Lee Family of VA & London

Lee Family #1

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.

2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co., VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England. An early account of Richard Lee is given in Lee of VA, p. 49, in a passage written by William Lee in 1771, is as follows: “Richard Lee, of a good family in Shropshire (and whose Picture I am told is now at Coton, near Bridgenorth, the seat of Launcelot Lee, Esq.), some time in the Reign of Charles the first, went over to the Colony of Virginia, as Secretary, and one of the King’s Privy Council….He was a man of good Stature, comely visage, and enterprising genius, a sound head, vigorous spirit and generous nature. When he got to Virginia, which was at that time not much cultivated, he was so pleased with the Country that he made large settlements there with the servants he had carried over; after some years, he returned to England, and gave away all the lands he had taken up, and settled at his own expense, to those servants he had fixed on them; some of whose descendants are now possessed of very considerable Estates in that Colony. After staying some Time in England, he returned again to Virginia, with a fresh band of Adventurers, all of whom he settled there.” In 1646, Richard Lee sat on the York bench as a magistrate, with a Dr. Henry Lee, who married Marah Adkins. Richard patented 1,250 acres in York Co., VA in 1648, and named, amongst his headrights, Henry, Matthew, and George Lee, who may have been his relatives. That Richard settled first in York Co., is proven by the grant of 1,000 acres, dated 10 Aug 1642; the patent states that his land was due “unto the said Richard Lee by and for his own personal Adventure, his wife Ann, and John Francis and by assignment from Mr. Thomas Hill, Florentine Paine and William Freeman of their right of land due for the transportation of Seaventeene p’sons.” This land was the plantation, Paradise in his will, and bequeathed to his second son, Richard. This name is frequently applied to subsequent records to this plantation; as on the 22nd of July, 1674, in a patent issued to “Major Richard Lee for 1,140 acres in Gloster, called Paradise, on a branch of Poropotank Creek; 1,000 thereof being due to said Richard Lee by two former patents, and the residence now found to be within the bounds.” Richard represented York County as Burgess in 1647, and in 1651 “Mr. Lee” was paid for services as Burgess of Northumberland County. “It seems possible that Richard Lee was engaged in commerce as well as agriculture, and that he had an interest in vessels trading between England and Virginia, as had many of the large planters. In his will, he bequeathed to his son, Francis, his interest in two ships, which was 1/8th part in each vessel. He appears to have made frequent voyages to and fro; being in England in 1654-55, again in 1659, and later in 1661 and in 1663.” Richard’s first home in Virginia was on the York River, near the head of Poropotank Creek, where he had a store or warehouse. His next home was located on the Dividing Creeks in Northumberland, which afforded a very safe harbor. The main creek is only a mile or two long; then it divides into branches, which makes several small peninsulas or “necks” as they were formerly called. On two of these necks Richard Lee located his two plantations, where we can find grants for 800 and 600 acres in 1651 and 1656 respectively. Richard was not only Burgess for several counties, but served in several capacities, having been Justice, member of the Council and Secretary of State. He also served on various commissions. [See Lee of VA, p.59]. While in England in 1663, his wife and children being there also, Richard made his will; the wording of this will indicates that he had given up his intention of settling permanently in England. For he ordered that his estate there should be sold, gave minute directions for the payment of his debts, and closing up of his interests in that country, and made arrangements for the settlement of his children in Virginia. The account of his property given in his will shows him to have been possessed of considerable wealth- for that day. If his tobacco crop was actually worth L2000 a year, as Gibbon estimated, and his estate at Stratford-Langton, L800 a year, as stated by William Lee, then Richard Lee must have enjoyed an income larger than most of the early planters. His will was executed in London 6 Feb 1663/64, prov. 10 Jan 1664/65, London, England.

