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Subject: [PaOldC] Merion Meeting (Pa. ) Burial Records
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:56:42 EST


Incomplete Burial Record of Merion Meeting (Pa. ) Burial Records by
Margaret Harvey, A.M.



1702

         Henry Lewis, buried 1 Mo. 31, 1702.
         Harry Lewis, Radnor.  Will proved, Phila. April 13,
1702.  Mentions sisters Mary
Worrell and Eleanor Lewis.  Servant Richard Faddery.  Brother-in-law, John
Worrell.  Witnesses:  Peter Worrell, Edward Thomas, David Evan.
         On Dr. George Smith's Map.
         Henry Lewis, in 1682, purchased of Lewis David, 1000 acres:  of
which Henry, in 1684, sold 250 acres in Haverford to John Lewis.  In
1694  5,  His, (Henry's) son Henry Lewis, sold 100 acres to John Lewis,
Jun'r.  See p. 10 Penna Arch. 3r S. Vol. I.  80 acres in Radnor, belonging
to Henry Lewis, were, about 1702, the property of John Worrell.  (p.13)
         Ralph Lewis, William Lewis, David Lewis and Samuel Lewis also held
land in Haverford, 1682  1699.
         Ch. Of Henry, Jr. were Isaac, Mary, Mary, John, Sarah, Margaret,
Hannah.
         10, 20, 1695.  Henry Lewis of Haverford, yeoman and Mary Taylor,
dau of Richard Taylor of Springfield twp.  At the house of Bartholomew
Coppock in Springfield.   Wit:  John, Elizabeth and Susannah
Lewis;  Robert, Isaac, Josiah and Elizabeth Taylor.
         1, 11, 1696.  John Lewis of Haverford, batchelor, and Sarah Price
of Merion, spinster, at Haverford Meeting place.  Wit:  John, David and
Margaret Lewis;  Philip, Isaac and Susanna Price.
         Henry Lewis who married Mary Taylor (1695) was a member of the
Colonial Assembly.  He was a son of Henry Lewis (d. 1688)  who was Foreman
of the First Grand Jury, Pa.
         Henry Lewis emigrated from Narberth, in Pembrokeshire, 1682,  with
his father Evan Lewis, then an old man, who died soon after arrival.  Henry
built a house in Philadelphia, and had a farm in Haverford.  He was foreman
of the first Grand Jury.   He died in Haverford, 1688.  This Henry Lewis
married 1 Mo. 12, 1670, Margaret Philpin,  alias Proutherin, and had:
I.  Henry (b. 10 Mo. 26, 1671; II.  Sarah (b. 5, 2, 1673; buried 12, 8,
1674);  III. Samuel (b. 8, 1, 1676); IV. Elizabeth (b. 12, 14, 1677; m.
Richard Hayes.)
Of these Children, Henry (b. 1671) m. in 1692, Mary Taylor. This Henry was
a member of the Colonial Assembly.  Among the children of Henry Lewis, Jr.
and Mary Taylor, his wife, were:  I.  Isaac (b. 3 Mo. 5, 1694);  II.  Mary
(b. 2 Mo. 5, 1696; died young); III. John (b. 3 Mo. 23, 1697; m. Catharine
Roberts, in 1725, dau. of Abel and Mary Roberts);  IV. Sarah (b. 10, 11,
1698);  V.  Margaret (b. 9, 17, 1700; m. Isaac Price, son of Isaac Price of
Merion and Susannah Shoemaker, his wife);  VI.  Mary (b. 10, 16, 1702; m.
Thomas Philips.)
John Lewis, of  Haverford (son of Henry, Jr. and Mary Taylor, his wife) m.
1725, Katharine Roberts (b. 8, 28, 1702).  Children, I. Abel (b. 8, 12,
1726; d. 1766); II.  Mary (b. 11, 1, 1728; m. Benjamin
Davis);  III.  Samuel; IV. Rachel (b. 12, 19, 1734; m.______ McCulloch:;
V.  John (b. 5, 31, 1737);  VI. Evan (b. 4, 13, 1740;  he m. 1st, 1770,
Mary Thomas; and 2d. April 1775, Jane Meredith, and had Enoch Lewis, the
famous Mathematician,  b. in Radnor, Jan 20, 1776.);  VII.  Elizabeth (v. 7
Mo. 9, 1743; m. ______ Tucker, a member of the family long as makers of
fine china.)
Abel Lewis (b. 1726; son of John and Katharine Roberts, his wife) had
children, among them, Joseph, Abel, John.
Samuel Lewis (son of John and Katharine) m. 1759, Catharine, dau. of Samuel
Richards fo Tredyffrin. Ch. Samuel, Henry, Jacob, Isaac, John, Jehu, Cath.,
Mary, Eliz., Beulah.
Members of the Lewis family whose marriages are recorded at Radnor Monthly
Meeting:  John Maris of Springfield and Susannah Lewis of Haverford, at
Haverford Meeting, 9, 20, 1693.
Henry Lewis of Haverford and Mary Taylor, of Springfield, 10,20, 1695.
John Lewis of Haverford and Sarah Price of Merion, 1, 11, 1696.
David Hugh of merion and Martha Lewis of Haverford, 4, 9, 1696.
James Sharples of Nether Providence and Mary Lewis of Darby, 12, 20,
1699-1700.
James Williams of Darby and Ann Lewis of Haverford, 12, 22, 1699.
John Reece of Newtown and Elizabeth Lewis of Haverford, 9, 26, 1700.
Lewis Lewis of Newtown, and Mary Powell of Bristol, Phila. Co. 10, 13, 1700.
Wm. Walter of Merion and Sarah Lewis of Darby, at Haverford, 3, 26, 1720.
Ch. Of Henry, Sr. were Henry, Sarah, Samuel, Elizabeth.




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