Andrew Lewis, Esq.

Dates don’t work to show him as son of William Lewis, of County Donegal

Andrew Lewis was the father of John Lewis, famous pioneer of Staunton in Colonial Virginia along with his wife Margaret Lynn of Loch Linnhe and their children. John was listed in the first one hundred settlers in Virginia. Andrew and his wife Mary Calhoun both grew up in Corgagh House in the Dublin area. It is believed that they died and were buried on the family grounds of their home there. The Lewis family were Huguenots originally from France.

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Andrew, had a son, John, and they both moved to America whereby Andrew distinguished himself as an Indian fighter and his son John built Fort Lewis on the western frontier of Virginia.

Origins

WILLIAM LEWIS, Sr., born in France around 1660 and returned to Wales in 1687, where he married Mary McClelland (of Scotland) in 1688 and settled in Northern Ireland. They had three sons, William Lewis, Jr., John Lewis, and Andrew Lewis, all who moved their families to the New World in the 1700s, settling in North Carolina and Virginia. William Lewis, Sr. established a new law practice in Northern Ireland, where he lived out the remainder of his life, dying in 1720.

Links

• http://history.loftinnc.com/Lewis.htm
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR34-WF8
• Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America: From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time, Volume 1 William Terrell Lewis Courier-journal job printing Company, 1893 - Doyle Collection - 454 pages Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Lewis. He was born in Donegal County, Ireland 1678 to Andrew Lewis and Mary Calhoun. He married Margaret Lynn. He died in Virginia 1 Feb 1762. They were the parents of seven children. google books

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WILLIAM LEWIS, Sr., born in France around 1660 and returned to Wales in 1687, where he married Mary McClelland (of Scotland) in 1688 and settled in Northern Ireland. They had three sons, William Lewis, Jr., John Lewis, and Andrew Lewis, all who moved their families to the New World in the 1700s, settling in North Carolina and Virginia. William Lewis, Sr. established a new law practice in Northern Ireland, where he lived out the remainder of his life, dying in 1720.

Andrew and Mary Calahan Lewis had one son, John, who killed an Irish Lord in a rent dispute and they fled to Virginia. Andrew was purported to be the builder of Fort Lewis on the western frontier in about 1732.