Ct7-1 Lewis BurwellBorn: Jan 1711 Fairfield Gloucester Co VA
Died: 6 May 1756 Gloucester Co VA Buried: Abingdon Episcopal Church Cemetery, Gloucester Courthouse VA Married: 1st Frances x wid of y Bray no ch 3rd Anne Holden no ch 2nd Mary Willis b 12 Oct 1718 Gloucester Co VA d 22 May 2746 Hayes Gloucester Co VA dau of Col Francis Willis and Anne Rich b 1695 London d 10 Jun 1727 Ware Neck VA had issue: Ct7-1-1 Nathaniel Burwell b c 1735 White Marsh m Armistead Highfoot Ct7-1-2 Lewis Burwell, b. 1737 at Virginia; m. Judith Page and had
Ct7-1-3 Elizabeth Burwell b 1739 'White Marsh', Gloucester
Co., VA m Maj. Peter Beverley Whiting, son of Col. Beverley Whiting and
Mary Skaife/Scaife d 12 Jun 1803 at 'Elmington', Gloucester Co VA
Ct7-1-4 Anne Burwell; b. 1742; m. Armistead Lightfoot, son of Philip Lightfoot and Mary Armistead; 1st husband; m. Charles Grymes 1773; 2nd husband. Ct7-1-5 Mary Burwell b 2 Jul 1744 Gloucester Co d 18 Sep 1809 Elk Creek Grayson Co VA
m1 Capt Lewis Hale b 2 Nov 1742 VA d 12 Mar 1802 Elk Creek Grayson Co VA
son of Francis Haile and Clara Adara Meador m2 Jaquelin Ambler b 9 Aug 1742 Yorktown d 10 Jan 1798 son of Richard Ambler and Elizabeth Jaquelin
Ct7-1-6 Rebecca Lewis Burwell b 20 May 1746 d 5 Aug 1806 Richmond VA m1 Jaquelin Ambler b 9 Aug 1742 Yorktown d 10 Jan 1798 son of Richard Ambler and Elizabeth Jaquelin
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Lewis Burwell lived at Whitemarsh.
He was Burgess from Gloucester County, 1736; later he became member of the council, and as President of that body succeeded Thomas Lee, a in the administration of affairs in Virginia. During the time that Lewis Burwell presided at the head of the government, Hening, in his statutes at Large "records no meeting of the General. Assembly, though he mentions patents as having been signed by Burwell when President of the Council. Major Burwell married. (in October, 1736) Mary Willis, daughter of Col. Francis and Ann Willis. Major Lewis Burwell was relieved of his post as chief executive of Virginia by the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie |
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Ct7-1-1-1 Col. Nathaniel Burwell (Lewis7, Lewis6, Nathaniel5, Lewis4,
Lewis3, Edward2, Edward1); m. Anne Rich Willis; 2nd wife; d. 1821.
He and Anne Rich Willis resided at 'Whitemarsh',
Gloucester Co.,
VA.
Known children of Col. Nathaniel Burwell and
Anne Rich Willis
include:
Ct7-1-1-1-1 . Claudia Hamilton Burwell; b. 9 Jan
1804; m. James
Keith Marshall, son of Chief
Justice John Marshall
and Mary Willis Ambler, 22 Dec 1821; d. 4 Mar 1884
at 'Leeds', Fauquier Co., VA, at age 80.
source:
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshall/esmd42.htm