Col. Richard Lee, I

Ann Constable

3. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1647, Paradise, Gloucester Co., VA, d. 12 Mar 1714, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1674, Laetitia Corbin b. 1656/57, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 6 Oct 1706, Machodoc, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Henry and Alice (Eltonhead) Corbin). Mt. Pleasant, an estate consisting of about 2,600 acres, had been bequeathed by the Immigrant to his eldest son John, and was inherited by Richard as heir-at-law to their father. “The large brick house, largely inclosed by a brick wall, was burned down and another was built on the surrounding heights of the Potomac.” This written by William Lee. The date of the fire is not known, but must have occurred between 1716 and 1730. Thomas Lee obtained a lease of this estate in 1716, and apparently lived there until he built the Stratford mansion. It seems likely that the loss by fire, mentioned by William Lee, occurred at Mt. Pleasant, not at Stratford, as has been generally supposed. There is no record of a fire ever having occurred at the latter place; while frequent mention has been made “of burnt house fields,” at the former, evidently showing that a fire there had been so serious that the field had been named as a record of the disaster. The new house, built further back from the river and upon higher ground, was probably erected by George Lee when he came from England to settle in Virginia. It, too, has been burned. Richard Lee was educated at Oxford. He was a member of the Council in 1676, 1680-83-88, 1692-98. A Burgess in 1677, and probably earlier. Governor Spotswood described Richard Lee as, “a gentleman of as fair character as any in the country for his exact justice, honesty and unexceptional loyalty. In all the stations wherein he has served in this government, he has behaved himself with great integrity and sufficiency; and when his advanced age would no longer permit him to execute to his won satisfaction the duty of Naval Officer of the same district, I thought I could not better reward his merit than by bestowing that employment on his son.” [I Spotswood, 178]. Richard and Laetitia’s tombstone is still to be seen at Mt. Pleasant, it is a very large slab of hard white marble. The inscription was written in Latin, and translated, it reads: “Here lieth the body of Richard Lee, Esq., born in Virginia, son of Richard Lee, Gentleman, descended of an ancient family of Merton-Regis, in Shropshire. While he exercised the office of magistrate he was a zealous promoter of the public good. He was very skillful in the Greek and Latin languages and other parts of polite learning. He quietly resigned his soul to God, whom he always devoutly worshiped, on the 12th day of March, in the year 1714, in the 68th year of his age. Near by interred the body of Laetitia, his faithful wife, daughter of Henry Corbyn, Gentleman. A most affectionate mother, she was also distinguished by piety toward God, charity to the poor, and kindness to all. She died on the 6th day of October, 1706, in the 49th year of her age.” It is supposed that Thomas Lee in 1749, Arthur Lee in 1792, and Richard Henry Lee in 1794 were buried there as well. Richard Lee’s will, dated 3 Mar 1714, probated in Westmoreland Co., VA on 27 Apr 1715.

Col. Richard Lee, II

Laetitia Corbin

Thomas "President" Lee (1690-1750)

Hannah Harrison Lee (1701-1749)

