Maj. Lewis# Burwell

  Notes:

Info from http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd42.htm
Christened date entered is actually baptism date.
Resided at 'Carter's Creek' Gloucester Co, Virginia and 'Fairfield', Gloucester Co., Virigina.

From http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hobart/burwell/bedell_and_burwell.htm his tombstone says ""descended from the ancient family of the Burwells of the counties of Bedford and Northampton in England, who nothing more worthy in his birth than virtuous in his life," etc.
The family of his father-in-law, Higginson, I have not succeeded in tracing, although it is described as "ancient." Burwell's widow Lucy, by her third husband, Philip Ludwell, who had been Governor of Carolina, had (see New England Hist. and Geneal. Register, Vol. XXXIII.) a daughter, who m. Daniel Parke of Virginia, killed while Governor of the Leeward Islands, and a son Philip, of the Virginia Council, who m. Hannah Harrison. Allowing for step-relations helps us to explain Governor Spotswood's complaint that the Council embraced too many of one family. He says in one of his published Letters that six out of the ten members were related to Ludwell, who, as has been shown above, was step-uncle of the Burwells; and, on Mch. 9, 1713, probably having in mind some persons like Nathaniel Harrison, whose brother had married a Burwell, declares: "The greater part of the present Council are related to the Family of the Burwells. . . . If Mr. Bassett and Mr. Berkeley should take their places, there will be no less than seven so near related that they will go off the Bench whenever a Cause of the Burwells come to be tryed." :-)

And full text of his tombstone here;
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/gloucester/cemeteries/tombs000.txt - dates don't quite match up.

Responsible for bringing people to Virginia;
http://www.unf.edu/~jgarner/garnergeneaology.html
"Lewis Burwell was responsible for bringing many people to Virginia and he was the father of one of the leading colonial families of Virginia"

Arch. Dig at Fairfield;
http://fsweb.wm.edu/fairfield/fairfield1.html

Reference to a coat of arms; http://home.insightbb.com/~geneo.sales/armoury.html
Arms: Paly of six, argent and sable on a bend or a teal's head erased azure. Crest: A lion's gamb erect and erased or, grasping three burr leaves vert."

From Jeremy Archer;
Member of the delegation sent to invite Charles II to Virginia, granted his first patent on 18 Apr 1648, together with Thomas Vaulx, for 2,300 acres on the south side of the York River, Virginia accruing as a result of the abandoned 1633 Kingwell expedition and subsequently patented 2,350 acres on the north side of the York River on 12 Jun 1648, which became his own plantation of Fairfield (later called Carter’s Creek), Gloucester County.

Lewis# married Lucy# Higginson, daughter of Capt. Robert# Higginson and Joanna# Tokesey. (Lucy# Higginson was born circa 1626 and died on 26 Nov 1675.)