Joseph Lewis

Joseph Lewis b. say 1646; m. Swansea June 13, 1671 Mary Jones, daughter of Robert and Ann (Bibble) Jones.

7. Joseph Lewis who died Swansea, MA. 24 June 1675 (the first white man slain in King Philip's War) mr. 13 June 1671, Mary Jones, dau. Robert Jones & Anne Bibble. She mr. second, Malden, MA, 11 Jan 1677, Obadiah Jenkins who d. in 1720. (She had seven more children by him)

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From Page 14-15 of Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massachusetts: And Some of His Descendants.  George Harlan Lewis. Essex institute, 1908:

"Joseph Lewis was left alone at an early age as his father died in 1650 and his mother in 1658. But, being use to the water, with his brother, Nathaniel Lewis, he sailed along the coast and was at New London, CT, on 2 Dec 1667, where they were listed as "transient residents" and taxed as such. He removed to Swansea, MA, with his brothers, Thomas & Nathaniel Lewis, became an inhabitant and was granted land there, 7 Feb 1670. At town meeting 9 Dec 1671, he was elected to assist the committee to "lay out the lands recently purchased at Metapoisett"."

"In the afternoon of 24 June 1675, being a fast day at Swansea, people were coming from Public Worship, the Indians attacked them, killed one, and wounded others; and killed two men who were going for a Surgeon. The same night, they entered the town of Swansea, beset a house in another part of the town and murdered six men". Joseph Lewis was the first white man slain in King Philip's War , being killed at Swansea, MA, 24 June 1675. Several others were slain, amongst them: Robert Jones & John Jones who were relatives of Joseph Lewis' wife, Mary Jones, (these were the first three killed)."

comments

• no birth record in Watertown
• Birth date seen as 25 March 1632 in Watertown without attribution
• Deane mistakes this Joseph Lewis for the son of George and says, “Joseph married Mary Jones 1671, and had children, Joseph born 1672, Sybil 1674. The next year he was killed at Swansey by the Indians. Hon. James Lewis of Pepperell, Massachusetts, descended from this branch of the family.” [2]

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• Anderson's 'The Great Migration1634-1635'
• Joseph Lewis in Book A, records of the town of Swansea : 1662 to 1705 (1900)
• http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I14498&tree=Schirado
  • 1. Plymouth Colony vital records, Transcribed by George Ernest Bowman.
  • 2. Samuel Deane, (Loring, Boston, 1831).
  • 3. (A.H. Mason, 1900).
• page 16-17 of Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massachusetts: And Some of His Descendants. George Harlan Lewis. Essex institute, 1908 - Genealogy - 179 pages
• LEWIS FAMILY (Intermarried with Jones Family)