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Household of Lawrence Lewis

He is married to Eleanor Parke Custis.

They got married on February 22, 1799, he was 31 years old.


Notes about Lawrence Lewis

See KENMORE AND THE LEWISES -
p. 178: In response to a letter from George Washington dated August 4,1797, Lawrence Lewis went to live at Mount Vernon and work as a privatesecretary and ".. to ease me of the trouble of entertaining company ..".His brothers Robert and then Howell had been Washington's secretarybefore this.
p. 179: Nelly Custis was a favorite granddaughter of Mrs. Washington.
p. 179: Lawrence Lewis and Nelly Custis were married at Mount Vernon onGeorge Washington's last birthday. February 22, 1799.
p. 180: Their first child was born at Mount Vernon " a fortnight before"George Washington died.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Lawrence Lewis

John III Lewis
-1754
Frances Fielding
± 1698-1731
Augustine Washington
1693-1743
Mary "Betty" Ball
1708-1789

Lawrence Lewis
1767-1839

1799

Eleanor Parke Custis
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Birthday April 4, 1767

  • The temperature on April 4, 1767 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1767: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 7 » End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
    • June 17 » Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
    • July 3 » Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
    • July 3 » Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
    • August 26 » Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
    • October 11 » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

Day of marriage February 22, 1799

  • The temperature on February 22, 1799 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1799: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
    • April 16 » French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
    • August 30 » The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
    • September 26 » War of the 2nd Coalition: Franco-Swiss troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign.
    • October 12 » Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
    • December 26 » Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen". (This is not to be confused with Washington's funeral on December 18.)


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