General Robert L. Lewis, of Gloucester County

Gen. Robert Lewis, of Gloucester County

• Gender: Male
• Birth: 1607, Brecon, Wales
• Death: 1650 Gloucester County, Virginia Colony
• Wife: Elizabeth
• Seen as husband of Sarah Peddington
• not the same as Robert Lewis, of York County
• not the father of John "the Immigrant" Lewis

This is NOT the “Lewis of Warner Hall” family, which originated in Monmouth, Wales

Biography

From Louise Pecquet du Bellet:

About the middle of the 17th century 4 Lewis brothers left Wales:

• I. Samuel, went to Portugal
• Il. William, d in Ireland
• Ill. Gen. Robert Lewis, d in Gloucester, VA
• IV. John Lewis, d in Hanover, VA.

Family

This looks incorrect:

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182538620/william-l.-lewis (no Citations)

His son was

• MAJ William L. Lewis
• BIRTH 1632 Llansoy, Monmouthshire, Wales
• DEATH 1658 (aged 25–26) Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland
• Spouse Mary McClelland Lewis 1638–1690
• Children: Andrew Lewis 1648–1700 & Harry Lewis 1656–1699

It refers to Maj. William L. Lewis, of Chemokens

From http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I49972 (many references)

Research: Lewis of Warner Hall suggests that the parents of Robert Lewis were Edward Lewis of the Van & Ann Sackville.

With wife Mary d. Yes, date unknown

Children

• 1. William Lewis, b. Abt 1632, Wales d. Between 1658 and 1667 (Age ~ 26 years) “Never Married His share of his father's property was inherited by his brother [SIC] John“
• + 2. Major John Lewis, b. 1640, England d. 1678 (Age 38 years) married Isabella Miller [SIC: Disputed & ALT parents shown]
• 3. Mary Lewis
• 4. Alice Lewis

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From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lewis/3647/

Sir Edward Lewis, the ancestor of a prominent Virginia emigrant, was born in Brecon, Wales, in 1557....married Lady Anne, the daughter of the Earl of Dorset.He had a son named Robert born in Brecon in 1579.This Robert had a son also named Robert Lewis who was born in 1607.This Robert became an officer in the British Army.Robert sailed with his wife Elizabeth aboard the Blessing and landed in Gloucester County where he settled.

Three other men named Robert Lewis, though of less spectacular parentage, landed in the New World also in 1635. One, aged twenty-three, sailed to Virginia aboard the Plane Joan.Another, aged thirty-eight, arrived aboard the Transport.And yet a third, aged twenty-eight, landed somewhere in New England.

Robert Lewis and Elizabeth bought land on the Poropotank Creek in Gloucester County, Virginia and became very prosperous.Robert was made a general of the militia with his background in the British Army and protected the settlements from the Indians.

He lived in York County in 1644 [???] and married a second wife named Mary. [???]

Robert died on his plantation in 1650.

Disputed descent

From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography volume 5.djvu/606 Page 90 link

Rob- ert Lewis, the youngest of their four sons, was born in 1607, and came to America in 1635, settling in Gloucester county, Virginia.

Over Robert Lewis, "the founder," discussion has raged fiercely. The following is the genealogy of William Travers Lewis, of Berryville, Virginia, a lineal de- scendant of Robert Lewis, as determined in "Lewis and Kindred Families," published in 1906, and edited by John Meriwether Mc- Allister and Lura Boulton Tandy.

”General Robert Lewis was the first of the name in America known to history or gene- alogy. He was a native of Brecon, Wales, and with his wife, Elizabeth, sailed from Gravesend, England, in April, 1635, settling in Gloucester county, Virginia. The statement is made that he held a commission in the English army, and that he brought with him a grant from the crown of 32.333y2 acres of land located in that portion of York, now Gloucester county.

Citations

• Section: Vol 2. Chapter XVIII. Lewis family Source Information Ancestry.com. Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 1-4 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Pecquet du Bellet, Louise,. Some prominent Virginia families. Lynchburg, Va.?: J.P. Bell, 1907 Page 621 link
• http://memory.loc.gov/master/gdc/scdser01/200401/books_on_film_proj...
• http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/lewis/robert_lewis.html
• http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I49972

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Origins

Secondly, and after her death, William Lewis, sheriff of Anglesey, married Ellen, sister of John ap Edward, High Sheriff of Anglesey in 1613 and who, on her husbands's death married Harry Mostyn, Esq. of Calcote, County Flint.

By this second marriage, there were William Lewis and Robert Lewis, Burke's Dictionary, 1857, 18t