Lewis Family of Warner Hall; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 9, No. 4; 1901 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Lewis Family of Warner Hall William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 4. (Apr., 1901), pp. 259 - 165. LEWIS FAMILY OF WARNER HALL* (Continued from page 91.) It has been seen that there is nothing from the records to show the existence of any "General Robert Lewis" as the propositus of the "Lewis family of Warner Hall". The Robert Lewis who lived in York county and owned land on Poropotank Creek had only two daughters, Mary and Alice. He was, doubtless, a dinsman of the Lewises of Warner Hall. Major William Lewis, who lived about the same time had a plantation in New Kent called "Chemokins", or "Chemohocans", which afterwards was in possession of Col. John Lewis, of Warner Hall. He was also a kinsman beyond reasonable question. Now there was a John Lewis who has better claims than either Rober or Major William Lewis to be considered the propositus of the family of Warner Hall. This was John Lewis, who patented 100 acres in Warwick county at the head of Deep Creek, and in 1653 patented 250 acres on a branch of Poropotank Creek, in Gloucester county, which branch was then called Lewis' Creek, __________________________________________________ *This instalment, as far as 24 Warner Lewis, is based entirely upon original evidence, viz.: Land grants, Abingdon Parish Register, tombstones at Warner Hall, MSS. chancery suits, and Hening's Statutes. From 24 Warner Lewis the chief authority is The Marshall Family, by William Paxton. Where the matter varies, the new version is due to the superior authority of the parish records and other documents. Page 260. but formerly Totopotomoy's Creek. At the foot of the latter patent are given the names of those on account of whose importation he was entitled to the land (i.e., 50 acres for each), viz., John Lewis, probably himself; Lydia Lewis, probably his wife; William Lewis, Edward Lewis and John Lewis, Jr. (probably his sons). William Lewis may have been Major William Lewis (eldest son) already mentioned, Edward Lewis, patented lands on the Rappa- hannock and King and Queen, and "John Lewis, Jr.", had a grant in 1655 for 250 acres at the main swamp of Poropotank Creek. As "Mr. John Lewis", he patented April 22, 1668, 100 acres in New Kent, northeast side of Cainhow's Swamp, and in 1667, 2600 acres in New Kent and Gloucester on both sides of the Poropotank Creek, "next below the plantation of said John Lewis", 600 acres of which was granted to said John Lewis by patent dated November 23, 1663. His residence in 1676 being near Major Thomas Pate's, where Bacon encamped, he suffered severely from the depredations of his troops. In 1680, he was captain of horse in the militia of New Kent, and one of its justices. New Kent then took in King and Queen county as far down as Poropotank Creek. In 1675 he was termed major (in the foot service) and patented in New Kent 10,000 acres with Lieut. Col. John Smith, Capt. Philip Lightfoot, Mr. Thomas Royston and Mr. John Buckner (General Court Records). According to the tombstone of his son Col. John Lewis (QUARTERLY, II., p. 227), he married Isabella -----, and had issue, John Lewis, of Warner Hall*. _________________________________________________________________ *It is not known how many sons John Lewis and Isabella his wife had. Another son may have been Zachary Lewis, who patented land in King and Queen in 1694, and in King William in 1703, and was ancestor of the Lewis family of Spotsylvania. (Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, p. 379.) Edward Lewis, named above, may have left descendants. In the Middle- sex Parish Register are also these entries: John Lewis, of New Kent county, and Eliza O. Brissell, of this parish, were married 24 October, 1681. Thomas, born July 26, 1691, Eusebius, Mary, Elizabeth and Susan were c hildren of this marriage. In St. Peter's Parish, New Kent county, "John Lewis, son of John Lewis, was baptized February 27, 1686-7;" David, baptized 1695; Abraham, baptized 1698, and William, baptized 1701 - all sons of John Lewis. There was in New