It seems very fitting that just before the Memorial Day weekend I received my gg-grandfather James Lewis Civil War pension files. Prior to receiving these papers, I was told that his parents were a John Lewis and a Mary Martin (who I have found nothing on). Because James had differing years of birth in some of his pension forms, he was asked to provide proof of the year. His proof was a letter from the Orange County Recorder of Deeds that states that James Lewis had provided as proof, an 1858 American Bible Society Bible that was owned by his sister Elizabeth Secor of Cornwall, NY. (This was in 1910.) In the Bible it supposedly, has the birth dates of their parents William and Hannah Lewis and the children of William and Hannah as: Elizabeth James Mary Henry Alfred Alphius The only dates given in the letter are those that are for James 9/3/1841. (In his pension records he states that he was born in several places including Lake George, Saratoga County and a Lexom Plains. Does anyone have any additional information on this Lewis line? (Would really love to get lucky and have a Secor descendant say that they have the Bible and can provide me with a copy of the information found within. (I should note that the letter from the Recorder of Deeds does say that the information was copied from another family Bible that was accidently destroyed by fire.) Thank you, Leon Blauvelt Lockbourne, OH (formerly of Newburgh, NY)

Dear Leon, I find William and Hannah Lewis and their older children on the federal 1850 census living in dwelling #425 in Fort Anne, Washington County, New York. This is on the east side of the Hudson River across from Saratoga County. Everyone in the family was born in New York, and William is working as a laborer. Fort Anne is southeast of Lake George. William Lewis 34 Hannah 30 Betsy 12 James 9 Mary 6 Henry 2 "Betsy", James' older sister, must be the Elizabeth Lewis who married a SECOR. You might consider exploring early marriage records in Washington County, New York. Dorothy >It seems very fitting that just before the Memorial >Day weekend I received my gg-grandfather James Lewis >Civil War pension files. > >Prior to receiving these papers, I was told that his >parents were a John Lewis and a Mary Martin (who I have >found nothing on). > >Because James had differing years of birth in some of >his pension forms, he was asked to provide proof of >the year. His proof was a letter from the Orange >County Recorder of Deeds that states that James Lewis >had provided as proof, an 1858 American Bible Society >Bible that was owned by his sister Elizabeth Secor of >Cornwall, NY. (This was in 1910.) > >In the Bible it supposedly, has the birth dates of >their parents William and Hannah Lewis and the >children of William and Hannah as: > >Elizabeth >James >Mary >Henry >Alfred >Alphius > >The only dates given in the letter are those that are >for James 9/3/1841. (In his pension records he states >that he was born in several places including Lake George, >Saratoga County and a Lexom Plains. > >Does anyone have any additional information on this Lewis >line? (Would really love to get lucky and have a Secor >descendant say that they have the Bible and can provide >me with a copy of the information found within. > >(I should note that the letter from the Recorder of Deeds >does say that the information was copied from another >family Bible that was accidently destroyed by fire.) > >Thank you, > >Leon Blauvelt >Lockbourne, OH >(formerly of Newburgh, NY) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message