Richard Lee (bef. 1618 - 1664)

Born before 22 Mar 1618 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Constable) Lee — married before 1640 in Jamestown, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1 Mar 1664 after age 45 in Dividing Creek, Northumberland, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Richard Lee is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Capt. Richard Lee was baptized in Worcester on 22 Mar 1617/8.^[1] He passed away in 1664.

"Richard Henry Lee, I

Nicknames: "Richard the Immigrant", "Richard /Lee/", "Richard Henry /Lee/ I", "The Immagrant", "Secy of state http://www.ericjames.org/html/fam/fam07051.htm", ""The Immigrant"", "The Immigrant"

Birthdate: 1613

Birthplace: Nordley Regis, Coton, Shropshire, England

Death: Died March 1, 1664 in Dividing Creek, Northumberland, Virginia

Place of Burial: Lee Family Graveyard, Divided Creek, Northumberland, Virginia, British America

Immediate Family:

Son of John Lee, Sr. and Jane Lee

Husband of Anne Owen Lee

Father of John Constable Lee; Col. Richard Henry "the Scholar" Lee II, Esq.; William Constable Lee; Francis Lee; Ann Lee and 3 others

Brother of John Lee, Il; Edward Lee; Henry Lee and Thomas Lee

Occupation: Colonel, Secretary of State, "the immigrant", Business man & Farmer, Secretary of the Colony of Virginia."

Richard "The Immigrant" Lee^[2] was born 1617 in Nordley Regis, Coton, Schrops, England; died March 1, 1664 in Dividing Creek, Northumberland County, Virginia. He was the son of Richardus Lee and Elizabeth Bendy per primary and secondary sources attached to this profile and mentioned in comment section. It has been asserted since 1988 that parents were John Lyes Lee and Jane Hancock, but there are no documents found or existing that prove this (just publications of research opinion) as there are documents proving up the parentage of Richardus Lee and Elizabeth Bendy.

Emigrated to York County, Virginia from Shropshire, England (Sources 1 -15)

Deposition London 1654 Admiralty Court. Richard Lee Gentleman age 34 or thereabouts deposes of things seen on York River in Virginia the prior January. (pub 1984) hence born about 1618. ^[3]

Richard Lee baptized: Richard (Richardus) Lee listed as present (Father) at baptism: County Shropshire Register type Composite Register date range 1616-1638 ^[4]

Baptism date: 15 May 1617

Denomination: Anglican

Place: Shrewsbury, St Chad's

Father's first name(s): Richard

County: Shropshire^[4]

Note: Richard Lee is also mentioned in the Will of Richardus Lee:
UK, Probate Records 1269-1975.Name Lee, Richard

Death 1621

Vital Shropshire, England

Probate:

First name(s) Richard:

Last name Lee

Year 1621

Probate year 1621

Inventory year 1620

Parish Shrewsbury

County Shropshire

Country England^[5]

Coton Hall: this was part of the Abby of Stratford-Langthorne founded 1135 disbanded 1539 and Westsham Mannor or Parish was divided into four parts one of which was Stratford-Langton, or one ward of the parish/mannor.[2]

Richard Lee mentioned as the great-grandson of the youngest son of a landed gentry, as claimed by the Emmigrant, the Coton Hall Lee's of Shropshire. Source: COLONIAL CHESAPEAKE FAMILIES British Origins and Descendants
By Harrison Dwight Cavanagh, Page 123.

He is the 3rd great-grandfather of Robert E Lee & the great-grandfather of President Zachary Taylor. He was an immigrant from England to Jamestown, VA.

Once there he became Attorney General of the Colony of Virginia, Colonial Secretary of State, and member of the King's Council. He became Clerk of the Quarter Court at Jamestown, within the Secretary of State’s office. He was a loyal supporter of King Charles I of England, and his public offices ceased when Oliver Cromwell seized power in England in 1649.^[6]

In addition, he served as High Sheriff and was a Colonel in the Militia. He was also a tobacco planter, trader, owner and trader of slaves, and employer and importer of indentured English servants (who paid for their passage to America with 7 years of labour). At the time of his death, he was the largest landholder in the colony (13,000 acres).

