Lewis Men of Early Connecticut

Date: 1600 to 1800
Location: Connecticut Colony
Surnames/tags: Lewis Lewes

This research project is expected to become a subset of a future "Lewis Men of Early New England" mini-project.

Many early records provide ambiguous information about the earliest Lewis settlers of the Connecticut Colony. It's not sufficient to know that a John Lewis was the son of a John Lewis, we need to identify the correct father and son. Our goal is to identify as many of the Lewis men who lived in the Connecticut Colony as possible and try to connect them to their father and sons. Y-DNA testing can then help confirm which of these Lewis lines are related paternally - and which are not.

We will attempt to verify existing early Lewis WikiTree profiles for accuracy - and create missing profiles for sons.

Connecticut Lewis Patriarchs

In this section, we attempt to identify the earliest men in a Lewis line to settle in Connecticut. We may not know if they're related to each other unless/until we have a descendant take a Y-DNA test (preferably a Big Y-700 test).

William Lewis III

William Lewis III (1620-1690) was born in Wales and emigrated with his parents to New England in 1632. He settled in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut where he had perhaps ten sons with his two wives. Profiles of sons to verify include sons with wife one Mary (Hopkins) Lewis (abt.1623-1671):

• Philip Lewis (bef.1646-abt.1723)
• Samuel Lewis (1648-1732)
• John S. Lewis Jr. (1655-abt.1717)
• William Lewis IV (bef.1657-abt.1737)
• Ebenezer Lewis (1660-1709)
• John Lewis (1665-1694)
• James Lewis (1667-bef.1728)

Profiles to verify with presumed wife two Mary (Cheever) Bull (bef.1640-1728) include:

• Ezekial Lewis (1674-1755)
• Nathaniel Lewis (1676-1752)
• Joseph Lewis (1680-abt.1680)
• Daniel Lewis (1681-1682)

Questions:

1. Did the same William Lewis marry both of these women? Probably yes
2. Did William continue to sire children into his 60s?

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