Robert Lewis
(1769-1829)
BIRTH
June 25, 1769
PLACE
DEATH
January 17, 1829
PLACE
FAMILY
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
BROTHER
Lawrence Lewis
(1767-1839)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Bob
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Robert Lewis (1769–1829) was Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis’s son and George Washington’s nephew. As Washington’s secretary in 1789–1791, he handled personal affairs and escorted Martha Washington and her grandchildren to New York. In 1792 he became Washington’s agent for western Virginia lands, inspecting tenants’ compliance with leases. He later served repeatedly as mayor of Fredericksburg. His work combined household service, estates and local government.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Robert Lewis’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Robert Lewis is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Robert Lewis died on Jan 17, 1829. Robert Lewis was Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis’s son and George Washington’s nephew. As Washington’s secretary in 1789–1791, he handled personal affairs and escorted Martha Washington and her grandchildren to New York. In 1792 he became Washington’s agent for western Virginia lands, inspecting tenants’ compliance with leases. He later served repeatedly as mayor of Fredericksburg. His work combined household service, estates and local government. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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