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William Lewis

Male Abt 1595 - 1683  (~ 88 years)


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  • Name William Lewis  [1
    Birth Abt 1595  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Aug 1683  Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Old Colonial Burying Ground, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Person ID I18297  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2020 

    Family Felix   d. 17 Apr 1671, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1620  [2
    Children 
    +1. William Lewis,   b. Abt 1620   d. 18 Aug 1690, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
    Family ID F11162  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Arrived in 1632 on the Lyon. First at Cambridge, then Hartford 1636. He was among the "Adventurers Party" of twenty-five men led by John Steele who scouted area that would become Hartford in October 1635, before the Rev. Hooker's party departed Cambridge in May 1636. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. To Hadley in 1659, as a member of the party opposed to the Rev. Samuel Stone. Deputy for Hadley to the Massachusetts general court in 1662, 1663, and 1664. Permanently in Farmington by 1675.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2288] The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New by Timothy Hopkins. San Francisco: Sunset Press, 1903.

    2. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    3. [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930.

    4. [S4965] Lewis, With Collateral Lines by Harriet Southworth (Lewis) Barnes. Philadelphia, 1910., town only.