Frederick Lewis Weis Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
Frederick Lewis Weis
Birth Date:	22 August 1895
Birth Place:	Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.
Death Place:	Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Genealogist
Notable Works:	Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650

Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis, Th.D. (August 22, 1895 – April 11, 1966) was an American historian and the writer of a number of well-known genealogical books.

Born in Cranston, Rhode Island to John Peter Carl Weis and his wife Georgina Lewis, both natives of Massachusetts, Frederick was the second child of four children.

In April 1913, he entered the United States Naval Academy, graduating in March 1917.^[1] He served on the Wisconsin and North Dakota and retired prematurely due to illness. He was active in various genealogical organizations and wrote numerous books and articles. He is today still remembered as a foundational writer in many areas of genealogical research.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 1951.^[2]

He died at Brattleboro, Vermont.

Selected works

• 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, 1995
• The Colby Family in Early America, Caledonia, The Colonial Press, 1970
• Eight lines of descent of John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, from Alfred the Great, King of England, 871-901

External links

• The journals of Frederick Lewis Weis are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Notes and References

1. Providence Evening Bulletin, 28 July 1917.
2. http://fasg.org/fellows/all-fellows/ American Society of Genealogists: All Fellows.