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Facts and Events
Records in Tennessee
- 1810; Mordecai Lewis, Revolutionary War veteran, was granted a Land Grant by Governor Blount in 1807 and received the Grant of 151 acres along the Little Pigeon River in Sevier County, Tennessee, part of which became Pigeon Forge Mill. Lewis' son-in-law, Isaac Love, established the Pigeon Forge, including a bloomery furnace and a trip hammer. Lewis mined brown hematite ore on 7,000 acres of unfarmable timberland nearby.
Notes
From IGI Index:
IGI Record
Mordecai LEWIS
Sex: M
Born: 26 Oct 1751
Sevierville, Of, Sevier, Tennessee
Parents:
Father: John LEWIS
Mother: Mrs. Margaret LEWIS
Source Information:
Batch number: F505915
Sheet: 42
Subj: Re: Family History Research
Date: 2/13/2003 5:10:51 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: lewisj@@variform.com
To: Delijim@@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Thanks for the info that you have. It may take me a few days to gather some
things that you may be interested in but I will try to return the favor.
I do have one bit of information on Mordecai Lewis that I am trying to
verify. Everywhere I have found references to him, he is listed as born
Oct. 25 or 26, 1751. I have copies from the Welch Bible that show that he
was born on a Saturday between it looks like 2 and 3 in the afternoon. The
only days in Oct, 1751 that were a Saturday and started with a 2 were the
2nd and the 23 rd. I have been trying to clean up the copies that I have
scanned and it looks like what people have interpreted as 25 or 26 may
actually read "born on October ye 2 nd on a Saturday, 1751 between 2 and 3
in the afternoon." As soon as I can get a copy that is more easily read
I'll try to send you a copy.
Thanks again for your information. I would like to share anything I have
that may help you. By the way, I am a descendant John's son George who
moved to Tennessee.
Thanks,
James Lewis
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brøderbund Software, Inc. World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1. (Release date: August 22, 1996)
Tree #2328.
Date of Import: Feb 7, 1998
- Find A Grave.
PVT Mordecai Reese Lewis
BIRTH
26 Oct 1751
Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
Aug 1817 (aged 65)
Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
BURIAL
Pine Grove Cemetery
Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee, USA
Died at age 65. Mordecai was a PVT. (Private) during the Revolutionary War 1775-1783. Served in Captain Jacob Holleman's Company of the Virginia Dunsmore County Militia. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
Parents:
John Lewis (1713-1787). Died in Virginia.
Margaret Reese (1713-1818). Born 1713 in Flint, Wales and died 1818 in Virginia.
Married Mary Zeigler on January 21, 1777 in Frederick County, Virginia. Their children:
Amos Lewis (1777-1856). Died at age 79. See below.
John Lewis (1779-). Age of death unknown. See below.
George Henry Washington Lewis (1781-1860). Died at age 79. See below.
Levi Lewis (1784-1865). Died at age 81. Memorial #46095466.
Archibald Lewis (1786-1856). Died at age 70. See below.
Mary "Polly" Lewis Love (1788-1853). Died at age 64. See below.
Margaret Lewis Mitchell (1790-1837). Died at age 47. See below.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Lewis Walker (1793-1845). Died at age 52. See below.
William Shelby Lewis (1809-1869). Died at age 60. Unable to locate cemetery.
Source: John Lewis Bible; and "Mordecai Lewis-Militiaman in the Continental Army", 1976, by Mrs. Beulah D. Linn, Sevier County, Tennessee, Historian. Mordecai Lewis served in the Revolution as a Private in Captain Jacob Holleman's Company of the Virginia Dunsmore County Militia. He was in the Shenandoah County census of 1785 with seven persons in his household. Shortly afterward, he moved to Sevier County, Tennessee. In 1794, he was appointed Coroner of Sevier County as well as a Justice of the Peace. He was granted 151 acres by Governor Blount in 1807. The land adjoined that of Issac Runyan and Richard Fancher and was on the eastside of the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River. The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge is on the original land grant made to Mordecai Lewis. Mrs. Linn lists the names and dates of birth of his children as well as their families. Mention is made of a DAR application. Named as a "First Family of Tennessee", Sevier County, Tennessee, file 1155, in 1996.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99262977/mordecai-reese-lewis
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Revolutionary War veteran Mordecai Lewis trekked from Virginia in 1786 and built a grist mill along what’s now called the Little Pigeon River. By 1817, his son-in-law Isaac Love added an iron forge, which later gave the community its name.
In 1830, the family built the mill you see today. The hand-hewn hemlock and oak walls still stand. In 1841, the town officially became Pigeon Forge, and the mill served as the community’s first post office.
https://www.smokymtndreams.com/things-to-do/detail/the-old-mill/
- The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
The first court of Sevier County, State of Franklin, was held at Samuel Newell’s Station on Boyds Creek in March 1785. The first court of Sevier County, Southwest Territory, was held at the home of Isaac Thomas on November 8, 1794. Magistrates present were Samuel Newell, Joseph Willson, Joshua Gist, Peter Bryant, Joseph Vance, and Andrew Evans. Absent were Mordecai Lewis and Robert Pollock. On January 11, 1796, Spencer Clack, John Clack, Samuel Wear, Peter Bryant, and Thomas Buckingham were sent to help prepare a state constitution at the convention in Knoxville. John Clack was elected to the Senate and Spencer Clack and Samuel Wear to the House of Representatives.
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/sevier-county/
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