Harrison Genealogy Repository

Notes

From "Pioneer Lewis Famlies" by Michael Lewis Cook [with Judith Brittingham's additions in brackets] and mostly with Tennessee connections:

Vol. I, p. 1716

Group 307 [same as Group 115]

307L100 - MAJOR WILLIAM LEWIS of White Co., Tenn. - 115L101

Died Hickory Valley, White County, Tennessee.

Major William Lewis, from South Carolina, with four sons settled in White Co., Tenn. coming to Hickory Valley in 1798. Three of the four sons had made a trip from the old home in South Carolina on foot to the vacinity of Nashville. One night they camped at the head of Cane Creek where they found a lead mine...On returning to S.C. they received the grants for lands [but not the lead mine since they could not locate it on the return trip]. They took their younger brother & father back with them to White County. William Lewis [37L100] was a Rev. War soldier and said to have been with Washington at Valley Forge.

Sons William, Thomas, & Elijah served with Jackson at New Orleans - 1812 - Benjamin is said to have also, but there is no record of Benjaminin at New Orleans in the National Archives although he did serve with Gen. Jackson against the Creek Indians.

Heitman, Francis B., "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution," Washington, DC, 1914.

William LEWIS (Va.)

2nd Oct. 1775 - 1 Lt., 1st Virginia

4th Sept. 1776 - Capt.

7th April 1778 - Brigade Inspector Muhlenberg's Brigade

12th May 1779 - Major, 10th Virginia

12th May 1780 - taken prisoner at Charleston

12th Feb. 1781 - transferred to 3rd Virginia

Was a prisoner to close of war.

Died 1811.

Taken from paper of Charles Lee Lewis, professor at USNA, Annapolis: As a Capt., Lewis was under (former Lutheran minister at Woodstock) Brigadier General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg's command in '77, Brandywine Bridge (Sept. 11th) & Germantown (Oct. 8). He was with Washington at Valley Forge (Winter 1777-78). Fought as part of Gen. Greene's Division at Monmouth (July '78) and later the same year with Gen. Putnam's Division on the North River and was at Middlebrook, NJ (Winter 1778-79). Promoted to Maj. 12th May '79 and attached to the 10th Va. Regiment under Colonels Edward Stevens, John Green, & William Davies. In the latter part of the year, he was attached to the command of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln at Charleston. After a siege of about 6 weeks, Lincoln surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton and William Lewis became a prisoner of war. Clinton had about 9,000 men while Lincoln's garrison did not exceed 2,500. Wm. Lewis remained a POW until he was released on May 1, 1783. As a Rev. officer, he was awarded 1,100 acres at the Waxsaw Settlement, now Union Co., SC. He then moved to Washington Dist. in the NW part of the state, later known as Pendleton Co. He settled near the town of Pendleton.

In the 1790 Census:

2 sons 16 & over

5 sons under 16

3 Females

No slaves

Union Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hickory Valley, also his wife's body Rock House Chapter, DAR, placed a marker over his grave.

Will dated Feb. 24, 1812

Will proved May 1812, Sparta, Tenn.

Will - on file White Co., Clerk of Court, Sparta, Tenn.

"My well-beloved wife Mary LEWIS"

12 Children:

Youngest boy, Thomas LEWIS

Youngest daughter, Leah LEWIS

*** Major b. 17 April 1772

William b. 1773

Benjamin

Mary Holland

John LEWIS

Sarah Williams

Elijah LEWIS

Elisha LEWIS

Jesse LEWIS

Rachel Montgomery