Col. READE George

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Jan 1637
• Living In: Abt 1655, Yorktown, VA

Notes:

George was the original immigrant from England to Virginia

VIII.
16. Mildred Reade (See item 14), died December, 1694, was the daughter of George Reade, and Elizabeth Martieu, or Marthian. (See item 17).

Colonel George Reade of Lincoln Holt Parish, Hants, England; came to Virginia in January 1637. He was then unmarried and lived with Governor Harvey at Jamestown for a year or two. Was Deputy-Secetary of the Colony in 1640-1642; member of the House of Burgesses 1644 and again in 1640, from James City, and voted for the act declaring that the excution of Charles I was treasonable and that his son Charles was the rightful air to the Crown. In 1652 he was also a Burgess and submitted to the English Commonwealth; was a member of the county Court from 1655 to 1657; member of a committee to revise the statutes in 1656-1657, and Councillor from 1657 to his death in 1671, and at all times supported Governor Berkeley's administration. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Martieu, before 1649. He moved to Martieu's home at Yourktown about 1655 and his wife afterwards having fallen heir to Martieu's homestead, he made that his home for the remainder of his life.
George Read was the great-grandfather of George Washington and the Great-grandfather of General Thomas Nelson, and Mildred Wyndebank (was a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndebank and Frances Dymoke and thourgh the latter Mr. Browning traces Georges Reade's lineage to thirtheen of the signers of Magna Charta 1215 and back to Alfred the Great. This Mildred Wyndebank furnishes the earliest appearance in this genealogy of Mr. Trumbull's mother's name, "Mildred", but we fine it many times since).
Mildred Wyndebank's brother, Sir Francis Wyndebank, was appointed Secretary to King Charles in 1633 on the recommendation of Archbishop Laud and this position he held until the King left London in 1641, never to return, except as a prisoner and to death.
When Governor John Harvey went to England in 1635 to answer charges preferred against him by the Virginians, after having been thrust out of the governorship, he met George Reade who was then visiting his brother, Robert Reade, who was Secretary to Secretary Wyndebank, his uncle. When Harvey returned to Virginia in 1637, Colonel George Reade came with him and stayed with him for a year at Jamestown.

George Reade, a native of London, came to Virginia 1637 in Sir John Harvey's party. Harvey was returning to Virginia to assume the office of Governor of the Colony. Reade was appointed Secretary of State, pro tem of the colony in 1640 and served as Acting Governor in the absence of Governor Harvey. He was a member of the House of Burgesses and a member of the Colonial Council until his death. His will, no longer extant, is documented in a York County 18th century land transaction.

York Co, VA Deeds & Bonds Book 5 pp 3 - 6
This Indenture made the sixteenth day of May in the fortieth year of the Reign of our Sovernge Lord George the Second King of Great Britain and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & forty one between James Mitchell of the Town & County of York and Janet his wife of the one part and Richard Ambler of the same Town & county aforesaid . Whereas George Reade late of the sd county of York Esq decd being siezed in fee of a certain tract or parcel of land lying & being in the said County of York containing by Estimation Eight hundred & fifty acres did by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twenty ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred & Seventy devise the same by the name of all that Tract of Land wherein he lived to his wife during life and after her decease to be equally divided between his sons, George & Robert and the heirs of their bodies but and fault of such heirs in either or both of them or in case either or both of them should dye during their minority then he gave and devises his and their parts of the land aforesaid to his sons Francis and Benjamin and the heirs of their bodies with other remainders over as by the said Will duly proved in the General Court of this Colony being thereunto had may more at large appear and whereas the said George Reade one of the sons of the Testator dyed many years ago without issue and after his death the said Francis & Benjamin Reade intend into one ninety or half part of this premises to as afore devised and afterwards the said Robert Reade, Francis Reade & Benjamin Reade by Deed bearing date the twelfth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand and six hundred & eighty eight made partition of the premises aforesaid .........

George Reade married Elizabeth Martiau, daughter of Nicolas Martiau (Father of Yorktown). Their daughter Mildred, wife of Col. Augustine Warner, was the g-grandmother of George Washington.

