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John Lewis Jr (1660 - bef. 1735)

John Lewis Jr
Born in Misquamicutt, Kings County, Rhode Islandmap
Son of and [mother unknown]
Husband of — married before 1683 [location unknown]
Husband of — married before 1730 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died before before age 75 in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Islandmap
Profile last modified | Created 22 Sep 2010
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Biography

John Lewis II, son of John Lewis, lived and died in Westerly, Rhode Island. He married Ann (last name unknown) who died in 1748,[1] and together they had eight children listed below. He was a deputy in 1704-09-10.

His will is dated 14 April 1732 and was proven 22 April 1735.[2] His wife Ann and son Joseph were executors. [3]

"To wife, a third of movables. To children, £5 each, viz: to Joseph, John, William, Mary Dake, Sarah Bemis, Ann Ross, Abigail Slack, Jerusha Lewis. To negro "Will," £10 and his freedom. To all children, rest of estate equally.
"Inventory, taken on 21 April 1735,[2] £413, 11s., viz: 2 young oxen, 4 cows, calf, 8 swine, 20 sheep, 11 lambs, horse, mare, silver money £4, 5s. &c."[4]

John was buried at John Lewis Ground No. 1, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.

Children

Children of John and Ann (Unknown) Lewis:[3][5]
  1. Joseph b. 16 Oct. 1683 married Mary Wilcox
  2. Sarah b. 17 Aug. 1687.
  3. Mary b. 4 May 1689.
  4. Anna b. 6 Jan. 1691.
  5. Abigail b. 20 May 1693.
  6. John b. 30 Jan. 1698.
  7. William b. 1 Feb. 1701-2
  8. Jerusha b. 11 Jan. 1706-7.[6]

Research Notes

I have not yet found any original source record of John Lewis marrying Anna Lanphere in this time period, although a John Lanphere did marry an Anna Lanphere in Westerly ca. 1730. [7] Please note that Find a Grave is not a reliable source for familial relationships, particularly considering the number of John and Jonathan Lewises in this area at this time. John himself had an older brother named Jonathan. (This was not unusual at this time, as John and Jonathan were two separate names, not a name and its nickname.)

The only John Lewis I find record of marrying in 1682 is John Lewis of Hingham who married Hannah Benjamin (b 10 Sept 1659) on 17 November 1682. Hannah is the daughter of Daniel Lincoln of Hingham (b1644) who may or may not be related to the other Lincolns in the area, and his wife Susanna. [8] Being as he is from Hingham, this is unlikely to be the same John Lewis.

MORE RESEARCH NOTES 1. John Lanphere’s will, made in 1730, gave a legacy to daughter Anna Lewis. Some inferred that she married John lewis Jr. John Lanphere was born ca. 1681, so the probability that his daughter Anna married a man born ca. 1660 is close to zero. 2. The will of John Lewis Jr. stated his daughters’ married names. Youngest child Jerusha was identified as Jerusha Lewis. Jerusha perhaps married a Lewis cousin or was unmarried when John made his will; either inference is reasonable. Researcher and author Seversmith evidently assumed she married a cousin named Lewis. 3. John Lewis’s widow Anna left 5 shillings to each of John’s surviving children except Jerusha, the residuary beneficiary and youngest child. Anna’s will is summarized in John Austin’s reference work. Widow Anna also left legacies of 15 pounds (total) to 2 children of John’s daughter Abigail who m. Samuel Slack and 7 pounds to charity.

4. Possible inferences from Anna’s will, made in 1739, about 9 years before she died and when all of husband John’s children were at least 30 years old: A. Anna was John’s second wife and the mother of Jerusha but not John’s other children. B. Anna was either kin of Samuel Slack or the mother of Abigail, John’s daughter. C. Jerusha was the only unmarried child of John or had special needs.

In view of the modest size of Anna’s estate (48 pounds), gifts to 22 pounds to non-children and charity and only 5 shilling to all but one of John’s children, the strongest inference is that Anna, who outlived John by 13 years, was John’s second wife and kin of Samuel Slack, and thus a different wife bore all of John’s children except Jerusha.

