Mary Lewis

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III. Sergeant SAMUEL LEWIS (s. William and Mary (Hopkins) Lewis, William), b. Aug. 18, 1648; d. Nov. 25, 1725; m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of John Judd (NO); (2) Mary . (See below.)

Children, born Farmington.

Hannah, bap. Oct. 4, 1691; m. Joseph Gridley.
Samuel, b. March 29„1692; m. Aug. 11, 1720, Mary, widow of Samuel Cole.
John, b. Sept. 28, 1703; m.
Nehemiah, b. May 3, 1705; m. (1) Jerusha Gridley; (2) Experience Strong.
Nathan, b. Jan. 23, 1707; m. Mary Gridley.
Hester, b. Nov. 8, 1708. (Record says, "Esther, bap. Sep. 9.")
Josiah, b. Dec. 31, 1709; m. Phebe Gridley.
Job, b. Jan. 13, 1713.

From church records, Farmington: "Mary Lewis, wife of Samuel," joined church by letter April 21, 1707. From Private Controversies, in State Library, Hartford, say May 20, 1714: "Samuel Lewis, of Farmington." His w. Mary and s. Samuel say he is "bereft of reason," and they petition for leave to sell land. According to that he had a wife Mary at that time, and she was not Mary Cole, who m. Samuel, his s., in 1720, the latter being brother to Josiah and Job.

Source: History of the town of Goshen, Connecticut: with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton, 1897. Author: Augustine George Hibbard, Lewis Mills Norton Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1897 - Goshen (Conn.), page 477-478.

Further research needed and is ongoing.