George Read, the son of Robert Read of London and his wife Mildred Windebank, was one of the about one hundred colonists, who emigrated to the colonies from England and Wales before the end of the 17th century, known to have legitimate descent from a Plantagenet King of England.

The illustrious ancestry of George Reade is documented nicely in Colonial Records during the period of 18 January 1638/9 - 11 December 1641. The file includes letters from the Colonial Governor, Secretary of State and George Reade to Sir Francis Windebank and/or Windebank's personal secretary Robert Reade (George Reade's brother.) The correspondence file is quite interesting, alluding to the politics behind George Reade's appointment as Secretary of State during Richard Kemp's sojourn in England. It also includes personal requests from George Reade to his brother for servants and money. Earlier correspondence puts a personal face on George Reade's life. "Sir John Harvey to Robert Reade, 17 Nov. 1637. Hopes to employ Reade's brother against the Indians. He is well and stays at the writer's house." "George Reade to Robert Reade, his brother, 26 Febr. 1637/8. Does not think much of Mr. Hawley. Thanks to the support of the Governor and Mr. Kemp, the writer has survived. Mr. Menephe has brought many servants. Mr. Hawley has promised the writer that the next lot of servants coming to Virginia would be for him but he does not believe it as Hawley is in Maryland."

"Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp. 419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct. 1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be 1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."

The graves of George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather (who married a George Reade descendant.)

Born in Linkenholt, England to Robert & Mildred (Windebank) Reade. He married Elizabeth Martiau in 1641 in York Co., Virginia. George was the Secretary of the Colony and Acting Governor of Virginia (1638-39); member of the Council of Virginia; member of the House of Burgesses from James City Co.,VA in 1649 and frequently thereafer. He became a member of the Governor's Council on 13 Mar 1657-58, which office he held until his death in 1671. Father of Mildred (Warner).
Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp. 419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct. 1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be 1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."


Lionel, Duke of Clarence, married Lady Elizabeth de Brugh, and their only daughter, Lady Philippa Plantagenet, married Edward Mortimer, Earl of March; their daughter, Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, married Sir Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, first Earl of Northumberland, b. 1366; killed at the battle of Shrewsbury. His son, Henry Percy, second Earl of Northumberland, married Lady Eleanor Nevil, and was killed at the battle of St. Albans, 1455. His son, Henry Percy, third Earl of Northumberland, married Lady Eleanor Poynings. Their daughter, Lady Margaret Percy, married Sir William Gascoigne. Their daughter, Lady Elizabeth Gascoigne, married Sir George Telboise, who was descended from Ivo de Tailleboise, a Norman Knight, and follower of William the Conqueror. Their daughter, Lady Anne Telboise, married Sir Edmond Dymoke, "Hereditary Champion of England," and Master of Scrivelsby Court. His daughter, Frances Dymoke, Aug. 20, 1566, married Sir Thomas Windebank, "Clerk of the Signet, to the good Queen Bess." Their daughter, Mildred Windebank, married Robert Reade, Esq., of Yorkshire. Their son, George Reade, Hon., married Elizabeth Martain, daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martain; and their daughter, Mildred Reade, married Speaker, the Hon. Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., Va.

The Hon. George Reade came to Virginia in 1637, settled in York Co.; one out of five or six other children of Andrew Reade, of Linkbout, Hampshire. Will proved, Oct. 24, 1623.     
    
I. Andrew, mentioned in House of Lords calendar, as "Andrew Reade, D. D., of Lugershall Hall, Wiltshire."     
    
II. William.     
    
III. Dr. Thomas Reade, b. Linkenholt, 1606; admitted student, New College, Oxford, Dec. 10, 1624; Fellow, Jan. 15, 1626; LL. D., 1638; Principal Med. Hall, Oxford, 1643. In 1642, he volunteered in the King's army and saw some service in the decline of the royal cause. He went to France and became a Catholic priest. In 1659, he published a work in defense of Catholicity. He returned to England at the restoration of King Charles II, and died, 1669.     

