This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Downing Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AUT.2ACEB/1237.1.1 Message Board Post: This Lewis was born in Lexington, MA, his father was Samuel and he married Lucy Wheelock before going to New Hampshire to make the coaches. I have not found anything further yet as to his leaving the area or that his wife had died.