Colonel Robert Lewis, of Belvoir

Known children of Col. John3 Lewis Jr. and Elizabeth Warner were as follows

iii. Col. Robert Lewis, born 1704 at 'Warner Hall', Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., VA; married Jane Meriwether; married Elizabeth Thornton.

Family

Col. Robert Lewis of Belvoir married Jane Meriwether daughter of Nicolas Meriwether. He was 21 and she was 20 when married. Ther are pivotal members of Virginia history.

Children are:

1. John Lewis born 8-31-1725, Chemokins, New Kent area (county);
2. Jane Lewis b. 1-1-1727, Jane is an aunt of Thomas Meriwether;
3. Elizabeth Lewis b. 1729 Albermarle;
4. Charles b. 1730 at Belvoir, and Charles married his cousin Mary Lewis;
5. Ann, b.1731 at Belvoir;
6. Nicolas Lewis Sr. 1-19-1733 at Belvoir (when it was Louisa Co.) also had daughter named, Mildred Lewis;
7. William Lewis,b. 1735-1833 md. Lucy Meriwether, daughter of Thomas Meriwether,a cousin;
8. Mildred Lewis b. 9-1-1737;
9. Robert Lewis b. 1738 Louisa Co.; and
10. Sarah born 1748. This Lewis is in our family line out of William Lewis 1735-1822.
11. Mary Lewis b. 1734;

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Grandfather to Captain Meriwether Lewis (of Lewis & Clark,

1804 -1806 Expedition to Pacific Coast)

Secretary to President Jefferson

Served in the House Of Burgesses 1744 1746

Robert Lewis was the third son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner. He was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the family home of his mother. He married Jane Meriwether (1705-1757), the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether and Elizabeth Crafford. They had eleven children. Robert Lewis had land in Gloucester but he deeded that to his eldest son, John Lewis of "Halifax" and opted, along with his father-in-law, Nicholas Meriwether, to push out to unoccupied lands in the Piedmont area of Virginia. "Both took out grants for themselves of thousands of acres, being good judges of fertile, well watered selections." (Anderson, p. 62) In 1736, he obtained a grant for 4,000 acres on the Hardware River, and in 1740, he took a grant for 6,500 acres on Ivy Creek. Along with other grants, he accumulated a total of 21,660 acres, enabling him to bequeath land to all of his children. He also held an interest in 100,000 acres in Greenbrier County (now West Virginia). He built his home, "Belvoir," in the part of Louisa County that joined Albemarle County in 1761, apparently near the location of this cemetery. He served in the House of Burgesses 1744-1746 and was County Lieutenant for Louisa County. After his wife's death, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton in 1761, grandmother of Meriwether Lewis. Elizabeth's 1st husband Thomas was a son of Jane Meriwether's brother David.

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