Person:Zephaniah Lee (1)

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]

• List of Tithables for 1775: Boler Lee, Wm. Lee, Willm. Lee, Jr., Zephaniah Lee, Zachariah Lee. [A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, by John Walter Wayland, pg. 59-60]

• 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.

• 1792: both Zachariah and Zephaniah Lee were listed in Capt. Henry Miller's Company, Virginia Militia #13.

1. ↑ Find A Grave.

   Zephaniah Lee
   Birth 1755
   Virginia, USA
   Death unknown
   Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Greenwood Cemetery
   Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86150300/zephaniah-lee

2.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/32764883/person/18748161594/facts

3.   LEE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA ROCKINGHAM SETTLEMENT, AUGUSTA CO., VIRGINIA.

   ZEPHANIAH LEE
   
   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.