Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

William Lewis Jr.

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3698 
  • Father:
  • William Lewis 
  • Mother:
  • Felix -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1620 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Aug 1690 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Hopkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 6 May 1645 
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  Mary Lewis

  Sarah Lewis

  Felix Lewis (Ahnentafel No:1849 )

  Ebenezer Lewis

• Additional marriages for William Lewis Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Cheever
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Nov 1671
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for William Lewis Jr.

  • ¹ An Historical Review: One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Church of Christ in Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of the Amherst Record (1890), 105.
  • ² Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for son Nathaniel Lewis.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1186.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. IV, I-L, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2005), 125.
  • ⁵ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 367-368.
  • ⁶ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 97.
  • ⁷ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 43.
  • ⁸ Lewis, Simeon D., Book XVIII of the Genealogy of the Lewis Family, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton (1891), 8-9.
  • ⁹ Phoenix, S. Whitney, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations . . . of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Vol. 1, New York: Privately Printed (1878), chart between pages 344 and 345.
  • ¹⁰ Rogers, Sophie Selden, et. al., Selden Ancestry: A Family History Giving the Ancestors and Descendants of George Shattuck Selden and His Wife . . ., Oil City, Pennsylvania: Edwin Van Deusen Selden (1931), 32.

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