4. “President” Thomas Lee b. 1690, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 14 Nov 1750, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. May 1722, Green Spring, Williamsburg, VA, Hannah Harrison Ludwell b. 5 Dec 1701, Rich Neck, Bruton Parish, James City Co., VA, d. 25 Jan 1749, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Col. Philip and Hannah (Harrison) Ludwell, II). Of Thomas’s early days, his son has written, “Thomas, the fourth son, though with none but a common Virginia Education, yet having strong natural parts, long after he was a man, he learned the Languages without any assistance but his own genius, and became a tolerable adept in Greek and Latin….This Thomas, by his Industry and Parts, acquired a considerable Fortune; for, being a younger Brother, with many children, his Paternal Estate was very small. He was also appointed of the Council, and though he had very few acquaintances in England, he was so well known by reputation that upon his receiving a loss by fire, the late Queen Caroline sent him over a bountiful present out of her own Privy Purse. Upon the late Sir William Gooch’s being recalled, who had been the Governor of Virginia, he became President and Commander in Chief over the Colony, in which Station he continued for some time, ‘til the King thought proper to appoint him Governor of the Colony, but he dyed in 1750 before his commission got over to him.” Besides being for many years a member of the House of Burgesses, a member of the Council and later its president, he became after the death of John Robinson, on the 5th of Sep 1749, the Acting Governor of the Colony, and held that position until his death. He served also upon various commissions for arranging boundaries, for making treaties with the Indians, and held other similar positions of trust and responsibility. Where Thomas lived during the first years of his married life is a matter of some doubt. It seems most probable that his first home was at Mt. Pleasant and that the loss by fire, of which his son William wrote, was the destruction of that mansion. It is certain that the house at Mt. Pleasant was burned early in the last century, but there is no evidence of a fire ever having occurred at Stratford. If Queen Caroline gave Thomas Lee a “bountiful present out of her own Privy Purse,” while she was Queen, she must have given it between 1727 and 1737, as she became Queen in the former year and died in the latter. It seems, therefore, highly probable that the Stratford House was erected about 1725-30, hardly later, as it is said that all of Thomas’s sons were born in that mansion. Stratford House, with its solid walls and massive, rough-hewn timbers, seems rather to represent strength and solidity than elegance or comfort. Its large rooms, with numerous doors and windows, heated only by the large open fireplaces, would today scarcely be considered habitable. The modern housewife would not appreciate the outside kitchen, some fifty or sixty feet from the dining room! The house was built in the shape of the letter H, the cross line being a large hall room of some twenty-five by thirty feet, serving as the connecting link between the two wings; these wings are about thirty feet wide by sixty deep. The house contains some eighteen large rooms, exclusive of the hall. The view given here represents the rear, the small stairway leads up to the rear door of the hall room. The room to the right, as one faces the picture, is the bed room in which tradition states that Richard Henry Lee and his brothers were born; also, Gen. Robert E. Lee. The hall room was, in those days, used as the library and general sitting room, especially in summer, being large, airy, well lighted and ventilated. The ceiling is very high, dome shaped, the walls are paneled in oak, with book cases set in them; back and front are doors, leading into the garden, flanked by windows on either side. On the other two sides of this hall, between the book cases, are two doors, opening into the wings. Outside, at the four