Excerpts from Pike County IL History by Jess M. Thompson

Harding and Rogers Lewis, either brothers or the sons of brothers, both appear to have been with the Boones at the Blue Licks; prior to this, James Lewis had married a sister of Daniel Boone [Maybe]. Later we shall find a son of Daniel Boone marrying a daughter of the house of Lewis. 

Note: In 1800 Daniel Morgan Boone married Sarah Griffin Lewis in St. Charles Dist. (now Missouri) in a Catholic ceremony per local law. Sarah's father was John Lewis of Bonhomme Creek just across the Missouri in St. Louis Dist. MO.

Pike County IL History, p. 38.

There was also a James Lewis who located in St. Charles county at the same or about the same time as did Samuel Hardin Lewis. He at one time operated a mill on McCoy Creek and later [c. 1799] did some milling on the Cuivre river, where he occupied a Spanish grant. He is believed by descendants of early settlers on the Cuivre to have been a nephew [contemporary] of Samuel Hardin Lewis. He may have been a son of James Lewis (a brother of Samuel Hardin), who is known to have had a son, James, Jr., being the fifth in a family of ten sons and two daughters.

Note: Harding and Rogers Lewis from the previous record are unknown. Samuel Harding Lewis descends from John and Hannah Harding Lewis of Northumberland Co VA. Other records list only John, Sarah, Samuel Harding, and Mottrom born to this couple. This record lists a son James who does not exist.

This James Lewis who was on the Cuivre is said by descendants of the first settlers to have married a Boone girl, but none of them know to what Boone family she belonged. It is known that Dinah Boone, who married Zachariah Allen and settled with her husband and family in what is now Detroit township (Pike county) in 1822, had a sister, Sarah (Sally) Boone, who married a James Lewis and lived in Missouri. These Boone girls were daughters of Jonathan Boone and Polly Callaway, Jonathan being a brother of Daniel. Records in the court house at Troy, county seat of Lincoln county, Missouri, show that the wife of James Lewis who owned "340 acres of land situated on Cuivre Spanish Grant" was named Sarah.

Note: The Lewis-Boone connection cannot be proven or disproven. According to the Boone histories, Jonathan had 3 known sons--John, Joseph, Daniel--and several daughters who have not been named.

More recent research indicates that Jonathan Boone was married 3 times:
1. 1748 in Rowan Co NC to Mary Carter.
2. c. 1755 in Rowan Co NC to Polly Callaway.
3. 7/23/1798 in Kentucky to Elizabeth Dagley.

If Dinah Boone who married Zachariah Allen and the proposed Sarah Boone who married a James Lewis were the daughters of Jonathan Boone, Polly Callaway would have been their mother.

James Lewis of the above record died in Lincoln county in 1825 and letters of administration on his estate were granted by the county court of Lincoln county to Sally Lewis, administratrix, on June 27, 1825. According to the estate records, Sally Lewis was the widow of James Lewis, and they had the following children, then living: Elizabeth Bean, Nancy Lewis, John Lewis, Fielding Lewis, James Lewis, Samuel (or Lemuel) Lewis, Zachariah and Sufenia Lewis.

Pike County IL History, p. 159.

James M. Wilson, son of the elder James, on April 19, 1832, in Lincoln county, Missouri, married Nancy Lewis, daughter of James Lewis, the early miller who died in Lincoln county in 1825. James Lewis was a kinsman of Samuel Hardin Lewis [Maybe]. Both settled in Missouri Territory in a very early day. The James Lewis children were Elizabeth Bean, Nancy, John, Fielding, James, Lemuel, Zachariah and Isaphenia (or Suphenia). The latter name appears in an old court record of the James Lewis estate as "Icefenia." Their mother, a niece of Daniel Boone, was a sister of Dinah Boone (Mrs. Zachariah "Boone" Allen), who is buried in French cemetery, near Milton. [Maybe]

Interesting records found among papers pertaining to the James Lewis estate suggest that he financed numerous of the hard-pressed Rangers in the Indian war of 1812-1815. A number of promissory notes payable to James Lewis, signed by various Rangers, mostly by mark, were in each instance promises to pay the stipulated amounts upon "first payment of Capt. Jim Callaway's company of Rangers in this Territory, as witness my hand," etc. These notes are dated in the year 1814. (See story of Colonel John Shaw in early chapters of this history.)

