Ezekiel Lewis

Title The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 8 Volumes 1055-1056 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 Contributor New England Historic Genealogical Society Publisher S.G. Drake, 1854 Original from Indiana University Digitized Sep 9, 2010

LEWIS, EZEKIEL, son of Capt. Wm. Lewis of Farmington, Ct., was b. 7 Nov. 1674; grad. Harv. Col. 1695. I find from Westfield Chh. Recs. that, "1697. (3). 16. Mr. Ezekiel Lewis entered into Church fellowship." "1703. 24., (7) Mr. Ezekiel Lewis dismissed to South Chh. Boston." He was a merchant in Boston. Representative 1723-4, 5, 6, 7, Nov. 1727. 28-30 Feb. 1731. May 1731. He m. (1) Mary Breaden, 18 March, 1702; (2) Abigail Kilcup, 11 Oct. 1704.

Ezekiel Lewis d. 14 Aug. 1755, aged 81. Mrs Mary Lewis d. 20 Feb. 1703. Abigail Lewis d.

Issue by 1st wife.—Mary, b. 21 Jan. 1703; m. (I) John Edwards, 25 April, 1722, and (2) Thayer.

Issue by 2d wife.—Abigail, b. 12 June, 1706, m. Jere. Gridley;

Wm. b. 28 Nov. 1707, d. 13 Nov. 1710;

Sarah, b. 21 May, 1710—not named in father's Will;

Elizabeth, b 22 Aug. 1712, m. Harrison Gray, 9 Jan. 1734;

Hannah, b. 14 Sept. 1714—not named in father's Will;

Ezekiel, b. 15 April, 1717, perhaps grad. Harv. Col. 1735.

Capt. Wm. Lewis, the father of the above named Ezekiel, was, so far as appears, the only child of Wm. Lewis of Newtown (Cambridge) Hartford, Hadley and Farmington. He (Capt. Wm.) m. (1) Mary Hopkins, dau. of the wife of Richard Whitehead of Windsor, Ct.; (2) Mary Cheever, 22 Nov. 1671, dau. of the famous schoolmaster Ezekiel C.,and died 18 Aug. 1690, at Farmington. His widow (the mother of Ezekiel) ,m. dea. Thomas Bull of Farmington, 3 Jan. 1692, and d. 10 Jan. 1728, aged 87 or 88.

Wm. Lewis, the father of Capt. Wm. and granfather of Ezekiel, belonged to the Braintree Company which, in 1632, removed from Braintree to Cambridge; thence, about 1636, to Hartford; about 1659 to Hadley, which town he represented in the General Court, 1662; from thence to Farmington, where he died, Aug. 1683. His wife (Felix) died at Hadley, 17 April, 1671. L. M. B.

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Title Book VXIII. of the Genealogy of the Lewis Family Author Simeon Dunham Lewis Publisher C.W. Moulton, 1891 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized Apr 16, 2007 Length 66 pages

14. xii. Ezekiel, was born November 7, 1674, and died August 14, 1755. He graduated at Yale College, Class of 1695, and was a merchant in Boston when he died. The executors of his will were Ezekiel Lewis, of Woodbury, and William Judd, of Farmington. He married first, March 18, 1702, Mary Braden, who died February, 1703. He married second, October 11, 1704, Abigail Kilcup, the widow of Rodger Kilcup.

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Genealogies of Hadley families (1862)

Author: Boltwood, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1825-1905 Subject: Hadley (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy; Hatfield (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy; South Hadley (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy; Amherst (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy; Granby (Mass. : Town) -- Genealogy Publisher: Northampton, Metcalf & company, printers Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: 8688415 Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation Book contributor: The Library of Congress Collection: library_of_congress; americana Scanfactors: 5

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2. WILLLAM, s. of William, (1) was in 1644 a resident of Farmington, and the first recorder of the town on its incorporation in 1645. Though one of the original " engagers," there is no evidence that he ever removed to Had. He d. in Farmington, Aug. 18, 1690.

He. m. (1) Mary Hopkins, dau. of the wife of Richard Whitehead of Windsor, Ct. Savage supposes her the dau. of William Hopkins, Esq. of Stratford, Ct. He m. (2) Nov.22, 1671, Mary Cheever, b. Nov. 29, 1640, dau. of the famous schoolmaster, Ezekiel Cheever of New Haven, &c. After the death of Lewis, she m. Jan. 3, 1692, Dea. Thomas Bull, and d. Jan. 10, 1728, ae. 87.

Children— Mary, b. May 6, 1645, m. Benjamin Judd of Farmington ;

Philip, bapt. Dec. 13, 1646, res. in Hartford and Fairfield ;

Samuel, b. Aug. 18, 1648, res. in Farmington ;

Sarah, b. abt. 1652, m. Samuel Boltwood ;

Hannah, m. (1) Samuel Crow; (2) Daniel Marsh; William, bapt. March 15, 1656, m. Phebe More, resided in Farmington, and d. 1737 ;

Feliz, bapt. Dec. 12, 1658, m. Thomas Selding ;

Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth, resided in Wallingford, Ct., and d. abt. 1710 ;

John, b. May 15, 1665, d. abt. 1694 ;

James, b. July 10, 1667, a trader, ran away to Jamaica;

Elizabeth, b. Oct. 20, 1672, d. 1674 ;

Ezekiel, b. Nov. 7, 1674, grad. H. C. 1695, and was a merchant of Boston, where he d. Aug. 14, 1755, ae. 81. He m. (1) March 18, 1702, Mary Breaden ; (2) Oct. 11, 1704, Abigail Kilcup ;

Nathaniel, b. Oct. 1, 1676, res. in Farmington, and d. Feb. 24, 1752, ae. 75. He m. (1) Nov. 25, 1699, Abigail Ashley ; (2) July 4, 1726, Thankful Lyman ;

Abigail, b. Sept. 19, 1678, m. Dec. 10, J696, William Wadsworth of Farmington, and d. 1707 ;

Joseph, b. March 15, 1679 ;

Daniel, b. July 16, 1681.

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