Lewises A-Plenty!

Question

The LEWIS surname is spread far and wide across the United States, but many of us have not traced our LEWIS lines to their origins.

Join me on the Lewis Surname project to tease out the various LEWIS lines and variants LEWES and LEWYS to the origins.

Reply here if you're interested or comment below if you have any questions.

Answer 1

I'm interested in the history of the Lewises of Wantage, Sussex Co., NJ. My paternal-line great grandfather Noah Cortright was the bastard son of an unknown Lewis, but triangulation of multiple DNA lines show his paternal grandfather most likely to be Peter Lewis.

Comments

And in the course of tracing present day DNA matches I have enough data to add profiles for the many descendant lines of said Peter Lewis (on my to-do list)

Answer 2

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.