"Richard Lee. The genealogy of the family of Lee of Chester, Bucks and Oxon, showing the descent of Robert E. Lee from sir John Lee, knight. Burke says that there is no doubt that this Richard Lee, bearing the arms of this family, is the progenitor of the Robert Edward Lee line who figured in the Confederacy. Richard Lee, Gent, was granted 1,000 acres on the south side of Charles River, in York Co., Va. on August 10, 1642. Richard died in 1664.".

"The following members of this Family served as High Sheriffs of Shropshire..

1210 – Sir Reiner de Lee

1387 – Robert de Lee (Atty, in Blakeway’s list)

1395 – Sir Thomas Lee

1478 – Ralph Lee

1479 – Richard Lee

1639 – Richard Lee

1639 - Sir Richard Lee^[7]

While it may have gratified early Lees thus to believe that the family founder grew up in genteel surroundings on a manor in Shorpshire, there is no evidence to authenticate this tradition. See sources as evidence of parentage and lineage 1 through 15 listed that verify lineage from Shropshire Lees - JF

Instead, the recent identification of Richard's parents shows that he was from Worcestershire. His father was John Lee (sometimes spelled Lies or Lyes), a clothier whose business was in Worcester, along the road running through the West Midlands. Coton Hall was located twenty miles northward. See sources as evidence of parentage as Richardus Lee and Elizabeth Bendy and Shropshire lineage sources 1 through 15 listed , as well as primary source images attached to this profile, as there are no documented sources of this (John Lee Lyes, Lies and Jane Hancock - just research publications with author assertions) being Richard Lee's parents - JF

Richard Lee's mother was Jane Hancock from Twining, a town twelve miles south of Worcester. Her family was also in the cloth trade. The couple probably married before 1616. ^[8] See sources as evidence of parentage as Richardus Lee and Elizabeth Bendy and Shropshire lineage sources 1 through 15 listed , as well as primary source images attached to this profile, as there are no documented sources of this (John Lee Lyes, Lies and Jane Hancock - just research publications with author assertions) being Richard Lee's parents.

While it may have gratified early Lees thus to believe that the family founder grew up in genteel surroundings on a manor in Shorpshire, there is no evidence to authenticate this tradition. Instead, the recent identification of Richard's parents shows that he was from Worcestershire. His father was John Lee (sometimes spelled Lies or Lyes), a clothier whose business was in Worcester, along the road running through the West Midlands. Coton Hall was located twenty miles northward. Richard Lee's mother was Jane Hancock from Twining, a town twelve miles south of Worcester. Her family was also in the cloth trade. The couple probably married before 1616. ^[9]

Please see sources 1 - 15 listed below in sourcing as documenting confirming Shropshire lineage and parentage being Richardus Lee and Elizabeth Bendy. Sources include primary, primary images, and secondary historic documents - JF

Christening

Christening: 1617 (Primary source and image attached)

Place: Shropshire, England

Note: Richardus Lee present at baptism)^[10]

Immigration

Type: Arrival, Jamestown, Virginia Colony

Date: 1635

Place: St. Christopher

Spouse and Issue

Richard I Lee and his wife Ann had 10 children

1. John Lee (1643–1673) of "Mount Pleasant", who never married
2. Henry Lee (1650–1696)
3. Col. Richard Lee II "the scholar" (1647–1715), who married Laetitia Corbin (c.1657–1706), daughter of Hon. Henry Corbin, Sr (1629–1676) and Alice (Eltonhead) Burnham (c.1627–1684). Great-Great-grandfather of General Robert E. Lee
4. Francis Lee (1648–1714) a merchant in England, who married Tamar
5. Capt. William Lee (1651–1696), who married Alice Felton in 1675 and fathered four children
6. Capt. Hancock Lee I, Hon. (1653–1709) of "Ditchley", who married 1) Mary Kendall (1661–1694); 2) Sarah Elizabeth Allerton (1671–1731), daughter of Col. Isaac Allerton, Jr. (1630–1702) (son of Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower) and his second wife, Elizabeth (Willoughby) Grandfather of President Zachary Taylor
7. Elizabeth (Betsey) Lee (1654–1714), who married 1) Leonard Howson Sr (1648–1704); 2) John Turberville (1650–1728), son of George Turberville IV (1638-c.1659) and Bridget
8. Anne Lee (1654–1701), who married Maj. Thomas Youell Jr (1644–1695), son of Thomas Youell (1615–1655) and Anne Sturman (d. 1672)
9. Capt. Charles Lee, Sr. (1655–1701) of "Cobbs Hall", who married Elizabeth Medstand, daughter of Thomas Medstand (−1675).
10. Anne Lee (1655), who died young^[11]

