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Edmund Lewis (d. 1650)
Mary Unknown (b. c. 1632)
Edmund Lewis died in January 1650 in Lynn. [wrc]
Mary Unknown was born about 1632.
Edmund Lewis sailed from Ipswich to New England on the Elizabeth on 10 April 1634. He was accompanied by his wife Mary, age 32, and his sons John, age three, and Thomas, age nine months. They settled in Watertown. [wrc]
Edmund shared in the first division of lands, receiving the 30-acre lot 26 on 25 July 1636, the five acre lot 82 on 28 February 1637, the five acre lot 61 on 16 June 1637, and another six acres on 9 April 1638. [wrc]
Edmund lived on the east side of Lexington Street and had 100 acres of upland and many small parcels. [wrc]
Edmund was admitted a freeman on 24 May 1636. [wrc] He was a selectman in 1638. [wrc] He was on a committee to lay out farms near the Dedham line on 14 October 1638. [wrc]
Edmund was supposed to have been a sailor as his inventory included a cutlass. [wrch] He moved on Lynn between 1639 and 1642 and purchased 40 acres on the shore. [wrc]
Children of Edmund and Mary Lewis: Names given in Cutter. [wrc]
i. John Lewis was born about 1631 in England.
ii. Thomas Lewis was born in 1633 in England. He died on 26 April 1709 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He married Hannah Baker.
iii. James Lewis
iv. Nathaniel Lewis
v. Unnamed Lewis lived only twenty hours. [wrc]
vi. Joseph Lewis
vii. Benjamin Lewis
Benjamin was "probably" the son of Edmund and Mary. [wrc]
References:
wrc. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York (Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2005), 1187–8.
Last revised: 30-Sep-2021