The Galloway family appears to have been closely associated with the family of James Lewis, as it was with that of Samuel Hardin Lewis. Names of various Galloways appear in the papers pertaining to the James Lewis estate, as do also the names of various Sittons. William Sitton was appraiser of a note on Alexander McNair, drawn in favor of James Lewis. McNair was one of the noted men of the Territory. Among bidders at the sale of James Lewis's personal property on July 27, 1825, were James, Samuel, Charles, Elijah and Peter Galloway, all of whom were sons of the elder James Galloway, from whom all of the Pike county Galloways are descended.

Note: Was Sarah a Galloway instead of a Boone? Probably not. Of note, Samuel Harding Lewis was the next-door neighbor of James Lewis. Evidently, the Galloways were also.

Pike County IL History, p. 176.

Receipts filed among estate records in the archives of Lincoln county, Missouri, indicate that John N. Collard, when a boy in Missouri, was tutored, for several months at least, along with descendants of the noted Warner Hall Lewises and Virginia Meriwethers, whose intriguing history has been related in foregoing chapters. It appears in fact that John N. received some tutoring in the Missouri home of Nicholas F. Lewis, [Nicholas Hunter Lewis] descendant of the Warner Hall line and a first cousin of Samuel Lewis of early Pleasant Hill. . . [Maybe]

Note: The researcher names the wrong Lewis. The Nicholas who lived and died at Troy MO is actually Nicholas Hunter Lewis who does in fact descend from the Warner Hall family. But, Nicholas Hunter does not descend from the Irish John Lewis family. Unfortunately, the Nicholas F. Lewis of the Zachary Lewis family has not yet been found in history.

Nicholas [F.] Lewis, son of Ann Lewis and her husband John Lewis an attorney of Spotsylvania, went west and all trace of him has been lost.
LEWIS AND KINDRED FAMILIES, p. 60.

Joseph Collard II and Nicholas F. Lewis [Nicholas Hunter Lewis] resided in the same neighborhood in Lincoln county, Missouri, and children of one family and grandchildren of the other were schooled together. Nicholas F. Lewis [Nicholas Hunter Lewis], a pioneer of Lincoln county, was a son of John Lewis, third child of the second (in America) Zachary Lewis and his wife, Mary Waller. The mother of Nicholas was Ann Lewis, daughter of Colonel Robert of Belvoir (of the Warner Hall Lewises) and his wife, Jane Meriwether, and sister Millie Lewis, mother of the Pleasant Hill pioneer. [No]

Note: The Pleasant Hill Twp, Pike Co IL pioneers were James and Ursula Lewis Galloway. Ursula's father was Samuel Hardin Lewis who is not related to Nicholas Hunter Lewis and does not descend from the aforementioned Lewis families. 

Nicholas F. Lewis [Nicholas Hunter Lewis] married Ann Meriwether, and their children, as named in Nicholas Lewis's will on file in the court house at Troy, Missouri, included Thomas Walker, Susan, Laurie, Ann Eliza, James H. and Lydia S. Lewis. Ann Meriwether, the mother, was a sister of Elizabeth Meriwether who married Thomas Walker Lewis, first child of that Nicholas Lewis who was the second son of Colonel Robert and Jane (Meriwether) Lewis, and whose wife was Mary Walker, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker and his wife, Mildred Thornton.

Nicholas F. Lewis [Nicholas Hunter Lewis], shortly before his death in 1840 in Lincoln county, Missouri, make a will wherein he named James Clark of Lincoln county and Walker G. Meriwether of Pike county, Missouri, as members of a group to represent his estate. James Clark (whose kinsmen are later found intermarrying with the Pike county Collard descendants) and Walker G. Meriwether were the husbands of Jane Warner Lewis and Margaret Douglas Lewis, the two daughters of Thomas Walker and Elizabeth (Meriwether) Lewis.

Pike County IL History, p. 193. <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glendasubyak/thompson.html> 5 October 2012.

