Genealogie Wylie » John Lewis Col. (1668-1725)

Persoonlijke gegevens John Lewis Col. 

• Hij is geboren op 30 november 1668 in New Kent County,Virginia.
• Hij is overleden op 14 november 1725 in "Warner Hall",Gloucester County,Virginia, hij was toen 56 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John Lewis en Isabella Miller
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 18 januari 2020.

Gezin van John Lewis Col.

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Warner.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1689 te Gloucester County,Virginia.

Kind(eren):

1. John III Lewis  -1754 
2. Charles Lewis  1696-± 1779 
3. Robert Lewis  1704-1765 
4. Catherine Lewis  1702-????
5. Elizabeth Lewis  1702-????
6. Elizabeth Lewis  1706-1768
7. Isabella Lewis  1707-????
8. Ann Lewis  

Notities over John Lewis Col.

See "KENMORE AND THE LEWISES", p. 7 - John Lewis, Jr. was captain of the Gloucester County militia and later Colonel, and in 1704, was appointed amember of the His Majesty's Council. He was one of the wealthiest men ofhis day, owning vast tracts of land of which his holdings in King andQueen County amounted to 10,100 acres.

According to "Americans of Gentle Birth" by Hannah D. Pittman, the JohnLewis that married Elizabeth Warner was born at Warner Hall in 1650.

According to "Ancestral Records and Portraits" John and Elizabeth had 14 children.

This John Lewis is usually referred to as "Councillor".

According to "Genealogies of Virginia Families", this John Lewis inherited "Chemokins" from Major William Lewis (his Uncle), and in 1717 ,John deeded "Chemokins" to his son, Charles Lewis (of "The Byrd").

See "More" and "Notes" for de Burgh, Lady Elizabeth (as listed in the Index) for the legend of the Lewis Coat of Arms.

Epitaphs of Col. John Lewis and his wife from the Warner Hall Tombstones.(Published in "Kenmore and the Lewises" by Jane Taylor Duke. 1949. p.11:
"HERE LYETH INTERRED/
THE BODY OF COLLO JOHN LEWIS/
SON OF JOHN AND ISABELLA LEWIS/
AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S HONBLE COUNCIL FOR THIS COLONY WHO WAS/
BORN YE 30TH OF NOVBR 1669/
DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON YE 14TH OF NOVBR 1725/"

"HERE LYETH INTERRED YE BODY OF/
ELIZABETH LEWIS YE DAUGHTEROF/
COLL AUGUSTINE WARNER AND MILDRED/
HIS WIFE, AND YE LATE WIFE OF/
JOHN LEWIS ESQ./
SHE WAS BORN AT CHESAKE< THE 24TH/
OF NOVEMBER 1672/
SHE WAS THE TENDER MOTHER OF 14 CHILDREN/"

. on US 17 is a junction with County 614.

Left here to County 658, 2.5 m. and R. to WARNER HALL (R) 3.8 m., approached between rows of elms. The frame house, two-and-a-half stories with a portico, is the third on this site. The other two were destroyed by fire, the first about 1740, the second in 1849. Only the original brick dependencies remain.

Part of the estate was patented in 1642 by Augustine Warner (1610-74), who left it to his son Augustine (1642-81), speaker of the house of burgesses at the time of Bacon's Rebellion.

Warner's daughter Mildred, married here in 1690 to Lawrence Washington, became a grandmother of George Washington. After Lawrence Washington's death in 1698, she married George Gale, went to England on a business trip, died there in 1701, and was buried at the Church of St. Nicholas, Whitchaven, England. Her sister Elizabeth who inherited Warner Hall, married John Lewis. Another John Lewis, father of Colonel Fielding Lewis (see Fredericksburg), became step-father of Councillor Robert Carter (see Tour 16A), who passed his childhood here.

In the cemetery are tombs of the Lewises, also those of the two Warners. In the summer of 2000, I (Henny Carlisle) visited these graves and made some pictures. The cemetery behind Warner Hall, now an upscale Bread & Breakfast facility, is very well maintained..

