also that no passengers be conveyed without passports.’ Whereupon the skippers making known in turn their views, ‘Thomas Lewis is satisfied with what the Governor and Council decree.’ “We find records of trips made by him to Virginia, Boston, Rhode Island and the Delaware (South) River from 1665 to 1669, carrying merchandise of all kinds. September 26, 1671, Governor Lovelace promises ‘Mr. Tom’ at the Delaware to send him information by Peter Alrick ‘who tomorrow will embark in Tom the Irishman’s yacht.’ In 1675, he was appointed to make a calculation of the expense for building a new church in conjunction with Adolph Pieters and Abraham Jansen. We find that in 1678 he owned a sloop called the _Katharine_. “In a list of the richest inhabitants of New York made February 19, 1674, Thomas Lewis is credited with the possession of property valued at 6,000 florins, Holland currency, only sixteen appearing therein as being wealthier. At the time of the English occupation he owned real estate on the west side of Pearl Street between Wall and William streets, then known as the Water Side, then valued at $10,000; also on the South Street (now William) between Hanover Square and Wall Street. “From the records of the baptisms in the Dutch church we learn that he had eight children, named, respectively, Barent, Cornelia, Leendert, Catharina, Cornelia, Thomas, Cornelis and Rachel. Anthony Brockholst was one of the witnesses at the baptism of the last named in 1678. The descendants of Barent, Leendert (or Leonard) and Thomas are scattered throughout the Hudson Valley, and the family name appears at various times in the records as Lenwis, Leuis, Lieuwens, Lieuwes, Lieuwis, Lievens, Lievenszen, Lieuens, Liewensen, Liewes, and Liewis. In the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Volume XXXIV) the date of Thomas Lewis’ death is given as September 24, 1684, and his age as 56. His will was admitted to probate under Governor Dougan, April 1, 1686, and letters testamentary were issued to his wife Geesie Lewis. She then lived with her daughter Catharine along the Strand (Lang Strant) and they were members of the Dutch church. Her sons then living were Barent, Thomas and Leonard, with the eldest Lodiwick (apparently born at Fort Orange) who at the time of his father’s death was living with Lewis Thomson at Belfast, and thereupon returned to New York, where he died without issue.