Lee family
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Current region | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Florida |
Place of origin | England |
Members | Thomas Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Henry Lee III, Thomas Sim Lee, Robert E. Lee |
Estate(s) | Stratford Hall |
The Lee family of the United States is a historically significant Virginia and Maryland political family, whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. The family became prominent in colonial British America when Richard Lee I ("The Immigrant") immigrated to Colonial Virginia in 1639 and made his fortune in tobacco.
Members of the family include Thomas Lee (1690–1750), a founder of the Ohio Company and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), signers of the American Declaration of Independence, with Richard Lee also serving as one of Virginia's inaugural U.S. Senators; Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee (1756–1818), lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and Governor of Virginia; Thomas Sim Lee (1745–1819), Governor of Maryland and lastly, and most famous, General-in-Chief Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), commander of the Confederate States Army and its pivotal Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War (1861–1865). Twelfth President Zachary Taylor (1784–1850, served 1849–1850), and ninth Chief Justice Edward Douglass White (1845–1921, served 1894–1921) were also descendants of Richard Lee I. Confederate President Jefferson Davis married Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor.
Most recently, family members have marked over two hundred years of political service in the United States, as
History
Richard Lee asserted descent from the Lees of
Colonial Virginia
In the Thirteen Colonies destined to declare independence from British North America and become the United States, the family began when Richard Lee I immigrated to the Colony of Virginia and made his fortune in the cultivation of tobacco. His son Richard Lee II married Laetitia Corbin, daughter of The Hon. Henry Corbin of Rappahannock County, was a member of the House of Burgesses and later King's Council. His son, Richard Lee III, was a cotton broker in London for the family and leased to his brothers Thomas and Henry the plantation he inherited from his father, "Machodoc," for "an annual rent of one peppercorn only, payable on Christmas Day". The Lees first gained wider significance with the aforementioned Thomas Lee (1690–1750). He became a member of the House of Burgesses and later went on to found the Ohio Company, and was the co-executor of his uncle, John Tayloe I's, estate, what became Mount Airy.
Revolutionary War era
Thomas Lee
Thomas and Hannah Lee's two eldest children were Philip Ludwell Lee (1726–1775) and Hannah Lee (1728–1782).
Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730–1778) was a member of the Virginia Delegates and a major editor of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), a precursor to the United States Declaration of Independence, which was signed by his brothers Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) and Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797).
Richard Henry Lee was a delegate to
Younger siblings included Alice Lee (1736–1818), who married American Chief Physician William Shippen, Jr.[7] and diplomats William Lee (b. 1739, d. 1795) and Arthur Lee (b. 1740, d. 1792).
Henry Lee's grandson,
Henry Lee III's brothers were the noted
Civil War era
Other Lee relations who were general officers during the Civil War were
"Bedford", the
Later generations
Judge Charles Carter Lee, a direct descendant of
Family tree
Below is a list of notable male members of the Lee family, beginning with Virginia Governor Thomas Lee and Henry Lee:[original research?]
