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Meriwether Lewis

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Robert Lewis

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• • Grandfather of Meriwether Lewis — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Lewis Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Warner   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • May 1704 
  • Christening Location:
  • Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia 
  • Death Date:
  • from 21 Dec 1765 to 30 Sep 1766 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Albemarle County, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane Meriwether
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1725 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Lewis

  Nicholas Lewis

  Charles Lewis

  William Lewis (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Robert Lewis

  Jane Lewis

  Mary Lewis

  Mildred Lewis

  Ann Lewis

  Sarah Lewis

  Elizabeth Lewis

  • Notes: 

  • of Belvoir

    In the book "Albemarle County in Virginia" by Edgar Woods (Bridgewater, VA: Bookman, 1932), the father of Col. Robert Lewis is said to be another Robert Lewis who was a Welshman and an officer in the British army who arrived in America in 1635. This account was repeated in Stephen Ambrose's book "Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996) using Edgar Woods' book as the source.

    Most other sources, including some older than Woods's book and others newer than Ambrose's book, state that Colonel John Lewis was Robert Lewis's father.

• Additional marriages for Robert Lewis

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Thornton

• Sources for Robert Lewis

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
  • ² Anderson, Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott), Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin, Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press (1938), 49.
  • ³ Crawford, Robert Leighton, Laurus Crawfurdiana: Memorials of that Branch of the Crawford Family Which Comprises the Descendants of John . . ., New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer (1883), 18.
  • ⁴ Davis, Lottie Wright, Records of Lewis, Meriwether and Kindred Families; Genealogical Records of Minor, Davis, . . ., Columbia, MO: Artcraft Press (1951), 18, 50, 159.
  • ⁵ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 519, 557-559.
  • ⁶ McAllister, John Meriwether, ed. and Lura Boulton Tandy, Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, Columbia, Missouri: E. W. Stephens Publishing Company (1906), 24-25, 40.
  • ⁷ Sorley, Merrow Egerton, Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and . . ., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2000, orig. 1935), 58-59.
  • ⁸ Stephens, Lucinda Frances Hammack, Crawford Genealogy: "sine labe nota", Macon, Ga: J. W. Burke Company (1936), 10.
  • ⁹ Tyler, Lyon G., ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 11, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1903), 43.