John Lewis

1678 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	John Lewis
  Birth	1678	Ireland
  	"Lewis is not a french name but is as distinctively Welsh as Llewellyn--from whom their descent is more likely than from any Frenchman--or Howell or Griffith.
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I14634	Main Tree
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2018

  
  

  Family	Margaret Lynn,   b. Ireland
  Marriage	John Lewis left Ireland a fugitive; Sir Mungo Campbell had slain "before his eyes" an invalid brother and died himself along with one of his "cruel henchmen" beneath the "strong hands of Lewis. Historic Families of Kentucky, 1889 Immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1729. Went "beyond the Blue Mountains" with John Salling and John Mackey. Moved to Staunton "in the midst of the large tract afterward patented by Governor Gooch to Wm. Beverly, two of the Randolphs and John Robinson and called The Beverly Manor." The writer of Historic Families of Kentucky believed that John Lewis and Erphraim McDowell were born of mothers who were sisters; p5. Y
  Children	1. Samuel Lewis   2. Andrew Lewis   3. Thomas Lewis
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2011
  Family ID	F5277	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1678 - Ireland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  John Lewis,a relative of Ephraim McDowell had left Ireland, a fugitive; Sir Mungo Campbell, an oppressive landlord, bad attempted in a lawless and brutal manner to evict him from premises of which lie held a freehold lease, had slain before bis eves an invalid brother, and, with one of bis cruel henchmen, bad died the death of the unrighteous beneath the strong hand of Lewis. First seeking refuge in Portugal, where lived a brother of his wife, be was by him advised to find a safer asylum in the great central valley of Pennsylvania, whither Avere then flocking many of the Protestants of Lister. His first resting place was at Lancaster, where be was in time joined by his sons, Samuel, Thomas, and Andrew, and by his noble -wife, Margaret Lynn. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S51] Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky, (Cincinnati, Ohip: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889.).