William Lewis

Abt 1595 - 1683  (~ 88 years)

• Name	William Lewis  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1595  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Aug 1683	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Burial	Old Colonial Burying Ground, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [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
  Marriage	Bef 1620  [2]
  Children	+ 1. William Lewis,   b. Abt 1620   d. 18 Aug 1690, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut (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

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