IV. Robert, private secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank; Secretary of State to Charles I. March, 1641, he went to Paris with Secretary Windebank, to escape prosecution by Parliament. He was living in 1669.     

V. George((1)), who came to Virginia. There was a Benjamin Reade, probably of the same English family, who came to Virginia about the same time, and is supposed to have been a son of Robert Reade and Mildred Windebank, but his name is not included in any definite record of relationship I have seen.     

Mildred Windebank was the daughter of Sir Thomas Windebank, of Harnes Hill, parish of Hurst, Berkshire (Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth and King James I), who married, Aug. 20, 1566, Frances, daughter of Sir Edmond Dymoke, Hereditary Champion of England.     

George Reade came to Virginia in 1637. He was a friend and adherent of Governor Harvey, and Secretary Kemp, and when Kemp went to England, in 1640, George Reade was appointed Secretary of State, pro tem., and acted as governor, when Harvey was absent. He was burgess for James City County in 1649, and again in 1656; then probably for Gloucester Co. He was a member of the Council, appointed March 13, 1658, and reappointed, May 3, 1658, and held the office until his death, in 1671. On Nov. 20, 1671, the will of Col. George Reade was admitted to probate in the General Court.     
    
George((1)) Reade married Elizabeth Martain, daughter of Captain Nicholas Martain, born in Belgium, and came to Virginia with her parents. Capt. Nicholas Martain represented Kent Island, York, and Chiskiack, in the House of Burgesses, in 1632. They had issue:     
    
I. George((2)) Reade, to whom Sir William Berkeley, Governor, gave a bay mare, in 1665. This son died without issue.     
    
II. Mildred((2)) Reade, married, about 1665, Colonel Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., Va.; Speaker of the House of Burgesses, in 1675, and member of the Council until his death, June 19, 1681.     
    
III. Elizabeth((2)) Reade. Married Capt. Thomas Chisman.     

IV. Robert((2)) Reade. Married Mary, daughter of John Lily.     

V. Francis((2)) Reade. Married, first, Chisman; married, second, Ann -.     
    
VI. Benjamin((2)) Reade. Married Mary Gwynn.     
    
VII. Thomas((2)) Reade. Married Lucy, daughter of Edmund Gwynn.     

Mildred((2)) Reade (George((1))) married Colonel and Speaker Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., and had six children:     

A son, Augustine Warner, b. June 17, 1666; died, unmarried, March 17, 1687.     
    
A son, George Warner, died young; unmarried.     

Buried:
Here lyeth intered Coll George Read Esqr who was born ye 25th day October in ye yeare of our Lord 1608 and deceased October 1674 he being in the 66th yr of his age.
http://www.gracechurchyorktown.com/home/home.asp

"These Ledgers in Memory of Colonel George Read and his wife Elizabeth Martiau Read Discovered while excavating on Buckner Street, Yorktown Were restored and preserved by their descendant Letitia Pate Evans 1931 The graves of George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather (who married a George Reade descendant.)
Yorktown, Va.

Headstone Details
     Cemetery name Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery
     Name on headstone George Read and Elizabeth Martiau Read
     Birth
     Death

George married MARTIAU Elizabeth in 1641 in Yorktown, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. MARTIAU Nicolas and BERKELEY Elizabeth Jane) was born on 12 Dec 1625 in Elizabeth City, VA; died on 10 Feb 1685 in Yorktown, VA; was buried in Yorktown, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: WARNER Augustine. Augustine was born in 1642; died in 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: WARNER Augustine. Augustine was born in 1642; died in 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: LILLY Mary. Mary was born in 1644; died in 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CHISMAN Thomas. Thomas was born in 1651; died on 18 Jan 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married Capt. WASHINGTON Lawrence in 1690 in Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia. Lawrence was born on 9 Sep 1659 in Bridge Creek, Westmorland Co, Virginia; died on 30 Mar 1698 in Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia; was buried in Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Lewis II, called Councilor John due to his service on the King's Council in 1715, married his first cousin, Elizabeth Warner-the woman who would later become the great aunt to George Washington. They gave birth to 14 children: Catherine, Elizabeth, Col. John Lewis III, Col. Charles Lewis, Col. Robert Lewis III, Elizabeth, Isabella, and Ann. The names of the other children remain unknown.