Land Grants

• 10 August 1642 Poropatank Creeke Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard. grantee. Title Link Land grant 10 August 1642. Gen. note See a memo: at the foot of the record of the patt. Summary Location: County location not given. Description: 1000 acres on the North side of Charles River, called by the name of the Indian spring in Poropatank Creeke.^[12]

• 2 December 1644 York County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 2 December 1644. Summary: Location: York County. Description: 91 acres lying upon the ridge of the now poquoson towards York. Adjoins land of Captain Wormley. ^[13]

• 20 August 1646 Pomunkey River Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 20 August 1646. Summary Location: County location not given. Description: 1250 acres lyeing or being about 6 or 7 miles up the narrows in Charles River-alias York or Pomunkey River being a Neck of land bounded between two branches or creek, where the foot Company met with the boats when they went Pommunkey March &c.^[14]

• 21 December 1648 Yorke River Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 21 December 1648. Summary Location: County location not given. Description: 1250 acres on the north side of Yorke River opposite to the poplar Neck on the south side of the river. ^[15]

• 24 May 1651 Yorke River Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 24 May 1651. Gen. note Lee, Collo. Richard, Secretary of State &c. Summary Location: County location not given. Description: 550 acres on the north side of Yorke River: part of the land lies towards the head and south east side of a creeke, which is the western bounds of another tract of land of the said Collo. Lees. ^[16]

• 14 November 1653 Lancaster County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 14 November 1653. Summary Location: Lancaster County. Description: 300 acres on the south side of Rappahannock River upon the head of a southern branch of a creek commonly known by the name of Matchepungo Creek, which divideth this land and the land of Dame Elizabeth Lunsford formerly Mr. Saml Abbot’s. ^[17]

• 20 March 1653 Gloucester County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 20 March 1653. Summary Location: Gloucester County. Description: 300 acres upon the north side of York River. Adjoining the land of Richard Jones, dec’d. ^[18]

• 17 May 1655 Gloucester County :Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 17 May 1655. Summary Location: Gloucester County. Description: 200 acres on the N: Et: side and east with the land of Henry Corbell.^[19]

• 4 June 1656 Gloucester County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 4 June 1656. Summary Location: Gloucester County. Description: 5 acres towards the head of Poropotank Creek whereon the store of the said Col. Lee standeth. ^[20]

• 21 May 1657 Northumberland County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 21 May 1657. Summary Location: Northumberland County. Description: 800 acres on the south side of a creek commonly called the Dividing Creek &c. which divideth his land and the land of Thomas Wilson, Mariner.^[21]

• 4 March 1657 Northumberland County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 4 March 1657. Summary Location: Northumberland County. Description: 600 acres on the south side of the dividing creek, east on the said creek. S. E. southerly on another parcel of land belonging to the sd. Lee divided from this by a small crook called Andrews Creek. ^[22]

• 11 October 1657 Patomack River Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 11 October 1657. Summary: Location: County location not given. Description: 1000 acres upon the south side of Patomack River: Beg.g at the mouth of a small creek which issueth out of Machotick River up the said river. ^[23]

• 5 June 1658 Patomack River Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 5 June 1658. Summary Location: County location not given. Description: 2000 acres on the south side of Patomack River. Beg.g at a mouth of a small creek which issueth out of Machotick River. ^[24]

• 26 Nov 1661 Westmoreland County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 26 November 1661. Summary Location: Westmoreland County. Description: 4000 acres 1000 acres part thereof behind the land of Roger Isham, and__acres another part thereof being in Potomack freshes on the N. E. of a creek below Pascataway but on the opposite the river Potomack. ^[25]

• 1 December 1664 Northumberland County Patent: Author Link: Lee, Richard, Col. grantee. Title Link: Land grant 1 December 1664. Summary Location: Northumberland County. Description: 2600 acres on the south side of Potomac River,-2200acs. part thereof. Beg.g at the mouth of a creek that issueth out of Machotick River, the residue of the land &c. ^[26]

Death

Death Date: 1 Mar 1664 Dividing Creek, Northumberland, Virginia, age 50-51^[27]

Burial

Lee Family Graveyard at Dividing Creek, Cobbs Hall

Northumberland County

Virginia, USA

Plot: Cobb's Hall Burying Ground on Rt. 669 near Ditchley

Find A Grave: Memorial #114549890  

Excerpt from The Lees of Virginia: An American Legacy

Richard Lee and his young wife, Anne Constable, who was born in London and may have come to America at the same time as Richard, were parents to an ever-increasing brood of children.

