Person:Lewis Burwell (8)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Vol. 1 - JUNE 11, 1751--AUGUST 27, 1751. - Page (176) This book begins August 1749, but there are no orders but those of suits and actions until August 27, 1751, when a new Court was organized under a commission from the Hon. Lewis Burwell, President of Virginia, dated 11th June, 1751, directed to James Patton, Peter Scholl,* Robert Cunningham, Wm. Jameson, David Stuart,* John Lynn,* Erwin Patterson,* Thos. English, Benj. Borden,* Joseph Kenady, John Denton, Wm. Christian, Robert Breckinridge, John Lewis,* Silas Hart, Andw. Lewis,* James Rutledge, Alexr. Wright, Ro. McClenahan,* Robert Campbell, John Wilson, Richd. Burton, Patr. Martin, James Lockhart, John Mills, Ro. Ramsey, Richd. Woods, John Anderson, John Ruddle, Thos. Stuart, John Lyle, John Buchanan, Thomas Lewis, Archd. Alexander, John Mathews, Adam Dickenson, Mathias Seltzer, Wm. Harbeson. (Those marked (*) qualified.)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
   1:64.

   Burwell, Lee, president of the council, succeeded on Thomas Lee's death, November 14, 1750, as acting governor of Virginia, and remained such till the arrival of Governor Dinwiddie, November 20, 1751. He was born in 1710, and was the son of Major Nathaniel Burwell, of Carter's Creek, Gloucester county, and Elizabeth Carter his wife, daughter of Colonel Robert Carter, acting governor in 1726.
   
   Nathaniel Burwell was the son of Major Lewis Burwell, member of the council in 1702, and of Abigail Smith, niece and heiress of Nathaniel Bacon, Esq., president of the council. Then Major Lewis Burwell was son of Lewis Burwell, sergeant-major of the colony in 1652, and Lucy Higginson, who commanded at Middle Plantation (now Williamsburg) in 1646. This last Major Burwell was the emigrant ancestor, who came to Virginia about 1642, and was son of Edward Burwell of Bedfordshire, England, and Dorothy, his wife, daughter of William Bedell, of Catsworth.
   
   President Burwell was educated at the University of Cambridge, England, and was distinguished for his remarkable learning and scholarship. On his return to Virginia from England he was called to fill many important offices; was a burgess from Gloucester county in 1742; a member of the council in 1743, and, as president of that body, succeeded Thomas Lee in the administration of affairs. During his magistracy a contract was made for the repair of the governor's house or palace, and for the incoming governor a building near by was purchased of Dr. Kenneth McKenzie. The capitol, which had been burned in 1746, was also nearly completed. Among other incidents of his administration was the visit of Gov. Ogle of Maryland to Williamsburg, and the coming of a company of tragedians who had been playing in New York and Philadelphia. On November 20, 1751, Colonel Robert Dinwiddie arrived at Yorktown with his lady and two daughters, and the next day was sworn into the office of governor. President Burwell appears to have been in feeble health during his administration, for there is a record of his visit which he paid in the spring of 1750 to the Warm Sulphur Springs, in Berkeley county. He survived, however, till May, 1756, when he died at his seat in Gloucester county, Virginia.
   
   He married in October, 1736, Mary, daughter of Colonel Francis and Ann Willis.

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   Source: Record of the Burwell Family as reported in the book "Carter Hall and Some Genealogical Notes on the Burwell Family of Virginia" by Stuart E. Brown, Jr. and Ann Barton Brown. [also The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87.1 (1979): 1-2. Web.]
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   Lewis, b. 1710 was the eldest son of Major Nathaniel Burwell and Elizabeth Carter. Lewis is desigated as Lewis, of the Grove, James City Virginia. He was educated at Cambridge, England, President of the Council and Acting Governor of the Colony. He married Mary, daughter of Col. Francis and Anne Willis, Burgess of the Colony. He died in 1772 (s/b 1752 from other sources).

3.   Rootsweb.

   Lewis Burwell was born in 1710. He was President of Council at Virginia. He resided at 'Carter's Creek', Gloucester Co., VA. He married Anne Holden; 1st wife. He married Frances in 1745; 3rd wife,
   2nd husband. He was Governor under the Crown in 1750 at Virginia. He died before Mar 1752.
   
   Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd73.htm
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   [cos1776 Note of Caution: this source lists 2 marriages not mentioned in other sources and does not list the one marriage that is listed in multiple sources. More proof needed to support these marriages.]