GARRETT BUCKALEW (5) was first mentioned in the 1762 & 64 tax rolls of Cameron Parish, Loudon County, Virginia, as being in the same household as Richard Buckalew. While no direct evidence exists that he was son of Richard, we believe the circumstantial evidence is sufficient in substantiating this claim. He, along with Richard, move from Laden County, Virginia, to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina thence to Edgefield County, South Carolina. Another fact that bears this out is that the name Garrett is perpetuated in John Buckalew's family descendant's in Alabama. We have proof that John is a son of Richard.

MCCOY. -- Daniel McCoy, for whom McCoy's creek is named, came to Missouri, or Upper Louisiana, in 1797, in company with his brothers, John and Joseph, and his father-in-law, Henry Zumwalt. In 1804 Mr. McCoy was commissioned Lieutenant of a company of militia in St. Charles district, and served until the close of the Indian war in 1815, when he was discharged. His discharge papers were signed by Capt. Bailey, who was First Lieutenant in Capt. Callaway's company before the death of the latter.
Mr. McCoy married Rachel Zumwalt, by whom he had eight children -- John, Frances, Sarah, Nancy, Elizabeth, Mahala, Margaret, and Joseph.
--John died single. Frances married her cousin, William McCoy, a son of James McCoy, who settled in St. Charles county in 1814. They had ten children -- Nathan, Rachel, Susan, Lucinda, John, Elizabeth, Mary, William, James M. and Frances. Sarah McCoy married Fred. Keishler, who settled in Lincoln county. Nancy married John Cain, who settled in St. Charles county. Elizabeth married Phillip Cannon, of St. Charles county. Margaret married James Tenney, of St. Charles county. Joseph died a bachelor, in St. Charles county, in 1849.
(Children of James McCoy, Sr.) James, Jr., came to Missouri with his father in 1814. He married Rachel Doty, and settled in Lincoln county. Four of his brothers, John, Martin, Benjamin, and David, also settled in that county.
John McCoy, Sr., brother of Daniel, had four sons -- David, John, Joseph, and Timothy. David and John settled in Texas. Timothy, usually called Tim, was an original character, and we give some anecdotes of him elsewhere. He married Sarah Van Burkleo, daughter of William Van Burkleo.

A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, p. 174.

PORTAGE DES SIOUX, p. 87.

The most important settlement in the St. Charles district was Portage des Sioux, located on the Mississippi on the tongue of land between this river and the Missouri, and where the Missouri approaches nearest to the Mississippi, north of the mouth of that river. According to Beck, Portage des Sioux derived its name from the fact that the Missouris, who at one time had their huts near here, being at war with the Sioux, and having heard that the Sioux were coming down the Mississippi on a foraging expedition, with the hope to surprise them, ambushed themselves at the mouth of the river in considerable numbers, but the Sioux, being more cunning, instead of going to the mouth of the river, landed at a point since known as Portage des Sioux, above the mouth of the river and carried their canoes across to the Missouri, and thus evaded their enemies, and escaped with their spoils.

The village of Portage des Sioux was established at the insistence of the Spanish authorities in 1799, and to countervail, in the words of Trudeau, "a military post which the Americans intended to form at a place called Paysa, a point near the present site of Alton, not far from the mouth of the Missouri, on the opposite or east side of the Mississippi. Although no such military establishment was formed there by the Americans, no doubt it was rumored that such an establishment would be made. It was a point always thought to be a favorable location for a military post to control the trade on the Missouri river. When the English first took possession of the Illinois country on the east side of the Mississippi river a military post near the mouth of the Missouri was recommended as highly important. Frazier, in 1768, urged the establishment of a fort opposite the mouth of "the Missouries' river, "which would give us command of that river."" So, also, when the Spaniards took possession of the Illinois country west of the Mississippi, the first military movement was to establish a fort north of the mouth of the Missouri. In 1799 the Spanish authorities appear again to have been deeply impressed with the importance of a post at or near the mouth of the Missouri, and accordingly Francois Saucier, at that time a resident of St. Charles, was requested to form a settlement at what was then known as "La Portage des Sioux," and to draw to that point Creole inhabitants from the east side of the river. . .

