John's sons Isaac, Thomas, Robert and Andrew all fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774.
[2] After the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed on November 5, 1768, Lewis alongside forty others, which included Thomas Jefferson, Phillip Pendleton, Bernard Moore, and John Page Jr, penned a letter to the Governor of Virginia, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt dated December 28, 1768.
The petition requested additional surveys to be conducted in the Kanawha, Greenbrier and Ohio region.
[3] On December 12, 1786, Lewis received a 669-acre tact situated "on the north side of the three creeks, adjoining John Rees, Thomas Adams, and Joshua Thorp.
On June 28, 1797, Lewis received a 600 tract on Laurel Creek a branch of the Meadow River and some of the waters of Brackens Creek adjoining the land of Robert Young and Henry Banks,[6] a wealthy merchant and business partner of Alexander Hamilton,[7] and Thomas Jefferson.