In quick succession, between 1645 and 1656, Anne delivered at least ten children, including two girls and six boys that survived infancy - John, Richard, Francis, William, Hancock, Elizabeth, Anne, and Charles.

In a short time Lee began to prosper; with prosperity came the ability to cultivate more tobacco fields; with increased cultivation came more prosperity and the ability to supplement his land holdings. His tobacco plantation eventually grew to 1,500 acres and became home to seventeen laborers - indentured servants who paid for their voyage from England to Virginia with seven years of service in Lee's tobacco fields.

More importantly, prosperity brought Lee prestige, and with it political appointments:

Clerk of the Quarter Court in 1641;

Attorney General in 1643;

Sheriff and Burgess of York County in 1646 and 1647;

Secretary of State in 1649; and the

Governor's Council in 1651.

As Secretary of State, Lee was the most valuable assistant to the colony's royal governor, Sir William Berkeley (whose estate Green Spring was later inherited by one of Lee's descendants), and the most powerful man in the colony after Berkeley.

As a member of the Governor's Council Lee set a precedent for his offspring, who in succeeding generations occupied a seat on the Council until it was dissolved in 1776.^[28]

Excerpt The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family

Of incalculable importance to his progress was Richard's fortunate marriage.

When the young man accompanied Governor Wyatt to Jamestown, the official household also included a young woman, Anne Constable, whose identity later became lost to the family record. Even her name was unknown for two hundred years.

Now, thanks to particularly to the work of David Halle, genealogist for the Society of the Lees of Virginia, we know that Anne was baptized in London during 1622 and that she was one of many daughters born to Francis Constable - Constable lineage confirmation URL: [3] [4]

There is a legend which speaks of Richard and Anne being wed in the new brick church at Jamestown during 1641 or 1642, with Governor Wyatt giving the bride away. Anne's decision to marry may have owed something to King Charles's impatience with Governor Wyatt for being unable to reduce long-standing political bickering in Virginia.

In 1641 the Crown summoned Sir Francis home, appointing in his stead Sir William Berkeley, who arrived at Jamestown during February 1642. Instead of returning to England with the Wyatt entourage, Miss Constable evidently preferred life in the colony as young Richard Lee's wife.^[29]

Will

Col Richard Lee Last Will and Testiment (Primary Source): says"of Virginia, late of Stratford-Langton in the County of Essex" ^[30]

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia, and lately of Stafford Langton in the County of Essex, Esquire, being bound upon a voyage to Virginia aforesaid, and not knowing how it may please God to dispose of me in so long a voyage, utterly renouncing, disclaiming, disannulling, and revoking all former wills, either script, nuncupative or parol, and schedules or codicils of wills whatsoever, do make, ordain and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, first: I give and bequeath my soul to that good and gracious God that gave it me and to my Blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ, assuredly trusting in and by his meritorious death and passion to receive salvation, and my body to be disposed of whether by sea or land according to the opportunity of the place, not doubting but at the last day both body and soul shall be reunited and glorified.

Next, my will and desire is that all my estate aforesaid, both lease land, free land and copyhold land and houses be with all convenient speed that may be, sold for the payment of my debts to John Jeffries Esq. and what the sale of that shall fall short of, to be made good out of my crops in Virginia, to be consigned to my good friends Mr. Thomas Griffith and Mr. John Lockey, or one of them in that behalf, and in case the estate of Stratford be not as speedily sold as I desire, that then the best improvements possible may be made from year to year of my said plantation, and my servants labour with such directions and appointments as the said Griffith and Lockey shall order for the better and sooner payment of my debts, and that my number of servants be still kept up, and continued out of the labors by the said Griffith and Lockey, or one of them, for the better managing and effecting thereof.

