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Updated: 07-12-2021 05:07:80.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Jane Meriwether Lewis: Birth: 31 MAR 1770 in "Locust Hill", Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia. Death: 15 MAR 1845 in Albemarle County, Virginia

  2. Lucinda Lewis: Birth: 31 OCT 1772 in "Locust Hill", Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia. Death: ABT 1773

  3. Meriwether Lewis: Birth: 18 AUG 1774 in "Locust Hill", Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia. Death: 11 OCT 1809 in Maury County, Tennessee

  4. Reuben Lewis: Birth: 14 Jan 1777 or 17 Feb 1777 in "Locust Hill", Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia. Death: 17 JAN 1844 in "Valley Point", Ivy Depot, Albemarle County, Virginia


Notes
a. Note:   N988 Lt. William Lewis
 © The Meriwether Society, Inc. (Edy Macdonald)
  Lt. William Lewis of "Locust Hill", Albemarle County, VA 1733-14 November 1779. Son of Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether (M128). Married Lucy Meriwether (1752-1837), daughter of Capt. Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Thornton. William was the father of explorer Meriwether Lewis.
  1st Lieutenant in Albemarle Militia that Marched toward Williamsburg July 1775 to confront Lord Dunsmore. Officer in Virginia Continental Line from 1776, stationed mainly in Yorktown area. He served the revolutionary military a total of 7 years and 1 month (sic - how could he have served 7 years if he died in 1779? jmo). He was the 3rd signer of the Albemarle County Declaration of Independence 1779. He died of pneumonia after swimming his horse across the rain swollen Rivanna River in winter as he hastened home on furlough (sic - wasn't he returning to duty AFTER being on furlough?). Died and is buried at "Clover Fields" plantation east of Charlottesville.

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