From: Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Compiled by
Merrow Ederton Sorley
Chapter 5, Pages 55-60
"COUNCILLOR" JOHN LEWIS AND ELIZABETH (WARNER) LEWIS
We have seen that Major John Lewis, by his marriage to Isabella
Miller, left two sons, John and Edward. One of these sons, John Lewis,
was born November 30, 1669, and became the prominent "Councillor" John
Lewis of Warner Hall, husband of Elizabeth Warner. Of the other son,
Edward Lewis, little can be said with authority. A "Mr. Edward Lewis"
on October 19, 1691 received from the funds of Petsworth Parish,
Gloucester County (Petsworth Parish Vestry Book) 150 pounds of tobacco
for the support of a ward of the Parish. Governor Nicholson's Rent
Roll shows that "Capt. Edwd Lewis" was the owner of 1000 acres of land
in Petsworth Parish (The Colonial Planters of Virginia, Wertenbaker,
P. 231) in 1704, and that "Edwd Lewis" also owned 1400 acres in King
and Queen County (Ibid., P. 227). Probably all of these records
pertain to the brother of "Councillor" John Lewis; but nothing more of
his history is known. If Edward Lewis ever married or left issue, the
fact has long since become forgotten history; and on the basis of
extant evidence, it is extremely probable that he left neither
children nor a widow.
It must have been about 1690 or 1692 that Elizabeth Warner was married
to the future Councillor, known also as Col. John Lewis, for their
oldest child was born in 1694. At the time of their marriage Mildred
(Reade) Warner was still living as the widowed mistress of Warner Hall
(she was alive as late as the last-mentioned year, in which she made
her will), and it is entirely probable that the newlymarried couple
made their first residence elsewhere than at Warner Hall; this
probability is especially strong since the bride had two living
brothers, George and Robert, who were the presumptive heirs to Warner
Hall. The will of Mildred (Reade) Warner was of. course destroyed
along with the other records of Gloucester County, early in the last
century, and we cannot now reconstruct its contents in full; however,
certain of its arrangements are clear. For example, the Chesake estate
given to her by her father Col. George Reade was left to her two
surviving sons George and Robert, with reversion to her four brothers
as mentioned in the preceding chapter. At a later date her son-in-law
John Smith of Purton owned a tract of 1250 acres at Chesake (Hening,
Vol. 5, Pp. 397-400), which may have been bequeathed to him from the
original Warner grant located there. It was brought out in the
preceding chapter that, as shown by an Act of 1769, the will of
Mildred (Reade) Warner disposed of the Warner Hall estate in a certain
manner. Her son Augustine Warner 3rd, born in 1667, predeceased her
without having married and at the age of twenty; and she was survived
by two of her sons, Robert Warner and George Warner. Robert Warner was
clearly older than his brother George, for their mother left Warner
Hall to Robert and his heirs forever (an entailed estate), with
reversion in case of lack of such heirs to George and his heirs.
George Warner was baptized in 1677; and since he did not live to
inherit Warner Hall from his childless brother, it is apparent that he
died unmarried between 1694 and his brother's death a few years
later-he could not have lived to be more than twenty-five years of
age. It is, furthermore, quite clear that Robert Warner inherited
Warner Hall upon his mother's death in 1694, and that he made his home
there until his death without issue, shown by the deed of John Smith
of Purton above to have occurred prior to February 24, 1708.
"Councillor" John Lewis is shown by a statute in Hening (Hening, Vol.
7, Pp. 377-379) to have inherited from his father the Chemokins estate
in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, which had formerly belonged to
his uncle Maj. William Lewis. His father Maj. John Lewis had made this
estate his principal place of residence -at least, as has appeared, it
was such at the time of Bacon's Rebellion; and there is strong reason
for believing that Chemokins was the first home of Col. John and
Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis after their marriage. In the first place it
was hardly likely that so prosperous a man as John Lewis would, upon
his marriage, fail to provide a home of their own for his bride and
himself; and secondly, he would hardly consent to their living at
Warner Hall with her brothers and widowed mother. Between the years
1689 and 1702 there appear several entries relating to John Lewis in
the Vestry Book of St. Peters Parish, in which Chemokins was located;
there were of course others of the name of Lewis in this general
section of Virginia, but careful analysis leads to the conclusion that
this John Lewis could not have been any other than the future
Councillor. At a meeting of the Vestry on January 5, 1695 John Lewis
was elected a Vestryman for St. Peter's Parish (Vestry Book of St.
Peter's Parish, New Kent County, P. 38), and his name appears as such
at no less than fourteen Vestry meetings between this date and June 4,
1701 (Ibid., Pp. 39-59). One such meeting was held "at the house of
Mr. John Lewis"; and at this meeting the Vestry appointed "John Lewis
and Gideon Macon, Gentlemen, Supervisers and Directors" of the
construction of a new parish church (Ibid., Pp. 57-58). One of
"Councillor" John Lewis' contemporaries in the Vestry was "Capt.
Nicholas Meriwether"; and in this association of the Lewis and
Meriwether families, close neighbors no doubt, we see the beginning of
