Josiah Lewis was born 2/17/1728, in Bath County, NC (present day Brunswick County), and died 6/11/1820 in Bladen County, North Carolina. His wife, Lucy Ann Mullington, was born 4/5/1734 in Brunswick Town, (present day Brunswick County), and she died in Bladen County on 6/11/1775. Josiah and Ann were married 12/23/1750.

In the 1750s, Josiah and Ann moved to Bladen County, North Carolina and settled for the remainder of their lives. All eleven of their children were born in Bladen County, North Carolina, as shown below.

Josiah Lewis was elected to the Senate Commons as a representative of Bladen County on 9/7/1791. He represented Bladen County in the NC House of Commons at New Bern in 1792-1793, at Fayetteville in 1794-1795, and in the Senate Assemblies at Raleigh 1795-1800. Josiah Lewis was also the Sheriff of Bladen County from roughly 1803 to 1812.