- Richard Lee II (1647–1714),
- Henry Lee I (1691–1747), ∞ 1722 : Mary Bland (1704–1764)
- Richard Lee (1726–1795), ∞ 1786 : Sarah Bland Poythress (1768–1828)
- Henry Giles Lee II (1730–1787), ∞ 1753 : Lucy Ludwell Grymes (1734–1792)
- Henry Lee III, 9th Governor of Virginia (1756–1818), ∞ 1782 : Matilda Ludwell Lee (1764–1790); ∞ 1793 : Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829)
- Lucy Grymes Lee (1786–1860), ∞ 1802 : Bernard Moore Carter (1780–1842)
- Charles Henry Carter (1804–1872), ∞ 1830 : Rosalie Eugenia Calvert (1806–1845)
- Alice Carter (born 1832), ∞ 1851 : Oden Bowie, 34th Governor of Maryland (1826–1894)
- Annette Carter Bowie (born 1863), ∞ 1884 : Eugene Roberts (born 1859)
- Eugene Bowie Roberts (1898–1983), ∞ 1933 : Countess Cornelia Széchényi (1908–1958)
- Cornelia Carter Roberts (1936–1982), ∞ 1969 : Count Hans-Heinrich Richard Gerolf Karl Urban Maria Omnes Sancti von Coudenhove-Kalergi(1926–2004)
- Count Dominik Cornelius Valentin Gerolf Eugene von Coudenhove-Kalergi (b 1973), ∞ 2009 : Princess Adelheid Marie Beatrice Zita von Liechtenstein (born 1981)
- Cornelia Carter Roberts (1936–1982), ∞ 1969 :
- Eugene Bowie Roberts (1898–1983), ∞ 1933 : Countess Cornelia Széchényi (1908–1958)
- Annette Carter Bowie (born 1863), ∞ 1884 : Eugene Roberts (born 1859)
- Bernard Carter (1834–1912), ∞ 1858 : Mary Buckner Ridgely (1834–1894)
- John Ridgely Carter(1864–1944), ∞ 1887 : Alice Morgan (1865–1933)
- Caroline Mildred Carter (1888–1965), ∞ 1910 (div 1928) : Archibald Charles Montagu Brabazon Acheson, 5th Earl of Gosford (1877–1954)
- Archibald Alexander John Stanley Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford (1911–1966), ∞ 1935 (div 1960) : Francesca Augusta Maria Cagiati (1912–2009); ∞ 1960 : Cynthia Margaret Cave (1911–2015)
- Charles David Alexander John Sparrow Acheson, 7th Earl of Gosford (born 1942)
- Lady Mildred Camilla Nichola Acheson (1917–1988), ∞ 1937 (div 1949) : Hans-Christoph Schenk Freiherr von Stauffenberg (1911–2005); ∞ 1950 : Axel Ernst-August Clamor Franz Albrecht Erich Leo Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst(1919–1993)
- Lady Mary Virginia Shirley Acheson (1919–1996), ∞ 1941 : Fernando Corcuera y Mier (1914–1978)
- Jaime Corcuera y Acheson (born 1955), ∞ 1983 : Archduchess Myriam of Austria (born 1959)
- Archibald Alexander John Stanley Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford (1911–1966), ∞ 1935 (div 1960) : Francesca Augusta Maria Cagiati (1912–2009); ∞ 1960 : Cynthia Margaret Cave (1911–2015)
- Caroline Mildred Carter (1888–1965), ∞ 1910 (div 1928) : Archibald Charles Montagu Brabazon Acheson, 5th Earl of Gosford (1877–1954)
- Alice Carter (born 1832), ∞ 1851 : Oden Bowie, 34th Governor of Maryland (1826–1894)
- Charles Henry Carter (1804–1872), ∞ 1830 : Rosalie Eugenia Calvert (1806–1845)
- Henry Lee IV (1787–1837), ∞ 1817 : Anne Robinson McCarty (1798–1840)
- Sydney Smith Lee (1802–1869), ∞ 1834 : Anna Maria Mason (1811–1898)
- Fitzhugh Lee, 40th Governor of Virginia (1835–1905)
- Robert Edward Lee (1807–1870), ∞ 1831 : Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1808–1873)
- George Washington Custis Lee (1832–1913)
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee(1837–1891), ∞ 1859 : Charlotte Georgiana Wickham (1841–1863); ∞ 1867 : Mary Tabb Bolling (1846–1924)
