Sarah Walker

Please note: some of the sons appear to be quite similar in name and date. I have added all the variations because it was not unusual to use a name again in those times if a child died young or in infancy. Please contact me (Jessica German) if you have better information.

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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