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Enoch Lewis

Male 1753 - 1841  (88 years)


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  • Name Enoch Lewis 
    Born 19 Feb 1753  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 28 May 1841 
    Buried Queens River Baptist Cemetery, South Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I28001  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Enoch Lewis,   b. 13 Oct 1720 
    Mother Mary Kenyon,   b. 1717 
    Married 27 Feb 1741/42  Charlestown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Enoch and Mary were both of Charlestown and were married by John Hicks, Justice
    Family ID F10410  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eunice Smith,   b. 1 Oct 1759,   d. 8 Sep 1837  (Age 77 years) 
    Married Abt 1780 
    Children 
     1. Jesse Lewis,   b. Abt 1782
     2. William Lewis,   b. 17 Feb 1784, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Nov 1855  (Age 71 years)
     3. Robert Lewis,   b. Abt 1790,   d. 25 Mar 1874  (Age ~ 84 years)
     4. John Lewis,   b. 31 May 1793,   bur. Queens River Baptist Cemetery, South Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Mary Lewis,   b. 1 Oct 1795,   d. 2 Feb 1886  (Age 90 years)
     6. Eliza Lewis,   b. Abt 1800
     7. Harriet Lewis,   b. 4 Oct 1804,   d. 21 Jun 1892  (Age 87 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F10445  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • I don't know if the following refers to this Enoch Lewis or to his father Enoch. It comes from "History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, RI" p 515, posted on a family tree at ancestry.com and likely available elsewhere.

      Littleneck Beach in South Kingstown was a one-mile race course for horses, notably the Narragansett Pacers, a prized RI breed now extinct. A silver tankard was the prize.

      According to a story by I. P. Hazard, Enoch Lewis, a neighbor, said "he had been to Virginia as one of the riding boys, to return a similar visit of the Virginians to this section, in a contest of the turf; and that such visits were common with the racing sportsmen of Narragansett and Virginia, when he was a boy. Like the old English country gentlemen from whom they were descended, they were a horse-racing, fox-hunting, feasting generation."

      According to Wikipedia, George Washington owned and raced a Narragansett Pacer.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012424] Gravestone inscription.