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    Lewis Timothy

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    • 6th Great-grandfather of Joanne Woodward — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 466 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1698 
    • Birth Location:
    • Holland 
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    • Death Date:
    • 30 Dec 1738 
    • Death Location:
    • Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • Jun 1724 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, Holland 
    • Notes: 

    • aka Louis Timothée

      Lewis Timothy was America's first librarian of America's first public library.

      Lewis Timothy was a printing partner of Benjamin Franklin. He became America's first librarian for The Library Company of Philadelphia, America's first public library which was founded by Benjamin Franklin and a number of associates in 1731. Lewis Timothy's stint as a librarian would be short as Franklin would send in 1734 to Charleston, South Carolina, to publish The South Carolina Gazette.

      Online sources often state that Lewis Timothy and Elisabeth Villin were married in July 1724. However, their actual marriage record appears to state that they were married in June at “Walekerk” which appears to indicate Waalse Hervormde Kerk in Amsterdam (aka Walloon Church).

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  • Sources for Lewis Timothy

    • 1 Mott, Frank Luther, American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States Through 250 Years, 1690 to 1940, New York: The Macmillan Company (1942), 41.
    • 2 Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948, Salt Lake City, Utah: microfilm #005858101 (1950), Marriage record for Louis Timothée and Elisabeth Villin.
    • 3 Trezevant, John Timothée, The Trezevant Family in the United States: From the Date of the Arrival of Daniel Trezevant, Huguenot, at . . ., Columbia, South Carolina: The State Company (1914), 16.