that friendship which resulted in the marriage of Col. Robert Lewis to
Jane Meriwether.
The minutes of the Vestry meeting held March 4, 1702 show that whereas
"Mr. Gideon Macon, one of the vestry of this parish, is lately de
cest, and Mr. John Lewis lately Departed this County", Henry Childs
and Richard Littlepage were elected to the Vestry in their places
(Ibid., P. 64) ; and we can thus place the date of John Lewis' removal
from New Kent County between June 4, 1701 and March 4, 1702. From the
various records mentioned above the conclusion seems warranted that
Robert Warner, having outlived his brother George, died about this
time; that Warner Hall became the property of his sister Elizabeth,
and that John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis removed to Warner Hall in
Gloucester County to make it their permanent home. Such a conclusion
is in entire accord with known facts; and, as shown by the deed of
John Washington in 1715 quoted above, John and Elizabeth (Warner)
Lewis were certainly among the heirs of Robert Warner. There is one
other circumstance which supports the belief that Col. John and
Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis resided at Chemokins from the time of their
marriage until they inherited Warner Hall in 1701 or 1702, and then
removed to the Warner Hall estate: The tombstone of Elizabeth (Warner)
Lewis states that fourteen children were born to her marriage, and the
names of nine of them are known from records in Hening's
Statutes-at-Large and in the Parish Register of Abingdon Parish,
Gloucester (in which Warner Hall was located). Of these nine children,
the baptismal records of only four are missing from the Abingdon
Parish Register-including those of John and Charles Lewis, both of
whom were born before 1701 (probably in New Kent County at Chemokins)
; moreover, the five children whose baptisms are recorded in the
Abingdon Parish Register were all born subsequent to March 4, 1702.
"Councillor" John Lewis was perhaps the wealthiest Virginian of his
day; certainly, according to the late Mr. Thomas At. Green, there was
no contemporary Virginian of higher standing. Nicholson's Rent Roll of
1704 shows that his land holdings included 2000 acres in Abingdon
Parish, Gloucester, 300 acres in York County, 2600 acres in New Kent
County, and several grants in King and Queen County of which the
largest was for 10,100 acres (The Planters of Colonial Virginia,
Wertenbaker, Pp. 234, 210, 218, 227). The 2600 acres in New Kent
County of course represents the exact size of the Chemokins estate. He
held a commission in the Virginia militia, and some of the baptismal
records of his children refer to him as "Captain John Lewis"; but he
rose to be Colonel commandant of the militia of Gloucester County, and
most of the records of the eighteenth century accord him the title of
Colonel.
In 1704 Col. John Lewis was appointed a member of the Council
(Colonial Virginia Register, Stanard, P. 44) along with his
brotherin-law, John Smith of "Purton". That there was considerable
rivalry and contention for the prized Council seats (there were only
twelve members at this period) is very evident from contemporary
documents, and was to be expected in view of the many prerogatives
attached to the office. The second William Byrd was in London at the
time of these two vacancies in 1704, and he exerted every effort to
secure one of them; but he was to await this honor for four more
years. Most of the Councillors were related by blood or intermarriage,
and no doubt there were disappointed aspirations within the Council
itself for the appointment of some cousin or brother-in-law. William
Byrd was frankly told that others had better claims to the two vacant
seats. In the Council, Colonels Lightfoot and Carter opposed John
Lewis' appointment "all they could"; and coming to a meeting with the
intention of blocking the appointment, they indulged in some species
of political skullduggery which prompted Governor Nicholson to write
in a vindictive letter that they had "made themselves lyars upon
record", etc. (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 8, P.
55). However, Col. John Lewis took his seat in the Council at the
beginning of the next Assembly on April 18, 1705 (Journals of the
Council, Vol. 1, Pp. 411-424) and began the twenty years of service
therein which were terminated only by his death. The Journals of the
Council (Vol. 1, Pp. 411-424, 491-591; Vol. 2, Pp. 595-703) show that
he sat as a Councillor during the As semblies of 1705-1706, 1710-1712,
1712-1714, 1715, 1718, 1720-1722, 1722, and the first session of the
Assembly of 1723-1726.
"Councillor" John Lewis and his wife continued as lord and lady of
Warner Hall until February 5, 1719/20, when death intervened to
deprive the household of its mistress. On that date Elizabeth (Warner)
Lewis died, and she was buried in the graveyard of Warner Hall not far
from the graves of her father and grandparents. Her tombstone states
that she was the loving mother of fourteen children; but the names of
only nine of these children are known, and it might be expected that
several of the fourteen died at a tender age. These nine children
include three sons, who are the ancestors of the three main branches
of the Lewis family, and six daughters; they were:
1. John Lewis, born in 1694-oldest son and heir of his parents, later
known as Col. John Lewis of "Warner Hall".
2. Charles Lewis, born in 1696, later known as Col. Charles Lewis of
"The Byrd", Goochland County, Virginia.