Also my will and earnest desire is that my good friends will with all convenient speed cause my wife and children (all except Francis if he be pleased) to be transported to Virginia, and to provide all necessary for the voyage, and from time to time till my estate be disentangled and free of all my debts, to provide and allow for them, and every one of them, a competent and convenient maintenance according as the product of estate will bear, relation being had to the payment of my debts and the annual supply of my several plantations, all which I absolutely refer to the said Thomas Griffith and John Lockey, and after my debts are paid, I give and bequeath my estate as followeth:

To my wife, during her life, I give the plantation whereon I now dwell, ten English servants, five negroes, 3 men and 2 women, 20 sows and corn proportionable to the servants; the said negroes I give to her during her widowhood and no longer, and then presently to return to those of the five youngest children, also the plantation Mocke Nock.

Item. My will and earnest desire is that my household stuff at Strafford be divided into three parts, two of which I give to my son John, and bind him to give to every one of his brothers a bed, and the other part I give to my wife Anna Lee.

Item. I give all my plate to my three oldest sons, or the survivor or survivors of them, each to have his part delivered to him when he comes to the age of 18 years.

Item. I give to my son John and heirs forever, when he comes to the age of 18 years, all my land and plantation at Machotick, all the stock of cattle and hogs thereupon, also 10 negroes, viz. five men and five women, and 10 English servants for their times, all the corn that shall be found there, all tools, household stuff and utensils thereupon.

Item. To Richard and his heirs forever, when he come to the age aforesaid, I give my plantation called Paradise, with all my servants thereupon, all my stock of cattle and hogs, all working tools and utensils, and corn that shall be found thereupon to be for the provision of the said servants.

Item. To Francis and his heirs forever, when he comes to the age aforesaid, I give the Paper-makers Neck and the War Captains Neck with five negroes, three men and two women, and 10 English servants, and the stock of cattle and hogs, corn and tools and utensils upon the said several Necks.

Item. I give and bequeath to the five younger children, viz.: William, Hancock, Betsey, Anne, and Charles, the plantation whereon John Baswell now lives and so all along including Bishop's Neck and to the utmost extent of my land towards Brewer's and also 4,000 acres upon Potomack, also the two plantations before bequeathed to my wife, after her death to be divided between them or their survivors or survivor of them, also all the rest of my cattle, hogs, corn, household stuff, tools or whatsoever is or shall be found upon the said plantations at the time of my death, all which said estate so bequeathed to my younger children, after my debts are paid, I desire may be employed upon the said plantations for a joint stock to raise portions of the said children against they come of age aforesaid or the females married. The said servants and what other products of their labors whether money or whatsoever to be equally divided between them or their survivors or survivor of them, but the said land only to be divided between the male children.

Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest son John, three islands lying in the Bay of Chesapeake, the great new bed that I brought over in the Duke of York, and the furniture thereunto belonging.

Item. My will is that my horses, mares, and colts be equally divided in two parts, one whereof to be and belong to my three eldest children, and the other to my five youngest, and shall be sold as they increase toward raising money for their portions, and in case any of the three eldest children die before they come to the age of 18 years, that then his or their portion come to the survivors or survivor of them, and in case they all die that the whole personal estate equally to return to the five youngest children, but the land only to the male children, and if the five younger children die before they come to the age aforesaid, or the females married, then their parts to be divided among the eldest or survivors or survivor of them.

Item. My will is that my son William Lee have all that land on the Maryland side, whereon George English is now seated, when he comes to the age aforesaid; also my will is that goods sufficient be set apart for the maintenance of the gangs of each plantation for the space of two years, and all the rest of my goods to be sold to the best advantage and the tobacco shipped here to Mr. Lockey and Mr. Griffith towards the payment of my debts.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Francis, after my debts are paid, my whole interest in the ship called Elizabeth and Mary, being one-eighth part, also one-eighth part in the ship called The Susan, and in case of the death of Francis, I give the same to Charles, and in the case of his death to the two girls Elizabeth and Anne.

