Mary (Howell) Lewis (1700 - 1783)

Born 1700 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Charles Lewis Sr. — married 28 May 1717 in Goochland County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1783 at about age 83 in Goochland County, Virginia, United States of America

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Biography

Mary was a Virginia colonist.

Mary (Howell) Lewis performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.

Mary (Howell) Lewis is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A070069.

Mary (Howell) Lewis^[1][2]

Birth: 1700, Virginia^[1]

Parents:

• John Howell,^[2] 1st husband of Mary Lane^[3][4]
• Mary Lane, married (1) John Howell, (2) Henry Fielding (their daughter, Frances Fielding, was Mary Howell's half-siser)^[3]

Husband: Charles Lewis^[1][2][5]

Married May 28, 1717^[2] at Goochland County, Virginia^[6]

See list of children on her husband's profile^[7]

Died 1783 in Goochland County, Virginia^[1]

Research Notes

Father: John Hopkins Howell according to some (no support found for "Hopkins" as middle name, but his mother's maiden name is said to have been Hopkins); James Howell by others, said to be his brother. Existence of James supported by a JSTOR article (following from James's profile, 14 November 2020):

James Howell is listed as a justice of the peace in "Public Officers in Virginia 1680." (King & Queen Co., 25 Feb. 1699), Virginia Magazine, I (1894), page 234^[8]

The law designates the "Collector of His Majesties Chief Custom-houses in England, or any of his Majesties Plantations" to make entry and bonds, administer oaths and receive the duties. African Company letters instructed the Virginia agents that they were ". . . Impowered to collect the Duty of 10 per Cent granted by a late Act of Parliament to Settle the Trade to Africa. . ." See R.A.C. to James Howell, 23 April 1700, T 70/57, f. 157 vo., P.R.O.; R.A.C. to Edward Gill [sic] 3 April 1701, ibid., 172 ro. and vo.; R.A.C. to Henry Fielding, 16 Dec. 1701, T 70/58, 20-21, P.R.O.

Needed: Source for the second paragraph (it is not found in the cited JSTOR article). How James Howell serving as a Justice of the Peace for King & Queen County (25 February 1699) does anything other than show that there was a James Howell in Virginia in 1699. In other words, how does this fact or the information in the second paragraph support James being brother of John, husband of Mary Lane, and father of Mary Howell? Is "R.A.C. to" James Howell in 1700 and Henry Fielding in 1701 the basis for the claim? (Also, what does R.A.C. stand for?)

A search of JSTOR articles for John Howell returned too many to be useful, but I found the following of interest:

• John Howell, "sometimes my servant", named in the 1617 will of Richard Everard (proved Essex, England; Thomas Byrd one of the witnesses).^[9]
• John Howell, servant, named as headright in 1637 Henrico County patent to Richard Greete.^[10]

Additional searches revealed:

• 1637, John Howell, sponsored by Richard Greete (Henrico County)^[11]
• 1639, John Howell granted 150 acres in Henrico County^[12]
• 1639, John Fletcher sponsored by John Howell (Henrico County)^[11]
• 1639, Thomas Gibson, sponsored by John Howell (Henrico County)^[11]

There were two other John Howells listed:

• 1650, John Howell, sponsored by Stephen Charlton (Northampton County)^[11]
• 1653, John Howell, sponsored by (Northumberland County)^[11]

There were no James Howells listed.

Hoptkins Howell granted 110 acres, 1683 (Isle of Wight County)^[13]

"Hopkins, Howell and Mary Howell, orphans", 1688, 200 acres (Isle of Wight County)^[14]

John Howell, 1694, 100 acres (Isle of Wight County)^[15]

Hopkin Howell, 1695, 100 acres (Isle of Wight County)^[15]

Article

Article From Wyoming County Heritage Page 77 article " Allens" Sources; Grayson County Genealogical Society members Robt. Hash, Jeffery Weaver, Paul R. Blankenship and W. Darrell Miller

William Allen Sr was born 1725 in Goochland County Virginia and died in Surry County, North Carolina. He married Mary Lewis who was born September 25, 1736 in Campbell County,Virginia. Her Father was Charles Lewis who was born October 13, 1696 and married on May 28, 1717 to Mary Howell. Mary (Lewis) Allen after William Allen's death married John Bailey before her death in Lunenburg County,Virginia.

Mary Lewis comes from a distinguished family. Her niece, and nephew, AnnJ. Lewis, and Charles Liburen Lewis, where son and daughter of Charles Lewis Jr. of Buck Island, Mary's brother. Charles Liburne Lewis married Lucy Jefferson, while Ann J. Lewis married Randolph Jefferson, sister and brother to our 3rd. President Thomas Jefferson respectively. Further documentation is presented by "Book Of Brown, The History Of A Family" by Channing Bolton Brown, N.C 1967.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Jan. 21, 2017), "Record of Mary Howell Lewis", Ancestor # A070069.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Robert Bolling Batte (RBB) Papers, held by Library of Virginia: Mary (Howell) Lewis (accessed 14 November 2020).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} 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
   • page 61: calls Mary the half-sister of Frances, daughter of Henry Fielding & Mary Lane
   • page 248: says Mary Lane was "Mrs. John Howell before she became Mrs. Henry Fielding"
4. ↑ Some say her father was John's brother James (see his profile] and comments below).
5. ↑ Charles Lilburne Lewis is not the Charles Lewis who married Mary Howell b c1700
6. ↑ DAR record
7. ↑ see sources on her husband's profile
8. ↑ “Public Officers in Virginia, 1680.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 1, no. 3, 1894, pp. 225–252. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4241750. Accessed 26 Oct. 2020 digitized: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241750
9. ↑ "Virginia Gleanings in England (Continued)." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 25, no. 4, 1917, pp. 389–399 (see page 397). JSTOR stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4243629 (accessed 14 November 2020).
10. ↑ "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 7, no. 1, 1899, pp. 69–72 (see page 70). JSTOR stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4242225 (accessed 14 November 2020).
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4} https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Early_Virginia_Immigrants - list of "Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666", from book published 1912 by George Cabell Greer (accessed 14 November 2020).
12. ↑ http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf (page 82, "92 of 352", accessed 14 November 2020)
13. ↑ http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf (page 280, "302 of 352", accessed 14 November 2020). Of interest because of "Hopkins" shown by some as middle name of Mary Howell's father John Howell.
14. ↑ http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf (page 281, "303 of 352", accessed 14 November 2020).
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf (page 282, "304 of 352", accessed 14 November 2020).

See also:

• MyHeritage: Mary (Howell) Lewis (subscription needed; possibly not accurate [apparent source for Mary married Charles Lilburne Lewis])
• Online tree posted by Arlis Herring (no apparent sources).