Kent a Nicholas Lewis, who had Mary, baptized Jan. 16, 1708-9; Angelica, William, John, James, Forrester. Then in New Kent, Elizabeth, wife of Owen Lewis, died March 27, 1719; Elizabeth, daughter of owen Lewis, born December 10, 1719, died April 4, 1720. Page 261. Accordingly 3 JOHN3 LEWIS, of Warner Hall, son of 2 Major John2 Lewis and Isabella his wife, who was probably son of 1 John1 Lewis and Lydia his wife, who first settled on Poropo- tank Creek in 1653, was born November 30, 1669, and departed this life November 14, 1725. He married Elizabeth Warner, daughter of Col. Augustine Warner and Mildred Read his wife (daughter of Col. George Read and Elizabeth martian). She was born at "Chesake" * November 24, 1672, and died at Warner Hall February 5, 1719-'20. In 1715 Col. Lewis became a member of the council. His residence was at Warner Hall, which probably came to him from his wife. (See Note I.) They had fourteen children, of whom the following eight names are preserved (Hening's Stats. and Abingdon Parish Register): 4 Catherine, baptized November, 1702; 5 Elizabeth, baptized November 26, 1702; 6 John4, born March 22, 1702; 7 Charles4, 8 Robert4, baptized May 4, 1704; 9 Elizabeth, baptized May 7, 1706; 10 Isabella, baptized Dec. 18, 1707, married Dr. Thomas Clayton on July 14, 1720, and had one child, Juliana, who died in infancy; 11 Anne, baptized February 14, 1712. 6 JOHN4 LEWIS, son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner, married Frances, daughter of Henry Fielding, of King and Queen county (Note 2). He was major in 1731, colonel in 1734, and member of the council in 1751 and during other years, and had issue, 12 Warner5, born October 10, 1720; 13 -----, son, baptized September 15, 1723; 14 Fielding, born July 7, 1725; 15 Mildred, born December 12, 1726, died July 5, 1729; 16 John, born November 20, 1728; 17 Charles, born February 25, 1729-'30; 18 Frances. "Mrs. Frances, the wife of Major John Lewis, died October 27, 1731." Colonel John Lewis married, second, Priscilla Churchill, widow of Robert Carter, of Nominy, and daughter of Col. William Churchill. He died January 17, 1754. 12 COL. WARNER5 LEWIS, son of 6 Col. John4 Lewis, lived at ________________________________________________________________ *After the Chiskiack Indians were driven from the ancient site on the York River above Yorktown, the remnants of the tribe settled on the Pianketank, in Gloucestery county. Augustine Warner received a patent here for land. Hence the name "Chesake" for Chescake, Chiskiack, etc. Page 262. Warner Hall and married Eleanor Bowles, daughter of James Bowles, Esq., of Maryland (Note 3), and widow of Col. William Gooch, son of Governor William Gooch. Issue: 19 Warner6, born 1747, died December 30, 1791; 20 Francis, born May 16, 1749; 21 Rebecca, born August 2, 1750, died infant; 23 Fielding; 23 John, born November 28, 1754; 24 Addiso6 ("Hattison" in Abingdon Parish Register), born February 5, 1756; 25 Thomas6, born November 12, 1760, married Ann Harwood, daughter of Major Samuel Harwood, of Weyanoke; 26 James, who married Miss Thornton and had (1) Eleanor Lewis, (2) Sarah, married Dr. Samuel Stewart Griffin. 19 WARNER6 LEWIS, Esq., son of 12 Col. Warner Lewis, married, first, Mary Chiswell (died November 1, 1726), daughter of John Chiswell, of Williamsburg (Note 4), and Elizabeth Ran- dolph, of Turkey Island, and had issue, 27 Warner7, 28 John, married Anne Chiswell Griffin, only daughter and heir of William Griffin, brother of Judge Cyrus Griffin (Chancery Papers, in Williamsburg); 29 Elizabeth, 30 Eleanor, married, first, Fox; second, Oliver. He married, second, Mary Fleming, daughter of John Fleming and had issue, 31 Caroline, born June 28, 1783, died April 6, 1811, married Charles Barrett, Esq.; 32 Julia. 27 WARNER LEWIS7, son of Warner6 Lewis and Mary Chiswell, married Courtenay Norton, daughter of John Hatley Norton and Sally Nicholson, and had issue 33 Mary Chiswell Lewis, who married John Peyton, son of Sir John Peyton, and had Rebecca C. Peyton, who married Edward C. Marshall. 