Person:William Lewis (148)

The Estate of Captain William Lewis of Farmington

"Lewis, Capt. William, Farmington. Invt £1025-19-00. Taken 28 August, 1690, by Thomas Bull and Thomas Porter. The children: Philip, Samuel, William, Ebenezer, John, James, Ezekiel, Nathaniel, Mary Judd, Sarah Boltwood, Hannah Marsh, Felix Selden, & Abigail Lewes.

Court Record, Page 18—4 September, 1690: Invt. Exhibited by the Relict and John Lewis.

Page 20—5 November, 1690: Adms. to Philip and William Lewis, Mrs. Lewis having an Interest in the Estate by Joynture. This Court appoint Deacon Hosmore. The Widow and Children choose, the one Bevel Waters, the others John Thompson, to make an equal division as they can to the Widow.

Dist. on File, 7 June, 1707: To Samuel, to William, to John and James (both deceased), to Mary Judd, to Sarah Boltwood, to Hannah Marsh, to Felix Selden. By John Wadsworth, Samuel Newell sen.

Page 26—6 March, 1690-1: Distribution of the Estate of Capt. William Lewis, The Joynture being already settled: To Philip, the Eldest son, a double portion, and to the rest of the Children a single portion. This Court appoint Deac. Stephen Hosmer & Thomas Bunce to Dist. the Estate to them & Mrs. Lewis's Joynture in Land and Negroes, the reversion thereof to be accotd part of the three youngest children's portions in the Dist, that is to say, to the value of £100 Money.

Page 26—5 March, 1690-1: Nathaniel Lewis, a minor son of Capt. William Lewis, chose Capt. John Stanly to be his Guardian.

Page 27—6 March, 1690-1: By request of the sons of Capt. William Lewis, John Lewis was Joyned to Philip & Wm Lewis as Adms. to the Estate of Capt. William Lewis.

Dist Estate of Capt. Wm Lewis, late of Farmington, 1st October, 1691: To Philip, to Ezekiel, to Nathaniel, to Samuel, to Ebenezer, to John, to James, to Mary, to Sarah, to Hannah, to Felix, & to Abigail.

William Lewis sen., Farmington. From the Will, 16 July, 1689: I give to my loveing wife 1-3 of my Lands during her Life. I do give to my son Philip a full confirmation of the living he liveth upon at Hartford, according to the tenure of my Hond Father's Will. I give to Samuel Lewis, I give to William Lewis that Land I bought of Isaac More, vnlest that already sold to Thomas Orton, which lyeth in Barrett's. I give to John, to James, to Ebenezer Lewis.

To the Honoured Ajourned Court sittin in Hartford, 8 April, 1691: I understand that in the Distribution of my Honoured Husband Capt. William Lewis Decd his Estate, made by the County Court 8 March, 1690, your Worships have seen meete to dispose of my Estate or that part of it, viz, the Hundred pound Sterlinge expressed in the Jointure made to my Honoured Father Ezekiel Cheever for the only use of me my heirs and Asigns, by which act of Distribution I doe apprehend that either myself or the three youngest Children of the fore said Capt. William Lewis is, or each of us, wronged. Therefore, having this opportunity, I doe see meet by my petition to move the Honoured Court to Consider the Case and to act and do in it accordinge as the Rules of Equity, Law & Reason Doth require. In Case my prayer be not Considered & my Expectation answered herein, I Doe Declare my self Justly Agrieved & Dissatisfied, & doe purpose in my own intention to make my Application to the Court of Assistants for relief according as the Law Doth Direct.

7 April, 1691. Your Humble petitioner, Mary Lewis.

Court Record, Page 112 (Vol. VII) 7 June, 1707-8: This Court do order and appoint Samuel Newell and John Wadsworth of Farmington to divide and actually set out upon the ground all the Lands of or belonging to the Estate of Capt. William Lewis, late of Farmington Decd, valued in the Inventory at £40, unto and among the Children of the said William Lewis Decd, or their legal Representatives, according to the intent, meaning and direction of the distribution made of the Estate of the sd. William Lewis and his son John Lewis deceased, together, and report to this Court.

Page 12—(Vol. VIII) 1st May, 1710: Report of the Dist.

Page 69—(Vol. IX) 1st July, 1718: James Lewis of Jamaica, Long Island, appeals from a Decree of the Court, 17 March, 1709-10, allowing a Dist. of the Estate of William Lewis of Farmington.

Page 75—5 August, 1719: William and Nathaniel Lewis were cited into Court to object, if they see Cause, why the sd. James Lewis might not have an Appeal from the Judgement of the Court of Probate held at Hartford 17 March, 1708-10, receiving and allowing a certain Dist. This Court having heard and considering the Pleas of the Parties, do not see Cause to grant the sd. James Lewis Liberty of an Appeal. Order that he pay Costs.

Page 77—27 August, 1718: James Lewis appeals to the Superior Court to have the Dist. nullified and a new apprisal by a Jury of 12 Men. Appeal barred by the Court."^[4]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 William Lewis, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:1186.

   William (Lewis), b. say 1620.

2.   William 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)
   3:89.

   William (Lewis), Farmington, s. of the first William, b. in Eng. m. 1644 (in conform. with a contr. betw. his f. and Mary Whitehead of Windsor, w. of Richard, mo. prob. of ) Mary Hopkins prob. d. of William, Esq. a few yrs. earlier of Stratford, had Mary, b. 6 May 1645; Philip, bapt. 13 Dec. 1646, bef. ment.; Samuel, b. 18 Aug. 1648, bef. ment.; Sarah; Hannah; William, bapt. 15 Mar. 1657, d. 1737; Felix, 12 Dec. 1658; Ebenezer, sett. at Wallingford; John, 1665, d. at 19 yrs.; and James, 1667; liv. at Jamaica, L. I. d. 1728. He m. 22 Dec. 1671, sec. w. at Boston, Mary, d. of celebr. Ezekiel Cheever, had Eliz. b. 1672, d. young; Ezekiel, 1674, H. C. 1694; Nathaniel, 1 Oct. 1676, wh. d. 24 Feb. 1752; Abigail, 1678,; Joseph, bapt. 14 Mar. 1680; and Daniel, 16 July 1682. The last two d. young. He had milit. office in the war, from serg. to capt. and d. 1690, when of his 16 ch. 13 were liv. Mary m. Benjamin Judd; Sarah m. Samuel Boltwood of Hadley; Hannah, m. first, Samuel Crowe of Hadley, had two ch. and sec. in 1676, Daniel Marsh; and Felix m. Thomas Selden of Hadley.
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 13 from bot. aft. Sarah, ins. 1652
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 11 from bot. aft. John ins. 6 May
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 10 from bot. bef. 1667; ins. 10 July
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 9 from bot. bef. 1672, ins. 20 Oct.
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 8 from bot. bef. 1674, ins. 7 Nov.
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 3:648] [Vol. 3] P. 89. l. 7 from bot. bef. 1678, ins. 19 Sept.─also, aft. 1678, add, wh. m. 10 Dec. 1696, William Wadsworth of F. and d. 1707.
   
   [Additions and Corrections. Savage 4:702] [Vol. 3] P. 648. l. 12, aft. ins. add, His wid. m. 13 June 1692, deac. Thomas Bull, and d. 10 Jan. 1728.

3. ↑ Farmington Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   101.

   Lewis, Hewilla, d. Aug. 18, 1690 [LR1:2].

   Apparently a some sort of bizarre clerical error in the given name. The births of seven of William's children and the death of two are recorded on the same page of the land record cited as is the death of his father in 1683.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Lewis, Capt. William, Farmington., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:480-82.