William Lewis

Abt 1620 - 1690  (~ 70 years)

• Name	William Lewis  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1620  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [4]
  Death	18 Aug 1690	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Burial	Old Colonial Burying Ground, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [6, 7]
  Person ID	I18295	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	William Lewis,   b. Abt 1595   d. 2 Aug 1683, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 88 years)
  Mother	Felix   d. 17 Apr 1671, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1620  [3]
  Family ID	F11162	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Hopkins   d. Bef 22 Nov 1671
  Marriage	1644	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Lewis,   b. 1652   d. 10 Aug 1722 (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F11161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  First recorder of Farmington, Connecticut, 1645. Sergeant and captain in the Narragansett campaign of King Philip's War, 1675. He was one of the first slaveowners in Farmington, and left his slaves (two Natives) by will to his second wife, Mary Cheever. It is said that after his death they were given their freedom.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2288] The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New by Timothy Hopkins. San Francisco: Sunset Press, 1903. [S4966] Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44:383, Oct 1890. [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. [S2551] George Sheldon, "Hon. Lucius Manlius Boltwood." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 59:341, Oct 1905. [S4965] Lewis, With Collateral Lines by Harriet Southworth (Lewis) Barnes. Philadelphia, 1910. [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. [S4965] Lewis, With Collateral Lines by Harriet Southworth (Lewis) Barnes. Philadelphia, 1910., town only.