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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
William Lewis |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2] |
Est 1595 |
Based on estimated date of marriage. |
| Marriage |
Bef 1620 |
Based on estimated date of birth of only known child.
to Felix _____ |
| Emigration[1][2][3] |
1632 |
On the Lyon. |
| Residence[1][2] |
1632 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[2][3][4] |
6 Nov 1632 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Willm Leawis").. |
| Residence[1][2] |
1636 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[1][2] |
1659 |
Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[1][2] |
1675 |
Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[2] |
2 Aug 1683 |
Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Will[2][5] |
30 Aug 1683 |
Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[2][5] |
3 Dec 1683 |
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| Probate[2][5] |
18 Dec 1683 |
Will proved. |
| Lyon (1632)
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| There is some confusion as to the passengers on the Lyon in 1632. Banks listed about 120 passengers. Another list prepared by John Corley in 1984 lists some 350 passengers. [1]
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| Sailed: | 22 Jun 1632 from London, England under Master William Peirce
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| Arrived: | 16 Sep 1632 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 William Lewis, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
208.
"Lewis, William: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1632 on Lyon; Resided [Cambridge, Hartford, Hadley, Farmington [GMB 1184-86]."
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 William Lewis, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
2:1184-86.
"ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1632 on the Lyon [Hotten 150]."
"CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to church prior to 6 November 1632 (probably Watertown) implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367]."
"DEATH: Farmington 2 Aug 1683 [Farmington LR 1:A]."
NOTE: This sketch does not identify his parents or his wife's maiden name.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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, Cambridge, 1632, came in the Lion, with Wadsworth, Talcot, Goodwin, Olmstead, and others, arr. at Boston 16 Sept. and adm. freem. 6 Nov. foll. rem. 1636 to Hartford, and was of orig. proprs. selectman 1641, rem. a. 1659 to Hadley, for wh. he was rep. 1662, for Northampton 1664; his w. Felix d. 1671, at H. and he finally rem. a. 1675 to Farmington, there d. 1683, at gr. age. His only ch. was William, b. in Eng. and the mo. is call. Felix.
- ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:91.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Lewes, William sen. (the aged), Farmington., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
1:331-32.
"Probate Records. Vol. IV, 1677 to 1678. Page 152-3-4.
Lewes, William sen. (the aged), Farmington. Invt. £280-00-00 of Estate of William Lewes sen., Decd., at Farmington, sometime living in Hadley. Lands in Hadley and Hatfield apprized by Aaron Cooke sen., Samuel Porter sen., 3d December, 1683.
4 Dec, Capt. William Lewes made oath that this is a true Inventory of his Father William Lewes Estate at Hadley & Hatfield, to the best of his knowledge. Will dated 30 August, 1683.
I William Lewis, being stricken in years, do think it meet to set in order the Estate which God hath graciously given me. Item. I give to my grand child Ezekiel Lewes all my Estate at Hadly, also all the Land on Hatfield side, he paying his brother Nathaniel the Just sum of six score pounds when he comes to the age of 21 years. If Ezekiel die, Nathaniel to possess it. If both die, then to my grand child Abigail Lewes and her heirs forever. I give to Abigail one piece of Land at Hartford, four acres within the meadow gate that leads to the neck, bounded on the Highway west, Bartholomew Barnard South, Richard Goodman East, & John Allyn north. Also I give to Abigail Lewes one parcell of Land toward the south end of the Long meadow, north on Bartholomew Barnard, east on the Great River, on my own Land south, and the Rivulet west, by Estimation one half acre. I give to my grand daughter with this provision: In case my grand child Philip Lewes will pay to my gr. child Abigail Lewes £40 in Current pay of the Country in sixteen years, that is to say, £2-10 per year to my overseers before the middle of January as Rent, then and thereafter to be to Abigail & to her heirs forever. I give to my grand child Ebenezer Lewes the Smith's tools that I bought of John Holloway. I make my son William Lewes Executor. I desire Lt. Samuel Steele of Wethersfield and Samuel Patrick of Hadly to be Overseers.
WILLIAM LEWES
Witness: Robert Porter, Thomas X Newell sen.
Court Record, Page 77—18 December, 1683: Will and Invt. Exhibited.
Vol. IV., P. C., No. 143.
No. 144, Statement of James Steele sen: This may Satisfi this honored Court, or whom els it may consarn, that I being occasionally at Capt. Laweses hous sum time be fore old Mr Lawes died, sd. Mr Lawes falling in to sum discors with me about his gransone philip Lawes at Hart ford, amongst other discours he sd. that sd philip owed him a considerable sum for rent. I do not remember the particular quntyty how much, but I know it was a great delle, and hee desired me to tell sd. philip that he must provid to pay him. I tould him he had best to wrighte to him, and so he did and sent the letter by myself and prayd me to deliver it to his gran son and so I did. Capt. Lawes red the leter to his father in my hering. I doe not remember the particklers of the sd. leter, but the substance of it was respecting what we had bin speking of respecting philip Lawes above sd.
JAMES STEELE, SEN.
Hartford, March 7—'90-'91."
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