John, Al is correct, I missed one generation. Another piece of information that I missed. There was a Deake that also went to NC just before or after the Revolution. I could never tie this person to my family. There is a Deake mine (gold mine) listed in NC that he worked. At 07:41 PM 03/20/2003, you wrote: >John, > >One correction, if I may. The Mary Lewis who m. Richard Deake was the >granddaughter, rather than the daughter, of English immigrant John Lewis who >d. near Westerly ca 1890. She was the dau. of John's son, John >Jr., b.in RI ca 1660, d. in Westerly in 1735. > >Al Lewis > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Maurice Dake" <mldake@bellsouth.net> >To: <RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:42 PM >Subject: Re: [RIWASHIN] Re: RIWASHIN-Mary Lewis > > > > John Foster > > > > Not sure if this means anything to your search but: As stated a Mary >Lewis > > married Richard Deake. Her father was John Lewis who was born in England > > and died in Westerly, RI 1690. His nephew, John Deake married Hannah > > Foster. Her father was John Foster born in Salem, MA. Daniel Lewis of > > Westerly, RI married Martha Prosser from Somersetshire, England. I am > > trying to prove the last name of my old known grandmother and it has been > > speculated that her name was Susannah Prosser and she married George Deake > > (parents of John Deake mentioned above). I also believe (but have yet to > > prove) that Richard and George Deake came from Minehead, Somerset, > > England. None of this ties to the Mary Lewis that you are looking for but > > there is a lot of linkages here between families. > > > > At 11:22 AM 03/13/2003, you wrote: > > > > > > Subject: Mary Lewis > > > > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:02:29 -0600 > > > > From: "John A. Foster" <n4la@cafes.net> > > > > To: "RIWASHIN-D@rootsweb.com" <RIWASHIN-D@rootsweb.com>, > > > > john Foster <n4la@cafes.net> > > > > > > > LDS states that my ggg-grandfather Ambrose Foster married Mary Lewis >and > > > > that she was born in Westerly, Washington county, RI. It gives her >birth > > > > date as ca1720. They lived in the area of present Lincoln county, NC > > > > before the Revolution and 96th district of SC after the war. Can >anyone > > > > give me info on her siblings and ancestors? Thank you for reading >this. > > > > > > > John A. Foster > > > > Petersburg, TN > > > > > >John, > > > > > >You are on slippery ground with this one. You need a better source than > > >LDS. Do you mean the IGI, the Ancestral File, microfilm of some > > >documents at the Family History Library or what? If the IGI or AF, then > > >you need to look behind these to see what source the compilers were > > >using. The AF in particular contains many errors. > > > > > >Now here is the problem with Mary Lewis in RI in the early 1700s. All > > >the known ones are pretty well accounted for. The earliest known Lewis > > >immigrant in RI is John Lewis who appears in Misquamicut (Westerly) in > > >1661. He had 8 known children - no Mary. > > > > > >John-2 had a dau Mary, b 1689. She m Richard Dake/Deake. > > >David-2 had a dau Mary, probably m 1731 Joseph Lewis. (Records show > > >that Joseph m Mary Lewis and the naming of Joseph and Mary's children > > >suggest that it was Mary the dau of David.) > > >Daniel-2 had a dau Mary, m John Langworthy. > > > > > >I don't have the list of Jonathan-2 or Samuel-2's children here at the > > >office. But I don't believe they had any descendants named Mary born in > > >the early 1700s because I also have a stray Mary that I have tried to > > >identify. > > > > > >That brings us to generation 3. > > >Joseph-3 (John-2) had children born between 1707 and ca 1730. He had a > > >dau Mary, birthdate unknown. Myself and others have tentatively > > >identified this Mary as being b ca 1710-1715 and as the bride of > > >Nathaniel Lewis on 13 Nov 1729. Why the ca 1710-1715 estimated > > >birthyear? We are trying to fit her birth between the births of the > > >children with known birthdays and have her old enough to marry Nathaniel > > >in 1729. Why do we think she married Nathaniel? Westerly and > > >Charlestown records say that Nathaniel m Mary Lewis. There is no other > > >known Mary Lewis around that could have married Nathaniel. Besides Mary > > >Joseph-3 also had a son Amos. Nathaniel and Mary (Lewis) Lewis named > > >their first son, Amos. > > > > > >Now you come along and throw in another Mary Lewis b ca 1720 into this > > >confusing mixmaster. Our evidence for identifying Mary the spouse of > > >Nathaniel is weak enough as it is without having to contend with another > > >Mary Lewis with a birth within a time frame that could fit Joseph-3's > > >daughter Mary. > > > > > >Continuing with other gen-3 Marys. > > >John-3 (John-2) had a dau Mary, b 1723/4. She m William Hern. > > >Nathaniel-3 (Israel-2) and Mary (Lewis) Lewis had a dau Mary b 1735. > > >James-3 (James-2) had a dau Mary who m John Ladd. Her birth probably > > >occurred ca 1715-1730. > > >John-3 (James-2) had a dau Mercy. I have a hard time distinguishing > > >between Mary and Mercy when I read the old records. Mercy was b 1726; m > > >William Scrivens. > > > > > >There may be other gen-3 Marys that I don't show here in the stuff I > > >have at the office, who would have been born after 1715 and be too young > > >to have married Nathaniel in 1729. > > > > > >Your first step needs to be documenting the source of the information > > >you have on your Mary Lewis. Migration out of Rhode Island to the > > >Carolinas is not a typical 18th century migration path. Augustus > > >Johnston left RI in disgrace and got an appointment from the King in NC > > >in the 1760s. That was after he was hanged in effigy in Newport. My > > >ancestor, Augustus Johnson Lewis (b 1759) was named for him before > > >Augustus Johnston ran afoul of popular opinion. But Augustus Johnston > > >would be the exception that sorta proves the rule. > > > > > >The big wave of migration out of RI did not begin until after the > > >revolution and that was to the west, i.e. New York, some to Vermont, > > >etc. There was some migration of Tories, of course, to Canada and the > > >Maritimes. > > > > > >If your Mary Lewis did come from Rhode Island to NC, then I will stick > > >my neck out and say that her parents and siblings are unidentifiable. > > >That also gives us one more Mary than can be accounted for in RI > > >records. We also have additional issues with respect to which Mary > > >Lewis Joseph-3 and Nathaniel-3 married. > > > > > >Have you been able to locate Ambrose Foster in the RI records? > > > > > >Bill Wright > > > > > > > > >==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > > >The RI Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ri/rifiles.htm > > >RIGenWeb Archives Search > > >http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/ri/risearch.html > > > > > >============================== > > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > >go to: > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > Maurice Dake > > > > > > ==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== > > Scans of Rhode Island Maps are at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/maps/ > > Search the RIGenWeb Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/search.html > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > >==== RIWASHIN Mailing List ==== >Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ >Providence County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riprovid/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Maurice Dake