Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameJohn Baptiste Lewis 
Birth1761, Cherry Point, Northumberland Co., Virginia441
Death1825, Texas
Alias/AKAJohn Baptist Lewis
FatherJohn Lewis IV (1738-1802)
MotherHanah Harding
Notes for John Baptiste Lewis
Lived at the Post of St. Andrews, otherwise known as the Bon Homme settlement on the south side of the Missouri.
Posted by DeMaris J. Elledge on July 06, 19101 at 20:54:10:
In Reply to: Re: Lewis marries Lewis posted by DeMaris J. Elledge on July 06, 19101 at 20:46:24:
: : : Here is where I get way to confused:
: : : I think I can get back to -
: : : Col Robert Lewis marrying Jane Merriwether in 1725;
: : : having a daughter Mildred Lewis of Belvoir???; who marries Maj John Lewis the son of "pioneer irish" John Lewis and Ursula Hardin; Maj John Lewis and Mildred have a son (Sam H. Lewis b 1768) who would be my great-great-great-great grandfather.
: : : Anyone else have this information.
I know this family well! Samuel Hardin Lewis is my 3-grt. grandfather and Mildred (Lewis) Lewis and John Lewis are my 4-grt. grandparents.
Please contact me for the rest of the family. D. Elledge
http://lewisgenealogy.com/wwwboard/messages/1074.html
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441Children
1. Milton Lewis b: 17 Aug 1784 in Virginia
2. Sarah Griffin Lewis b: 29 Jan 1786 in Virginia
3. Lindsey Lewis b: 1790 in Virginia
4. John Lewis b: 4 Jul 1792 in Harrison County, Kentucky
5. Elizabeth Lewis b: 3 Apr 1794 in Harrison County, Kentucky
6. Martrom Lewis b: 19 Oct 1795 in Harrison County, Kentucky
7. Samuel Lewis b: Oct 1797 in St. Louis County, Missouri
8. Polly Lewis b: 1799 in Missouri
9. George Harvey Lewis b: 26 Mar 1801 in Missouri
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443Married to Elizabeth Harvey, circa 1783 in Virginia ---- then married to Frances Mathews Watt ers on August 6, 1818 (divorced January 1825)
1. See pages 74 - 77 copies from "The Lost Pioneer" by Daniel R. Longfound at Historical Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.
2. See also copy of page 305 from same book stating: "John Lewis issaid to have been the first English speaking farmer to settle in the Missouri Bottom. He brought his wife and six children across the Mississippi from Illinois in 1795 in a wagon perched upon a specially buil draft. His farm was near Bonhomme Creek. Later he operated a ferry across the Missouri, manufactured salt, and built a water-powered millon Creve Coeur Lake. His sons all fought in the War of 1812.
(Stevens, Walter B., Centennial History of Missouri, St. Louis, 1921, II,340)."
3. The land granted to John Lewis Von 22 Feb 1797 is where "Thornhill" or the home of Govern or Frederick Bates was constructed.
Posted by DeMaris J. Elledge on July 06, 19101 at 20:54:10:
In Reply to: Re: Lewis marries Lewis posted by DeMaris J. Elledge on July 06, 19101 at 20:46:24:
: : : Here is where I get way to confused:
: : : I think I can get back to -
: : : Col Robert Lewis marrying Jane Merriwether in 1725;
: : : having a daughter Mildred Lewis of Belvoir???; who marries Maj John Lewis the son of "pioneer irish" John Lewis and Ursula Hardin; Maj John Lewis and Mildred have a son (Sam H. Lewis b 1768) who would be my great-great-great-great grandfather.
: : : Anyone else have this information.
I know this family well! Samuel Hardin Lewis is my 3-grt. grandfather and Mildred (Lewis) Lewis and John Lewis are my 4-grt. grandparents.
Please contact me for the rest of the family. D. Elledge
http://lewisgenealogy.com/wwwboard/messages/1074.html
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441Children
1. Milton Lewis b: 17 Aug 1784 in Virginia
2. Sarah Griffin Lewis b: 29 Jan 1786 in Virginia
3. Lindsey Lewis b: 1790 in Virginia
4. John Lewis b: 4 Jul 1792 in Harrison County, Kentucky
5. Elizabeth Lewis b: 3 Apr 1794 in Harrison County, Kentucky
6. Martrom Lewis b: 19 Oct 1795 in Harrison County, Kentucky
7. Samuel Lewis b: Oct 1797 in St. Louis County, Missouri
8. Polly Lewis b: 1799 in Missouri
9. George Harvey Lewis b: 26 Mar 1801 in Missouri
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443Married to Elizabeth Harvey, circa 1783 in Virginia ---- then married to Frances Mathews Watt ers on August 6, 1818 (divorced January 1825)
1. See pages 74 - 77 copies from "The Lost Pioneer" by Daniel R. Longfound at Historical Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.
2. See also copy of page 305 from same book stating: "John Lewis issaid to have been the first English speaking farmer to settle in the Missouri Bottom. He brought his wife and six children across the Mississippi from Illinois in 1795 in a wagon perched upon a specially buil draft. His farm was near Bonhomme Creek. Later he operated a ferry across the Missouri, manufactured salt, and built a water-powered millon Creve Coeur Lake. His sons all fought in the War of 1812.
(Stevens, Walter B., Centennial History of Missouri, St. Louis, 1921, II,340)."
3. The land granted to John Lewis Von 22 Feb 1797 is where "Thornhill" or the home of Govern or Frederick Bates was constructed.
Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
Lived at the Post of St. Andrews, otherwise known as the Bon Homme settlement on the south side of the Missouri.
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441Children
1. Milton Lewis b: 17 Aug 1784 in Virginia
2. Sarah Griffin Lewis b: 29 Jan 1786 in Virginia
3. Lindsey Lewis b: 1790 in Virginia
4. John Lewis b: 4 Jul 1792 in Harrison County, Kentucky
5. Elizabeth Lewis b: 3 Apr 1794 in Harrison County, Kentucky
6. Martrom Lewis b: 19 Oct 1795 in Harrison County, Kentucky
7. Samuel Lewis b: Oct 1797 in St. Louis County, Missouri
8. Polly Lewis b: 1799 in Missouri
9. George Harvey Lewis b: 26 Mar 1801 in Missouri
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441Children
1. Milton Lewis b: 17 Aug 1784 in Virginia
2. Sarah Griffin Lewis b: 29 Jan 1786 in Virginia
3. Lindsey Lewis b: 1790 in Virginia
4. John Lewis b: 4 Jul 1792 in Harrison County, Kentucky
5. Elizabeth Lewis b: 3 Apr 1794 in Harrison County, Kentucky
6. Martrom Lewis b: 19 Oct 1795 in Harrison County, Kentucky
7. Samuel Lewis b: Oct 1797 in St. Louis County, Missouri
8. Polly Lewis b: 1799 in Missouri
9. George Harvey Lewis b: 26 Mar 1801 in Missouri