor.

Edward Fairchild's site identifies her-- it claims, "some have tried to make Winnifred Thomas the wife of John Lewis, Samuel Lewis' father. Fairchild then goes on to name Samuel's parents as John Lewis b: ABT 1661 in , Prince Georges, Maryland and Elizabeth Horner b: ABT 1663 in , Prince Georges, Maryland.

From the Will of of Daniel Thomas, Ann Dyer and Winifred Thomas Lewis, it is clear that Winifred of Daniel married first John Lewis, having children Pricilla, Mary, Ann and Thomas, and then married Adams, having son Richard.

While it is not impossible that she also married Samuel Lewis and had children by him, it seems likely that Samuel Lewis' wife was someone else, whether or not a different Winifred. The one child known of Samuel's is Stephen.

Children

Geni shows Samuel Lewis as the father of [2]

  1. Elizabeth Browning;
  2. Mary Lewis;
  3. Ann Lewis;
  4. John Lewis;
  5. Priscilla Lewis
  6. Thomas Griffin Lewis
  7. Stephen Lewis
  8. William Lewis
  9. Daniel Lewis

1711 Deed of Sale

There is a deed of sale signed by John Lewis on August 20, 1711. [9] This deed is four months after the death of the John Lewis married to Elizabeth Houser.[5]

There were two Lewis families in Prince George's County, one of English descent and one of Welch descent. Thomas Lewis the servant of Richard Edelen married his only daughter Catherine in 1685. They had three son's and two daughter's.

  1. Richard was born in 1686 and he married Jane and they lived on the neck of Mattawomen Creek and they had at least two sons John and Thomas.
    1. Thomas moved to Stafford Co.,Va and married Mary Moss.
    2. John remained in Charles Co. Maryland. Richard followed his son Thomas to Stafford Co. and became the sexton of the Pohick church. This is the Thomas that the Thomas Lewis married to Sarah Harris gave the land to and in his will he said that he was giving this land to his friend Thomas Lewis.

This was not the son of Jonathon, because Jonathan was the son of Samuel Lewis. Samuel Lewis had the land called Cox's Rest, it was his grandfather Thomas Houser's land and he gave this land to his son Jonathan. That means that Jonathan's son Thomas was a nephew of Thomas Lewis married to Sarah Harris and would not have called him a friend.

Now for the son that you do agree upon is the Thomas son of Thomas and Catherine who married Rebecca and they had four daughters and He died in 1726.

The third son was John Lewis born 1690, son of Thomas and Catherine, who when he reached the age of 21 sold his portion of Battersea.

  • He went to Virginia and whether he married a widow while he was there I do not know, but this I do know,
  • In 1732 he was back in Prince George County and he married Winiford Thomas and he died in 1748.
  • I have a copy of his inventory and I have a copy of Winiford's Will and this is not out of a book this is the actual photo copy of her hand written Will.
  1. Their oldest Child was Mary born 1733 and she married an Athey,
  2. Then second child was John born 1736 and he married Sarah Scearce and Mary Ketchum,
  3. the third child was Ann born 1738 and she married a Calvert,
  4. the fourth was Pricilla born 1740 and she married Zadock Jenkins,
  5. the fifth child was Thomas born 1742 and he married Elizabeth.

I have been getting a lot of my information from Phyllis Cox a descendant of John and Winiford (Thomas) Lewis' son Thomas. She lived in Harmony Hall from the age of five until she was married. She is a member of the prince George's county Historical Society, she knows the area and the Lewis families. She said that she and a fellow researcher tried to explain to Michael Cook that there were two completely different Lewis families One living in the northern section of Prince George county of English descent and one living in the southern section, which changed back and forth from Charles to Prince George in 1696 and back to Prince George in 1748, of Welch descent. Mr Cook died before he could correct his mistake. With your records and the records in Michael Cooks book I could see the error that most researchers overlook because they have taken this book as their guild and have not studied it enough to see the error's.

It was your book that brought this out in the open for me. Michaels information did not seem right, but until I purchased and studied your book I could not see the whole picture. I met Phyllis after I had come to this conclussion and her information filied in the gaps and made it all a lot clearer.

Phyllis and I disagree on one subject and that is that John the husband of Winiford Thomas was the son of Thomas and Catherine, she believes that he was the son of Richard and Jane, but until I find proof that John married in Stafford County and never returned I will continue with what I have.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Samuel Lewis Accessed 11 January 2019 jhd
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Geni. Unsourced Profile for Samuel Lewis Added by: Edward Charles Montgomery on February 27, 2007; Managed by: Shelley Mactyre and 6 others; Accessed 28 May 2020 jhd
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Deed of gift from Elizabeth Lewis to her children. Prince George's Land Records 1710-1717 - Liber F - Folio 154: Deed of Gift to Children 4 Feb 1711/12. Cited by Mike Marshall. Accessed November 21, 2015. jhd
  4. Prince William County, Virginia Deeds; research of June Whitehurst Johnson: Liber A-B; 1731-1735; Pages 384-387. Cited by Mike Marshall
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lisa Odum. Reply re: John b.1690 MD son of Thomas & Catherine. Nov 29, 2000. Lewis Genforum #8798. http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lewis/8798/ Accessed November 22, 2015.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sharon Neal, Genforum, Lewis #8958, Dec 24, 2004
  7. Prince William County, Virginia Deeds, research of June Whitehurst Johnson: Liber D; 1738-1740; Pages 61-64. Nov. 23, 1738. Cited by Mike Marshall
  8. William Neal Hurley, Jr. The Lewis Families. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books. 1999
  9. Phyllis Cox has a copy of the actual deed of sale; signed by John Lewis himself on Aug.20, 1711

See also:

  • Name: www.RootsWeb.com World Connect Project-- Internet
  • Title: R & T Campbell Genealogy

Author: Randal R. Campbell <rtcampbell@ worldnet.att.net> Publication: 8 May 2000, Rootsweb WCP database caseyco Name: www.FamilySearch.org -- Internet 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

  • Title: ....International Genealogical Index®

Publication: 1998, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Page: no reference given Name: www.RootsWeb.com World Connect Project-- Internet

  • Title: Family Tree

Author: Kenneth Ruiz <kennetr6@ lrnet1.com> Publication: 7 Aug 2002, Rootsweb WCP database :2193688

  • Court and Land Records Maryland Archives
  • Will and Probate Records Maryland Archives
  • Pioneer Lewis Families: Author: Michael Lewis Cook: Volumes 1-5, Volume 4, page 105. Publisher: McDowell Publications, 1978, Hartford, Kentucky, Repository Information: National Archives, Washington DC

Acknowledgements

  • WikiTree profile Lewis-6318 created through the import of Dankowski Family Tree.ged on May 28, 2012 by Laura Mercado. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Laura and others.
  • This person was created through the import of 229-Davies.ged on 19 October 2010.




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