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

AND SOME OP HIS DESCENDANTS. 15
Nathaniel, he sailed along the coast, and was at New London,
Conn., on Dec. 2, 1667, where they were transient
residents and taxed £2. 3s. 9d. for the minister's rate.
(New London, Ct, Records.) He removed to Swansea
with his brothers, Thomas and Nathaniel, and became an
inhabitant, and was granted land in the third rank, Feb.
7, 1670. At town meeting 9th, 12 mo., 1671, he was elected
to assist the committee to " lay out the lands recently
purchased at Metapoisett." His lands are recorded in the
Book of Possessions on pages 53 and 54, and with them
are recorded part of the lands of his brother Nathaniel
(5) on page 53 by a mistake made at that time. The following
certificate is self-explanatory.
Office of Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Swansea, Mass., Aug. 3, 1906.
" Nathaniel Lewis his land in the Sheep pasture alis
Towoset Neck by a mistake were Recorded in page 53
with his Brother Joseph's Lands."
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the
record as it appears on page 107 of the original " Proprietors
Records '''
in the town of Swansea.
[Seal of the Town of
Henry O. Wood, Town Clerk.
Swansea.]
There has been considerable discussion as to who were
the parents of this Joseph Lewis. Mr. Deane's Scituate
and Mr. Shepherd in the N. E. Hist. Gen. Register state
that he was a son of George of Barnstable. There appears
to be no foundation for such statement, as George
had no son by that name, as is shown by Otis' Barnstable
Families. There is ample evidence that Nathaniel was
from Lynn, and the above is evidence that his brother
Joseph was with him.
There is a tradition that Joseph Lewis was the first
white man slain in King Philip's War. He was killed at
Swansea, June 24, 1675. (Bodge's King Philip's War, p.
463.) A list of the slain reported by the clerk of the
town at the time is : Joseph Lewis, Robert Jones, John
Jones,* Nehemiah Allen, William Cohun, John Salisbury,
*The Joneses were relatives of Mrs. Joseph Lewis. The deaths
probably occurred in the order named.