Elizabeth married LEWIS John, II about 1691 in Virginia. John (son of Maj. LEWIS John and WARNER Isabella) was born in 1669; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SCHLATER Mary. Mary (daughter of SCHLATER Richard and NUTTING Mary) was born on 9 Mar 1712; died on 7 Feb 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Nov. 12, 1694
Westmoreland County
Virginia, USA Death: Apr. 12, 1743
King George County
Virginia, USA
Father of George Washington, America's first President. The British were well established in America with thirteen colonies prior to the American Revolution led by George Washington culminating in independence from England and the formation of a united county. Cities, seaports, schools, churches and thriving industry doted the landscape. In the south, large plantations sprang up, constructed and operated by cheap labor in the form of slaves imported from Africa. By the time of the marriage of Jane Butler and Augustine Washington Sr., three family generations had past since George's Great Grandfather John Washington had immigrated to the Colonies during the British Civil War in 1631. The extensive family became prosperous and thriving when Augustine Washington was born in 1694 in Westmoreland County, Virginia on his father's plantation. He was only four when his father died and his inheritance consisted of 1,000 acres on Bridges Creek (Popes Creek). When Augustine came of age, he married Jane Butler, an orphan with considerable wealth of her own. The couple settled on his inherited property and quickly constructed a new house called "Wakefield." He developed the land known as Popes Creek Plantation into a modest but successful farming venture. In addition to cultivating tobacco, he was active in the church, local politics and served at various times as justice of the peace and county sheriff. The marriage would produce two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr. Jane would pass away in 1728 and three years later Augustine would marry a second time to Mary Ball. Their first born would be George destined to be the first President of the United States. Although born in the "Wakefield Mansion," he would only spend the first three years of his life as the family moved many times, living at various plantations owned by Augustine Sr. The family lastly settled at Ferry Farm Plantation near Frederiksburg where Augustine owned and operated Accokeek Iron Furnace located nearby. Five other children followed...Samuel, Elizabeth, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred (died in infancy). When Augustine Washington Sr. died in 1743 at Ferry Farm, he left his wife Mary Ball with many small children but well provided. George the oldest was but eleven. He along with other family members conveyed their father's remains by land and river 35 miles back to Popes Creek where they buried him beside his first wife and near his father and grandfather at the Washington family burial ground (Popes Creek Cemetery.) Mary would continue to live with her children and operate Ferry Farm with enslaved labor until selling the farm and moving into the town of Fredericksburg in 1774. Soon after the death of his father, George would live with his half brother Augustine Washington Jr. (Austin) in order to pursue an education at the Henry Williams School in Westmoreland County. At age fifteen he was a land surveyor. His first assignment was a land survey of 22 acres at Popes Creek. Legacy...In 1779, William, the son of Augustine Washington Jr., accidently burned down "Wakefield" after building a large fire in the mansion fire place then leaving to attend Episcopal church services on Christmas day. A spark from the chimney ignited a fire that destroyed the dwelling. A replica plantation house was constructed on the plantation land in Westmoreland County to approximate the original birth house in 1932 and is today known as the "Memorial House." The historical area today consists of 538 acres with the house, the Washington family burial ground, a working demonstration farm and 18th century period garden. Also interred in the burial ground are 28 other early members of the Washington family. President George Washington was buried at Mt. Vernon in 1799 and his mother Mary Ball Washington in Frederiksburg. The original foundations of what is believed to be the birth house were discovered by preservationist and is outlined. The site is now known as the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. An unmarked slave graveyard discovered at the Washington birthplace is an infamous legacy of Augustine Washington Sr. It contains 156 bodies of slaves owned by George Washington's father. Trivia note: Washington's birthplace eventually was sold and passed from the holdings of the Washington family. It was allow to disintegrate until preservationists realized the historical significance of the site. However, it was to late, nothing remained but finally a concerted effort with private and government assistance began to restore the plantation in the early 30's in a style of how it may have looked. Even the burial grounds was a vain attempt at restoration and creation. The finished project today resulted after disinterring of family parts, and a few vandalized markers from around the plantation and area with reinterring on the site.