3. Robert Lewis, born at Warner Hall in 1704. and baptized in August
of that year, later known as Col. Robert Lewis of "Belvoir", Albemarle
County, Virginia. The record of his baptism is contained in the
Abdingdon Parish Register.
4. Catherine Lewis, and
5. Elizabeth Lewis, twins, are indicated as such in the record of
their baptism on November 2, 1705 (Abingdon Parish Register). Both
died young.
6. Mary Lewis, believed to have been a daughter of Col. John and
Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis, married Maj. Robert Throckmorton and had
four children. There is no actual proof of her parentage.
7. Elizabeth Lewis (second daughter of the name), was baptized May 7,
1706. She became the first wife of John Bolling, but died without
issue shortly after her marriage.
8. Isabella Lewis, baptized December 18, 1707, was married to Dr.
Thomas Clayton, died in 1742, and was buried at Warner Hall. Her only
child was a daughter Juliana, who died in infancy and is also buried
at Warner Hall.
9. Anne Lewis, baptized February 14, 1712 (Abingdon Parish Register).
It is the purpose of the present book to trace the descendants of
"Councillor" John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner through their three sons.
As seen above, none of their daughters left any surviving issue (with
the exception of Mary Lewis, who may not have been their daughter, as
documentary proof of her parentage does not exist). "Councillor" John
Lewis died November 14, 1725 and was buried at Warner Hall beside his
wife. The end of his lifetime marks the end of an era in the Lewis
history; thenceforward, the history of the entire family is not so
closely bound up with the vicinity of Warner Hall-for while many of
its members continued to reside in this home and nearby localities for
several generations, that slow process of migration began which
ultimately resulted in spreading the Lewis descendants over the whole
of Virginia, and finally throughout the Southern States generally.
There is not a state in the South today which does not have dozens of
Lewis descendants living within its borders, and most of the
forty-eight states are represented among the known living progeny of
"Councillor" John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis.
It is not difficult to find the reasons for the emigration of so many
of the Lewis family from Gloucester County and its immediate vicinity.
These reasons were the same as those which caused the general westward
trend of American population from our earliest history, and were
chiefly economic in character. The earliest settlements in Virginia
were at Jamestown (James City) and within a few miles thereof, and
were invariably along the lower James and the Chesapeake. As
immigration continued and the natural growth of population ensued,
those lands were first Occupied which were on or near the most
available means of transportation-the Chesapeake and its tributary
river& As the banks of them! waterways became more crowded and lands
there increased in value, overland communications were improved; and
by a gradual infiltration of settlers, the tidewater section of
Virginia became fairly well populated by the time of the Revolution.
After the Revolution emigration from Virginia pushed over the
Alleghany chain into Kentucky and Tennessee, and pushed southward into
the less populous border counties of North Carolina. In the closing
decade of the eighteenth century there was a particularly large amount
of migration from Virginia and North Carolina into Georgia; and the
bulk of the early settlers in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
(exclusive, of course, of the French and Spanish elements of her
population), and Texas, were drawn from Virginia, Georgia, and the
Carolinas, particularly during the first half of the nineteenth
century. During the same general period many settlers reached Missouri
and Arkansas from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Descendants of the
Lewis family were among the hundreds who participated in each of these
large movements of population. Of course, the above statements cover
their subject only in a general way; there were migrations from other
states than those mentioned, and the entire process was a prolonged
and continuous one; but a few of the more pronounced movements have
been sketched. Broadly speaking, it was through emigration from
Virginia and her neighbors that the Southern States were settled with
a land-tilling, slave-holding citizenry more or less homogeneous in
thought, prior to the Civil War; just as New England, New York and
Pennsylvania furnished the nucleus of the inhabitants in those
mid-western states lying north of the Ohio.
Like many another family whose members sought opportunity in the
development of our western-spreading territory, the Lewis descendants
found their Gloucester and Virginia holdings too small to support
their growing numbers; and just as they spread out from the original
homestead of Warner Hall into many family groups scattered
geographically, it becomes necessary at this point to begin the
separate discussion of these various descendant groups. The preceding
chapters have dealt with the lines of ancestry common to all the
descendants of the Lewis family; but we now proceed to take up the
histories of the three main branches of the family-namely, the
descendants of Col. John Lewis, Col. Charles Lewis, and Col. Robert
Lewis, the three sons of "Councillor" John and Elizabeth (Warner)
Lewis.

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