Person:John Lewis (150)

"A very quiet well informed man with a remarkable memory."

in 1850 federal census for Marblehead. 277-489, Very hard to read John Lewis, age 50, shoemaker, Real estate = 200 Mary, age 48 Edward, age 22, mason Thomas, age 20, stonecutter Joshua P., age 17, shoemaker Abby P.(?) F, age 14?

1880 census for Marblehead via FamilySearch Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace John LEWIS Self W <Widowed> Male W <White> 81 MA Shoemaker MA MA Joshua P. LEWIS Son M <Married> Male W <White> 46 MA Shoes-Laster MA MA Deborah G. LEWIS DauL <Daughter-in-law> M <Married> Female W <White> 36 MA Keeping House MA MA

Source Information: Census Place Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Family History Library Film 1254528 NA Film Number T9-0528 Page Number 108A

living at present with his son Joshua, on Mugford Street.

1.   Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1903-08)
   p. 319.

   LEWIS, John, s. Edmund [jr. C.R.I.] and Abigail, (born) Feb. 25, 1799.

2.   Binney, C. J. F. (Charles James Fox). The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or Prentiss Family in New England, etc., from 1631 to 1883. (Boston, Mass.: C. J. F. Binney, 1883)
   pp. 88, 89.

   "104. Abigail Bigelow Prentiss, dau. of Lieut. Joshua and Grace; m. Capt. Edmund Lewis, of Marblehead, Mass., and d. in Medfield, Mass., Nov. 9, 1851. He was b. Feb. 11, 1772, and d. in New Orleans, Oct. 28, 1820.
   Children:...
   4. John, b. Feb. 25, 1799; m. Mary Haskell, who d. Dec. 1, 1851...

3.   Compiler: Essex Institute, Peabody Essex Museum. Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910)
   p. 64.