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Meriwether Lewis

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Meriwether Lewis

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    Meriwether Lewis

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 18 Aug 1774 
    • Birth Location:
    • Ivy, Albemarle Co., Virginia 
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    • Death Date:
    • 11 Oct 1809 
    • Death Location:
    • Grinder's Stand, Hohenwald, Lewis Co., Tennessee 
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    • Notes: 
    • Leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (aka Corps of Discovery).

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  • Sources for Meriwether Lewis

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
    • 2 Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, New York: Simon and Schuster (1996).
    • 3 McAllister, John Meriwether, ed. and Lura Boulton Tandy, Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, Columbia, Missouri: E. W. Stephens Publishing Company (1906), 42.