I Dear Kith n' Kin: Now that it has required a 90-year-old lady to remind me that she has given a book or compilation called "The Givens and their Kin" to me for the Anna Dodrill Family Research Center in West Virginia, I went to my bookcases, found it and actually opened it. There is a bunch of type in there. The upshot of all of this is that many members of the West Virginia Gregory and Givens family, among others, are related to Gen. Andrew Lewis by marriage, notwithstanding the fact that they may have had their own descendants. (One of the more intriguing things to me about the Lewis connection is the ancestry of Margaret Lewis Daugherty, wife of William Earle ³English Bill² Dodrill, the patriarch of the Dodrill clan in West Virginia. Elizabeth Given¹s parents are ancestors of the Webster County Givens and Gregorys. Kidding aside, I thought I would quote Marie Hamric Stoneman's page relating to Elizabeth and Gen. Andrew Lewis. This starts on page 15 with Elizabeth's parents. "Samuel Given, ( )1740. from Ireland to Orange County, Virginia (now Highland) 1738; importation papers of 28 Feb 1739. names wife Sarah and Children, proving his and their rights for land; bought Beverly Manor -- 311 acres from William Beverly of County of Essex 28 Sept 1738. "Samuel Given and John Lewis, Gentlemen, were appointed by Parliament, sworn as Justices of the Peace for Orange County, Virginia, in the name court, 23 Aug. 1739; founder of Old Stone Church, Augusta County, Virginia; members of the family are buried there ‹ the graves and stones are long since gone. No one family contributed more to the success of Colonial and Revolutionary Wars than the Givens and their kindred. --namely-- ³Capt. John Given ³Pvt. Isaac Rose ³Capt. Robert Bratton ³Robert McFarland, patriot ³Jacob Persinger, corporal and pensioner ³Lt. Christopher Graham ³Pvt. David Frame ³Pvt. Benjamin Hamrick ³Pvt. William Given (and others) ³Samuel Given married Sarah Cathey in 1718 in County Antrim in Ireland. ³Samuel and Sarah (Cathey) Given had ten children. These as given in his will were as follows: John, James, William, Martha, Elizabeth, Margaret, Sarah, Samuel and Jane . . .² Skipping information on other children, the information on Elizabeth: ³v. Elizabeth Given (2) m. General Andrew Lewis in 1949 (at Staunton, VA); Andrew Lewis ³Hero of Point Pleasant, ² third son of John and Margaret (Lynn) Lewis. He was with four younger brothers in a company of which Samuel was Captain at Braddock¹s defeat; he served with the Six Nations at Fort Stannick in 1768, was engaged in all of the Indian Wars of the west down to the Revolution, was commanding general of the Virginia Troops at the Battle of Point Pleasant, 10 Oct 1774, in which he defeated the Western Confederated Indian tribes under Cornstalk, the celebrated Indian chief. Had Lewis and his men, the flower of the Scotch-Irish settlement been annihilated by the planned treachery of Lord Dunmore, then liberty would have been suppressed again as at the time of Bacon¹s Rebellion.² dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376