But in the case that by the blessing of God upon the industry and labor of my people upon the several plantations, my said debts be fully satisfied before the said land at Stratford be sold, nevertheless I will and entreat my good friends, Mr. Griffith and Mr. Lockey, or one of them, [that] it may be sold to the most and best advantage, and the produce thereof put out at interest, and the interest thereof be employed for and towards the better education of John and Richard, equally, to assist the one in his travels for the attainments of a reasonable perfection in the knowledge of Physick, the other at the University or the Inns of Court which he shall be most fit for, and the principal money to be equally divided between the two daughters when they come to age or be married, and that the said daughters be utterly debarred from all former legacies given to them as aforesaid, but in case of their death then the sale and produce of said estate at Stratford to be equally divided between my eldest son John and my youngest son Charles. Also I desire and order that my wife, my son John, and all my overseers, that either all or one, shall from time to time keep a correspondence with the said Griffith and Lockey, and order all my affairs in Virginia to the best advantage, as they or one of them shall direct them, and ship all my tobacco and what else shall be raised upon the said plantations to the said Griffith and Lockey for satisfaction of my debt and advantage of my children and do yearly give them an account of all horses, mares, negroes, goods, and all other things according as they shall receive directions and instructions from the said Mr. Thomas Griffith and Mr. Lockey.

Lastly: For the use aforesaid I make and ordain my ever loving friends Mr. Thomas Griffith and Mr. John Lockey, Merchants, John and Richard Lee, my full and sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, but in respect to my son Richard, till he cometh of age, I do absolutely place all the management of my will upon the care and trust of my first mentioned executors till my said son, Richard Lee, comes to age as aforesaid, hoping the same friendship to mine after my death which they have always done unto me.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixth day of February, in the 16th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles II., King of Great Britain, &c., &c., and in the year of our Lord 1663. [1664]

(Signed) RICHARD LEE. (Seal)

Signed, sealed and delivered before us

Peter Ashton

George Wall

W. Carter Seaward

Notes

Col. Richard Lee I, “the Immigrant” (1617–1664) arrived in Jamestown in 1639 at the age of 22 with very little to his name other than the patronage of an influential man, Sir Francis Wyatt, the 1st Governor of Virginia. Once there he became Attorney General of the Colony of Virginia, Colonial Secretary of State, and member of the King's Council. He became Clerk of the Quarter Court at Jamestown, within the Secretary of State’s office. He was a loyal supporter of King Charles I of England, and his public offices ceased when Oliver Cromwell seized power in England in 1649. In addition he served as High Sheriff and was a Colonel in the Militia. He was also a tobacco planter, trader, owner and trader of slaves, and employer and importer of indentured English servants (who paid for their passage to America with 7 years of labour). At the time of his death he was the largest landholder in the colony (13,000 acres) and perhaps the richest man in Virginia.

Sources

1. ↑ Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, 1990, p. 8.
2. ↑ Lee, Richard - A4806; born ca. 1609, died 1663/4, 1640 (Clerk of Grand Assembly); 1641 (Speaker of House of Burgesses); York Co.: 1647-48 (Burgess); 1649-52 (Councillor), Northumberland Co.: 1651, 1660-64 (Councillor). accessed 1 October 2021
3. ↑ Cavanagh, Harrison Dwight. Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Page 126.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Archive reference P253/A/1/1 Page 2 Record set Shropshire Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from United Kingdom, England
5. ↑ Registered wills and original wills, administrations and inventories, 1494-1860, and, act books, 1532-1638 for Diocese of Lichfield Episcopal Consistory Court Piece description Original wills, administrations, inventories Piece surname range L Piece year range 1621-1623 Record set: Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield And Coventry Wills And Probate 1521-1860 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Wills & probate Collections from England, United Kingdom
6. ↑ New River Notes, Colonial Virginia Register
7. ↑ Entered by Lynda Hull.
8. ↑ The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, p. 8; By Paul C. Nagel - entered 2013 Nov 16 by amb
9. ↑ The Lees of Virginia; Paul C. Nagel, publisher Oxford University Press, USA; p.8
10. ↑ The Parish Registers of Broseley, Shropshire, 1570-[1750], Volume 1 By Broseley (England), Pg. 16. - JF
11. ↑ taken from wikipedia entry Richard Lee I
12. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 797 (Reel 1).
13. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 18 (Reel 2).
14. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 62 (Reel 2).
15. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 153 (Reel 2).
16. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 314 (Reel 2).
17. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 15 (Reel 2).
18. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 27 (Reel 2).
19. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 3, 1652-1655, p. 337 (Reel 2).
20. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 47 (Reel 4).
21. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 375 (Reel 4).
22. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 123 (Reel 4).
23. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 139 (Reel 4). .
24. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 372 (Reel 4).
25. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 4, 1655-1664, p. 447 (Reel 4).
26. ↑ Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 448 (Reel 5).
27. ↑ Last Will
28. ↑ Washington and Lee University; Lee Family Digital Archive, added 2013 Nov 16 by amb
29. ↑ The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family Chapter 1 'The Founders' pp 7-20; By Paul C. Nagel
30. ↑ Will listed in "Lee of Virginia" By Edmund Jennings Lee and Lee Digital Archives[1]

