MARTIN LEWIS BIOGRAPHY, ERIE, NEW YORK

Copyright (c) 1999 by Kathleen T. Choi (kathcoi@ilhawaii.net).

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It's not much, but on the FTM CD 183, a researcher found me this reference
to an ancestor (Olmstead LEWIS):

"Eveline, Rosanna, Abigail, Martin, Umstead, Alexander M., Daniel W.,
Louisa, Eunice, & Georde [sic] belonged to the Temperance Society of
Newstead, New York in 1831."

According to the LDS IGI, Martin LEWIS was born ca. 1779 in Erie Co.  He
married Abigail THAYER, and they had the following children:

Archibald, ca. 1804
Alexander, ca.1805
Louisa, ca. 1808
Emma ca. 1810
William, ca. 1811-1813
Martin, ca. 1813
Abigail, ca. 1819
Eveline, ca. 1822
David, ca. 1825

A couple of the privately submitted records, give a child's birthplace
as Worcester, Worcester, MA, which suggests to me some family
association with that place.

If most of the Temperance Society are Martin's family, that would leave
Rosanna, Umstead, Daniel W., Eunice, and Georde/George unaccounted for. 
Umstead/Olmstead moved to Indiana in 1839.  I haven't been able to find
his ancestry.  One of the women could be his wife, who died in 1840.

Perhaps this will be of use to someone looking at the Erie Co. page.

Kathleen T. Choi
David, ca. 1819