Lewis is such a common name I feel my individual contribution to the project will be negligible; but I'm trying to identify a Boston ship's cooper named William Lewis born about 1805. Curiously for this time and place, I have been unable to find birth or death documentation. Likely candidate families are those from Lynn or from Barnstable County. He may have been one of those sailors who had different wives in each seaport frequently visited, and he may have retired and died with a wife in Virginia.