corners of the house, are four out-houses, used as storehouses, office, kitchen, and such like purposes. At the corner of the house was the kitchen, with its immense fireplace, which by actual measurement was found to be twelve feet wide, six high, and five deep, evidently capable of roasting a fair sized ox. Lying on the grass, there is seen a large, old fashioned shell or cannon ball, which tradition says was once fired at the house by an English warship. In recent years is has served as a hitching block for horses. The portions of the stable are very large; the kitchen garden was surrounded by the usual brick wall. At the foot of the kitchen garden are the remains of the large brick burial vault, of which Bishop Meade wrote: “I have been assured by Mrs. Eliza Turner, who was there at the time, that it was built by General Henry Lee. The cemetery [vault] is much larger than any other in the Northern Neck, consisting of several apartments or alcoves for different branches of the family. Instead of an arch over them there is a brick house, perhaps twenty feet square, covered in. A floor covers the cemetery. In the centre is a trap door, through which you descend by a ladder to the apartments below.” This brick house having fallen into ruin, a late proprietor of Stratford had it torn down and the bricks heaped up into a mound, which, covered with earth and surmounted by the tombstone of Thomas Lee, would serve as a fitting mark for the unknown dead reposing underneath. There has been some uncertainty as to the burial place of both Thomas Lee and his son, Richard Henry Lee; the former has always been thought to have been buried at Old Pope’s Creek Church, and the latter at Chantilly. But an examination of their wills and other data proves most conclusively that both of them were buried in the Old Burnt House Fields at Mt. Pleasant. It requires no proof to show that Richard Lee and Laetitia Corbin, his wife, were buried at this place, as their tombstone is still to be seen there. Thomas Lee’s wife died about a year before her husband, and of course had been duly buried; in his will he desired to be “buried between my Late Dearest wife and my Honoured Mother, and that the bricks on the side next my wife be moved and my coffin Placed as near hers as is possible, without moving or disturbing the remains of my Mother.” This request proves his wife had been buried very near the grave of his mother. There can be no doubt that Thomas Lee was buried, as he desired, beside his wife, for one slab covered the two graves, and had the following inscription : “Here lies Buried the Hon’ble Col. Thomas Lee, Who dyed 14 November, 1750; Aged 60 years; and his beloved wife, Mrs. Hannah Lee. She departed this life 25 January, 1749-50. Their monument is erected in the lower church of Washington Parish, in this County; five miles above their County Seat, Stratford Hall.” The monument is no longer, but a manuscript remains of the inscription, only the family burying place name is torn: “This Monument is erected to the Memory of the Honourable Col. Thomas Lee, Commander-in-chief and President of His Majesties Council for this Colony, descended from the very ancient and Honourable Family of Lees in Shropshire in England, who dyed November 14, 1750, aged 60 years; and of the Hon. Mrs. Hannah Lee, his Wife, by Philip Ludwell Lee, their eldest son, as a just and dutyfull Tribute to so excellant a Father and Mother, Patterns of Conjugal Virtue. They are buryed eighteen miles from this in the family burying place, called Old _______ in Cople Parish, in this County.” No one can well doubt that the “family burying place” was in the old Burnt House Fields at Mt. Pleasant. This was the “one acre where my Hon’d Father is Buryed” that Thomas, in his will, desired should not “be disposed of upon any pretense whatsoever.” It was the “family burying place at the burnt House, as it is called,” where Richard Henry Lee desired to be buried. Thomas Lee’s will was dated 22 Feb 1749, probated in Westmoreland Co., VA 30 Jul 1751.

