Let's see, we have:
* uncredited photograph of unnamed gentleman stuck onto a quote from an unsourced document with the flat assertion that "General Robert Lewis" was "the first Virginian of the name" (which isn't true, as there was a John "Lewes" (Lewis) with the First Supply in 1608, and a George "Lewes" (Lewis) living in Virginia in 1624/5, who arrived in 1617, and others).
* 2 images of a painting of, probably, the second Sir Edward Lewis of the Van, vintage 1620s.
* Snippet from "Lewis and Kindred Families", dated 1906.
* Photo of tomb of Sir Edward Lewis II, enumerating four sons (including a Robert) and a daughter.
* Lineage chart reproduced too small to be easily legible, allegedly dating "Robert Lewis" to "c. 1607-1645" - which means he was NOT the son of Sir Edward Lewis II, who did not get married until 1622-23.
* Probable source for the above, dated January 1898
* Photograph of Edington Priory Church, exterior
* Snippysnips of the tomb of Sir Edward Lewis II.
What has been "proved" by all this is, simply and only, that Sir Edward Lewis II *did* have a son Robert...who must have been born between c. 1625 and 1630, as he was neither the first nor the second son - possibly not even the third. This makes it flat IMPOSSIBLE for him to have been a grown man any earlier than c. 1645-50, and therefore he CANNOT have been the alleged "General Robert Lewis, 1607-1645".
No one has ever presented any hard evidence for the existence of a "General Robert Lewis" anywhere in the Colonies at any time during the first fifty years. All we have *ever* seen is "family lore" and say-so claims more than 200 years later.
The "family lore" was called into question as early as *1901*, when an article in the "William and Mary Quarterly" pointed out that Robert Lewis of York County was only known to have had two daughters and NO SONS. This article proposed that the John Lewis who patented land on Poropotank Creelk in 1653 was a more likely candidate, as he was associated with several other male Lewises.
Solid support for this view did not emerge until 1948, when the tomb of John Lewis of Monmouthshire was discovered in the old (abandoned) Lewis cemetery on Poropotank Creek. That was, indisputably, the 1653 patentee, and other stones in the same cemetery and at Warner Hall clearly indicate that he and no other was the founder of the Warner Hall line of Lewises.
As to the origins of John Lewis of Monmouthshire, there is no doubt he came from there, though exactly where and from which of numerous Lewis families may still be debated.
