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Col. Richard Lee, I, Esq.
m. Bef 1616 - John Lee1616 - 1664
- Col. Richard Lee, I, Esq.1617/18 - Bet 1663/64 & 1664
- Thomas Lee1622 - 1641
Facts and Events
Col. Richard Lee was one of the Early Settlers of Colonial Virginia
Biography
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Family Legacy
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References
- ↑ Richard Lee I, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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Richard Lee I (1618 – 1 March 1664) (later nicknamed "The Immigrant") was the first member of the Lee family to live in America (although he also considered himself an English gentleman). Poor when he arrived in Virginia in 1639 on a ship with the colony's newly reappointed governor and the woman who became his future wife, by the time of his death, Lee may have been both the Virginia Colony's wealthiest inhabitant as well as its largest landholder (owning 15,000 acres in Virginia and Maryland). Lee had a varied career, for in addition to several important government and military posts, he became a merchant, planter and politician who served one term in the Virginia House of Burgesses as well as managed to negotiate several major political upheavals—both successfully and to his (and his children's) economic advantage.
- ↑ Dorman, John Frederick, ed. The Virginia Genealogist. (Washington, District of Columbia: Dorman, John Frederick)
40:109.
'Since William Thorndale established in 1988 the parentage of Richard Lee (1617/8 -1664) the emigrant to Virginia, ...' [citing William Thorndale, "The Parents of Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v. 76 (1988), pp. 253-67.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lee, Edmund Jennings. Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: biographical and genealogical sketches of the descendants of Colonel Richard Lee, with brief notices of the related families of Allerton, Armistead, Ashton, Aylett, Bedinger, Beverley, Bland, Bolling, Carroll, Carter, Chambers, Corbin, Custis, Diggs, Fairfax, Fitzhugh, Gardner, Grymes, Hanson, Jenings, Jones, Ludwell, Marshall, Mason, Page, Randolph, Shepherd, Shippen, Tabb, Taylor, Turberville, Washington, and others. (Philadelphia: Lee, 1895)
p. 64.
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