Lewis Family
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The following is a retype from EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS, with Some
Accounts of Their Descendants, by Clarence V(Vernon) Roberts, assisted by
Warren S. Ely, Originally published Philadelphia, 1925, Reprinted Genealogical
Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore MD 1975. Comments in ( ) are note
inclusions from the publisher/writer; Comments in [ ] are from me personally:
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1. ELLIS LEWIS, one of the early purchasers of land in Richland,
probably a native of
Wales, was an early settler in Upper Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, and
was a member of Horsham Monthly Meeting from its organization, taking an active
part in the proceedings of that meeting, serving as an Overseer and Trustee for
many years. He died in Upper Dublin 9 mo., 1753. His will, dated 7 mo. 22,
1753, was probated in Philadelphia. He purchased of the Proprietaries a tract
of 350 acres in Richland adjoining the Joseph Gilbert tract about two miles
north of Quakertown. It was confirmed to him by patent 12 mo. (February) 12,
1737. By deed dated July 18, 1747, he conveyed the tract to his son, Lewis
Lewis, who was already living thereon. In 1753 he conveyed to his second son,
Ellis Lewis, a tract of 117 acres in Southampton Township, Bucks County, which
he had purchased of Robert Heaton in 1711. By his will he devised the
homestead in Upper Dublin to his son Ellis and the latter, who had married Mary
Tyson in 1729, resided thereon until his death in 1783, leaving two sons, John
and Amos, and two daughters, Mary, wife of Ezekiel Cleaver, and Ann, wife of
John Saunders. Seven other children died in their minority. Ellis Lewis
(Sr.’s) wife’s name was Ann. Children of Ellis and Ann (------) Lewis:
- Margaret, m. James Green (See No. 1, Chapter XVII)
- Lewis, b. –1706; d. 2-16–1778; m. Ann Lord
- Ellis, Jr., b. 9-26–1708; d. –1783; m. Mary Tyson
- Jane
- Elizabeth
3. LEWIS LEWIS (Ellis1), son of Ellis and Ann Lewis, born in 1706, was
reared in Upper
Dublin Township, where he was living at the time fo his marriage in Abington
Monthly Meeting, 2 mo. 19, 1728, to Ann Lord. He probably took up his
residence in Richland immediately following his marriage. He was at least
living on his father’s plantation of 350 acres in Richland Township when it was
conveyed to him by his father in 1747. The plantation was located north of the
Joseph Gilbert Tract and between that and the Thomas Tract in North Richland.
It was intersected at the northwest corner by the road to Durham. Lewis Lewis
died 2 mo. 16, 1778, and his wife Ann Lord, born in 1708, died 11 mo. 6, 1785.
[Page 360] Children of Lewis and Ann (Lord) Lewis:
-
Elizabeth, b. 11-5--1729; d. 10-7--1801; m. John Thomas (See
No. 6, Chapter XLV)
- Hannah, b. –1730; m. Joseph Dennis (See No. 4, Chapter XIII)
- Ellis, b. 3-1--1732; d. 12-7--1732
- Ellis, b. 5-20–1734; d. 2 –1814; m. Margaret ------
- Lewis, Jr., b. 5-30–1736; d. 5-9--1738
- Ann, Jr., b. 8-11–1738; m. William Blackledge (See No. 3,
Chapter IX)
- Margaret, b. 12-11–1741; m. James Walton (See No. 20, Chapter
XLVII)
- Lewis, Jr., b. 9-13–1744; d. 1-15–1778; m. Mary Burson
- Joseph, b. 9-3--1746; d. 5 –1753
- Jane, b. 11-29–1748; m. Evi Adama
- Mary, b. 12-20–1750; d. 5 –1759
- Martha, b. 3-21–1754; m. Isaac Walton (See No. 15, Chapter
XLVII)
10. ELLIS LEWIS (Ellis1, Lewis2), son of Lewis and Ann (Lord) Lewis, was
born in Richland, 5
mo. 20, 1734. At the decease of Lewis Lewis, his plantation in Richland was
partitioned amont the several children, and Ellis as eldest was allotted as his
double share 120 acres with buildings thereon. He lived thereon until his
death in 2 mo., 1814. He married Margaret -----, but left no children. His
will, dated 10 mo. 26, 1801, devised to his wife Margaret all his personal
estate, and the use of his real estate for life. The plantation was devised
(at the wife’s death) to his nephew Lewis Lewis’s son Ellis Lewis, and in case
he died under age, it was to be sold by William and Evan Green, and the
proceeds to go to the Trustees of Richland Monthly Meeting, to be invested, and
the interest applied to the support of a school “at the School House in
Richland near Benjamin Green’s, on the lot which Thomas Thomas gave for use of
a school.” Margaret Lewis, the widow, died in Rockhill, 9 mo. 6, 1828.
14. LEWIS LEWIS, Jr., (Ellis1, Lewis2), son of Lewis and Ann (Lord) Lewis,
was born in
Richland, 9 mo. 13, 1744, and died there 1 mo. 12, 1769, Mary Burson, daughter
of James and Sarah (Price) Burson. (See No. 15, Chapter X) She married,
second, Edward Roberts, son of John and Martha (Roberts) Roberts. (See No. 10,
Chapter XLI) She was born in Springfield Township, 12 mo. 4, 1752.
Children of Lewis and Mary (Burson) Lewis:
- Sarah, b. 7-27–1770; d. 5-11–1771
- James, b. 3-30–1772; d. 1-11–1776
- Lewis, 3rd, b. 1-10–1774; d. 9-10–1861; m. first, Abigail
Roberts; second, Phebe Davis
- Joseph, b. 10-9--1775; d. 12-8--1826; m. Isabella ------
- Jane, b. 11-7--1777; d. in infancy
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21. LEWIS LEWIS, 3rd (Ellis1, Lewis2, Lewis, Jr.3), son of Lewis and Mary
(Burson) Lewis, was
born in Richland, 1 mo. 10, 1774. He and his brother Joseph, as the only
surviving children of their father, were allotted a portion of their
grandfather’s plantation in Richland, and purchased other parts thereof of
their uncles and aunts, but eventually sold the whole thereof and removed to
the neighborhood of Doylestown. Lewis purchase in 1799 a farm of 97 acres and
122 perches in Warwick Township, the greater part of which is now included in
the borough of Doylestown. He sold this farm in 1802, and removed to Bristol,
where he died 9 mo. 10, 1861. He married, 3 mo. 26, 1795, Abigail Roberts (See
No. 42, Chapter XLI), and second Phebe Davis, daughter of William Davis of
Bristol, who died 9 mo. 1, 1837. The only child by his first wife of whom we
have any knowledge was Ellis Lewis, the legatee mentioned in the will of Ellis
Lewis (No. 10). Children of Lewis and Phebe (Davis) Lewis:
- Theodore
- Harriet; m. William A. Stewart
- Mary; d. unmarried
- Jane; m. Vincent Goodman
22. JOSEPH LEWIS (Ellis1, Lewis2, Lewis, Jr.3), son of Lewis and Mary
(Burson) Lewis, born in Richland, 10 mo. 9, 1775, died in Springfield Township, Bucks County, 12 mo. 8,
1826. He joined with his brother Lewis in conveyances of the estate inherited
from his grandfather, Lewis Lewis, Sr., at different dates down to 1799. At
about that date he purchased a farm of 55 acres in Richland of Israel Shaw,
which he sold in 1805 and removed to Springfield. He was a cabinetmaker and
married Isabella ---------, who survived him. We know nothing of his children
or other descendants.
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David Wallace Tourison, Sheridan, Wyoming, 18 FEB 2002
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