Charles Alexander Lewis (1775–1829)
Bushrod Washington corresponded with Lewis, his second cousin, regarding the latter's status as a legatee of George Washington.
Charles Alexander Lewis, grandnephew and legatee of George Washington, was born on 15 November 1775 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Around 1810 the Royal Navy impressed Lewis and his brother John into service. The State Department won their release shortly before the War of 1812. (John Lewis would be the only American killed when the British burned Washington, D.C., in August 1814.) Charles and his wife Jane Davison (m. 1814) lived in Kentucky and Tennessee and had four children.
A Guide to the Papers of Notable Virginia Families, 1763–1866, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville (Archival Resources of the Virginias).
Letter, Bushrod Washington to Charles Lewis, Esq., 1823 May 16, Historic Manuscript Collection, The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
"George Washington’s Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0404-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 479–511.]
Cassandra Good, "The Sole American Killed in the 1814 Burning of D.C. Was Related to George Washington," Smithsonian Magazine, 8 December 2016.
Jane Davison in Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802–1850 (Ancestry.com).
Charles Alexander Lewis at Find a Grave.
Charles Alexander Lewis at FamilySearch.