General Notes

2nd cousin to Robert Fulton, Inventor

Note:
In 1799, Jane Lewis Maxwell, with her six children, moved to Harrison county town of Milford,Va. Mrs Maxwell's mean's were very limited When she arrived with her little flock, she found shelter with the family of Colonel Lowther in a old cabin until another one could be built on the farm.It was here that she reared her family.One son , Lewis Maxwell became a Congressman.The following is from "The Maxwell History and Genealogy":

"Thomas Maxwell, son of Robert Maxwell, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, married Jane Lewis near Germantown, PA. She was a daughter of Alexander Lewis and a second cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat....

"A year or two before the close of the eighteenth century Thomas Maxwell journeyed into western Pennsylvania and never returned. The last heard of him he was about to cross the Monongahela River, which was in flood stage, and it has always been the supposition that he was drowned. His widow and her six children, accompanied by her father and mather, moved from Pennsylvania into Harrison County a year or two later, and made their home on the farm of Colonel William Lowther, on Lost Creek. Her son, Lewis Maxwell, who was three times elected to Congress, left no children, and Robert Maxwell moved to Ohio and his descendants are there; but Abner and Levi remained in West Virginia and founded the families now living principally in Harrison Lewis, Doddridge and Randolph counties."