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Colonel Nicholas Lewis was born January 19, 1734, in Virginia and died December 8, 1808, in Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia. During the American Revolutionary War, Nicholas was a member of the Committee of Safety and a Magistrate, in 1782 and 1783. Nicholas signed the Albemarle Declaration of Independence on April 21, 1779. [1] [2]
Nicholas Lewis is honored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as DAR Ancestor #A070094. DAR records indicate that his wife's name was Mary Walker. Applications for membership in the Society of the DAR have been made by the descendants of their sons, Thomas Walker Lewis, who married Elizabeth Meriwether; John Baptist Lewis, who married Elizabeth Harvey; Robert Warner Lewis, who married Elizabeth Wood, and Nicholas Lewis, who married Mildred Hornsby; and of their daughters, Mary Lewis, who married Isaac Miller; Mildred Lewis, who married Davis J. Wood; Margaret Lewis, who married Charles Lewis Thomas; Jane Walker, who married Hudson Martin; and Elizabeth Lewis, who married William Douglas Meriwether. [3]
Nicholas (2) was the second son of John who bore the name Nicholas.
Nicholas was born at "Belvoir," the Lewis Family Home, in 1734. He was the son of Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether Lewis. He was a surveyor and planter. Nicholas passed away in 1808, and was buried at Lewis Graveyard (now part of Riverview Cemetery), Charlottesville City, Virginia.[4]
Born at "Belvoir" Lewis Family Home. Married Mary Walker Nov. 2, 1758 at Castle Hill her home. He was a surveyor and planter who fathered 12 kids at " The Farm" where he died. He and his wife were buried in the Lewis Graveyard now part of Riverside Cemetery.
Nicholas Lewis (1734-1808)[1] was an Albemarle County landowner and friend of Thomas Jefferson. Lewis was also an officer in the American Revolution, a County magistrate, Surveyor, and Sheriff.[2] After the death of Nicholas Meriwether, his grandfather, in 1744, Lewis inherited The Farm, 1,020 acres on both sides of the Rivanna River east of Charlottesville. The estate was the headquarters of British Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, who occupied Charlottesville for a day in 1781 to pursue Jefferson and the rest of the Virginian legislators.
In 1772, Lewis and Jefferson faced a dispute against John Moore about the Rivanna River crossing of the eastern route of the Three Notched Road. Moore supported the crossing at his ford, while both Jefferson and Lewis supported the road going through Secretary's Ford and through Jeffersons Lego plantation. Both roads were built, but Lewis did not live to see their route as the public road that Jefferson finally secured in 1818.[3]
Jefferson entrusted Lewis and Francis Eppes of Eppington to run his farms while he was in Paris as minister to France. Lewis was also one of the witnesses of the settlement document Jefferson wrote for his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph when she married Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790.[4]
As a neighbor and trusted friend, Thomas Jefferson entrusted Nicholas Lewis with his financial affairs while he was minister to France in 1787.[7]
About his mother, Jane Meriwether From: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meriweth/resource_links/family_group_research/ m128_jane_ca17056-1758_robe.html: Jane (M128), born abt 1705 in New Kent County, is the eighth child and fourth daughter of Nicholas Meriwether II and Elizabeth Crafford/Crawford. Nothing is known of her childhood. About 1725, Jane married Robert Lewis (abt 1704-1765), son of Councilor John Lewis (1669-1725) of Warner Hall and his wife Elizabeth Warner (1672-1719) the daughter of Augustine Warner II and his wife Mildred Read/Reade. Mildred Reade is the daughter of George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau, whose father Nicholas Martiau (The adventurous Huguenot) is a founder of Yorktown. After their marriage, Jane and Robert resided on Robert Lewis’ property “Chemokins”, in St. Peters Parish, where their first several children were born. About 1730, Jane and Robert Lewis immigrated to her father, Nicholas Meriwether II’s property in what would become Albemarle County about 1744. The eventual Lewis plantation was named “Belvoir.” (Note that there are wide variations published on these birth dates and the birth order of the children and the Society has not verified the accuracy of any. This version is our current best guess, based on some preliminary research and a review of existing Lewis genealogies. We hope to have this better documented for Volume I, but are dependent upon you, gentle reader and fellow researchers, to help us identify these dates and other important events.) Their known children are:
Jane died before Sep 1757 in Albemarle County, probably at “Belvoir.” About 1758, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth (Thornton) Meriwether, widow of Jane’s nephew, Thomas Meriwether (M1221). There were no children by this marriage and Robert died before December 1765, when his will was proved. (Robert was the paternal grandfather and Elizabeth was the maternal grandmother of Capt. Meriwether Lewis. The Meriwethers & Lewises of the day liked to keep family connections close.) The graves of both Jane Meriwether and Robert Lewis are unknown but it is supposed they were buried on the Belvoir property. added this on 6 Aug 2008 URL: http://MeriwetherSociety.org Text: Information about this individual has been collected by The Meriweither Society from many sources. As the Society is in the process of verifying the information, it should be treated as unconfirmed at this time. Please do not assume the information is correct.
Little is known of Nicholas’ military career other than a brief note by Thomas Jefferson dated August 18, 1813:[5]
Nicholas Lewis was a revolutionary soldier and is recognized by a plaque placed at Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville City, Virginia.[6]
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This merge does not include Nicholas Lewis (1727) or Nicholas Lewis (1728 - 1808) . This is only the Merge of Lewis-4629 into Lewis-2583. Cheers, Cousin Bruce
This merge does not include Nicholas Lewis (1727) or Nicholas Lewis (1728 - 1808) . This is only the Merge of Lewis-4629 into Lewis-2583. Cheers, Cousin Bruce