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Family: Captain Warner [Bowles] Lewis, Jr. / Mary [Randolph] Chiswell (F8650)  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5

m. 22 Feb 1739


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  • Father | Male
    Captain Warner [Bowles] Lewis, Jr.

    Born  30 Oct 1747  Warner Hall, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  30 Dec 1791  Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  22 Feb 1739  Possibly Augusta Co., Williamsburg, Virginia  Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Mary Fleming | F8660 
    Married     
    Father  Colonel Warner [Fielding] Lewis, Sr. | F8649 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Eleanor Bowles | F8649 Group Sheet 

    Mary [Randolph] ChiswellMother | Female
    Mary [Randolph] Chiswell

    Born  22 Feb 1748  Henrico Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1 Nov 1776  Warner Hall, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  John Chiswell | F8651 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Elizabeth [Beverley] Randolph | F8651 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Male
    Warner3 [Chiswell] Lewis

    Born  Est 1700  Warner Hall, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     

  • Sources 
    1. [S80] Google Books, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd45.htm#id262.
      12. Capt. Warner6 Lewis Jr. (Warner5, John4, John3, John2, John1) was born on 30 Oct 1747 at Virginia. He married Mary Chiswell, daughter of Col. John Chiswell and Elizabeth Randolph, on 26 May 1766 at Williamsburg, VA; 1st wife. He married Mary Fleming, daughter of Col. John Fleming and Susanna; 2nd wife, 1st husband. He died on 30 Dec 1791 at Virginia at age 44. He was buried at 'Warner Hall', Gloucester Co., VA.
      He resided at 'Warner Hall', Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., VA. He was a Captain of Militia during Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Electoral College that elected Washington President.
      Mary Chiswell was born on 22 Feb 1739. She died on 1 Nov 1776 at age 37. She was buried at 'Warner Hall', Gloucester Co., VA.
      Known children of Capt. Warner6 Lewis Jr. and Mary Chiswell were as follows:

      16. i. Warner7 Lewis III, married Courtenay Norton.

      ii. John Lewis married Ann Chiswell Griffin, daughter of William Griffin and Susanna; no issue. He died on 28 Nov 1827 at Gloucester Co., VA.
      He resided at 'Eagle Point', Gloucester Co., VA.

      iii. Elizabeth Lewis died; unmarried.

      iv. Eleanor Lewis was born on 13 Feb 1769. She married John Fox Jr., son of Capt. John Fox and Annie Macon; 1st husand. She married Augustine Olivier Jr., son of Augustine Olivier; 2nd husband.

    2. [S84] Rootsweb, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd168.htm.
      Generation Three

      3. Mary Chiswell (John2, Charles1); b. 22 Feb 1739; m. Capt. Warner Lewis Jr., son of Col. Warner Lewis and Eleanor Bowles, 1766; 1st wife; d. 1 Nov 1776 at age 37; bur. at 'Warner Hall', Gloucester Co., Virginia.

      Capt. Warner Lewis Jr. was born in 1747 at Virginia. He resided at 'Warner Hall', Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., VA. He was a Captain of Militia during Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Electoral College that elected Washington President. He married Mary Fleming, daughter of Col. John Fleming and Susanna; 2nd wife, 1st husband. He died on 30 Dec 1791 at Virginia. He was buried at 'Warner Hall', Gloucester Co., VA.

    3. [S126] United States Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0396.
      We have not one Tittle of News worth relateing, only that the Enemy lately Cut out of Chingoteage 8 or 9 Vessels and took 4 or 5 who Attempted going to Sea. Young Warner Lewis is Just About being Marry?d to Miss Fleming Eldest daughter of your acquaintance Col: Jn. Fleming, a very Considerable Fortune by the death of her Brother and Uncle Col: Thos Fleming both without Will; She is also very Hansom and Agreable, so that Warner is in high Luck.5 That God may preserve You for the defence of Your Country, and the Happyness of Your Friends, Assure Your Self that no Man more Ardently Wishes than does Your Most Afft. Friend & Obedit Hble Servt

      Archibald Cary

      P.S. My Wife desires I may tell you She is very devout in her Prayrs for your Safety and begs youl Accept her Complyments.

      Cite as
      ?To George Washington from Archibald Cary, 25 July 1777,? Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-10-02-0396. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 10, 11 June 1777???18 August 1777, ed. Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 405?406.]

    4. [S100] Internet Source, https://www.angelfire.com/ky3/lewisfamily/WarnerHall.html.
      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 Randolph, 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.

    5. [S82] Wikitree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fleming-1418.
      "Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in V.M.H.B, Vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct 1915), p. 442.Vol. 24, no. 1 (Jan 1916), p. 94.
      POCAHONTAS DESCENDANTS
      Source: S-2063027587 Title: Pocahontas List Note: _UPD: 25 MAY 2009 18:12:06 GMT-8 CONT _UID: 5C1E590B-753A-4B31-AE79-362A6616FFD5
      Pocahontas and Her Descendants, by Wyndham Robertson (1887), pages 33 and 38. Garbled.
      Obituary
      Obituary

      The Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, VA, Thursday, 30 Apr 1767, p. 3, col. 2 (digital image at Newspapers.com)

      "On Tuesday the 21st of this instant died, at his house in Cumberland, Col. John Fleming, Member of the Assembly for that county, and an eminent practitioner of the law. He was a Gentleman of distinguished merit and abilities, which makes his death much lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and may be considered as a publick loss."