Family links:
Parents:
Lawrence Washington (1659 - 1697)
Mildred Warner Washington (1671 - 1701)

Spouses:
Jane Butler Washington (1699 - 1728)
Mary Ball Washington (1708 - 1789)

Children:
Butler Washington (1716 - 1716) *
Lawrence Washington (1718 - 1752) *
Augustine Washington (1720 - 1762) *
Jane Butler Washington (1722 - 1735) *
George Washington (1732 - 1799) *
George Washington (1732 - 1799) *
George Washington (1732 - 1799) *
Betty Washington Lewis (1733 - 1797) *
Samuel Washington (1734 - 1781) *
John Augustine Washington (1736 - 1787) *
Charles Washington (1738 - 1799) *
Mildred Washington (1739 - 1740) *

Siblings:
Lewis Willis (____ - 1813) **
Mildred Washington (1686 - 1696) **
John Washington (1692 - 1746) *
Augustine Washington (1694 - 1743)
Mildred Washington Willis (1696 - 1747) *
    
**Half-sibling
Burial:
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
Colonial Beach
Westmoreland County
Virginia, USA
Plot: Popes Creek Plantation

Augustine married BALL Mary on 6 Mar 1731 in Epping Forest, Lancaster, Virginia. Mary was born on 30 Nov 1708 in Epping Forest, Lancaster, Virginia; died on 26 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert Lewis was born on May 4, 1702, in Gloucester County, Virginia, the child of John and Elizabeth. He married Jane Meriwether and they had one son together in 1735. He then married Elizabeth Thornton in 1757 in Louisa County, Virginia. He died on January 10, 1765, in Albemarle County, Virginia, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rivanna, Virginia.

Children
John LEWIS b: 31 AUG 1726 in "Chemokins", St. Peters Parish, New Kent County, Virginia
Jane LEWIS b: 1 Jan 1727/8 in Hanover County, Virginia
Elizabeth LEWIS b: 1729 in Hanover County, Virginia
Anne LEWIS b: ABT 1731 in Virginia
Mary LEWIS b: ABT 1732 in Virginia
Nicholas LEWIS b: 19 Jan 1733/4 in "Belvoir", Hanover County, Virginia
Charles LEWIS b: Between 27 Apr 1734 and 1 Sep 1736 in Virginia
William LEWIS b: ABT 1735 in Virginia
Mildred LEWIS b: 1 SEP 1737 in Albemarle County, Virginia
Robert LEWIS b: ABT 1739 in Virginia
Sarah LEWIS b: ABT 1745 in "Belvoir", Albemarle County, Virginia
Isabella LEWIS

There is Lake Meriweather there, possible named for her family

Colonel Robert Lewis married Jane Meriwether, the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether II and Elizabeth Crawford, and established a new estate at Belvoir. This was the first of 11 intermarriages between the Meriwether and Lewis families. Robert Lewis amassed a large amount of land in Goochland and Albemarle Counties throughout his life, which he later divided among his children. He acquired the land in Ivy Depot, VA in 1740. Locust Hill, the childhood home of Meriwether Lewis, was built on this land, and Meriwether's father was the first Lewis to inhabit it. (Meriwether, 1964)

