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Robert Lewis (17691829)

Role

Robert Lewis and Bushrod Washington were first cousins.

Description

Robert Lewis, a son of Elizabeth Washington Lewis and nephew of George Washington, was born on 25 June 1769 at Kenmore plantation in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Citations

"Robert Lewis," Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington (George Washington’s Mount Vernon).

Merrow Egerton Sorley, comp., Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1964), 233.

"To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 10 January 1791," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0120. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 216–217.]

"To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 6 April 1796," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0014. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 18–20.]

"To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 26 October 1797," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-01-02-0383. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1797 – 30 December 1797, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 429–430.]

"To James Madison from Robert Lewis, 8 November 1824," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0420. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 427.]

Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore), 24 January 1829, page 16, column 2 (Newspapers.com).

Robert Lewis at Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties.

Robert Lewis at Find a Grave.

Robert Lewis at FamilySearch.