Frederick Lewis Weis

Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis, Th.D. (1895-1967), reverend, best known as author of a number of well-known genealogical books.

Born at Cranston, Rhode Island on 22 Aug 1895 to John Peter Carl Weis and his wife Georgina Lewis, both natives of Massachusetts. Second child of four children.

In April 1913, he entered the United States Naval Academy, graduating in March 1917. [Providence Evening Bulletin, 28 July 1917.] He served on the "Wisconsin" and "North Dakota" and retired prematurely due to illness. He was active in various genealogical organizations and authored numerous books and articles. He is today still remembered as a foundational author in many areas of genealogical research.

He died at Brattleboro, Vermont, on 11 April 1967.

elected Works

*Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700
*Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. Baltimore, 1964
*Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650. 1951
*Colonial Clergy of Maryland Delaware and Georgia
*Colonial Clergy of the Middle Colonies: New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania 1628 1776
*Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. 1955
*The Colby Family in Early America, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, 1970

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