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Zachariah "Zack" Lee, of Rockingham & Botetourt Co., VA
Facts and Events
Maiden Name of Wife
Some researchers have claimed that the wife of Zachariah Lee, Jeanetta "Jean" Wright as "Jeanetta Bright", possibly the daughter of George Adam Bright and Maria Katharina Kaufeldt of Rockingham County, Virginia, but most marriage records of Zachariah Lee and Jeanetta Wright clearly reads her maiden name as "Right", not "Bright". Until records can be found linking Jenetta as a daughter of George Adam Bright it is assumed her maiden name is "Wright" [written as "Right" in the marriage record]. The fact that their eldest son was named Jonathan Wright Lee certainly appears to throw credence for her as a "Wright" and not a "Bright". Additional research is needed to determine her parentage.
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, pg. 113, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Lee, Zachariah - born 1765 in Albemarle County, Virginia; moved abt. age 4 to Rockingham [then Augusta*] County, Virginia, where he entered service abt. age 14; applied for Pension 1834 in Botetourt County, Virginia. F-R6260, R1543.
- Note: Rockingham County was formed in 1778 from part of Augusta County, so Zachariah Lee more accurately moved at age 4 and entered service in what was then Augusta County.
Records in Virginia
- Muster Rolls of Rockingham Soldiers. A List of Captain William Nall's Company of volunteers from Augusta County, in the campaign to Point Pleasant, 1774. Includes: Zacharias Lee, Sefniah Lee. [A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, by John Walter Wayland, pg. 450]
- 1788: Zachariah Lee was listed in Capt. John Peter's Company, Virginia Militia #16.
- 1792: both Zachariah and Zephaniah Lee were listed in Capt. Henry Miller's Company, Virginia Militia #13.
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References
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).
Name: Zack Lee
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Botetourt, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1765 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 [b. bet. 1766-1784]
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 7
- United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).
Name: Zachariah Lee
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Botetourt, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 7
- United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).
Name: Zachariah Lee Senior
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Botetourt, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 [b. bet. 1761-1770]
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of Zachariah Lee R6260 VA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 23 Aug 2014.
[Because the document is very faded, the transcription should be used with more than usual caution.]
Virginia At a Court held at the Courthouse for the County of Botetourt on Monday the 12th day of May 1834
On this 12th day of May in the year 1834 personally appeared in open Court (the same being a
Court of record for Botetourt County) Zachariah Lee now a resident of Botetourt County and State of Virginia aged about sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. that he was born in Albemarle County in the year 1765 from the best information he can obtain on the subject and his Father with this applicant [several illegible words] he moved to Rockingham County State of Virginia and when this applicant was about fourteen years old he volunteered his services in the company under the Command of Captain Michael Coker [sic: Michael Coger] was marched to near Richmond where he joined a Regiment under the Command of Colo. William Harris and was marched to different places in lower Virginia but being illiterate and ignorant of the Geography of the Country he cannot specify the several places at which [several illegible words] during this Campaign this applicant states that he served six months during this Tour and was detained some time [illegible word] the other troops arrived but this applicant claims for six months only for this tour as he cannot precisely specify how much longer he was detained. this applicant states that after he was discharged he returned to Rockingham and remained at home but about three weeks when he was drafted into service under the Command of Capt. James Frazier and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court house from whence he was marched to Petersburg Virginia and from thence to Hobbs’ Hole [on Rappahannock River, near Tappahannock] at or near which last named place this applicant in a Skirmish with the Enemy was wounded in his leg from a musket ball or Buck shot which rendered him for some time unfit for service. he states that he served six months this tour, after which he returned home and remained a short time and was again drafted into the service under Captain Jeremiah Beazly and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House and was attached to Colo. Harris’s Regiment and marched to the confines of Virginia and Carolina where he served six months during this Campaign this applicant was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse [15 Mar 1781] after which he returned home and remained a little upwards of two months when he was drafted into service under the Command of Captain William Awl and was marched to the lower part of Virginia and remained in the service three months this tour and was discharged. This applicant is confident that in two of the Tours above stated he was detained in service longer than six months but being at that time very young he cannot with precision state exactly how long and therefore to be perfectly safe he claims but six months for each of the two tours above named. This applicant as before alleged, states that he was very young when he entered the service, that he was illiterate and unacquainted with the Geography of the Country and consequently cannot specify more distinctly than he has done the different encampments to which he was ordered during his services.
