13 Facts About Fielding Lewis

Fielding Lewis was an American merchant, member of the House of Burgesses and a Colonel during the American Revolutionary War.

Fielding Lewis lived in Fredericksburg, Virginia and owned a plantation in Spotsylvania County, which later became known as Kenmore.

Fielding Lewis's brother-in-law was George Washington, who was his 2nd cousin, he was 2nd cousins with Betty Washington.

Fielding Lewis's mother was the only heir of Henry Fielding of King and Queen County.

Fielding Lewis's mother died in childbirth when he was six years old, and his father remarried shortly thereafter, to Priscilla Churchill Carter, the widow of Robert Carter II.

John Lewis traded grain with the West Indies, and Fielding would become involved in real estate investments, as president of the Dismal Swamp Land Company and investor in bank stocks.

In 1749, John Fielding Lewis had a fine retail building constructed to both display and store his wares.

Fielding Lewis was established as a successful merchant before the American Revolutionary War.

Fielding Lewis had a plantation in Spotsylvania County south of Fredericksburg, which he operated using enslaved labor.

Spotsylvania County voters elected Fielding Lewis to represent them in the House of Burgesses following the death of William Waller before the 1760 session, and he served alongside Zachariah Fielding Lewis, then William Grymes, William Johnson and Benjamin Grymes.

Years earlier, Fielding Lewis had sought a place on the Governor's Council, but that went to his stepbrother Robert Carter of Nomini Hall.

Fielding Lewis married his second cousin Catharine Washington, the daughter of John Washington and Catharine Whiting.

Fielding Lewis died in Fredericksburg in 1781 at the end of the Revolutionary War.