Lewis William b. d. 03 DEC 1671

- 1671

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Died 03 Dec 1671 [1, 2]

Person ID I4753 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Wells or Weld Amy

Married Y [1, 2]

Children

1. Lewis John, b. 1631, England, U.K.

Family ID F1959 Group Sheet

Notes	William Lewis came to Roxbury, Mass., iu 1630. He returned to England, where he married Auiy Wells. He was a brother of Edmund Lewis, who came over in the ship Elizabeth in 1634 and settled in Walertown and removed to Lynn, Mass. He was from Lynn Regis, England. William came to this country again and settled in Roxbury, where he and his wife were attendants of the Rev. John Elliott's church in 1640. He was admitted freeman in 1642.- He was a friend and associate of Gov. Bellingham. In May, 1653, he sold his house lot and removed to Lancaster, Mass. Here he carried on the business of weaving. Here he remained and endured the trials and hardships of a frontier life until 1671, when he secured land in the limits of Boston to build upon, but was prostrated by sickness and died Dec. 3, 1671. He left a widow and sons, John, Christopher and Isaac ; daughters, Lydia, Mary and Hannah. After his death the household was broken up by an attack of the Indians under John Mouico, a one-eyed chief ofthe Nipmucks, who killed several of the family and burned their goods. William Lewis was descended from a very respectable family in Wales. His descendants enjoy great satisfaction in being able to trace their descent from a very high antiquity. He came to Boston in 1636. In the year 1640, he and his wife Amy are recorded by Rev. John Eliot, of Roxbury, as attendants at his church. In 1663, he became one of the proprietors of the pleasant inland town of Lancaster, on the Nashaway river, and was the third person in regard to wealth among the first settlers of that town. He died December 1, 1671. He had nine children; 1. John, born Nov. 1, 1635. 2. Christopher, born Dec. 2, 1636. 3. Lydia, born Dec. 25, 1639. 4. Josiah, born July 28, 1641. 5. Isaac, bom April 14, 1644. 6. Mary, baptized Aug. 2, 1646. 7. Hannah, baptized March 18, 1648. 8. Mordecai, born June 1, 1650. His son John returned to Boston, and built a house on land which his father had purchased of Governor Richard Bellingham.

Sources

[S235] The History of the Town of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire,1735-1905, Dennis Donovan, Jacob Andrews Woodward, (Name: The Tufts college press, H.W. Whittemore & co., 1906;), 799 (Reliability: 3).
[S254] The History of Lynn: Including Nahant, Alonzo Lewis, (Name: Printed by S.N. Dickinson, 1844;), 108 (Reliability: 3).