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Fielding Lewis was born July 7, 1725, at Warner Hall in Gloucester County, Virginia, to John and Frances Fielding Lewis, the third of seven children. His uncle Robert Lewis was the grandfather of famed explorer Meriwether Lewis. Lewis owned and leased ships that carried tobacco, produce, wood products and European-made goods to the West Indies, then returned to Virginia with fruit, sugar and salt, rum and occasionally slaves. Profits from trade were good because Fredericksbur

Betty Washington (1733–1797) was the first and only daughter to live to adulthood of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington, and the younger Sister of President George Washington, who was born in 1732. Betty and George grew up at Ferry Farm, across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia. George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington from her first marriage, described Betty as… a majestic-looking woman, and so strikingly like the brother [George Washi

Howell, Sr., the youngest of the eleven children born to Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, was a favored nephew of George Washington who willed to him 1,300 acres of land on the Kanawha River, in West Virginia. Howell Lewis, Jr. was born July 10, 1808 in Culpepper County, VA to Howell Lewis, Sr. and Ellen Hackley Pollard. Howell, Jr. was the seventh child of the eleven born to Howell Sr. and Ellen Pollard Lewis. He was four years old when Howell, Sr., moved his family to