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Thomas Lewis (1633–1707), son Edmund Lewis and Mary Unknown

Hannah Baker (d. 1717), daughter Edward Baker and Joan Unknown

Thomas, the son of Edmund and Mary Lewis, was born in 1633 in England. [wrc] He died on 26 April 1709 in Briston. [wrc] He married Hannah Baker on 11 November 1659. [wrc]

Hannah, the daughter of Edward and Joan Baker, died on 17 January 1717. [wrc]

Thomas moved to Northampton, Massachusetts in 1661/2. [wrc] He sold a four-acre lot there in 1667. [wrc] He was chosen to assist in building a mill on 27 August 1666. [wrc]

Thomas was admitted an inhabitant of Swansea on 1 December 1669 and was granted 12 acres. [wrc] He was chosen a selectman on 21 May 1672. [wrc]

Thomas was probably in Bristol, Rhode Island in 1681. [wrc] He was taxed in Mendon, Massachusetts in 1691, 1692 and 1693. [wrc] He was chosen selectman on 1 May 1693, but declined to serve. [wrc]

Between 1692 and 1701 Thomas sold land in Bristol. [wrc]

Children of Thomas Lewis and Hannah Baker: Names given in Cutter. [wrc]

i. Edward Lewis

ii. Hannah Lewis

iii Mary Lewis

iv. Esther Lewis

v. Thomas Lewis died young.

vi. Thomas Lewis

vii. Elizabeth Lewis

viii. Persithe Lewis

ix. Samuel Lewis

x. Hepsibah Lewis

xi. Joseph Lewis was born on 13 May 1677 in Swansea. He died on 27 May 1742. He married Elizabeth Birge.

xii. Deborah Lewis

References:

wrc. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York (Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2005), 1187–8.

Last revised: 30-Sep-2021