Sources

  1. Jordan, John Woolf. Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume 2. Allegheny River Valley, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913. Page 601.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649997_00506). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], Town Council and Probate Records, Vol 2-4, 1699-1736, image 506-507. Westerly, Council and Probate Records, 1731-1736, No. 4, Restored book Page 194-199. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Free Ancestry.com image of Will
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harrison, Keith. The Ancestry of Nathan Lewis Harrison Revisited Nineteen Years Later. Keith G. Harrison, 2008. Page 238.
  4. Austin, John Osbourne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690 (with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation. Albany, NY: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1887. Page 124.
  5. Arnold, James N., Ed. The Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 1. Hamilton, Rhode Island: The Narangansett Historical Publishing Company, 1883. Page 139.
  6. Children page 470. Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys. (Page 470 of what book?)
  7. Arnold, James N., Ed. The Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 1. Hamilton, Rhode Island: The Narangansett Historical Publishing Company, 1883. Page 131
  8. Savage, James. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, Volume 3. Jazzybee Verlag, 2016. Page 1696.

See Also

  • our Lewis source is from The American Families Historical Society, Inc. N.Y. (Whose source for what?)
  • John LEWIS Jr. at They Came to Milton.
  • Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume 2. By Horace Edwin Hayden, Alfred Hand, John Woolf Jordan, Lewis publishing Company, 1906. Page 470. (I find no reference to John Lewis on this page, nor any reference to a John Lewis of the correct era in this book.)




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1. Anna Lewis, a daughter of John Lanphear/Lanphere per his will made in 1730, could not possibly be the mother of any of John Lewis’s children because John Lanphere married in 1705 and Lewis’s last child was born in 1707. Lanphear’s daughter Anna no doubt married a Lewis whose given name is unknown.

2. The will of John Lewis’s widow Anna gave 5 shillings to each of John’s first 7 children and 95% of her estate to others including its residue to child #8 Jerusha, so any claim that said widow was the mother of all of John’s children is unreasonable. Because James Arnold (see sources) identified the mother of Jerusha as Ann, we can deduce from that name and said will that John’s widow Anna was Jerusha’s mother.

3. Jas. Arnold listed John’s other 7 children’s names and birth dates (Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850 Vol. V, Westerly births) consecutively (excluding Jerusha) but did not identify their mother’s name. The most reasonable inferences from these facts are:

a. John had exactly one child by Anna, John’s widow, who was his second wife..

b. John’s widow Anna was born before 1691 and thus wasn’t the daughter of the John Lanphear who married in 1705. Anna Lanphere should be detached as a spouse of the profiled John Lewis.

c. The surnames of John’s two wives and the given name of John’s first wife are all unknown and undocumented.

posted by Charles Clark
edited by Charles Clark
Lewis-3320 and Lewis-606 do not represent the same person because: fathers not the same /// Cleaning up the rejected matches /// Too many messages cluttering your board, they can be deleted…👌
posted by Aline Barbeau
Lewis-7951 and Lewis-606 do not represent the same person because: fathers not the same /// Cleaning up already rejected matches/This message is not a souvenir, it can be deleted to avoid clutering the board 👍
posted by Aline Barbeau
Lewis-7943 and Lewis-606 do not represent the same person because: fathers not the same /// Cleaning up already rejected matches/This message can be deleted to avoid too much clutter
posted by Aline Barbeau
Lewis-3452 and Lewis-606 do not represent the same person because: too much discrepancy in dates
posted by Aline Barbeau
Lewis-606 and Lewis-1405 appear to represent the same person because: Data clean-up - stranded profile with no familial relationships, no sources and the same birthdate.
Lewis-12837 and Lewis-606 appear to represent the same person because: same name parent & place, same children (listed in bio for Lewis-12837)
posted by Valerie Willis
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 appear to represent the same person because: Same mother, spouse and child. Conflict in data to be added to the biography until a primary source can be added
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate profile.
posted by Eric Weddington
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 are not ready to be merged because: The marriage of Lewis-606 must be corrected as she would be 70 years old.
posted by [Living Begin]
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 appear to represent the same person because: same person, please merge and add the two differing birth places in the biography to be researched later.
posted by [Living McQueen]
The DOB of John is 62 years before his wife. That seems odd. It also seems odd that he was 80 years old, supposedly when they married. The dates of birth of the children are in the 1680's and 90's. Is this a second wife? Things just don't appear to quite add up.
posted by S (Hill) Willson
Lewis 9947 and 606 are actually the same person. The profiles are almost identical. Same parents, same wife. DOB is different as is the city of birth but one profile says the dates are estimates so it just seems there is too much in common to ignore
posted by Stephanie Holmes
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 do not represent the same person because: Who is Lewis 9947 and 606?
posted by Ken Lewis
Lewis-9947 and Lewis-606 appear to represent the same person because: Wife is the same although the dates aren't exactly the same
posted by Stephanie Holmes