See also:

Sources 1 through 15 are primary historical sources from Government Repositories regarding lineage/parentage of Richard Lee: - JF

• 1. Richard Lee Baptism record: Secondary source: The Parish Registers of Broseley, Shropshire, 1570-[1750], Volume 1 By Broseley (England), Pg. 16. Primary Source and Image attached: County Shropshire Register type Composite Register date range 1616-1638 Archive reference P253/A/1/1 Page 2 Record set Shropshire Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from United Kingdom, England

• 2. As Will of his father (per baptismal record), Richardus Lee, wife Elizabeth Bendy, also does confirm lineage of Richard Lee b.1617/18 married Anne Constable: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 46, Pg. 71.

• 3. Letter from Lancelot Lee, of Coton, to Thomas Lee, of Stratford JOURNAL ARTICLE: A New Clue to the Lee Ancestry: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jan., 1899), pp. 255-260 Published by: Virginia Historical Society Stable Page Count: 6

• 4. New Clue to the Lee Ancestry same as 3

• 5. Family Trees, by François Weil, Harvard University Press, Apr 30, 2013 - 320 pages.

• 6. Annual Report, Volume 2 By American Historical Association U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - Historiography

• 7.[5] The Visitation of Shropshire: TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1623] BY ROBERT TRESSWELL, SOMERSET HERALD, AND AUGUSTINE VINCENT, ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT OF ARMS; URL: WITH ADDITIONS FROM THE PEDIGREES OP SHROPSHIRE GENTRY TAKEN BY THE HERALDS IN THE YEARS 1569 AND 1584, AND OTHER SOURCES. THE VISITATION Of SHROPSHIRE, 1623. 315 Reginaldus de Lee testis chartse Ricardi Burnell sans date.

• 8. Congressional Serial Set U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - United States Pg.929

• 9. Congressional Serial Set Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
  The Executive Documents, Printed by order of the Senate of the United States, First Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, 1859-60.

Volume 1 contains No. 2 part 1, (President's Message and Report of Secretary of the Interior.)

Volume 3 contains No. 2 part 2, (Report of Secretary of War, Ist part.)

Volume 3 contains No. 2 part 3, (Report of Secretary of War, 2d part, and Reports of Secretary of the Navy and Postmaster General.)

Volume 4 contains No. 2 part 4, (maps.)

Volume 5 contains No. 1 to No. 15, except No. 2, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, No. 11 and No. 12, parts 1 and 2.

Volume 6 contains No. 11, Patent Office Report, (Agriculture.)

Volume 7 contains No. 12 part 1, Patent Office Report, (Mechanical.)

Volume 8 contains No. 12 part 2, Patent Office Report, (Mechanical.)

Volume 9 contains No. 16 to No. 37, except No. 30.

Volume 10 contains No. 30.

Volume 11 contains No. 38 to No. 58, except No. 52.

Volume 12 contains Report on Commerce and Navigation.

Volume 13 contains No. 52, in quarto.

Volume 14 contains No. 59, in quarto.

Volume 15 contains No, 60, in quarto.
Washington: George W. Bowman, Printer. 1860.

• 10. Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee, Pg. 38. Edmund Jennings Lee, 1895. Also reprint from Heritage Books, Jun 16, 2008. Reference - 664 pages.

• 11. Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892 books.google.com The Lee family is composed of perhaps the most distinguished ancestry on record, having provided, for example, greater numbers of Revolutionary and Civil War generals and officers, politicians, and statesmen than any family of comparable size and standing same as 10

• 12. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 46, Pg. 66, Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.