This applicant states that after he was discharged from his fourth and last Campaign he returned to Rockingham where he remained till about twenty five or thirty years ago when he removed to Botetourt Virginia where he now resides & has resided ever since. This applicant states that he remembers that he was a part of his Service under the Command of Gen’l. Mulenburg [sic: Peter Muhlenberg] but does not recollect the number of his regiment he was during his Campaign to Carolina under the Command of General Green [sic: Nathanael Greene] and that he was as before stated in a Skirmish with the Enemy at Hobb’s Hole in which he was wounded that he was in the Battle of Guilford that he has no record of his age. that if he ever received a written discharge he has lost it that he has no written evidence of his service nor does he know any person now living in the Country from whom he can prove it distinctly except an Witness whose affidavit is herewith sent who knows that he served more than one or two Terms of service but witness does not recollect how many each time.
This applicant is known in the neighbourhood by James Murry and Basil Hall, he hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state whatever. given under my hand on the day year first above written
[Signed] Zachariah [his X mark] Lee
NOTES: Some documents in the file are entirely illegible.
On 12 Nov 1833 Zachariah Lee made a declaration that appears to be similar to the one above,
with the following differences:
1) “his Father with this applicant removed when he was about four years old to Rockingham County.”
2) In his second tour “he was drafted into service under the command of Captn James Frazier and Rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House under the Command of Captn William Harris and from thence marched to Petersburg.”
3) In his third tour he “was again drafted into the service under Captain Jeremiah Beazly and Rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House and was again attached to the regiment under the command of Colo. William Harris’s Regiment and marched to the confines of Carolina.”
4) In his fourth tour he “was again Drafted into service under the Command of Captain William Awl and was attached to Colo. Harris Regiment and marched to the lower part of Virginia”
Lee’s claim was rejected pending “further proof and explanation.
http://revwarapps.org/r6260.pdf
- Lee, Lena Louise Jones. Descendants of Zachariah lee of Albemarle, Rockingham and Botetourt Counties and Catawba Valley, 1765-1838. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1989).
Descendants of Zachariah lee of Albemarle, Rockingham and Botetourt Counties and Catawba Valley, 1765-1838
Author: Lena Louise Jones Lee
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1989.
Edition/Format: Book Microform : Microfilm : English
Summary:
Zachariah Lee (1765-1838) married Jean Right in 1781 in Rockingham County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives to 1983 lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Minnesota and elsewhere
- LEE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA ROCKINGHAM SETTLEMENT, AUGUSTA CO., VIRGINIA.
LEE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA
ROCKINGHAM SETTLEMENT, AUGUSTA CO., VIRGINIA
(later became Rockingham County in 1778)
The oldest center of trade in this area was Felix Gilbert's store 5 miles southeast of Harrisonburg. In 1775, Felix Gilbert made a hand-written list of Tithables that had been paid by men who lived in the Rockingham Settlement of Augusta Co., Virginia. There were four Lee's who were grouped together, William Lee, William Lee Jr., Zachariah Lee and Zephaniah Lee. There was another Lee who was listed separately (Boler Lee).
Brothers, Zachariah and Zephaniah Lee, both served at the famous Battle of Point Pleasant, 10 October 1774. They were volunteers with Captain William Nalle's Company, Augusta Co., Virginia Militia. Capt. Nalle was from the eastern part of what later became Rockingham County.
The Battle of Point Pleasant (also known as the Battle of Kanawha), was a bloody, day long battle between 1,100 Virginia militiamen and the Shawnee and Mingo Indian tribes along the Ohio River near present day Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 10 October 1774. It is quoted as having "waged the most desperate battle ever waged between white men and Indians in America."
This was the last battle of Dunmore's War and before all the Virginian's had returned home, the American Revolutionary War had begun at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
Zachariah (listed as "Zacrias") and Zephaniah (listed as "Sefniah") were both Scouts in the Virginia Colonial Militia.
Most of the battles fought by Virginian's in the Revolutionary War, were fighting the Indians who were supplied guns and ammunition by the British. The British provided their supplies and paid them for every scalp.
In November 1777, General George Roger Clark (later of Lewis and Clark Expedition), asked the Virginia Governor for permission to gather an army of militia to attack the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. The Governor gave his consent but regarded it to be so risky that he didn't tell the Virginia Assembly. General Clark didn't even reveal the mission until just before they started into the Illinois country. As these men were all volunteers, 10 of them simply declined to serve. It was very much considered a suicide mission. Clark listed them as "deserters" in his notebook. One of these men was Zephaniah "Zebeniah" Lee. The company was started on 23 January 1778 and Zephaniah had enlisted five days later on the 28th. Clark with his small army of 176 men, luckily, were successful and won both battles in July 1778.
When the British lost the Revolutionary War, the Indians continued to attack and fight for another 10 years. Virginia Militia played an active part in protecting the settlers of Virginia and what later became Kentucky.
Zachariah Lee was listed in Capt. John Peter's Company, Virginia Militia #16, in 1788.
