Sketch of Fielding Lewis, "Old Virginia, reminiscences of an old-time planter by his grandson" [manuscript].

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Sketch of Fielding Lewis, "Old Virginia, reminiscences of an old-time planter by his grandson" [manuscript].

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Contains material on scientific agriculture and plantation life at Wyanoke, Charles City County, Va.

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Lewis, Fielding, -1834

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Fielding Lewis (d. 1834) owned a plantation on the James River, where he raised corn and wheat. Lewis was the son of Col. Warner Lewis and Eleanor Bowles of Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Virginia. He was also a great uncle of the famed Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Around 1788, Lewis married Agnes Harwood, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Woddrop Harwood. With that marriage came the estate of Weyanoke on the James River. From the...