William Terrell Lewis, Esq.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A070183

William Terrell Lewis, Sr. (son of David Lewis and Anne (Betty) Terrell) was born Abt. 1718 in Hanover County, Virginia, and died 1802 in Nashville, Tennessee. He married Sarah "Sally" Martin on Abt. 1739 in Albemarle County, Virginia, daughter of James Martin and Elizabeth Crawford.

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Wm. T. Lewis, Sr. , was one among the first men who volunteered their services in Albemarle county, Va., to resist the high‐handed measures of Lord Dunmore' s "wicked administration." He was a first lieutenant of the first company of "Independents" raised in the county of Albemarle in view of the encroachment of the Crown on the liberties of the people of the Colonies.

Before the Revolutionary war, he emigrated from Albemarle county, Va. to Surry county, N. C. Soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary war, William T. Lewis, Sr. , applied to Governor Caswell, of North Carolina, for military commissions for all his sons then old enough to bear arms.

In 1781, 1783, 1785, 1786, and 1788, he represented Surry county as a member of the General Assembly. In 1793 he emigrated to Nashville, Tenn., where he died about the year 1802.

GENEALOGY of the Lewis Family IN AMERICA, FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY WM. TERRELL LEWIS, 1893.

A descendant, Travis Davis, submitted an extended biography to ancestry.com and kindly gave me permission to use his work:

WILLIAM TERRELL LEWIS
William Terrell Lewis was in Surry County, ca 1776. His name appears regularly in court affairs until he left Surry for Davidson County, Tennessee (Nashville area) in the late 1790s. He served in several official capacities in Surry affairs. He was one of the commissioners appointed to find the site for the courthouse and public buildings at Rockford when the county seat was moved there in 1790..

He served on juries, as road overseer, on the panel of Judges for Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions and he brought several suits to court. He purchased and was granted a vast amount of land. He was obviously well educated as were his sons..

Willie T. Lewis lived in the beautiful area at the foot of the mountains where present day Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin come together, called Fox Nobs..

He came to Surry with his family and several members of his wife's family. She was Sarah Martin. With them were her brother, David Martin and family, and Thomas Anthony who m. Elizabeth Martin. They settled in the same general area of Surry County. All appeared to be well educated. They came to Surry in the midst of the Revolution and served the Patriot cause from Surry with distinction..

William T. Lewis was born ca 1718 to David Lewis and Ann Terrell Lewis of New Hanover Co., VA. He died in Tenn. in 1802. He left a will there at Davidson Co., Tenn. (Nashville). William T. m. at Albemarle Co., VA, Sarah Martin b. ca 1721 at Hanover Co., VA and died at Wilkes Co. ca 1790s..

To them were born twelve children..

1. Elizabeth Lewis b. ca 1740, Hanover, m. John Fielder of Hanover. They came to Surry where he was listed in Court Records as a hatter. He had 100 acres on Camp Creek, (southside) and 250 acres on (northside) of Camp Creek, and 200 acres on Mitchell River. They left Surry also ... probably for Tennessee..

2. Susannah Lewis b. 1742 Hanover, VA m. Thomas Benge, Jr..

3. Ann Lewis b. 1744, Hanover, VA m. John McConnell in 1763..

4. David Lewis b. 1746, Hanover, VA killed in 1769(?) N.C. (?) (no information)..

5. Mary Lewis b. Hanover, VA 1749, died young..

6. William T. Lewis b. ca 1749 Hanover, VA died young. A later child bore this name..

7. Martha Lewis b. 1751 Hanover, VA, died young..

8. James Martin Lewis b. 1753 Hanover, VA, died in infancy. A later child bore this name..

9. Micajah Lewis b. Albemarle Co.,VA 1755, Ablemarle Co., Va. was a Captain in the Revolution from Surry. He was a Lieutenant in 1776 and Captain in 1778, wounded in the knee at Kings Mt. He was shot in cold blood 27 Feb 1781 while he was in a house (Colonial and State records). He is buried at Dickey Plantation in Alamance Co., NC..

10. William Terrell Lewis,Jr. b. ca. 1757, Albemarle Co., Va. m. 1779, Mary Ann Hopkins. He died in 1813, place not given. He was a Major in the Revolution from VA. He did not live in Surry. His father refused to give him anything in his will..

11. Joel Lewis b. 28 Aug 1759, Albemarle Co.,VA m. at Surry 24 Mar 1786, Miriam Eastman. He was a Colonel in the Revolution from Surry and served with distinction. He moved to Davidson Co.,Tennessee in 1789. He first ran a hotel in Nashville. In 1789 was a member of the convention that formed the first constitution of Tennessee. In 1799 he served as State Senator, Friend of Andrew Jackson, his son served as secretary to President Andrew Jackson..

12. James Martin Lewis b. 7 May 1762, Albemarle Co.,VA m. at Surry County 29 Mar 1798, Mary Boswell Herndon, daughter of Benjamin Herndon. James Martin Lewis died in Columbia, Tennessee..

William T. Lewis cut a fine figure in Surry, for about twenty years. In the 1790s he was charged with being too greedy for land. He hired a Philadelphia lawyer and moved to Nashville, Tennessee..

The final resting place of William Terrell Lewis,
DAR Ancestor Number A070183, remains unknown. He died in Tennessee and was buried there in a place lost to history. Nevertheless, we have placed a Memorial Stone in this honor in the Cantrell Gilliand Memorial Garden. May this memorial serve as an expression of the gratitude and respect we owe William Lewis and his family members for their roles in American history and for helping build a new country: our America.

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