Person:Jacob Lewis (3)

Watchers
  1. Jacob Lewis1734 - 1801
  2. Phoebe LewisAbt 1738 -
  3. Ann (2) LewisAbt 1740 -
  4. Sarah LewisAbt 1744 -
  • HJacob Lewis1734 - 1801
m. 29 Dec 1755
Facts and Events
Name Jacob Lewis
Gender Male
Birth[1] 27 Oct 1734 Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
Marriage 29 Dec 1755 to Unknown
Alt Marriage 23 Nov 1778 to Unknown
Death[8] 29 Jun 1801 Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Burial[9] Oak Grove Cemetery, Uniontown, PennsylvaniaBuried

Original source wording: Date of Import: Oct 28, 1999 Original source wording: Date of Import: May 8, 2001 Births and Marriages for Jacob's second family from the Jacob Lewis Bible. This line continues to Mary Imogene Lewis b 1885, Muscatine IA, Jacob was administor of the estate of Platt Bayless with his si Phoebe Lewis Bayless (Feb 2 1778) Jacob Lewis was b 1 1/2 miles so of Basking Ridge NJ. He d at age 67 about 4 miles north of Uniontown PA on the old Sturgeon place. Jacob was a Private in the NJ Militia,, Continental Army, Wagonmaster, General Department and Forage Master, Commissary, General Department.

He enlisted on March 18 1776 for one year as private in Captain 

Reading's Co, 3rd batallion, 1st establishment, New Jersey Continental Lines.(Strykers Jerseymaen inthe Revolutionary War p 233, 666, 852) Jacob was a farmer and worked as a miller for John Minor in his mill at Hogsett's Station. The History of Uniontown PA says " John Lewis was a son of Jacob Lewis who migrated from Basking Ridge NJ to Fayette Co in 1796 and settled at Minor's Mill, about 1 mile north of Uniontown, coming as a miller for John Minor, bringing his two sons Freeman and John" P232[heath-master.R GED.GED]




JACOB, b. Oct. 27, 1734, near Basking Ridge; d. 1801, near Uniontown, Pa.; m. (1) Dec. 29, 1755, Catherine Freeman; (2) Mary Brabant (daughter of John, son of Peter) Nov. 23, 1778. Her name is also given as Bebout.


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