Rutherford County, North Carolina was formed in 1779 from Tyron County.
Tyron was formed in 1768 from Mecklenburg.
Mecklenberg was formed in 1763 from Anson.
Anson was formed in 1750 from Bladen.
Bladen was formed in 1734 from New Hanover.
In 1791 parts of Rutherford and Burke were combined to form Buncombe.
In 1841 parts of Rutherford and Lincolnwere combined to form Cleveland.
In 1842 additional parts of Rutherford and Burke were combined to form McDowell.
In 1855 parts of Rutherford and Henderson were combined to form Polk.
David Lewis, Sr. was born about 1690 in Hanover County, Virginia. He was probably the son of John Lewis.
William Terrell Lewis (1718, married Sarah Martin),
Susannah Lewis (1720, married Alexander Mackey),
Hannah Lewis (1722, married James Hickman),
Sarah Lewis (married Abraham Musick),
David Lewis ( married Rebecca Stoval and Elizabeth Lockhart),
John Lewis (1728, married Sarah Taliaferro and Susan Clarkson),
Joel Lewis (married Mary Trueman, Mrs. Gordon and Lucy Daniels), and
Anna Lewis (married Joel Terrell and Stephen Willis).
In 1734, David and Joel Terrell were granted 3,0 00 acres on the north side of what is now Lewis Mountain in Albemarle County, Virginia.
In 1734 thirteen grants were made... Another formed a notable exception to what had hitherto been the rule. It was the first to leave the streams, and strike out towards the middle of the county. It was obtained by Joel Terrell and David Lewis for twenty-three hundred acres, and shortly after for seven hundred more, lying on both sides of the Three Notched Road and extending from Lewis's Mountain, which it included, to a point near the D. S. The Birdwood plantation was comprehended in this tract. (from Albemarle County in Virginia by Edgar Woods)
He was still in Albemarle County in 1743 when he was appointed to be the road surveyor.
...on 20 September 1743 O.S. appointed David Lewis surveyor of the road from the D. S. Tree down to Moors Creek and into the Secretarys Road. . .
[In 1745] David Lewis secured permission to clear a road over Capt. Charles Lynches ford̂ on the Rivanna River at the present Pen Park....David Lewis lived to the west of the University area...(from Albemarle County Roads by Nathaniel Mason Pawlet)
John Lewis, Sr. was born in 1728 in Hanover County, Virginia. He was the son of David Lewis and Ann Terrell.
According to Ezekiel Graham, who was Thomasin Lewis' husband, John married Sarah Taliaferro on March 3, 1750 in Virginia. Thomasin was a granddaughter of John Lewis, Sr and Sarah Taliaferro.
John and Sarah's children may have included:
Robert Lewis (1752, unmarried),
Taliaferro Lewis (1754, unmarried),
John Lewis (1757, married Ann Berry Earle),
Mildred McCoy Lewis (1759, married Thomas Rowland),
Charles Crawford Lewis (1761, married Elizabeth Russell),
Jesse Lewis Pitman
(1763, married Charles Pitman),
Richard Lewis (1765, married Sarah Miller),
Frances Rhodes Lewis (1767, married married William Twitty), and
Henry Graves Lewis (1767, married Mourning Mills),
Sarah died on January 20. 1769.
After she died, John married Susannah Clarkson.
Susan Lewis (1772, died young),
Julius Lewis (1773, died young),
David Jackson Lewis (1774, married Martha Baker).
Charles Lewis and John Lewis were in Rutherford County in 1782.
John Lewis received 50 acres on the waters of Mountain Creek.
George Lewis received 100 acres on both sides of Puzzle Creek.
Charles Lewis received 50 acres on the east side of Mountain Creek.
Richard Lewis received 100 acres on Knob Creek.
John's will was dated October 20, 1779
and was proved in April, 1782 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
In 1607 the London Company established Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.
Slavery is an immoral system of forced labor where people are treated as property to be bought and sold. It was legal in the American Colonies and the United States until the Civil War.
Abel Lewis, Sr. was born in the mid 18th century.
Abel married Charity about 1770.
Abel and Charity's children may have included:
Charity Lewis (1770, married Bartlett Eaves),
Abel Lewis, Jr. (1770), and
Sarah (Mary) Lewis (1777, married Thomas Robinson).
In 1773, Thomas Tramel and Abel Lewis were securities for Thomas Price, Jr. to insure his appearance before the court.
In 1780, Sergeant Abel Lewis served under Captain Adam Hampton and Colonel Andrew Hampton from Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Abel appeared on the 1782 tax list of Rutherford County, North Carolina. He was in Captain Robert Rankin's Company.
In October, 1782 he was called for jury duty in Rutherford County.
On December 3, 1784 Abel Lewis entered 200 acres in Rutherford County on Puzzle Creek, a branch of the Second Broad River adjacent Graves Eaves land.
In April, 1786, Abel Lewis was on the jury Rutherford County.
Charity Lewis married neighbor, Bartlett Eaves, about 1785.
In 1796 Sarah (Mary) Lewis married Thomas Robinson.
North Carolina was one of the thirteen original Colonies. It was first settled by small farmers and grew quickly in the mid 18th century.
Abel Lewis, Jr. was born about 1770
The household was in Rutherford County in 1790. It included:
one man older than 16
2 females
a boy under 16
an enslaved person
On August 8, 1795 James Arrowood bought
certain pieces of land lying ... on the Shole branch of Puzzel Creek originally patented by Jacob Davis ... to a stake in Eavis' line ... being one hundred acres more or less ...
from Thomas Davis, for sixty pounds. The deed was witnessed by Abel Lewis and Bartlett Eaves.
Abel Lewis was a member of the Concord Baptist Church in Bostic, North Carolina in 1804.
John Lewis was born about 1757.
He married married Ann Berry Earle.
The baptism records of St. Peter's Parish for New Kent County listed four children baptized as the the sons of John Lewis between 1680 and 17xx:
John Lewis, Jr, on February 27, 1687,
David Lewis on May 5, 1695,
Abraham Lewis on November 27, 1698,
William Lewis on November 22, 17?.
