1798 - 1881

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• Birth	Apr 1798	Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	Sep 1881	Exeter Township (now Franklin), Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I70584	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	07 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Oliver G. LEWIS, b. 1 May 1772, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
  Mother	Eunice CHAPMAN, b. Abt 1780, Connecticut
  Family ID	F24558	Group Sheet
  Children	1. Thomas LEWIS, b. Between 1816 and 1817, New Jersey   2. Evelyn LEWIS, b. Abt 1819 > 3. George Benson LEWIS, b. 4 May 1821, New York (Probably in Orange County)
  Family ID	F17532	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Hannah SHAY, b. 13 Jan 1802, Shaytown, Sussex County, New Jersey
  Married	18 Jan 1825	Sussex County, New Jersey
  Children	1. Amanda LEWIS, b. Between 1834 and 1835, Pennsylvania > 2. Joshua (Rev.) Shay LEWIS, b. 18 Jan 1829, Pennsylvania > 3. Salmon LEWIS, b. 23 Sep 1833, Exeter Township (now Franklin), Luzerne County, Pennsylvania > 4. Ruhamah LEWIS, b. 1835, New Jersey > 5. Levi Vincent LEWIS, b. Between 1843 and 1844, Exeter Township (now Franklin), Luzerne County, Pennsylvania > 6. Giles B. LEWIS, b. Between 1845 and 1846, Pennsylvania   7. Sarah E. LEWIS, b. Between 1830 and 1831, Pennsylvania   8. George LEWIS, b. Between 1837 and 1838, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F29616	Group Sheet

• Notes

  [levi_chapman_lewis.ged] "Levi Chapman Lewis, second son (?), and child of Oliver Lewis and his wife, Eunice Chapman, was born April, 1798, in Connecticut. He was reared in Orange Co., New York... He removed to Sussex County, New Jersey, where he learned the trade of carpenter, and after completing his apprenticeship came to Exeter Twp., about the year 1828, accompanied by his two brothers, walking the entire distance. He was an expert carpenter and there built a mill for Mr. Sutton, from whom he purchases land consisting of four hundren and fifty acres, and with his brothers was engaged in building mills, large buildings, etc., in the district.... in Sussex New Jersey he married Hannah Shay, born in that county daughter of Ephraim Shay, and they were the parents of nine children. " Source: Please cite original sources. Compiled by: J. K. Loren