Second Generation

5. Daniel LEWIS¹ died in Feb 1717. He was the frist settler in that part of Hopkintown (as from THE HISTORY OF HOPKINTOWN, RI by Rev. S.S. Griswold), was a fuller by trade and carried on in his business where is now the Laurel Dale Hill, or very near there. He erected the first dam there, and for many years carried on a thriving business. He was a firm, go-ahead man, honest in every particular, and when once set upon what he considered to be right, was firmly fixed. He was a member of the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in Hopkintown. In his will he gave to son John the property at Laurel Dale, and to Daniel a farm in the Tomaquag Valley. From Lewisiana, "his grave and the gave of his wife and some of the children may be seen not far from the road, about half way from the Babcock house (on the site of which the residence of Horace L. Crandall now stands), to the late residence of Deacon Elnathan W. Babcock.

On January 15, 1701, he and wife Mary deeded land to brother, David, and on July 14, 1704, bought 10 acres of Austin Odie. See Vol. 12, p. 105, Lewisana.

Mary MAXSON (daughter of John MAXSON and Mary MOSHER) died after 1721. Daniel LEWIS and Mary MAXSON had the following children:

30	i.	John LEWIS.
31	ii.	Jonathan LEWIS.
32	iii.	Mary LEWIS.
33	iv.	Dorcas LEWIS.
34	v.	Hannah LEWIS.