"Edward1 Lee, or Leigh, or Lees, came to Guilford about 1675, and married Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Benjamin, a resident of that place, in 1676. She died about 1685, and he married again, Abigail Stevens, daughter of Thomas of Guilford. She died August, 1727. He died in the preceding April. Wright gave by will, land to his daughter, in October, 1685. This land consisted of a home lot of one acre in the present borough of Guilford, a parcel of marsh land at Sandy Point and forty-four acres of upland. This land, Edward Lee conveyed to his son Samuel2, the only surviving child of his first wife. He owned land in the vicinity of the West River in 1706, and removed there about 1710, after he had transferred his other property to Samuel2 Lee. He also owned two lots in the Cohabitation land (now North Guilford). His list in 1716 was £95.12.6. He is supposed to have been a brother of George1 Lee of Saybrook, who married Martha _____ and died 1728, and of (2) John1 Lee of East Guilford. He was one of the smaller planters of Guilford. Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, iii. 75, calls him Lees and says he was perhaps son of Hugh of Saybrook."
