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Zachary Lewis & ?Dorcas
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There is some speculation as to whether the below is the correct information for the ancestry of Zachary Lewis the immigrant: Generation No. 1 ?JEAN1
LEWIS
married
SARAH ?NICHOLAS,
daughter of ?HENRY
NICHOLAS. Children
of JOHN
LEWIS
and SARAH ?NICHOLAS
are:
ZACHARY2
LEWIS
(JEAN1
LEWIS)
was born Abt 1673.
--- Genealogy of the Lewis Family by William Terrell Lewis Page 403-4 Chapter XXIV Jean Lewis, of England This book has problems in the lineage of Zachary the immigrant. Shows his father as Jean Lewis b. 1678 who never left England and as having a son Zachary Lewis born 1702 in Wales as the Immigrant. {Note from Dianne: Zachary Lewis the immigrant came to America 1692 - so the above can not be correct. There is a lot of good information in the chapter, but it appears that Zachary Lewis I (immigrant) and his son Zachary Lewis II b. 1702 Virginia are somewhat confused.} --- LEWIS, MERIWETHERS AND THEIR KIN
by Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott)
Anderson 929.2A p. 3
ZACHARY LEWIS I, born 1650, name of wife unknown, took
up lands in Virginia on Dragon Swamp in what is now King William
or King and Queen County.
Two sons are definitely known, John and Zachary II...."Planter John
Lewis" of Albemarle near Scottsville
seems a separate line, supposed to be
descended from, or related to ZACHARY
LEWIS. The will of this John
Lewis is in Albemarle records,
written July 1786 codicil 1792-1794
probated June
6 1800. p 355
THE ZACHARY LEWISES OF WALES -
An old copy of
BURKE'S HERALDRY gives this LEWIS family the following arms: Shield - Gules, three serpents mowed in triangle argent,
within a border or. Crest - a
horse's head couped bridled ppr. Motto -
"Be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove." Note: The
above crest is engraved on a very old
silver spoon owned
by John Overton Smith of Beaver Dam, Hanover
County, Va.
He is a direct descendant of ZACHARY LEWIS of Virginia. This same old
HERALDRY further states that the history of
this ancient LEWIS family is contained in THE BOOK OF THE HOUSE OF THE
GOLDEN GROVE, a Welsh record owned
by the Earl of Cawdor, whose BURKE'S HERALDRY
further states that these ZACHARY LEWISES
1. Lewis Of
Aber - Naut Cychan 2. Loyds of
Penniarth. 3. Loyda of
Haut - y hynach 4. Owens of Lac
y Berllan 5. Griffiths of
Garth and Cloddian Corhin p. 356 (paraphrased by Dianne - some indication that citing Jean Lewis as an ancestor may not be correct. There was some indication that they were not French Huguenots who went to Wales from France originally before going to Virginia.) The Welsh Peerage is said to show that these Lewises owned, 1692, In Wales estates named "Brecknock" and "Llangollen" in Brecknockshire. Zachary
Lewis II was born January 1, 1702 in either King and Queen or Middlesex, died
January 20, 1765 in Spotsylvania County. (Spotsylvania
was cut
from King and Queen, King
William and Essex, 1720.)
He was married (Rev. Theodore Staige
officiating) January 9,
1725, to Mary Waller (only
daughter of
Col. John Waller
and Dorthea King). She was
born January 30, 1699,
died March 28,
1781, christened February 17,
1699, by
Rev. John Moyroe.
Zachary Lewis was a lawyer and a strict churchman.
"On the division
of his father's estate he gave his portion
to be divided among his
sisters, reserving only his riding horse and
a violin; he
settled in Spotsylvania and there acquired
a large fortune."
(This statement
Mrs. Huldah Holiday,
his
granddaughter, received from her father, Zachary Lewis III.) p. 448
...Neither does Iverson appear in the family
of John Lewis the Planter, of
Scottsville, Albemarle County, who however, retained
the Zachary, and through
their ancestor, Owen
Lewis, claim relationship to the Welsh family of ZACGART LEWIS. -------- GENEALOGIES OF THE LEWIS AND KINDRED FAMILIES by
John Meriwether McAllister &
Lura Boulton Tandy, 1906 p. 149
Owen Lewis
appears on the church
register of
the Theological Seminary, Fairfax county, Virginia, contemporaneously
with the second Zachary, and as the
name comes down in the same line
with that of Zachary, he was no doubt an older brother,
the birth of his oldest child being given March 19, 1714, and Planter
John Lewis
has a son Owen, and Zachary is perpetuated
in his family. “near Dragon
Swamp, including all the points of high
land, and swamps to the main
run adjoining the patent of
Thomas Clayborne, and now belonging to Christopher Lewis, formerly
granted to Domingo Maderes and James
Johnson, patent dated April 1668, escheated land, and now granted to ZACHARY
LEWIS by order
of the
court, dated
4-17-1693, and
for the transportation of ten
persons into the Colony.” This patent was recorded 4-23-1694.
ZACHARY
LEWIS married
(first), in
Wales, before
1693, DORCAS, whose surname is unknown.
She was one of the ten persons her husband transported into the Colony.
He married (second), in Virginia, about
1701, Mary Walker, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Walker and Granddaughter of Colonel Thomas Walker, of Glouchester County,
Virginia, a member of the House of Burgesses in 1663
and 1666. Children of the second marriage: 1. Zachary
Lewis born 1-1-1702 & died 1-20-1765 married Mary Waller. 2. John Lewis
married a Miss Iverson ---------- p. 379
This Jean Louis was a
lawyer...He had
3 sons,
all lawyers...This latter, the youngest, em. to Va. located on Dragon
Swamp, Middlesex
Co., and was the head
of the
ZACHARY LEWIS line...The
youngest son
of Jean Lewis, the
Welsh Lewis
who settled in Va, had a son
named Zachary, born Jan 1, 1702... p 380 ZACHARY
LEWIS, of Brecon, or Breknock, in Brechknockshire, Wales, was the first of his line known to have come to
Virginia. Who
he married is not known. Among
the many grants of land
to the name of Lewis recorded
in the Va. Land Books there are only
two to ZACHARY LEWIS--one for 500 a.
in King and Queen
county, Apr. 20,
1694, and 450 in King William
County, Oct
23, 1707 (VIII,
318, IX.556).
This corroborates the statement of
Rev. Iverson Lewis
that he was the "the son
of John
Lewis, whose father,
ZACHARY LEWIS, came from Brecknock, Wales, to
Virginia, 1692, at which time he settled in the county of King and
Queen." Beyond
this nothing is known of this ZACHARY excepting
that he was
a member of the Church of
England, and had
two sons, Zachary and John. ----- WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY
Series 1 Vol 9 P. 260 It is
not known how many sons John Lewis and Isabella his wife had.
Another son may have been ZACHARY LEWIS, who
patented land in King and Queen in 1694, and in King William in 1703,
and was ancestor
of the LEWIS family of Spotsylvania.
(Haden's Virginia Genealogies,
p. 379.) (This John immigrated in
1653 & could
not be father of Zachary.) ---------- attn to
) Mr. Harry
Beverley
)
gent LEWIS etc ) I do hereby
authorize & empower you or others of you by
himself for me
and in my to appear as my attorney in
Middlesex County Court in
April Court
and there to confess Judgement to
Mr. William Arnard for three hundred and seventy eighty pounds of Tobacco or
about that sum with I am indebted to him by bill under my hand any for you or
with or of your so doing this shall be yet sufficient
Warrant given under my hand
this 10th day of
March 1715/6.
his Witness Diana Din Underwood/
William XH Hammett
Timely Recorded
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