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May 21, 2024 · Richard Henry Lee was born 1677 Surrey County, Virginia to William Lee and Alice Felton. He married Mary Young in 1695 in King and Queen County, Richmond, Virginia. Richard Henry Lee died on 10 Dec 1726 in West Farmhan, Parish, King and Queen County, Richmond, Colony of Virginia.
Nov 13, 2009 · On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduces a resolution for independence to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia; John Adams seconds the motion. Lee’s resolution declared ...
Revolutionary statesman Richard Henry Lee, born January 20, 1732 at Stratford Hall, the family seat in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the seventh of the eleven children of Thomas and Hannah Ludwell Lee. Richard Henry Lee was the grandfather of Edmund Jennings Lee II of Shepherdstown, West Virginia who married Henrietta Bedinger, the ...
Died: June 19, 1794. Richard Henry Lee (brother of F.L. Lee) was born to an aristocratic family at Stratford, in Westmoreland county, Virginia. He attended a private school in England, returning to Virginia in 1751. That being the era of the French and Indian War, Lee formed a militia troop of young men in his neighborhood, was elected the ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Henry Lee was born near Dumfries, Virginia on the 29th of Jan 1756. The home was a plantation with over 200 slaves later called Stratford Hall Plantation. [1] His parents were Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) of "Leesylvania" and Lucy Grymes (1734–1792) the "Lowland Beauty". His father was first cousin once removed to Richard Henry Lee ...
Lawyer, Planter, Soldier, Politician. Richard Lee I (1618 – 1 March 1664) (later nicknamed "The Immigrant") was the first member of the Lee family to live in America. Poor when he arrived in Virginia in 1639, Lee may have been both the Virginia Colony's wealthiest inhabitant and as its largest landholder by the time of his death, owning ...
In Genealogy of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. -- Vol. 18, p. 5145-5495. Richard Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence from Virginia, was born at "Stratford", Westmoreland County, Virginia, 20 January 1732. He married (1) Anne Aylett (d. 1768) on 3 Dec. 1757. They had two sons and two daughters.
