Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 3
in 1628, and was an educated man of means, or he could
not have obtained the grant which he did. Philip Lewis
of Greenland (Portsmouth), 1650, was a relative of
Tucker, of Cleaves and Tucker. William Lewis of Roxbury
was probably one of the young sons of a numerous
family, where the eldest son inherited the estates, and the
other sons had to look elsewhere. He was of an adventurous
spirit, and came out when a mere youth, and returned
to England where he may have interested his
brothers in the colony, and possibly Edmund and John
were brothers of his, as the similarity of names in the
families will be noticed. After William's children were
driven out of Lancaster (1675-6) by the Indians, Isaac is
found fighting the Indians with John, the son of Edmund,
and he received £3. 2. (X from Lynn. (Bodge's Indian
Wars, p. 371.) Later he is found in Maiden, Chelsea,
and Charlestown, where John's descendants are living.
There is no doubt but that Edmund was brought up by
the sea. He had a good estate at Watertown, but it
was away from the water, and he went to Lynn, where he
found an ideal place, and bought forty acres directly upon
the seashore. He may have been a sailor, as in his inventory
appears a " cutlas," a weapon used in battle, at close
quarters, on vessels. He may have bought his land of
John Wood, as his lands are called " Wood end fields,"
and that end of the town was called " Wood end." In his
will he mentions John and Thomas as having some property,
and is solicitous for the welfare of the five youngest
children, of whom only James and Nathaniel are recorded
at Watertown, so the others were born in Lynn, and no
record made. Whether he had live children younger than
John, as Savage thinks, or five younger than Thomas, is
uncertain. Of James I find no certain trace. Nathaniel,
with his brother Joseph, sailed away to New London, Conn.,
in 1666.
It has been said that Benjamin Lewis of Stratford,
Conn., who went from New Haven, Conn., in 1670, as one
of the founders of Wallingford, and later sold out to Dr.
John Hall and returned to Stratford, was a son of Edmund.
Did he, like Nathaniel and Joseph, sail away, and