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    Richard Henry Lee

    Founding Father of the United States

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  1. Henrietta "Harriet" Lee (December 10, 1773 - 1803), who married Richard Lee Turberville, and later William Moffitt Sarah Caldwell Lee (November 27, 1775 - May 08, 1837) Cassius Lee (August 18, 1779 - July 08, 1798)

  2. Oct 27, 2023 · First Spouse: He married Anne Aylett on December 5, 1757. They had six children, four of who survived infancy. Anne died on December 12, 1768. Second Spouse: In June or July 1769, Lee married Anne Gaskins Pinckard. They had seven children, four of who survived infancy.

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  3. On December 5, 1757, Richard Henry Lee married his first wife, Anne Aylette, and they had four children: Thomas, Ludwell, Mary, and Hannah. The family lived at Stratford Hall until 1763, when they moved to Chantilly-on-the-Potomac, a three-and-a-half story, ten-room home Lee built on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River.

  4. Wife of Richard Henry Lee, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1738 – 1768 A.D. Anne Aylett, first wife of Richard Henry Lee, one of Virginia’s most eminent and patriotic sons, came of a family as wealthy and prominent as the Lees.

  5. May 31, 2017 · Richard Henry Lee was a planter, merchant, politician, and a member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia. Son of Thomas Lee, Richard Henry Lee pursued his father’s interest in westward expansion and was a key political figure during the American Revolution (1775–1783): it was Lee who, at the Second Continental Congress in 1776, made the motion to declare independence from Britain.

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  7. Richard Henry Lee, American statesman and orator, was born at Stratford, in Westmoreland county, Virginia, in 1732. He was one of six distinguished sons of Thomas Lee (d. 1750), a descendant of an old Cavalier family, the first representative of which in America was Richard Lee, who was a member of the privy council, and early in the reign of ...

  8. Mar 6, 2024 · Definition. Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) was an American politician from Virginia, who played a significant role in the American Revolution (1765-1789), particularly in the push for independence. A member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia, he served in the Second Continental Congress and, later, as a United States Senator.

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