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Le Grand, Peter, came to Virginia with his wife and five children in 1700 and settled at "Manakintown," Goochland county, llis \^•ill is recorded at the court house and bears date February 12, 1736- 1737. His son Peter was a burgess for Goochland county in 1758-1761, and for Prince Edward county in 1761-1765. 1766-1768. 1772-1774 and 1775. He married Lucy Nash, daughter of Colonel John Nash, and was father of Nash Le Grand.

Leigh, William, probably a son of Francis Leigh of the council, was burgess for King and Queen county in 1696, 1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702, 1703-1704, and died the last year (1704). He was in 1702 colonel command- ing the militia of King and Queen county, as well as judge of the vice-admiralty court ot the colony.

Lewis, Andrew, son of John Lewis (q. v.). and Margaret Lynn, his wife, was born in Ulster, Ireland, 1720; served in the French and Indian war as major, and in the unfortunate expedition of Major Grant, in 1758, was taken prisoner and carried to Montreal; in 1774 he was made a brigadier general; and defeated the Indians at Point Pleasant in October, of that year; a repre- sentative of Botetourt county in the house uf burgesses in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775, and in the conventions of 1774 and 1775 ; commissioned colonel and promoted briga- dier general in the continental army. He drove Lord Dunmore from Norfolk and Gwyn's Island in 1776 and was on duty in the lower part of the state when he con- tracted a fever of which he died September 25. 1781.

Lewis, Charles, son of John Lewis (q. v.), and Margaret Lynn, his wife, was born in

173^^ killed October 10, 1774 at the battle of Point Pleasant, where he was a major of the X'irginia troops.

Lewis, Fielding, son of Colonel John Lewis of "Warner Hall" and Frances Field- ing, his wife, was born July 7, 1725, and re- sided in Spottsylvania county, which he represented in the house of burgesses in 1760-1761, 1761-1765, 1765-1768. He was vestryman, justice, and colonel of the militia. He lived at "Kenmore" in Fred- ericksburg. Fie married (first) Catherine Washington ; (second) Elizabeth or Betty Washington, sister of General Washington. Fielding Lewis made his will in 1781.

Lewis, John, son of Charles Lewis of "The Byrd," Goochland county; descended from John Lewis who came to Virginia in 1653 and settled on Poropotank Creek, Gloucester county ; was burgess for Halifax county in the assembly of May, 1769. He married his cousin, Jane Lewis, daughter of his uncle, Robert Lewis, of Albemarle. His will dated October 26, 1790, was proved in Pittsylvania county, August 21, 1794.

Lewis, John, immigrant, first settler in present limits of Augusta county. He was born in France in 1673, of Scotch-Irish parents, but went to Scotland after the re- vocation of the Edict of Nantes. While there he married Margaret Lynn, a daugh- ter of the laird of Loch Lynn. He removed to county Donegal, province of Ulster, Ire- land, but there slaying his landlord in a quarrel, he came to Pennsylvania where he spent the winter of 1731-1732. In the sum- mer of the latter year he emigrated wnth his sons to the valley of Virginia and reared his cabin one mile east of Staunton. In 1745, when Augusta was formed into a county,