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Lewis was regarded as his favorite nephew. Four children were born of this marriage, of whom one was Lorenzo Lewis. The Gus- lis family is given further mention in a suc- ceeding paragraph.

Lorenzo Lewis was born in 1803 in Fair- fax county, Virginia, and about 1840 re- moved to Audley, Clarke county, where he died in 1847. In 1826 he married, in Phila- delphia, Esther Marion, daughter of John Redman Coxe, and they had the following children : George Washington, John Red- man Coxe and Lawrence Fielding (twins), Edward Parke Custis, Charles Conrad and Henry Llewellyn Daingerfield.

Henry L. D. Lewis Sr. was born at Aud- ley, Clarke county, Virginia, April 25, 1843, and died there December 17, 1893. During the war he served for a time on the staflf of General Stuart in the Confederate army, and later he served on the staff of Governor Fitzhugh Lee. He was a farmer and also interested in insurance business. He was one of those high-minded Southern gentle- men who tried to interest his fellows in bet- ter methods of carrying on their farms after the war, and for years served as president of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Soci- ety at ^^'inchester. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him and served two years in the Virginia legislature. In 1871 he married Carter Penn Freeland, daugh- ter of John Freeland and a descendant of James Freeland. John Freeland was one of seven sons, a native of Scotland, and came from Glasgow to America. He lived for twent}^ years in New Orleans and there had large cotton mills. He made a fortune in shipping cotton and later located perma- nently in Richmond, Virginia, where he was held in great esteem as a citizen. His wife was Rosalie Bradfute, a descendant of Colo- nel B}Td, of Virginia, and they had ten children. Major Henry L. D. Lewis and wife had twelve children : Rosalie W. ; Lo- renzo ; James F., married Page Ellison; Henry L. D. Jr.; Edward Park Custis, re- sides in Berryville, Virginia ; Esther Maria, married Dr. Alexander W'illey Moore, of Charlotte, North Carolina ; Alary ; Carter Penn, married William Willey; John, re- sides in Berryville, Virginia ; Margaret, Byrd ; Fielding and William. The mother of these children resides in New York City.

Colonel John W'ashington, fifth child of Leonard Washington, and descended from

a long line of English gentlemen, was bap- tized at Warton, Lancaster county, Eng- land, in 1627. He emigrated to America in

1659, locating at Bridge's Creek, near the f'otomac ri\-er, AVestmoreland county, Vir- ginia, being the first ancestor of George Washington bearing the surname to emi- grate. He brought a wife and two children from England, but all died soon after his arrival, and he married as a second wife, in

1660, Anne Pope, born near Pope's Creek, Westmoreland county, sister of Thomas Pope. Their eldest son was Lawrence, born at Bridge's Creek about 1661, and who mar- ried, in Gloucester county, Mildred, daugh- ter of Colonel Augustine W'arner, mention- ed in an earlier part of this article. They had two sons, John and Augustine (who was an ancestor of the subject of this sketch), both of whom are herewith men- tioned. John, the eldest son of this mar- riage, born about 1692, settled in Gloucester county, and married Catharine ^\'hiting, by whom he had a daughter Catharine, who became the first wife of Colonel Fielding Lewis, as mentioned above. Augustine, sec- ond child of Lawrence and Mildred Wash- ington, born in 1694, in 1722 removed to an estate in Stafford county, nearly oppo- site Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock, where he died in 1743. He was twice mar- ried, (first) in 1715 to Jane, daughter of Caleb Butler, and (second) in 1731, in Lan- caster countv, to Mary, daughter of Colonel William Ball. His second child, Betty, sis- ter of (leorge Washington, became the sec- ond wife of Fielding Lewis. The son of Fielding and Betty Lewis, Lawrence, the youngest child, born in Stafford county about 1775. married Eleanor Parke Custis, granddaughter of Mrs. Martha Danbridge (Custis) Washington, and a descendant of John Custis.

John Custis was of Irish birth and came from Rotterdam to Virginia as early as 1640. One of his descendants, Daniel Parke Cus- tis, married the beautiful Martha Dandridge and died in 1757, his widow later becoming the wife of General \\'ashington. She was born in 1732, died jNIay 22. 1802, at Mount Vernon. Her son, John Parke Custis, the only child to leave issue, in 1774 married Eleanor, daughter of Benedict Calvert, of Maryland, son of Charles Calvert, sixth Lord Baltimore, and died in 1781, leaving his widow with several children. The young-