Nicholas Hunter Lewis (1789–1840), farmer, was a nephew by marriage of William D. Meriwether. He served in 1812 on an Albemarle County jury that agreed with TJ that a tract of his land near Milton had been improperly seized. Lewis was an officer of the Rivanna Company into the 1830s. He was a member from 1817 until at least 1828 of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, which awarded him prizes on several occasions, and in 1818 he subscribed $300 toward the establishment of Central College. Lewis owned fifty-eight slaves in 1820. In 1835 he sold his property in Albemarle County and moved to Missouri, where he died (Sarah Travers Lewis Anderson, Lewises, Meriwethers and their Kin [1938], 73–4; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 272–3; Jury Findings regarding Land Seized by David Michie, 30 July 1812; True, “Agricultural Society,” description begins Rodney H. True, “Minute Book of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle,” Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918 (1921), 1:261–349 description ends 271, 313, 315, 344; Master List of Subscribers to Central College, [after 7 May 1817], document 5 in a group of documents on The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819, printed at 5 May 1817; TJ to Lewis, 26 June 1819; Richmond Enquirer, 17 Apr. 1832, 26 June 1835; DNA: RG 29, CS, Va., Albemarle Co., 1820, 1830; Mo., Lincoln Co., 1840; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 15:523; gravestone inscription in Elmwood Cemetery, Lincoln Co., Mo.).