John Lewis traded grain with the West Indies, and Fielding would also become involved in real estate investments, as president of the Dismal Swamp Land Company and investor in bank stocks.

The mother of his second wife Betty, Mary Ball Washington, frequently visited and had a favorite spot she called her "meditation rock".

[7] Years earlier, Lewis had sought a place on the Governor's Council, but that went to his stepbrother Robert Carter of Nomini Hall.

[8] As relations with Britain soured, Lewis, who commanded the local militia, accepted appointment as Commissary General of Munitions, with the rank of colonel.

[11] They had 11 children together, including:[12] Lewis' great-granddaughter Catherine Willis Gray married into the Bonaparte family of France.

Before her death in 1789, Mary Washington asked to be buried at her favorite spot at Kenmore, and her daughter Betty arranged for that.

In the late 20th century, the Kenmore Plantation purchased Ferry Farm, the property said to be George Washington's boyhood home, to keep it from being developed.

[15] In 1999, the Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution chartered the Colonel Fielding Lewis Chapter SAR representing membership in the counties of King George, Caroline, Spotsylvania, Stafford and the City of Fredericksburg.