Person:Thomas Lee (30)

1. Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Son Thomas Lee after my wifes Decease or widowhood the Plantation whereon I Now Live with the Remaining Part of the Low grounds and two hundred Acres of Land Lying in the Low ground Called Fredricks Lands and Part of a Tract of Land Called Trapnals Land it being the Part Joyning the Plantation it being Divided by a Line of Marked Trees Beginning at a Hickrey Tree at the mouth of the Cypress gut on the River and Running by the Line of Marked Trees to the Back Line and one Negro man Called Cuggo and a Negro Girl called Jenney to him and his Heirs forever.

Will of John LEE, Esquire from Johnston County, North Carolina, Wills 1760-1830, Vol. II, page 95. Raleigh, NC, State Dept. of Archives and History, Johnston County Records. Photocopy marked Lee-0011-001 to -004 in margin.

2. Captain Lee was awarded an Army Land Warrant (#2608 4 Apr 1792 - 300 acres).

3. A copy of one of Capt. Thomas Lee's letters has been preserved in Johnston Co. records, NC Archives OR.056.514.3, p. 225-6. It follows:

"Dear Cousin, after by best and loving compliments to you and your family these comes to let you know that my famly is all in good health at present thanks be to God for his mercies. But I have what is called the intermiting fever this five or six months and I am not able to come and see you nor to do anything else and God only knows whether I ever shall be able to come over to see you about my business. And dear Cousin I have got Cader Lee* to come to you to settle my business. And I depend upon you to settle the business and I shall be fully satisfied. And dear Cousin if you are not satisfied I wish you to satisfy yourself for I have always greate confidence in you and have ever been well satisfied but dear Cousin you know there is very few men now a days that can be fully depended upon. Dear Sir, please send me by Cader Lee what money you have collected and what ever you can collect from the creditors and you will much oblige your friend. Dear Sir, pleae to write to me in full concerning affairs and what money you send me by Cader Lee and to take a receipt for the same. Dear Sir if you can collect the whole please to write what the balance is and when you collect is please to send it to me by who ever you shall think a safe hand. I have nothing strange or uncommon to write but I remain your loving friend. THOMAS LEE. Please to remember my love to sister Mary Baling'r and all enquiring friends. August 19, 1797 To Shadrach Engram Endorsed To Shadrach Engram living in Johnston Co. on the water of Mill Creek there. (Shadrach was the son of William Ingram and Elizabeth Lee.) *Cader was the son of John Lee and Elizabeth Hocutt.

4. Rec’d August 31st 1797 of Shadrach Ingram agent for Thomas Lee four hundred and twenty silver dollars it being money collected by the said Shadrach Ingram in part of sundry Debts said Ingram was Impowered to collect for the said Thomas Lee in the state of No. Carolina in the County of Johnston. Test. Wm. Sasser Signed Keder [X] Lee for Thomas Lee

5. 1759-1780 Thomas appears in Johnston Co NC court minutes.

1771 Apr 19 Earliest military record where he signed his name as Lt under Col Needham Bryan in the Gaston Co NC militia.

1774 Nov Johnston Co NC Thomas Lee made guardian for Henry Rains, orphan of John Rains, dec'd. Securites for his bond made by Needham Bryan and Henry Rains, Esq.

1777 Aug 15 Thomas Lee appears as Capt at a Court Martial held at Smithfield.

1778 May Johnston Co NC minutes states militia was in expedition against the tories at Moore's Creek in Feb 1776.

Will dated 4 Jul 1816 Hawkins County, TN states Thomas died 2 Jul 1816 and verbally stated will 29 Jun 1816 to Needham and William Lee. Left wife Mary three negroes and son James one negro named Sam. Will witnessed by Needham and William Lee. Book 1 page 311.

6. DNA tests done on descendants of Thomas indicate that he was descended of John Lee Esquire lineage and not related to the Lee's of Virginia. 6.1. Y-Chromosome DNA has proven John Lee, Esquire, does not descend from, nor does he share a common Lee ancestor with Richard Lee, The Immigrant, progenitor of the famous Lees of Virginia.

7. Richard Lee, 1691-1740, married Judith Steptoe. He was a son of Hancock Lee, and grandson of Richard Lee, The Immigrant. No record has come forth proving that Richard Lee and Judith Steptoe ever had a son named Thomas; the Society of the Lees of Virginia maintains that they did not. Source: Rebecca Owens, http://www.mocavo.com/visit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgenforum.genealogy.com%2Flee%2Fmessages%2F19780.html

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
   Database online.

   Record for Edward Lee

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
   Database online.

   Record for Thomas Lee

3. ↑ Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;)
   Database online.

   Record for Edward Lee _FOOT: Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000), Database online.

4.   When North Carolina was created as a colony of the Crown, The King claimed all of the lande between Virginia and South Carolina that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean westward as North Carolina. Following the Revolution, North Carolina decided to grant land on its western frontier to soldiers who fought against Britain in the Revolution.
   
   In l776, North Carolina created the District of Washington on its western frontier. By 1784 this had become known as the provisional state of Franklin. By 1788, people living in these, essentially, Indian lands had seceded from North Carolina and created the State of Tennessee. Hawkins County, Tennessee was created out of Indian Lands (the District of Washington/provisional State of Franklin)in 1787.
   
   Source: http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states...