Among the early inhabitants of Portage des Sioux we find Pedro Vial, who was sent by the governor of New Mexico to explore a route from Santa Fe to St. Louis in 1798. . .

About twenty miles from St. Charles, the Femme Osage empties its waters into the Missouri. This creek is about thirty yards wide, and during the Spanish dominion an American settlement was formed here. The earliest settler was Daniel Morgan Boone, in 1797, a son of Daniel Boone, and a slave owner, then indicating a man of wealth. His father subsequently, in 1799, came to the country on the invitation of Trudeau, who promised him a grant of one thousand arpens of land. In 1800 he was appointed by DeLassus commandant of the Femme Osage district. When he first arrived in the country he lived with his son, Daniel Morgan Boone, for several years, afterward with another son, Nathan, and finally moved further up the Missouri to La Charette, where he died. He did not cultivate his grant of land on the Femme Osage, because advised by DeLassus that, as commandant, under the Spanish law, he did not come within the meaning of the rules and regulations requiring cultivation of land before title could be perfected. By the commissioners, however, for the settlement of Spanish land titles, his claim to the land was rejected, but afterward in 1814, confirmed by a special act of Congress. . .

The Cuivre settlement was located on Cuivre river, or Riviere aux Boeuf (Buffalo river), which drains the western part of Lincoln county. This river is formed by the junction of the north and west forks. The junction of these streams is in about the center of Lincoln county, and thence the river flows around the southern end of the main ridge o£ hills extending south parallel with the Missouri, and being joined by Big Creek and Eagle's Fork, runs in an easterly direction debouching into the Mississippi about 30 miles above the mouth of the Missouri. This stream was in the early days called Cuivre or Copper river, because it was supposed by the early French pioneers that copper was, or would be, found in the country tributary to it. In the wide and fertile bottoms of this stream, well wooded and shut in by bold escarpments of rock, many American settlers secured grants from the Spanish officers. Where the two forks of the Cuivre meet, Richard Taylor secured a Spanish grant. James Mackay made a claim for 13,835 arpents on the Cuivre river, as a reward for services rendered the Spanish government, in making an exploration in 1795 of the upper Missouri, under the orders of Baron de Carondelet, Governor-General, and Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Intendant General at New Orleans. James Lewis in 1799 owned a flour mill on this stream, but in the spring of 1803 was compelled to abandon it on account of the Indians, returning in the fall. The settlers on Cuivre were much exposed to Indian attacks, and often obliged to leave their lands on account of Indian depredations.

    Louis Houck, "A History of Missouri, The Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union v. 2," <http://www.archive.org/stream/ahistorymissour02houcgoog/
ahistorymissour02houcgoog_djvu.txt> 22 September 2012.

Perhaps the first white men to camp in what is now Lincoln County, were members of La Sueur's expedition. They camped on the Cuivre River, which after killing a buffalo bull and cow, they called the "Riviere aux Boeufs."

About the year 1800, there was a small settlement in the "Forks of the Cuivre" where the North fork joins the West fork, in about the center of Lincoln County. The first settlers there were James MACKAY, Richard TAYLOR, and James LEWIS who had a flour mill there in 1799.

    Tidbits of Lincoln County History, Genealogy Webpage, 4 December 1999 <http://lincoln.mogenweb.org/history/tidbits.htm> 22 September 2012.

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Lewis

1850 Federal Census: Scotland County, Missouri
HN  FN   LAST   FIRST      AGE Sex Occup.    BIRTH    
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84  84   Lewis  John       42  M   Farmer    Maryland
                Sophia     36  F             Kentucky

1850 Federal Census: Scotland County, Missouri
HN  FN   LAST   FIRST      AGE Sex Occup.    BIRTH    
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61  61   Lewis  Lemuel     38  M   Farmer    Missouri
                Lovinia    38  F             Georgia

1850 Federal Census: Scotland County, Missouri
HN  FN   LAST   FIRST      AGE Sex Occup.    BIRTH    
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182 182  Lewis  James      36  M   Farmer    Missouri
                Elizabeth  29  F             Missouri

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