Person:Lawrence Lewis (3)

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Lawrence Lewis
b.04 Apr 1767 Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
d.20 Nov 1839
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m. 7 MAY 1750
  1. Fielding Lewis1750/51 - 1803
  2. Augustine Lewis1751/52 - 1756
  3. Warner Lewis1755 - 1756
  4. George Washington Lewis1757 - 1821
  5. Mary Lewis1759 - 1759
  6. Charles Lewis1760 -
  7. Samuel Lewis1762 - 1764
  8. Lawrence Lewis1767 - 1839
  9. Robert Lewis1769 - 1829
  10. Howell Lewis1771 - 1822
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m. 22 Feb 1799
  1. Frances Parke Lewis1799 - 1875
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Name Lawrence Lewis
Gender Male
Birth? 04 Apr 1767 Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Marriage 22 Feb 1799 Virginiato Eleanor Parke 'Nellie' Custis
Death? 20 Nov 1839
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Lawrence Lewis (April 4, 1767 – November 20, 1839) was a nephew of George Washington who married Nelly Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington.

He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1767 to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington Lewis, the sister of George Washington. He volunteered for service in 1794 to help suppress the Whiskey Rebellion and served as aide-de-camp to General Daniel Morgan, achieving the rank of major.

Washington, after finishing his tenure as president, called on several of his nephews to assist him at his Mount Vernon plantation. On August 4, 1797, he wrote to Lewis inviting him to serve as his personal secretary.

While at Mount Vernon, Lewis came to know Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis, the granddaughter of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and Daniel Parke Custis. She and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, had been informally adopted by George and Martha Washington after the 1781 death of their father, John Parke Custis. At Mount Vernon she acted as the social director, entertaining the many visitors to the former president.

Lewis and Nelly Custis were married at Mount Vernon on February 22, 1799,[1] and resided there for the first several years of their marriage. Their first child, Frances Parke Lewis, was born there on November 27, 1799.

After George Washington's death on December 14, 1799, Lewis served as the primary executor of his will. As a wedding gift from the Washingtons, the couple had received of the Mount Vernon plantation. From 1800 to 1805, Lewis oversaw the construction of the Woodlawn Plantation, designed by the physician-architect William Thornton.[1]

Lewis and his wife lived at Woodlawn until about 1830, when they settled at the new Audley estate in what is now Clarke County, Virginia. Lewis had purchased the tract of from George Washington's extensive real estate holdings. He died in 1839 in Arlington, Virginia and was buried in the vault at Mount Vernon, close to the sarcophagi of George and Martha Washington.[1]

The Lewises had eight children, four of whom lived past infancy:

  • Frances Parke Lewis (1799-1875) -- married Edward George Washington Butler, nephew of General Richard Butler.[1]
  • Martha Betty Lewis (1801-1802)
  • Lawrence Fielding Lewis (1802-1802)
  • Lorenzo Lewis (1803-1847) -- father of Edward Parke Custis Lewis, grandfather of Esther Maria Lewis Chapin.
  • Eleanor Agnes Freire Lewis (1805-1820)
  • Fielding Augustine Lewis (1807-1809)
  • George Washington Custis Lewis (1810-1811)
  • Martha Eleanor Angela Lewis (1813-1878)
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Information on Lawrence Lewis

Lawrence LEWIS 4 Apr 1767 - 20 Nov 1839 ID Number: I22482

OCCUPATION: Aide To Gen Daniel Morgan, 1794

RESIDENCE: Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania & Mount Vernon, VA

BIRTH: 4 Apr 1767 DEATH: 20 Nov 1839 RESOURCES: See: [S760] [S1241] [S2170] [S2174] Father: Fielding LEWIS Sr. Mother: Elizabeth "Bettie" WASHINGTON


Family 1 : Eleanor Parke "Nellie" CUSTIS MARRIAGE: 22 Feb 1799 

Frances Parke LEWIS

Notes

"IX. Lawrence Lewis, b. April 4, 1767. Married Mollie Carter, Gen'l Washington's adopted daughter. He was the grandfather of Audley Lewis, of Clarke Co., Va., also of Edward Parke Custis Lewis, who, in 1886, was Minister of Portugal.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0003/g0000063.html#I22482

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  1.   Lawrence Lewis (1767–1839), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
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