Christopher Lewellin
“Ran away from the Subscriber, living in King and Queen County, on the 10th day of July, a servant man named Christopher Lewellin, about 21 or 22 years of age, of a middle stature, and somewhat pitted with the smallpox, has a sly look, pretends to be a fine singer, scar on the outside of [...]
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George Washington, Lewelling Connection?
Well, not quite. John Lewelling lived on Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the property owned by John Washington, son of the emigrant John Washington from whom George descended. This gleaned from John Washington’s will dated 23 February, 1697. Apprently John Lewelling had some arrangement with John Washington under which he could habitate the land.
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Hannah Flewellin
” … but in March, 1742/3, one Hannah FLEWELLIN having just been condemned to a like fine for a like offence , who but Francis Hardyman should appear and acknowledge to pay for Hannah FLEWELLIN her fine before the laying of the next levy. No wonder that he becomes also involved in a Chancery suit [...]
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Green B. Lewellen
4 DEC 1832, Pardon of Green B. LEWELLEN, sentenced to ten years in penitentiary for passing counterfeit money, two years of which he has served. Resolution to discharge. Source: Report of the Virginia State Library, by Virginia State Library, published Virginia State Library, 1908, p. 225
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Samuel Lewellen
The earliest known ancestor of the Jones family was the mother of Jacob Jones, who married (second) Samuel LEWELLEN, and removed with him from near Wilmington Delaware, to Loudoun County, Virginia, where they lived until about 1770. The Lewellens then moved across the mountains and settled on Cheat River, establishing the old Lewellen Ferry, in [...]
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Was Your Cousin a Lying, Cheating Counterfeiter?
Source: Virginia Reports, Annotated, pp. 493 – 495 November, 1830 Martin v. The Commonwealth There is no genealogical value in this particular case, however, if you had an ancestor from Bedford Co., passing through Botetourt Co., VA during 1829, pay attention! This case was brought against a man named Martin, imprisoned for passing counterfeit bank [...]
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