Richard Henry Lee (1731-1794)

5. Richard Henry Lee b. 20 Jan 1731/32, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 19 Jun 1794, Chantilly, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. (2) Jul 1769, Anne Gaskins (daughter of Col. Thomas and Sarah (Eustace) Gaskins, V). After the course of private tuition at home, Richard was sent to the Wakefield Academy, in Yorkshire, England; on leaving that school, he made a brief tour of northern Europe, and returned to Virginia, being then only 19 years old. For some years, prior to his marriage, he resided with his eldest brother at Stratford Hall, and passed the time in diligent reading of the ancient classics and modern histories. His taste for the classics was constantly displayed in after life by the frequent and appropriate quotations he made from them to enrich his diction or to fortify his argument. The greater part of the estate left to Richard by his father, was in Prince William Co., but he continued to live in Westmoreland County even after he married. It is said that his eldest brother was so devoted to him, that he insisted that he should build near Stratford, and leased for him, the estate called Chantilly. It appears that this name was given by Richard Henry and that the estate was formerly known as Hollis’ Marsh; it was situated about 3 miles below Stratford, and was also on the Potomac River. Later in life, Richard paid a rental for it to General Henry Lee, and mentions in his own will that he only held the estate on a lease. When Richard was 23, he raised a company to join General Braddock in his ill-fated expedition against the French and Indians; their aid was declined by the haughty Englishman, who had no use for provincials. When Richard was 25, he was appointed as Justice for Westmoreland, a position of influence and much sought after in those days. It was about this time that he made his first appearance in the political arena [1757], by being chosen member of the House of Burgesses; he continued a member of that body, when not in Congress, until 1792, when he retired from active public life. His first effort in that body was a speech against the importation of slaves to the Colony; the proposition was “to lay so heavy a tax upon the importation of slaves as effectually to put an end to that iniquitous and disgraceful traffic within the Colony.” When the proposed Stamp tax was under discussion and before its full purport was understood, Mr. Lee applied for the position of collector under it. For this he was afterwards censured; he defended himself in a letter published in the Virginia Gazette on 25 Jul 1766, stating in one portion it: “….I considered that to err is certainly the portion of humanity, but that it was the business of an honest man to recede from error as soon as he discovered it, and that the strongest principle of duty called upon every citizen to prevent the ruin of his country, without being restrained by any consideration which could interrupt the primary obligation….” As stated in his long letter Mr. Lee was the one to bring before the Assembly the Act of Parliament, claiming their right to tax America, and he served on the special committee appointed to draft an address to the King, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the Commons. He was selected to prepare the first and last of these three papers. Shortly afterwards, he organized the “Westmoreland Association” of patriots and wrote their resolutions. The articles were chiefly a direct protest against the Stamp Act, and expressed their determination to “exert every faculty to prevent the execution of the said Stamp Act in any instance whatsoever within this Colony.” In 1773, the Virginia Assembly appointed a “Committee of Correspondence,” of which Richard was a member. The first voice raised was that of Patrick Henry; who in a speech it is said, of impassioned eloquence, unfolded to his anxious listeners the perils and duties of the hour. The second speaker was Richard Henry Lee, who supplementing and enlarging on Henry’s words, impressed the members with his wisdom and sagacity. Such evidently was the result of his eloquence, for he immediately took a leading place in that body. Mr. Lee was an active and energetic member of many of the leading committees of this Congress; from his pen emanated the memorial of Congress to the people of British America, which has been generally considered a masterly document. His most important and distinguished service was rendered on the 7th of Jun 1776, when, in accordance with the instructions of the Virginia Convention , and at the request of his colleagues, he proposed the resolution for the independence of the colonies. The motion was seconded by John Adams, of Massachusetts; the discussion upon its adoption continued until the 10th of June, when a committee was appointed to prepare a declaration, in accordance with this motion. It is a uniform rule of all deliberative bodies to appoint the member who has offered a resolution the chairman of the committee selected to report on that motion. In this case, therefore, Mr. Lee would have been chosen chairman of the committee for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, had he been present. On the evening of the 10th of June, he received word of the serious illness of his wife; he left Philadelphia to visit her on the very day this committee was appointed. Thus an accidental sickness in his family probably deprived him of the signal honor of being the author as well as the mover of the Declaration of American Independence. It is said that the English papers, which gave the first intelligence of the adoption of the DOI, headed their columns with this line: “Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry have at last accomplished their object: The colonies have declared themselves independent of the mother country.” Mr. Lee continued to serve in Congress for many years, being a member in 1778-80-84-87, and was one of the signers of the articles of confederation in 1778. During the session of 1784, he occupied the chair as President, being, it is said, the unanimous choice of all the delegates present. He served some 100 committees during the sessions of 1776-77. Mr. Lee opposed the adoption of the Constitution of 1787; in this opposition, he was in agreement with George Mason, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson and others, in Virginia, and many of the ablest patriots of the time in other States. But, after the ratification of the Constitution, he consented to serve as one