Family Group Sheet
SpouseMary (---?---)
Birthabt 1602, England
Immigration1634, Massachusetts Bay aboard the Elizabeth [from Ipswich]
Death7 Sep 1658, Lynn, Middlesex Co, MA [187]
Children
SpouseHannah Marshall
Marriage17 Jun 1659, Lynn, Middlesex, MA [187]
SpouseElizabeth Walker [King]
Marriageaft 2 Sep 1699, Lynn, Middlesex, MA [187]
SpouseSarah Merriam [Jenks]
Marriage10 Feb 1706/7, Lynn, Middlesex, MA [187]
SpouseHannah BAKER
Marriage11 Nov 1659, Lynn, Middlesex, MA [187]
3 MJames Lewis
Birth15 Jan 1635/6, Watertown, Middlesex, MA [128]
SpouseMary (Lewis)
6 MJoseph Lewis
Birthabt 1645, Lynn, Middlesex, MA
Burial24 Jun 1675, Swansea, Bristol Co, MA [1049]
SpouseMary Jones
Marriage13 Jun 1671, Swansea, Bristol Co, MA [1049]
7 MBenjamin Lewis
Birthabt 1648, Lynn, Middlesex Co, MA
Deathabt 1715, Stratford, Fairfield Co, CT [1049]
SpouseHannah Curtis
Marriage1671, Stratford, Fairfield Co, CT [1049]
Notes for Edmund LEWIS
Appears on the Elizabeth passenger list as "Edmond Lewis" age 33, with Marry (32), John (3) and Thomas (3/4). In Watertown, he served as selectman in 1636 and was granted 30 acres in the "Great Dividend" on 25 Jul 1636, as well as additional smaller plots in 1637 and 1638. He eventually held six Watertown parcels. He bought 10 acres in Hampton with Henry Dow in 1644, and he was still listed "of Watertown". That land was sold in 1649, when Edmond was "of Linn." [ [501]]
Savage's: EDMUND, Lynn, was first at Watertown, rem. a. 1643, not, as Lewis has it, 1640, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich 1634, aged 33, with w. Mary, 32; and two ch. John, 3 yrs. and Thomas, 9 mos. had James, b. 15 Jan. 1636; and Nathaniel, 25 Aug. 1639, b. at W. beside a ch. bur. 6 Nov. 1642, 10 days old, and had two more ch. b. at L. where he d. 1651. His will, of 18 Jan. pro. 20 Feb. 1651, names w. extrix. and s. John and Thomas. His wid. Mary d. 7 Sept. 1658.
Stephen Lawson: "An ancestry of Edmund Lewis from Burke's American Families is considered fanciful, with no supporting evidence provided. George Harlan Lewis in his Edmund Lewis of Lynn Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants, 1908, states "There is no authoritative connection of any of the Lewis immigrants to New England, during the 17th century, with any Welsh or English family." A principal reference for the Lewis family is Samuel Orcutt's A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)."[ [1049]] Great Migration lists origen "unknown" in its 2003 sketch.
Savage's: EDMUND, Lynn, was first at Watertown, rem. a. 1643, not, as Lewis has it, 1640, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich 1634, aged 33, with w. Mary, 32; and two ch. John, 3 yrs. and Thomas, 9 mos. had James, b. 15 Jan. 1636; and Nathaniel, 25 Aug. 1639, b. at W. beside a ch. bur. 6 Nov. 1642, 10 days old, and had two more ch. b. at L. where he d. 1651. His will, of 18 Jan. pro. 20 Feb. 1651, names w. extrix. and s. John and Thomas. His wid. Mary d. 7 Sept. 1658.
Stephen Lawson: "An ancestry of Edmund Lewis from Burke's American Families is considered fanciful, with no supporting evidence provided. George Harlan Lewis in his Edmund Lewis of Lynn Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants, 1908, states "There is no authoritative connection of any of the Lewis immigrants to New England, during the 17th century, with any Welsh or English family." A principal reference for the Lewis family is Samuel Orcutt's A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1886)."[ [1049]] Great Migration lists origen "unknown" in its 2003 sketch.
Will notes for Edmund LEWIS
Will of Edmund Lewis - January 13, 1650/1
Line the 13th of the 11th mo. 1650. Memorandum that I Edmund Lewis beinge Sick & Weake, but of perfect remembrance, doe make & conferm this my last Will and testyment as followeth,
First. My Will is that my land att Watertown shall be soaled, & that my eldest son John Lewis shall have a double portyon & the rest of my children namely, the five youngest to have every one of them a licke portyon of my Estate.
Secondly. My deare & lovinge wife to have the third of all my whole Estate.
Thirdly. I desire that my wife may have a cow over & above towards bringinge upe of my youngest children.
Fourthly:--my desire is my wife to be my whole executor to dispose of my body & goods accordinge to my Will.
Fifthly:--my request to my son John is, to give his mother a Cow to helpe her towards the bringinge up of my youngest children.
Sixthly:--my request to my son Thomas Lewis is to give to his mother half of his Sheepe to help her as aforesaid.
Seventhly:--My desire and meaninge is that the Cow I ask of John & the Sheepe I ask of Thomas is of them that they now have in their possession.
Also my request is to Thomas Hastings to be my supervisor to assist my lovinge wife.
his
Witnesses Edmund X Lewis
John Deakin mark
Edward Burcham
Line the 13th of the 11th mo. 1650. Memorandum that I Edmund Lewis beinge Sick & Weake, but of perfect remembrance, doe make & conferm this my last Will and testyment as followeth,
First. My Will is that my land att Watertown shall be soaled, & that my eldest son John Lewis shall have a double portyon & the rest of my children namely, the five youngest to have every one of them a licke portyon of my Estate.
Secondly. My deare & lovinge wife to have the third of all my whole Estate.
Thirdly. I desire that my wife may have a cow over & above towards bringinge upe of my youngest children.
Fourthly:--my desire is my wife to be my whole executor to dispose of my body & goods accordinge to my Will.
Fifthly:--my request to my son John is, to give his mother a Cow to helpe her towards the bringinge up of my youngest children.
Sixthly:--my request to my son Thomas Lewis is to give to his mother half of his Sheepe to help her as aforesaid.
Seventhly:--My desire and meaninge is that the Cow I ask of John & the Sheepe I ask of Thomas is of them that they now have in their possession.
Also my request is to Thomas Hastings to be my supervisor to assist my lovinge wife.
his
Witnesses Edmund X Lewis
John Deakin mark
Edward Burcham
Notes for Mary (---?---)
Last name may be Carey. Not named by name in her husband’s will, but she is given a cow to help in the bringing up of the children, four of which were under 15.