- Robert Edward Lee, Jr.(1843–1914), ∞ 1871 : Charlotte Haxall (1848–1872); ∞ 1894 : Juliet Carter (1860–1915)
- Lucy Grymes Lee (1786–1860), ∞ 1802 : Bernard Moore Carter (1780–1842)
- Charles Lee (1758–1815), ∞ 1789 : Anne Lee (1770–1804); ∞ 1809 : Margaret Christian Scott (1783–1843)
- Richard Bland Lee I (1761–1827), ∞ 1794 : Elizabeth Collins (1768–1858), owner of Sully
- Ann Matilda Lee (1799–1880), ∞ : Bailey Washington III (1787–1854)
- Euphan Wallace Washington (1831–1918), ∞ 1856 : Pierson Barton Reading (1816–1868)
- Anna Louisa Washington (1836–1885), ∞ 1862 : Walter Dorsey Davidge (1823–1901)
- William Fendall Davidge (1871–1941), ∞ 1896 : Estelle Courtenay Washington (1875–1942)
- Courtenay Washington Davidge (1896–1960), ∞ 1922 : Lamont Waltman Marvin (1896–1971)
- Lee Marvin (1924–1987)
- Courtenay Washington Davidge (1896–1960), ∞ 1922 : Lamont Waltman Marvin (1896–1971)
- William Fendall Davidge (1871–1941), ∞ 1896 : Estelle Courtenay Washington (1875–1942)
- Zaccheus Collins Lee (1805–1859), ∞ 1837 : Martha Ann Jenkins (1819–1864)
- Ann Matilda Lee (1799–1880), ∞ : Bailey Washington III (1787–1854)
- Mary Lee (1764–1827), ∞ 1791 : Lee-Fendall House
- Philip Richard Fendall II (1794–1868), ∞ 1827 : Elizabeth Mary Young (1804–1859)
- Philip Richard Fendall III (1832–1879), ∞ : Anne Catherine Tredick (born 1836)
- Marian Fendall (1870–1949), ∞ 1895 : Jacob Wendell III(1869–1911)
- Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell (1900–1977), ∞ 1922 (div 1936) : Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon(1898–1987); ∞ : Geoffrey Seymour Grenfell (1898–1940)
- Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924–2001), ∞ 1956 : Jean Margaret Wallop, owner of Highclere Castle
- George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1956), ∞ 1989 (div 1998) : Jayne Wilby; ∞ 1999 : Fiona Aitken, owner of Highclere Castle
- Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon (1924–2001), ∞ 1956 : Jean Margaret Wallop, owner of Highclere Castle
- Philippa Fendall Wendell (1905–1974), ∞ 1924 : Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway (1892–1978)
- Antonia Marian Amy Isabel Stewart (1925–1971), ∞ : Charles Mark Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet (1915–1971)
- Randolph Keith Reginald Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway (1928–2020), ∞ 1975 : Lily May Budge (died 1999)
- Marian Fendall (1870–1949), ∞ 1895 :
- Philip Richard Fendall III (1832–1879), ∞ : Anne Catherine Tredick (born 1836)
- Philip Richard Fendall II (1794–1868), ∞ 1827 : Elizabeth Mary Young (1804–1859)
- Edmund Jennings Lee I (1772–1843), ∞ 1796 : Sarah Caldwell Lee (1775–1837)
- Edmund Jennings Lee II (1797–1877), ∞ : Henrietta Bedinger (1810–1898)
- Edmund Jennings Lee III (1845–1896), ∞ 1876 : Rebecca Lawrence (died 1882)
- Edmund Jennings Lee IV (1877–1962), ∞ 1911 : Lucy Chaplin (1884–1971)
- Duncan Chaplin Lee (1913–1988)
- Edmund Jennings Lee IV (1877–1962), ∞ 1911 : Lucy Chaplin (1884–1971)
- Edmund Jennings Lee III (1845–1896), ∞ 1876 : Rebecca Lawrence (died 1882)
- Anne Harriotte Lee (1799–1863), ∞ 1820 : John Lloyd (1775–1854)
- Anne Harriotte Lloyd (1826–1888), ∞ : John Stearns (1812–1864)
- John Lloyd Stearns (born 1852), ∞ 1878 : Ella Powell (born 1856)
