Lewis Burwell
- Born: 1699
- Marriage (1): Frances Thacker
- Died: 6 Sep 1744 aged 45
 Notes:
Info from http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd42.htm
Resided at 'Kingsmill' York Co., Virginia
NB; http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hobart/burwell/bedell_and_burwell.htm says he died in 1784, but this seems unlikely.
Family papers;
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/PluAfro16.html
Historic Road Marker about Burwell/Kingsmill;
http://photos.historical-markers.org/va-jamescity/150_5094
Says " Kingsmill Plantation, the home of Col. Lewis Burwell, was built in the mid-1730s and consisted of a mansion, outbuildings, garden, and 1,400 acres. The house burned in 1843. Only the office and the kitchen still stand; they are among the earliest brick dependencies in Virginia. Burwell, the naval officer (colonial customs inspector) for the upper James River, built his inspection station here at Burwell's Landing, which included a tavern, storehouse, warehouse, and ferry house. In Nov. 1775, American riflemen skirmished nearby with British naval vessels; later, the Americans built two earthen forts here that the British captured in 1781"
Lewis married Frances Thacker, daughter of Edwin Thacker and Unknown.
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