In 1792, both Zachariah and Zephaniah Lee were listed in Capt. Henry Miller's Company, Virginia Militia #13.
Zephaniah Lee was Mary "Polly" Lee's father. Mary married Ambrose Grady in neighboring Shenandoah Co., Virginia. They spent the rest of their lives in Rockingham Co., Virginia and are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Bridgewater.
https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/32764883/person/18748161594/media/08979eb5-8204-4a65-884a-cc39c762a9ec?_phsrc=hMF289&_phstart=successSource
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of Zachariah Lee R6260 VA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 23 Aug 2014.
[Because the document is very faded, the transcription should be used with more than usual caution.]
Virginia At a Court held at the Courthouse for the County of Botetourt on Monday the 12th day of May 1834
On this 12th day of May in the year 1834 personally appeared in open Court (the same being a Court of record for Botetourt County) Zachariah Lee now a resident of Botetourt County and State of Virginia aged about sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. that he was born in Albemarle County in the year 1765 from the best information he can obtain on the subject and his Father with this applicant [several illegible words] he moved to Rockingham County State of Virginia and when this applicant was about fourteen years old he
volunteered his services in the company under the Command of Captain Michael Coker [sic: Michael
Coger] was marched to near Richmond where he joined a Regiment under the Command of Colo.
William Harris and was marched to different places in lower Virginia but being illiterate and ignorant of the Geography of the Country he cannot specify the several places at which [several illegible words] during this Campaign this applicant states that he served six months during this Tour and was detained some time [illegible word] the other troops arrived but this applicant claims for six months only for this tour as he cannot precisely specify how much longer he was detained. this applicant states that after he was discharged he returned to Rockingham and remained at home but about three weeks when he was drafted into service under the Command of Capt. James Frazier and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court house from whence he was marched to Petersburg Virginia and from thence to Hobbs’ Hole [on Rappahannock River, near Tappahannock] at or near which last named place this applicant in a Skirmish with the Enemy was wounded in his leg from a musket ball or Buck shot which rendered him for some time unfit for service. he states that he served six months this tour, after which he returned home and remained a short time and was again drafted into the service under Captain Jeremiah Beazly and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House and was attached to Colo. Harris’s Regiment and marched to the confines of Virginia and Carolina where he served six months during this Campaign this applicant was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse [15 Mar 1781] after which he returned home and remained a little upwards of two months when he was drafted into service under the Command of Captain William Awl and was marched to the lower part of Virginia and remained in the service three months this tour and was discharged. This applicant is confident that in two of the Tours above stated he was detained in service longer than six months but being at that time very young he cannot with precision state exactly how long and therefore to be perfectly safe he claims but six months for each of the two tours above named. This applicant as before alleged, states that he was very young when he entered the service, that he was illiterate and unacquainted with the Geography of the Country and consequently cannot specify more distinctly than he has done the different encampments to which he was ordered during his services.
This applicant states that after he was discharged from his fourth and last Campaign he returned to Rockingham where he remained till about twenty five or thirty years ago when he removed to Botetourt Virginia where he now resides & has resided ever since. This applicant states that he remembers that he was a part of his Service under the Command of Gen’l. Mulenburg [sic: Peter Muhlenberg] but does not recollect the number of his regiment he was during his Campaign to Carolina under the Command of General Green [sic: Nathanael Greene] and that he was as before stated in a Skirmish with the Enemy at Hobb’s Hole in which he was wounded that he was in the Battle of Guilford that he has no record of his age. that if he ever received a written discharge he has lost it that he has no written evidence of his service nor does he know any person now living in the Country from whom he can prove it distinctly except an Witness whose affidavit is herewith sent who knows that he served more than one or two Terms of service but witness does not recollect how many each time.
This applicant is known in the neighbourhood by James Murry and Basil Hall, he hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state whatever. given under my hand on the day year first above written
Zachariah [his X mark] Lee
NOTES:
Some documents in the file are entirely illegible.
On 12 Nov 1833 Zachariah Lee made a declaration that appears to be similar to the one above,
with the following differences:
1) “his Father with this applicant removed when he was about four years old to Rockingham County.”
2) In his second tour “he was drafted into service under the command of Captn James Frazier and
Rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House under the Command of Captn William Harris and from
thence marched to Petersburg.”
3) In his third tour he “was again drafted into the service under Captain Jeremiah Beazly and
Rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House and was again attached to the regiment under the command
of Colo. William Harris’s Regiment and marched to the confines of Carolina.”
4) In his fourth tour he “was again Drafted into service under the Command of Captain William Awl and was attached to Colo. Harris Regiment and marched to the lower part of Virginia”
Lee’s claim was rejected pending “further proof and explanation".
https://revwarapps.org/r6260.pdf
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