- Robert Lawrence Stearns (1892–1977), ∞ 1920 : Amy Pitkin (1897–1985)
- Marion Lloyd Stearns (1921–2009), ∞ 1946 : Byron Raymond White (1917–2002)
- Nancy Pitkin White(born 1958), ∞ 1985 : Peter Maxwell Lippe
- Marion Lloyd Stearns (1921–2009), ∞ 1946 : Byron Raymond White (1917–2002)
- Robert Lawrence Stearns (1892–1977), ∞ 1920 : Amy Pitkin (1897–1985)
- John Lloyd Stearns (born 1852), ∞ 1878 : Ella Powell (born 1856)
- Anne Harriotte Lloyd (1826–1888), ∞ : John Stearns (1812–1864)
- Edmund Jennings Lee II (1797–1877), ∞ : Henrietta Bedinger (1810–1898)
- Anne Lee (1776–1857), ∞ 1793 : William Byrd Page (1773–1818)
- Richard Lucian Page (1807–1901)
- Henry Lee III, 9th Governor of Virginia (1756–1818), ∞ 1782 : Matilda Ludwell Lee (1764–1790); ∞ 1793 : Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829)
- Virginia Colony1749–1750. Father of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Arthur Lee.
- Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1774, member of the Virginia Legislature 1777, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1789–1792. Son of Thomas Lee.[12]
- Francis Lightfoot Lee II (1782–1850), ∞ Jane Digges Fitzgerald (1789–1816).
- Samuel Phillips Lee (1812–1897), ∞ Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–1906).
- Blair Lee I (1857–1944), Maryland State Senator 1906–1912, candidate for Governor of Maryland 1911, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1914–1917, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1916. Great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee.[13]
- E. Brooke Lee, Comptroller of Maryland 1919–1923, Maryland Secretary of State 1923, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924 1940, Maryland House Delegate 1927, candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 1942. Son of Blair Lee.[14]
- Blair Lee III (1916–1985), delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1948 1960 1964 1972, Maryland House Delegate 1955–1962, Maryland State Senator 1967–1969, Maryland Secretary of State 1969–1971, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland 1971–1979, Governor of Maryland 1977–1979. Son of E. Brooke Lee.[15]
- E. Brooke Lee, Jr., delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1944. Son of E. Brooke Lee.[16]
- E. Brooke Lee, Comptroller of Maryland 1919–1923, Maryland Secretary of State 1923, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924 1940, Maryland House Delegate 1927, candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 1942. Son of Blair Lee.[14]
- Blair Lee I (1857–1944), Maryland State Senator 1906–1912, candidate for Governor of Maryland 1911, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1914–1917, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1916. Great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee.[13]
- Samuel Phillips Lee (1812–1897), ∞ Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–1906).
- Francis Lightfoot Lee II (1782–1850), ∞ Jane Digges Fitzgerald (1789–1816).
- Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1775, Virginia State Senator 1778, member of the Virginia Legislature 1780. Son of Thomas Lee.
- Arthur Lee (1740–1792), member of the Virginia Legislature 1781, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1782. Son of Thomas Lee.
- Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1774, member of the Virginia Legislature 1777, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1789–1792. Son of Thomas Lee.[12]
- Henry Lee I (1691–1747), ∞ 1722 : Mary Bland (1704–1764)
- Hancock Lee ∞ Sarah Allerton
- Elizabeth Lee ∞ Zachary Taylor
- Richard Taylor (1744–1829), ∞ 1779 : Sarah Dabney Strother
- Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), President of the United States 1849–1850. Second cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee.[17]
- Confederate States 1861–1865.[18]
- Mary Elizabeth Bliss (1824–1909), ∞ 1848: William Wallace Smith Bliss (1815–1863), Secretary to the President of the United States
- Richard Taylor (1826–1879), general
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- Victor Crist (1957-), Florida State Representative 1993–present. Descendant of Zachary Taylor.[19]
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- Joseph Pannell Taylor (1796–1864), general
- Sarah Taylor, ∞ David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), general
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- Edmund H. Taylor, Jr. (1830–1923), Mayor of Frankfort, Kentucky 1871-1877 1881–1890; Kentucky State Senator 1902–1904. Grandnephew of Zachary Taylor.[20]
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- Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), President of the United States 1849–1850. Second cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee.[17]
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- Elliot Woolfolk Major (1864–1949), Missouri State Senator 1897–1901, Attorney General of Missouri 1909–1913, Governor of Missouri 1913–1917. First cousin thrice removed of Zachary Taylor[21] and Second cousin thrice removed of James Madison.[22]
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- Richard Taylor (1744–1829), ∞ 1779 : Sarah Dabney Strother
- Elizabeth Lee ∞ Zachary Taylor
U.S. Representative David Dreier also has stated that he is a distant relative of Richard Bland Lee.[citation needed] Zachary Taylor was also nephew by marriage of Maryland House Delegates Benjamin Mackall IV[24] and Thomas Mackall.[25] Thomas Lee - Eva Jo Lee <Michael Lee 1971 and Todd Lee 1968> Michael Lee ~ (2006) Jennifer Mauer Lee <Macy Lee 2010 and Caroline Lee 2013> Still living in the US.
See also
- First Families of Virginia
- Zachary Taylor
- Carroll family
References
- ^ William Thorndale, "The Parents of Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 76 (December 1988): 253–68
- ^ Alan James Nicholls, "Collections for the Ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee, Virginia Emigrant", published at LULU.COM (June 2011)
- ^ Harrison Dwight Cavanagh, Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants, Vol. 2 (Dallas, Tex.: p. p., 2014), 118-125, esp. 119.
- ^ Richard Bland Lee 5th (1930–2012), "[Lee Family Genealogical Research]" (2009–2013); folder: "Lee: Virginia," vertical files; R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.
- ^ "History Stratford – Thomas Lee 1690–1750". Archived from the original on 8 July 2006.
- ^ Her first cousin twice removed was Benjamin Harrison V
- ^ Shippen's father, Continental Congressman William Shippen, was a cousin of Peggy Shippen wife of Benedict Arnold
- ^ "William Fitzhugh". Archived from the original on 10 February 2001.
- 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry who was descended from Henry Lee who died 1675 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Possibly Henry Lee was descended either from Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley or possibly related to Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia .p.3-but no proof either way
- ^ Bushong, Millard Kessler (1941). A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1719–1940 pp. 231-232.
- ^ Rasmussen, Frederick N. (13 August 2011). "Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee, former acting first lady of Maryland, dies at 91". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2011.. Willis Augustus Lee a Vice Admiral and member of the Kentucky Branch of the Lee family won the Naval Battle of Gaudalcanal in 1942.
- ^ "Richard Henry Lee". www.nndb.com.
- ^ "LEE, Blair - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, E to F". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, A to B". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, E to F". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Taylor, U to Z". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ "Jefferson Davis". ngeorgia.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ "Victor D. Crist, Florida Senator". www.statesurge.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Taylor, E to F". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Major to Majoras". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ a b "Family relationship of Zachary Taylor and James Madison via James Taylor Jr." famouskin.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Woody to Worthing". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mackaig to Mackay". politicalgraveyard.com.
- ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mackaig to Mackay". politicalgraveyard.com.
Further reading
- Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, Oxford University Press, reprinted 1992, ISBN 0-19-507478-5.
- Lee, Edmund Jennings (editor), Lee of Virginia, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. reprinted 1983, ISBN 0-8063-0604-1
- Burton J. Hendrick (author), "The Lees of Virginia", Halcyon House Editions, published and distributed by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 386 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York. Hardcover, copyright 1935, ASIN: B000NWSC4Q