Elizabeth (Washington) Lewis (1733 - 1797)

Born 20 Jun 1733 in Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Fielding Lewis — married 7 May 1750 in Fredricksburg, Virginia

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1797 at age 63 in Culpeper, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Betty Washington Lewis (20 June 1733 – 31 March 1797) was the younger sister of George Washington and the only sister to live to adulthood. She was the first daughter of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. She was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.^[1]

On 07 May 1750, Betty Washington was six weeks shy of her 17th birthday when she married Fielding Lewis, 25, a widower with two young children. ^[2] His first wife, Catherine, a cousin of George Washington's, died in childbirth along with the infant."^[3]

"Colonel Fielding Lewis settled near Fredericksburg, Va.; was a merchant, burgess, vestryman, etc. He was twice married — first, in 1746, to Catherine Washington, a cousin of General George Washington; she died in February, 1750. His second wife was Betty, the sister of General George Washington, whom he married in 1750."^[4] She died in 1797 while visiting her daughter, Betty Lewis Carter, at the Western View Plantation in Culpeper, Virginia, and is buried there. ^[5]

Children:

1. Col. Thornton A. Washington, ^[6]
2. Fielding Lewis, Jr.^[7]
3. Maj. George Washington Lewis^[1]
4. Warner Lewis
5. Betty Lewis Carter
6. Samuel Lewis
7. Augustine Lewis
8. Mary Lewis
9. Charles Lewis
10. Lawrence Lewis
11. Robert Lewis^[8]
12. Howell Lewis^[8]

Slavery

• Founders Online, National Archives:'

From George Washington to Betty Washington Lewis, 13 September 1789 (Talks about dividing up ownership of slaves)

To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 1 October 1789 (Betty Lewis talks about dividing up ownership of slaves)

To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 9 February 1794 (Betty's Runaway Slaves)

To George Washington from Betty Washington Lewis, 23 March 1794

Family Bible Authenticity Questioned

Source: "Lewis family Bible record, 1746-1862," 23 leaves; digital images via Library of Virginia Online Catalog PDF : accessed 2014), cites Archives/Manuscripts, gf "Bible records -- Virginia -- King George County," Call Number 23637 and "Typescript available as Accession 25320."

• Penned note on page 10 reads:

"Copy of entries in the family bible of Fielding Lewis which remained at Marmion, the family seat of the Lewis in King George County, Va which Bible was the property of Miss Att___ Lewis and sold to a relict hunter in Chicago in 1893 by Mrs. Fielding Lewis."^[9]

• Penned note on page 1 introduces first part of material as bible owned by Major George Lewis, nephew of George Washington.

• Among entries appearing on page 10 are two entries:

1. Fielding Lewis was married to Miss Catharine Washington 1746
2. I was married to Miss Betty Washington the 7th Day of May 1750.

DAR Record

Ancestor #: A069909^[10]

PROBLEMS WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER - SEE ANCESTOR’S FULL RECORD.

SPECIFICALLY: "This code indicates that there is a problem with the lineage on at least one previously verified application or supplemental, but that there are other papers on this ancestor that are ok.

Those that are incorrect will be flagged with EL near the national number in the ancestor's full record. Also, the comment section on the ancestor's full record will usually provide a brief explanation. Please note that the error(s) may have been found anywhere in the lineage and not just with the ancestor's child or child's spouse. Please review the comments carefully."

Ancestor Comments:'

1) EL - ELIZABETH WHO MARR ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD WAS GRANDDAUGHTER OF

2) THIS MAN, DAU OF HIS SON FIELDING LEWIS JR, A069906. THIS MAN'S

3) DAU ELIZABETH MARR CHARLES CARTER. SEE DATA CORRECTIONS FILE.

Died 31 Mar 1797. Western View, Culpeper, Virginia. ^{[11] [12] [13] [14]} 31 March 1797. Virginia ^[11] Found multiple copies of death date. Using 31 Mar 1797

Buried 1797 Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. ^{[11] [12]}

File @O1137@. @O680@. @O1444@.

Marriage Husband @I24228139272@. Wife @I24202323841@. Child: @I46585829273@. Child: @I46585829274@. Child: @I46585829271@. Child: @I46585829275@. Child: @I46585829331@. Child: @I46585825201@. Child: @I46585530276@. Child: @I46585829276@. Child: @I46585829277@. Marriage 17 May 1750. Ferry Farm, Spotsylvania, Virginia. ^[15]

External Files

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• File O680 File: Format: pdf. story MTYPE story. STYPE pdf. SIZE 76532. WDTH HGHT Washington's Wakefield Plantation, Virginia. RIN 657bacd5-002e-4662-92f8-6783c7b11692 Pope's Creek, Virginia CREA 2022-02-12 19:34:23.000 USER v7aD1Nzwiupj4d/GZDZbEmjPIHNunnmVSWHJ8sNVT5KClqh3npsspiKnyT4EkIzS4KqQjsG+0yHRvYy0cqrA== ENCR 1. CLON TID 4681856. PID 7035049604. OID f96b8fec-76f1-4844-88a6-072f90ae21d2. USER O1wbvkyW2KmdA3KftFt89DnsYYYs5Luu8MtPZpBP2jrjRbCA6+FfmpuknKJFntB14L02p1n97fvXChRksjgQ==. ENCR 1. 2018-08-31 23:51:53.000. Origin: u MSER LKID f96b8fec-76f1-4844-88a6-072f90ae21d2. ATL N

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States https://founders.archives.gov/
2. ↑ http://www.kenmore.org/collections/portraits/betty_and_fielding.html George Washington Foundation
3. ↑ http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/spotsylvania-kenmore.htm loudonhistory.org
4. ↑ "Genealogy of the Lewis family in America, from the middle of the seventeenth century down to the present time" by William Terrell Lewis publ 1893 p 16" https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062356233;view=1up;seq=28
5. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Washington_Lewis
6. ↑ "The Swords of Washington," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 48 (1894):25 (in particular part); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
7. ↑  : DAR Record
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1}  : Founders Online, National Archives
9. ↑ Note that there's at least two women in the family named Mrs. Fielding Lewis. See descendants.
10. ↑ DAR
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Source: S_1091630636 Ancestry Record 60525 #1356487
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Source: S_1091539620 Ancestry Record 70635 #918005
13. ↑ Source: S_1090916241 Ancestry Record 9289 #14144771
14. ↑ Source: S1635792725 Ancestry Record 61266 #235775
15. ↑ Source: S1635792725 Ancestry Record 61266 #90235775

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