34 Elizabeth, who married Matthew Brooke, and had (1) Elizabeth, who married H. M. Marshall, (2) Courtenay W. Brooke, who married Robert Colgate Selden (Selden Pedigree, QUARTERLY, V., 266), (3) Mary L. Brooke, who married Dr. S. P. Byrd, (4) John L. Brooke, who married M. L. Ashby. 23 FIELDING6 LEWIS, son of Col. Warner5 Lewis, and Eleanor Bowles, married Agnes Harwood, sister of Anne Harwood above, and daughter of Major Samuel Harwood, of Weyanoke, and Margaret Woddrop, daughter of John Woddrop, merchant of Nansemond county. Issue, 35 Nancy, 36 Fannie F., who married Archibald Taylor, 37 Margaret Lewis, married Thomas Marshall, 38 Eleanor Lewis, married Robert douthat, and had (1) Robert, married Mary A. Marshall, (2) Jane Douthat, married dr. Sel- Page 263. den, (3) Agnes, married Robert L. McGuire, (4) Fielding L. Douthat, married Mary Willis Marshall. 24 ADDISON6 LEWIS, son of Col. Warner5 Lewis, married Susan Fleming, sister of Mary Fleming above; was captain of the First Continental Dragoons in the war of the Revolution. He had issue, 39 Susan Lewis, married William Byrd, son of Col. William Byrd, who had (1) Addison, married Sue Coke, (2) Mary W. Byrd, married Richard C. Coke (who had Rebecca F. Coke, married F. L. Marshall), (3) Jane O. Byrd, married G. W. McCandlish, (4) Samuel P. Byrd, married Catherine C. Corbin, (5) John Lewis, (6) Rebecca, married Dr. Robert Lewis; no issue. (7) Thomas Lewis. PLATE - I have seen pieces of Lewis plate in the possession of Mrs. Courtenay Selden and Judge Fielding Lewis Taylor, son of Archibald Taylor, and 34 Fannie Lewis. The tinctures are represented, but not, perhaps, always correctly. Thus the plate represents, 1 Lewis: Ar. a dragon's head and neck, erased vert., holding in the mouth a bloody hand. 2 Howell: Gu three towers, triple towered ar. 3, Ar three chevonels. 4, Ar three torteaus. 5, Fieling: Ar in chief az three lozenges or. 6, Warner: Or a cross engrailed vert, but it should be vert, a cross engrailed or. 7, Bowles: In the centre is placed, by way of pretense, Az. three standing bowls ar, out of each a boar's head or. The crest on the silver is Ar a dragon's head and neck, erased vert, holding in the mouth a bloody hand for Lewis. The motto is Omne solum forti patria est - Every land is a brave man's country. Mr. Brock, in the Richmond Standard (1881) describes a copy of an emblazoning or parchment received from Warner Lewis Baylor, Esq., of Petersburg, which had been at Warner Hall. His description gives about the same charges. Mr. Conway, in his Barons of the Potomac, gives a Lewis emblazoning of thirteen shields, but I have not been able to ascertain its authenticity. He explains the fourth charge as standing for Courtenay Ar three torteaus, but it should be Or three torteaus. Moreover, the Courtenay marriage did not enter into the Lewis pedigree through the Nortons till the present century. (To be Continued.) Page 264. Note 1. There are at Warner Hall the tombstones of Augustine Warner, the elder, and of Mary his wife. The former was a member of the council, 1659-1667. He had Sarah, married Lawrence Townley, and Augustine Warner, speaker of the House of Burgesses. The latter married Mildred, daughter of Col. George Read, and had issue (1) George, baptized in 1677 (Abingdon Parish Reb.), but died sine prole. (2) Robert, but d.s.p. (3) Elizabeth, married John Lewis. (4) Mildred, married Lawrence Washington. (5) Mary, married John Smith, of Purton. In the York records, "John Smith, of Purton, int he county of Glocester, in Virginia, Gentle- man", for thirty pounds current money, sells to "William Buckner, of York, in Virginia, Gent.", twenty-nine acres, which is "my share of a parcel of land my grandmother, Madam Mildred Warner, bought of Mr. Thomas Read, according to the division made between Mr. John Lewis, Esq., Mr. John Washington and myself, coheirs to my uncle, Mr. Robert Warner, deceased, to whom the said land was given by the said Madam Mildred Warner". Recorded 24 Feb., 1708. Witnessed by John Lewis, Robert Porteus, Paul Watlington. In 1715, John Washington sold to Philip Lightfoot a tract of land, "descended to him as son and heir of Lawrence Washington and Mildred his wife, deceased, one of the daughters and coheirs of Augustine Warner and Mildred his wife, as by one deed of