Benjamin Lewis married Celia Martin, daughter of Highly Martin of Lenoir County, North Carolina.

Children:
Quinney Lewis, married Martha "Patsy"
Martin Lewis, married Nancy
Lemuel Lewis, married Polly William
William Bryant Lewis, married Talitha Turnage

Letter written by Judge Lemuel Lewis from Marion county, Mississippi; , June, 1869. Address to his nephew Rev. William B Lewis son of Quinney and Patsy Lewis. The letter from Judge Lemuel Lewis about his father Benjamin Lewis.

Dear Nephew, In conformity with your request and my promise. I will try to give you and outline of
All that I know of our ancestors. I have heard my father say that his father was a Welch man. They lived in South Carolina, on Ediste River. My father's parents died when he was a child about two years old. There were two brothers which were all the relatives which were the relatives that he knew anything about. All of them were puny, sticky children , one of them died and my father Benjamin, and the other were separated and bound out and he never saw or heard of his brother any more. He thought likely that he died also. Father was bound to an old Irish lady a Mrs. Barry, who treated him pretty rough, imposing heavy tasks on him, and clothing him very scantily.
So tyrannical, was her treatment of him that the neighbors laid a plan to get him away from her. There came a man named John Hill from Nuse River up in North Carolina, into the neighborhood, who was induced by hearing of his situation to persuade him to leave his old mistress and go home with him, and according an arrangement was made and a time set for him to meet Hill and leave. So when the night came he was told to do his night task which was to feed the horses and then come back and pick out a large basket of cotton which was to pulled off in the boll for that purpose. While out to see to the horses, he started and met Mr. Hill at the appointed place which was some distance off. He said that he ran away sure enough for he away sure enough for he ran all the way and was frequently frightening at the white sand in the road.
Mr. Hill met him according to promise…Finally he went home with Hill, riding all the way behind on the same horse bareback.
He offered to enlist in the service of his country, but on account of his sorry growth, and inability to bear arms, he was rejected until a British Army or raid came through the country and camped about fourteen miles off and sent out word that all who come in and join them would be paroled. Mr. Hill proposed to him for them to go and take parol. But he refused to go with him and went down to Kingston where there was a recruiting officer and again offered his service to Captain Samuel Caswell, an American officer, who, after hearing his tale how he would not go with his employer, and join the British, received him into the army in which he served the balance of the War, which I think was over three years.
He was in several engagements, but the one that I have heard him talk most about was the battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, under General Green. The British commander was, I think, General Tarlton.
My father came out unhurt, but was whispered very close. One bullet passed through his clothes between his temple locks and another through his clothes between the legs.
I have often heard him relate an accident that occurred in regard to himself in that battle. I think he told it to his children, the more to impress upon their minds that it was best always to speak the truth. In time of action the British retreated, and the American pursued them. I suppose in double quick and my father, being weakly, could not keep up with his command, but was winding his way as best he could over the slain when he was halted by some Calvary officers on horse back.
When he at first thought he belonged to the enemy, they reined their horses up close to him and asked in a fierce tone. "Who are you for, my little man." He hesitated and thought to himself, "If I tell them That I belong to the British, and they should be American, they will kill me, and if I tell that I am an American and they chance to be British, they will kill me." While he was musing, panic struck, one of them raised a sword and demanded a quick answer. He said that it occurred to him, "if I have to die, I will die with the truth in my mouth," and he said "I belong to General Green." They then encourage him and showed him how to overtake the army by a higher route.
After the war was over, he married Celia Martin, daughter of Highly Martin of Lenoir County, North Carolina. My mother was two years older than my father. I have heard her said that my father was an Englishman, and a weaver by trade...He raised five sons and one daughter...
He thought a great deal of his brother soldiers as he used to call them Men who served in the war with him. I remember seeing some of them at his home who would visit him occasionally when I was a boy...When I was an infant my father moved from Lenoir County down into Robeson County in North Carolina where I had my raising. I was next to the youngest child, your Uncle William Bryant was four years younger than me. I have heard my father say that he had no relations living that he knew anything about except his children.
My Mother had some brothers and sisters on Nuse River where we came from when I never knew a great deal about although I have seen one of her brothers and some of her sisters. My mother was a weakling suffering woman, was afflicted with a severe cough ever since I can remember. She was a tender affectionate mother and a member of the Baptist church so the heart was right.
I am sorry that I know so little about our ancestors. I have not seen my father since I was about fifteen years of age. I was from home at the time of his death. I never can forget the morning that he told me 'Farewell, be a good child.' He died November 1821, aged about fifty seven. My mother died about a year after about sixty. Your affectionate Uncle Lemuel Lewis..

A descendant has the letter.
"Know Your Ancestor" Dell Clawson; The Tylertown Times November 13, 1980.