LEWES, John
- Born: 1606
- Died: 1676, at age 70
 General Notes:
Born ca 1606 at England. John was baptized in Brenchley, Kent on 1 Nov 1606
Occupation; Butcher
On 1 Mar 1631/2 John first married Sarah Mead, daughter of James Mead, at Tenterden, Kent. Born ca 1612 at England. Sarah was baptized in Tente rden, Kent on 29 Nov 1612.
Child:
Sarah Lewes, b. 1632
John and Sarah, with their daughter Sarah, sailed on the Hercules in 16 35.
2 Jan 1638 was sworne and admitted freemen by the court.
On 22 Nov 1659 John second married Alice (Mattock) Bishop (widow), daug hter of James Mattock, at Boston, MA.
Their Children:
Samuel (1661-)
Joseph (1662-)
Benoni (1665-)
Nathaniel (1666-)
Died in New London, Connecticut where he was among the first settlers b y 1648
Source: Robert S. Wakefield, "George and John Lewis of Brenchley, Kent, England, and Scituate, Massachusetts, " The American Genealogist, 68, 1 993, 24-28.
John LEWIS died Dec. 8, 1676. The name John LEWIS is found several time s repeated among the early emigrants to New England. One came over in th e "Hercules" from Sandwich in 1635, with wife, Sarah, and one child, and was enrolled as from Tenterden, in Kent.2 [2. Savage. Gleaning in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. Viii, p. 275.] This is probably the same t hat appears on the list of freemen in Scituate, Mass., 1637.3 [3. Deane' s Hist. Scituate, p. 304.] He afterwards disappears from the records of that town, and we suppose him to be the John LEWIS who came to New Londo n, 1648.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Butcher.
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