David Lewis and his siblings have two dates that have been called both birth and christening dates and church memberships dates, yet they are all guessed at. Multiple records of inhabitants and church memberships in parish registers to me, show moving people. Moving from the coast on arrival to farther inland.

His date is said the 5th of May and either 1685 or 1695. The first is Christ Church Parish. But with so many people having a record there and then later another place farther inland, I have come to think of Christ Church Parish as the Ellis Island of Colonial Virginia.

David also has his christening/birth/membership with all his siblings and naming their father John Lewis as 5th of May 1695 to John Lewis in St Peter's Parish, New Kent (Later Hanover), Virginia.


Descendants of David Lewis' have tested their y-DNA for genealogy and David's father John Lewis' of New Kent his identity and origins are, as yet, unknown. Descendants of John Lewis of Warner Hall have also tested their y-DNA for genealogy. Comparing the DNA of descendants of both John Lewis of Warner Hall and David Lewis of Hanover and Charlotsville, the results are conclusive, David Lewis is NOT related to The Lewises of Warner Hall.

Without a doubt one would believe that our David Lewis his father John are Welsh.


David married first Ann Betty Terrell in possibly New Kent (later Hanover) in about 1717 and they had eight children. Betty died before 1834 in probably Hanover, Virginia.


David's will was written 21 Oct 1778 and was proved in Albemarle Court 1779. Albemarle Co., VA, Will Bk 2:381-2. It is not known if David was buried on his original home place which possibly what is now Birdwood Golf Course, part of the University of Virginia, or if the Jesse Pittman Lewis Cemetery was already in use. Both son Jesse's home and son John's home nearer Charlottesville center had been built before David died. But David was not feeble when he passed, the family story says that David was about to marry for the 4th time when he died, so it might be thought he is buried on his home place by the spring, near the Birdwood golf course club house just beyond the putting green.


will be adding all found stray notes: I am without most of the hard copy I ever had and am old now, but Sarah's parents Robert and Ann were killed and Sarah was reared by her aunt and uncle. Later Sarah's sister was named in documents , this was Margaret Peggy Taliaferro Gaines the wife of Hiram Gaines. Certainly Sarah was in the will of her aunt and uncle and some of the property was actually property from Robert that had been held for her I believe - but removed her birth date - We also have the y-dna from two male sons descendants of David Lewis sons and they are not related to the males of Warner Hall Lewises, they are a totally different family. I have been to the location of what is believed Page's Warehouse out from the Pamunkey River and the spot where i took the David lewis findagrave photo is believed to be the level where David would have had his house. It is near the club house of the Birdwood Golf and behind that back house is an old stream spring that they believe goes back to David and this would have been his house location - from there to Faulkner house to John Lewis house that was bought by Chamberlain form an outline of the original property - the 1st patent west of the Rivanna River