Person:George Lewis (16)
George Lewis
chr.31 Aug 1600 Brenchley, Kent, England
d.Bet 3 Jun 1662 and 1 Mar 1663/64 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
Parents and Siblings
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m. 24 May 1596
  1. Margery Lewis1597 - 1619
  2. George Lewis1600 - Bet 1662 & 1663/64
  3. James Lewis1603 -
  4. John Lewis1606 - Est 1680
  5. Mary Lewis1608 - 1616/17
  6. Elizabeth Lewis1612/13 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  George Lewis1600 - Bet 1662 & 1663/64
  • W.  Mary Doggett1600 - Aft 1676
m. 1 Nov 1624
  1. Mary Lewis1625 - 1655
  2. George Lewis1627 - 1709/10
  3. Thomas Lewis1628/29 - 1709
  4. Lieutenant James Lewis1632 - 1713
  5. Edward Lewis1634 - 1703
  6. John Lewis1637/38 - 1676
  7. Ephraim Lewis1641 - Bef 1670
  8. Sarah Lewis1643/44 - 1735/36
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] George Lewis
Gender Male
Christening[1] 31 Aug 1600 Brenchley, Kent, England
Marriage 1 Nov 1624 Horsmonden, Kent, Englandto Mary Doggett
Emigration[1][4] 1634
Residence[1] 1634 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 3 Jan 1636/37 Admitted freeman of Plymouth Colony.
Residence[1] Bef 1642 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] Bet 3 Jun 1662 and 1 Mar 1663/64 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
Probate[1] 3 Mar 1663/64 Undated will proved this date.
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The Will of George Lewis, Sr.

"… 'The last Will … of George Lewis senir : Deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the third of March 1663 on the oath of Mr Thomas Allin of Barnstable'

The will was not dated.

Bequests were as follows: 'unto my wife and my son Ephraim Lewis my whole estate … after my Debts are payed; as well my lands and other Interests within the towne of Barnstable and the precints therof as alsoe all my Cattle and Chattle & goods whatsoever; and my will is further that my wife and my said son Ephraim they or either of them shall quietly enjoy the same During either her or his life time; and if either of them Die the other shall enjoy it; wholly During her or his life time; and after the Decease of them both what shalbee then left Remaining shalbee Devided amongst my other five sonnes viz: my son Gorge my son Thomas my son James my son Edward and my son John; onely my son Gorge shall in the first place have five pounds out of it and the Remainder shalbee equally Devided between him and them; onely I Doe will That my Daughter Sarah Lewis shall have alsoe an equall share in it; Item I make my wife Mary Lewis my full and onely exequitrix'

The witnesses were Thomas Allin and William Casley."[3]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 George Lewis, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    4:281-87.

    ORIGIN: Staplehurst, Kent.
    MIGRATION: 1634 (based on grant of land on 20 February 1634[/5] [ScitTR 1:239; TAG 72:322-23]).
    OCCUPATION: Clothier [PCR 12:53].
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 20 September 1635, "Goodman Lewis Senior" joined Scituate church [NEHGR 9:280].
    FREEMAN: Admitted to Plymouth Colony freemanship, 3 January 1636/7 [PCR 1:48].
    BIRTH: Baptized Brenchley, Kent, 31 August 1600, son of George and Dennis (Forman) Lewis.
    DEATH: After 3 June 1662 (grand jury service) [PCR 4:14]) and before 1 March 1663/4 (appointment of administrator [PCR 4:55]).

  2. ↑ George Lewis, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:85-86.

    "GEORGE, Plymouth, and Scituate, where he join. the ch. 20 Sept. 1635, a clothier, was from East Greenwich, in Kent, bef. 1633, and rem. to Barnstable bef. 1641, had in Eng. m. Sarah Jenkins, by her[1] had sev. ch. b. there, as Mary, wh. m. 14 Nov. 1643, John Bryant; prob. George; and Thomas; perhaps Edward; Jabez, wh. d. unm.; and James, but at S. had John, b. 2, bapt. 11 Mar. 1638; and at B. had Ephraim, 23, bapt. 25 July 1641; and Sarah, 2, bapt. 11 Feb. 1644; but we know not the date of his d. yet it was prob. aft. 1663, for his will was brot. forward 3 Mar. 1664. It names w. Mary, s. Ephraim, George, Thomas, James, Edward, John, and d. Sarah. John was k. by the Ind. unm. 26 Mar. 1676, under capt. Pierce. His d. Mary, wh. had m. 14 Nov. 1643 John Bryant of Scituate, and had seven ch. was d. seven yrs. bef. her f.; and Sarah m. 26 Dec. 1663, James Cobb, and,next, 23 Nov. 1698, Jonathan Sparrow. He had, in 1658, with Richard Foxwell, purchas. lds. at Scarborough, but both soon came back."

    Savage, among others, was mistaken regarding the wife of George Lewis. Recent research by Robert S. Wakefield and Gordon L. Remington has shown that he had one wife, Mary Doggett, married 1624 at Horsmonden, Kent. See their family page for additional information.

  3. ↑ Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
    16:23.
  4. ↑ Remington, Gordon Lewis. Mary Doggett, Wife of George(1) Lewis of Brenchley, Kent, and Scituate, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul, Oct 1997)
    72:322.

    Court of Quarter Sessions, West Kent, 15 Apr 1634: "...concerning the setling of Mary Lewes and her children ( whose husband is supposed to be dep[ar]ted this land and to be gone into New England)..."

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