hence in 1731,
after strange adventures, he emigrated to America, and was
joined there by his family. Fearing to live near a sea-port
he established himself on the frontier, in the Valley of
Virginia, two miles east of the present site of Staunton.
His house was of stone, built for defense, and in 1754 it
successfully stood an Indian siege. Lewis was colonel of
the Augusta county militia as early as 1743, presiding
justice in 1745, and high sheriff in 1748. In 1751, then 73
years of age, he assisted his son Andrew, then agent of the
Loyal Company, to explore and survey the latter's grant on
Greenbrier River. It was because the old man became entangled
in the thicket of greenbriers, that he gave this name to the
stream. He died at his old fort homestead, February 1, 1762,
aged 84 years. Some accounts state that he was a Presbyterian;
he was, however, an Episcopalian.--R. G. T.

[6] Lewis soon afterwards obtained leave from Governor Gooch
to locate 100,000 acres of land in separate parcels on the
waters of the Shenandoah and James rivers; and when he would go
out in search of good land to locate, Mackey would accompany
him to hunt buffalo. The former amassed a large estate, while
the latter lived and died in comparative poverty.

[7] As Col. John Lewis had no son Samuel, probably Thomas
Lewis, the elder brother of Andrew, though near-sighted, may
have engaged in buffalo hunting.--L. C. D.

[8] Of the origin of Benjamin Borden, Sr. (the name was
mispronounced Burden, on the frontier), little is known. He was
probably from New Jersey, and early became a fur trader on the
Virginia frontier; later he was in Lord Fairfax's employ as a
land agent. As such, he visited Governor Gooch and obtained
from him several valuable tracts--one of them (October 3,
1734), Borden Manor, on Sprout run, Frederick county; another,
100,000 acres at the head of the James, on condition of
locating thereon a hundred families. At the end of two years he
had erected 92 cabins with as many families, and a patent was
granted him November 8, 1739, for 92,100 acres. He died in
1742, before further development of his enterprise. His son
Benjamin succeeded to his vast estate, but died of small-pox in
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