Capt. Charles EWELL^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1713 - Abt 1760  (46 years)

• Name	Charles EWELL
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	13 Jan 1713	Lancaster County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  AFN	PTQX-W7
  _UID	99BDED0D28564E3D9B8C471069EE5F47D41E
  Died	Abt 1760	Of Prince William Co., VA
  Person ID	I13881	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Charles EWELL,   b. 1660, , London, Middlesex, England ,   d. Apr 1722, Mt. Mary's Parish, Lancaster, Virginia  (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann BERTRAND,   b. 1690, , Rappahanock, Virginia ,   d. 12 Feb 1750, , , Lancaster, VA  (Age 60 years)
  Married	1705	, Lancaster, Virginia   [6]
  	REFN18497
  Family ID	F7170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Married	22 Sep 1736	, Lancaster, Virginia
  	Marriage Data Source: Virginia Marriage Records Jan 1 1730 to Dec 31 1739
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F7166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  !Samuel Hayes letter in Roots and Branches issue 5 pg 19 Additional Source: http://www.historicprincewilliam.org/fom/millhistory.html Historical Information (Prince William County, VA) "Friends of the Occoquan Mills" "In 1734, Occoquan was identified as a town early. There were public warehouses for tobacco, which was then shipped to many foreign ports. In 1749, Charles Ewell and John Ballendine established iron furnaces on the Occoquan River [completed?] in 1755. (A water powered Country Grist Mill operated until 1890.) In 1758, John Ballendine built Rockledge, his 11 room home overlooking the town. Ballendine, an industrial entrepreneur of his time, is considered the founder of Occoquan." City of Winchester, VA (Tours) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/vaguide/tour01.html : "Bel Air was built about 1740 by Major Charles Ewell. Marianne Ewell, his daughter, was married here to Dr.James Craik, surgeon general of the Continental armies; and in 1795, Fanny Ewell, granddaughter of the builder, married Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825). Weems, a Marylander, was ordained a clergyman by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1784 and returned to take charge of a Maryland parish. He was not particularly happy in the church and had such difficulty making a living that he exchanged preaching for book peddling. Marriage anchored him only temporarily. After the death of his father-in-law, Colonel Jesse Ewell, in 1806, Parson Weems, who had become both author and bookseller, moved his family to Bel Air (on which he held a mortgage), where he visited them briefly at intervals as he journeyed up and down the Atlantic seaboard. His many moral tracts and his biographies of William Penn and General Francis Marion were eclipsed by that egregious mixture of fact and fiction: A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington, With Curious Anecdotes Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen. The chronicler of the 'cherry tree' and 'Spanish dollar' episodes lies in the Ewell graveyard behind the house." Additional Source: Hayden, "Virginia Genealogies" p.335. Data entered by Paul A. Jensen 7 Dec 2003: "Of Bewley, Lancaster Co., VA" "Captain Ewell was vestryman of Dettengen Par., P.W. Co., June 1, 1645; was paid 541 lbs. tobacco for a book for the Parish, Oct. 14, 1645; was Church Warden Oct. 4, 1746-7; ordered then to buy a large Prayer Book for the Church, (Par. Reg.) he was a mem. Va. Grand Jury, Apr. 1745. Charles Ewell, pro. No. 3, retired from the Commission of Peace, K. G. Co., 1745." There have been references to other manors built in Virginia. Bel Air (Bel Ayr) was built by Charles Ewell in Stafford Co. Virginia and it still exists today.

  
  

• Sources

  [S398] VaLene Ewell Collings, VaLene Ewell Collings. [S618] #94. [S399] IGI. [S887] Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S400] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). [S70] G645.ftw.