partition made between John Lewis and Elizabeth his wife, surviving daughter of said Augustine Warner and Mildred his wife, deceased, of the one part, and John Smith, son and heir of John Smith and Mary his wife, deceased, another of Warner's daughters and coheirs, and John Washington, party to these presents of the other part," etc. Note 2. The will of Henry Fielding, of King and Queen county, in Virginia, Gentleman, was dated 26 October, 1704, and was proved 27 November, 1712. An abstract is published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LIII., p. 24: After certain legacies it gives "to my dear daughter, Frances Fielding, all the reside of his property both in England and in Virginia. But if she die before attaining the age of twenty-one years or marriage, then I give all my whole estate to be equally divided between my dear mother, Madam Frances Fielding, and John and Mary Howell, son and daughter to my late dear wife. But if my mother should die before my daughter or my estate be divided, that part I give to my cousin, Francis Thompson, and his children, etc. In case my negro ship or ships should arrive from the Royal African Company, etc., Col. Gawin Corbin shall have the whole sales and management of that affair to his own use. My dear mother, Madam Frances Fielding, Arthur Baly, Esq., and Mr. Francis Thompson, in England, Col. Gawin Corgin and Mr. John Story, in Virginia, to be exors". The will of a Richard Fielding, dated July 16, 1666, was proved in Northumberland county, Va., April 8, 1667. To brother Robert Fielding, of Gloucester, 5 shillings; sister Elizabeth Gwyn, of Horton, in Gloucestershire, 5 shillings; brother-in-law Giles Mourning and his now wife. Page 265. 5 shillings; to Francis Mourning, their eldest son, 5 shillings; to sister Margaret Fryer, 20 pounds in case the ship Phoenix shall arrive safe, and Walter Fryer, her husband, shall not intermeddle with it, which is to be paid to John Cocke, of Bristol for the use of said Margaret; to brother Ambrose Fielding, in case that the Phoenix arrive safe at Bristol, my plantation at Great Wiccocomico, in Northumberland county, Va., with all servants, stocks, utensils, etc., thereon, provided the said Ambrose shall follow the directions of my brother, Mr. Edward Fielding, of Bristol, all my part of the ship Phoenix, with the tobacco and other goods I have on board, and all the rest of my estate in England, Virginia and elsewhere. Note 3. James Bowles made his will June 13, 1727, and names daughters Elenor, Mary and Jean, wife Rebecca and uncle George Bowles. Eleanor married (1) William Gooch, (2) Warner Lewis. Mary married William Armistead, son of Col. Henry Armistead, of Gloucester county, Va. James Bowles' wife Rebecca was a daughter of Thomas Addison (son of John Addison, an admiral in the British navy), and Elizabeth his wife, which last was daughter of Hon. Col. Thomas Brooke, of Brooke Manor, in Maryland, who was grandson of Robert Brooke and Mary his wife, daughter of Roger Mainwaring, D.D., bishop of St. Davids. Rebecca Addison Bowles married, second, Sir Robert Henly, of the Grange, Lord Chancellor of England, afterwards Earl of Northington. James Bowles was a brother of Gen. Bowles, of the British army, and son of Tobias Bowles, formerly a London merchant. "Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie", Vol. II., 13; Keith's "Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison", page 17. Note 4. Col. John Chiswell was the son of Charles Chiswell, of Hanover, who was clerk of the General Court. Col. Chiswell killed Robert Routledge in a personal quarrel in 1766, and ended by taking his own life in Williamsburg. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. William Randolph, and had issue (1) Susanna, married, first, Speaker John Robinson, second, William Griffin. (2) Mary, married Warner Lewis, of Warner Hall. (3) Elizabeth, married Charles Carter, of Ludlow. (4) Lucy, married Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill. The house in which Col. Chiswell committed suicide on Francis street is still standing, and is now owned by the family of the late Dr. Richard A. Wise. (See QUARTERLY, II., p. 235).