• 13. Genealogica Et Heraldica Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1894 – Genealogy, Pg. 109

• 14. Full text of "Genealogical history of the Lee family of Virginia and Maryland from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1866, LEE FAMILY VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND From A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1866 with notes and illustrations edited by Edward C. Mead.

See other formats - Internet Archive - archive.org. Full text of "Genealogical history of the Lee family of Virginia and Maryland from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1866" See other formats Gc \ M. U. 929.2 L515in < 1214151 ...

• 15. Society of the Lees of Virginia Collection, 1771-2000. 82 boxes, 264 A--264 CCCC (38 linear ft.) Eleanor Lee Templeman (1906-1990), a Northern Virginia author, genealogist, and historian, assembled much of this collection. Her writings and correspondence capture the activities and interests of the Society, as well as the genealogy of the Lees.

Scope and Content Note: This collection documents the family history of Lees in Virginia, especially to the Lees related to Richard Lee the Emigrant. There are extensive series of files by names of individuals with the surname of Lee, by surnames of other families which intermarried with the Lees, and by names of properties associated with these families.

Other major series cover the English ancestry of the Lees, antique objects associated with the Lees, and the records of the Society of the Lees of Virginia.

There are files on dozens of related families, but the Goldsborough and Boothe (Booth) families are particularly well represented.

The photograph collection provides portraits of many of the Lees as well as pictures of Lee homes and other related subjects.

Other formats include: correspondence, letters, maps, genealogical charts, books, periodicals, newspaper and magazine clippings, business records, index cards, completed membership applications, brochures, booklets, prints, reports, court records, property records, histories. Historical records

• Washington and Lee University; Lee Family Digital Archive;

• Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family Chapter 1 'The Founders' pp 7-20. Also at [6].

• Genealogy of William Lee I of England and of Virginia and His Descendants: By: Elizabeth Hoyle Rucker in 1945, on HathiTrust. Also on archive.org.

• Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 11 (1933), p. 116, Lee, Richard (d. 1664).

• "List of the Colonial Secretaries", in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 10, no. 3 (Jan 1902), p. 167.

• The Letters of Richard Henry Lee. Edited by James Ballagh. 1911-1914. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; Chitwood, Oliver.

• Richard Henry Lee, Statesman of the Revolution. Morgantown: University Library, 1967.

• From Log Cabins to the White House: A History of the Taylor Family Abbreviation: From Log Cabins to the White House Author: Brewer, Mary Taylor Publication: the author, Wooton, Kentucky, c1985 Note: many of the genealogical conclusions in this book are wrong

Here are some other references from the Lee Family Archive:

http://leefamilyarchive.org/about-us/the-lees

http://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/essays/montague/

(The above article was written before later work that identified Richard’s and Anne’s parents. Note also in the above that the immigrant is named “Richard Lee,” not “Richard Henry Lee.” Richard Henry Lee arrived several generations later.)

http://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/theses/virginia/02.html

(This article refers to the research that identified Richard’s parents. Note again that it is “Richard Lee” and not “Richard Henry Lee.”)

This from the site’s FAQ Richard Lee's wife

Q. Who was RL's wife?

A. Richard Lee married Anne Constable (b. 1622), a native of London whom he met in England and who may have come to Virginia when he did. Little is known about Anne, and some have even questioned whether her surname was even Constable. However, if so, Anne was a daughter of Londoner Francis Constable who had connections with Sir John Thorowgood, one of King Charles I's personal attendants. It is unclear whether Richard and Anne married in London or at Jamestown. When Richard died Anne was given a life-right to their home on Dividing Creek, where she is said to be buried. Anne remarried, to a Edmund Lister, and disappeared from the records.David M. Lawrence

• http://www.austin78745.com/lee_geneolgy.htm Broken Link Lee Lineage, Stories & History, beginning with Count Rollo or Rolf the Viking ...Richard Lee "the immigrant" 1613 Shropshire Eng d. 1664 in Northumberland, VA, the colonies*

• Here is the origin where the book on the "Sketchings" main source derived - and proof of R Lee's Coton Hall ancestry.A New Clue to the Lee Ancestry - jstor