Col Robert Lewis
Birth: May 4, 1702 Gloucester Co., VA
Death: Jan. 10, 1765 VA

Robert Lewis was the third son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner. He was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the family home of his mother. He married Jane Meriwether (1705-1757), the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether and Elizabeth Crafford. They had eleven children. Robert Lewis had land in Gloucester but he deeded that to his eldest son, John Lewis of "Halifax" and opted, along with his father-in-law, Nicholas Meriwether, to push out to unoccupied lands in the Piedmont area of Virginia. "Both took out grants for themselves of thousands of acres, being good judges of fertile, well watered selections." (Anderson, p. 62) In 1736, he obtained a grant for 4,000 acres on the Hardware River, and in 1740, he took a grant for 6,500 acres on Ivy Creek. Along with other grants, he accumulated a total of 21,660 acres, enabling him to bequeath land to all of his children. He also held an interest in 100,000 acres in Greenbrier County (now West Virginia). He built his home, "Belvoir," in the part of Louisa County that joined Albemarle County in 1761, apparently near the location of this cemetery. He served in the House of Burgesses 1744-1746 and was County Lieutenant for Louisa County. After his wife's death, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton in 1761, grandmother of Meriwether Lewis. Elizabeth's 1st husband Thomas was a son of Jane Meriwether's brother David.
Family links:
Parents:
John Lewis (1669 - 1725)
Elizabeth Warner Lewis (1672 - 1720)
Spouses:
Jane Meriwether Lewis (1705 - 1757)
Elizabeth Thornton Lewis*
Children:
Anne Lewis*
Nicholas Lewis (1734 - 1808)*
Mary Lewis (Cobbs) Thomson (1735 - 1812)*
William Lewis (1748 - 1779)*
William Lewis (1748 - 1779)*
Siblings:
John Lewis (1692 - 1754)*
Charles Lewis (1696 - 1779)*
Catherine Lewis (1702 - 1705)*
Isabella Lewis Clayton (1706 - 1742)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial: Belvoir Family Cemetery Rivanna, Albemarle Co., VA
Created by: Kaaren Crail Vining
Record added: Jan 15, 2006

Robert Lewis of "Belvoir" (1702 - 1765) & Jane Meriwether
Robert Lewis was the third son of Col. John Lewis and Elizabeth Warner. He was born at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, the family home of his mother. He married Jane Meriwether (1705-1745/55), the daughter of Nicholas Meriwether and Elizabeth Crawford. They had eleven children. Robert Lewis had land in Gloucester but he deeded that to his eldest son, John Lewis of "Halifax" and opted, along with his father-in-law, Nicholas Meriwether, to push out to unoccupied lands in the Piedmont area of Virginia. "Both took out grants for themselves of thousands of acres, being good judges of fertile, well watered selections." (Anderson, p. 62) In 1736, he obtained a grant for 4,000 acres on the Hardware River, and in 1740, he took a grant for 6,500 acres on Ivy Creek. Along with other grants, he accumulated a total of 21,660 acres, enabling him to bequeath land to all of his children. He also held an interest in 100,000 acres in Greenbrier County (now West Virginia). He built his home, "Belvoir," in the part of Louisa County that joined Albemarle County in 1761. He served in the House of Burgesses 1744-1746 and was County Lieutenant for Louisa County. Of their eleven children, two played key roles in Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks' life:
William Lewis of "Locust Hill" was Lucy's first husband.
Nicholas Lewis, who inherited "The Farm" from his grandfather Nicholas Meriwether, married Lucy's first cousin, Mary Walker, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker and Lucy's aunt, Mildred Thornton
Of the remaining nine children, six of them married other Lewises.
After his wife's death, Robert Lewis married Elizabeth Thornton, Lucy's mother, in 1761.

At the time he made his Will, he was living in Fredericksville Parish,Louisa County. In the document, he named sons John, Nicholas, Robert,Charles, and William; daughters Jane Meriwether, Mary Cobbs, MildredLewis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Lewis (wife of John Lewis), Children "nowliving" were named as John Lewis, Jane Meriwether, Aaron Lewis,Nicholas Lewis, Mary Cobbs, Mildred Lewis, Robert Lewis (infant),Charles Lewis, William Lewis, Sarah Lewis. A daughter ElizabethBarrett was referred to as deceased. The absence of his wife fromthis document indicates she was also already deceased.

Robert married MERIWETHER Jane in 1725 in Greenville, Augusta, Virginia, USA. Jane (daughter of Col MERIWETHER Nicholas, Jr. and CRAWFORD Elizabeth) was born about 1705 in Greensville County, Virginia; died before Sep 1757; was buried in Cismont, Albemarle County, VA ("Belvoir"). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CARY John. John was born in 1729 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, Virginia; died in 1763 in York County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]