of the Senators from Virginia, mainly for the purpose of urging some amendments which he believed to be needed; many of these he was instrumental in securing. After many years of active service in Congress, and all the while a member of the Virginia Assembly, he finally, in 1792, retired from public life. Of Richard Henry Lee’s personal appearance and the style of his oratory, William Wirt wrote: “His face was on the Roman model; his nose Caesarean; the port and carriage of his head, leaning persuasively and gracefully forward; and the whole contour, noble and fine. He had studied in the classics in the true spirit of criticism. His taste had that delicate touch which seized with intuitive certainty every beauty of an author, and his genius that native affinity which combined them without effort. Into every walk of literature and science he had carried this mind of exquisite selection, and brought it back to the business of life, crowned with every light of learning and decked with every wreath that all the muses and all the graces could entwine. Nor did these light decorations constitute the whole value of its freight. He possessed a rich store of historical and political knowledge, with an activity of observation and a certainty of judgment which turned that knowledge to the very best account. He was not a lawyer by profession, but he understood thoroughly the Constitution, both of the mother country and of her colonies; and the elements also of civil and municipal law. Thus, while his eloquence was free from those stiff and technical restraints which habits of forensic speaking are apt to generate, he had all the legal learning necessary to a statesman. He reasoned well, and declaimed freely and splendidly. The note of his voice was deep and melodious. It was not the cancerous voice of Cicero. He had lost the use of one of his hands, which he kept constantly covered with a black silk bandage, neatly fitted in the palm of his hand, but leaving his thumb free; yet, notwithstand- ing this disadvantage, his gesture was so graceful and highly finished that it is said that he acquired it by practising before a mirror. Such was his promptitude that he required no preparation for debate. He was ready for any subject as soon as it was announced; and his speech was so copious, so rich, so mellifluous, set off with such bewitching cadence of voice and such captivating grace of action that, while you listened to him, you desired to hear nothing superior, and indeed thought him perfect. He had a quick sensibility and a fervid imagination.” Dr. Rush said of him, “I never knew so great an orator whose speeches were so short. Indeed, I might say that he could not speak long. He had conceived his subject so clearly, and presented it so immediately to his hearers, that there appeared nothing more to be said about it. He did not use figures to ornament discourse, but made them the vehicles of argument.” Mr. Lee died two years after retirement. He was troubled much with gout, “which attacked his abdominal viscera, and caused him great suffering, but, though his body became feeble, his mind retained its vigor.” His will was dated 18 June 1793, and probated in Westmoreland Co., VA the 24th of June, 1794. He died at Chantilly on the 19th of June, 1794, and was buried in the old family burial-place, at the Burnt House Fields, Mt. Pleasant, as he desired in his will. Of the home of Richard Henry Lee, little is known. Thomas Lee Shippen, when describing his visit to Westmoreland, wrote his father that Chantilly “commands a much finer view than Stratford by reason of a large bay into which the Potomac forms itself opposite Chantilly…..The house is rather commodious than elegant. The sitting-room, which is very well ornamented, is 18x30 feet, and the dining-room, 20x24.” From the inventory and appraisement of the furniture, etc., it is learned that there were a dining room, library, parlor, and chamber on the first floor. The hall being, as was usual, furnished as a sitting-room, contained: a mahogany desk, twelve arm chairs, a round and a square table, a covered walnut table, two boxes of tools, and a trumpet. On the second floor there were four large chambers, and a smaller one at the head of the stairs; two rooms in the third floor; store rooms, and closets. The outbuildings mentioned were: kitchen, dairy, blacksmith shop, stable, and barn. The enumeration of books in the library showed about 500 which were appraised at L229 10s.7d. Of money in the house at the time of his death, there were $54 silver, valued at L16 4s.; in bank at Alexandria, L181 19s.7d.; “Tobacco notes” for 13,907 pounds, nett. In 1783, Thomas Gaskins, Sr., of Westmoreland, executed a gift deed to his “daughter Anne Lee, now intermarried with Richard Henry Lee.” [Anne was the widow of Thomas Pinkard, by whom she had at least one child].
6. Henrietta Lee b. 10 Dec 1773, Chantilly, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Apr 1805, Salona, Fairfax Co., VA, m. (1) 14 Dec 1794, George Richard Lee Turberville, I b. ca. 1772, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Sep 1799, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of George and Martha “Patty” (Corbin) Turberville).

7. George Richard Lee Turberville, II b. 2 Jun 1799, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 5 Mar 1849, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 2 Jun 1843, Margaret Virginia DeBell b. 19 Jul 1820, Sunny Side, Centreville, VA, d. 22 Dec 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William and Margaret (Violett) DeBell).

8. George Richard Lee Turberville, III b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, VA, Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893,Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William Henry and Mary Adeline (Carter) Thornton).

9. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, SC, Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of William David and Mary Jones (Millan) McWhorter, MD).

10. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976 Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

11. Mary Madeline McWhorter b. Washington, DC, m. 25 Aug 1951, Washington, DC, William Raymond Brown, Jr., b. Lignum, VA, (son of Willie Raymond and Clara Maude (Johnson) Brown).

12. Patricia Lynn Brown b. Great Lakes, Ill, m. 19 Sep 1993, Elkton, VA, Morris Carroll Petitt, II b. Alexandria, VA, (son of Morris Carroll and Ruby Regina (Corbin) Petitt, I).

Arms – Gules, a fesse chequey azure and or. between ten billetts argent, four in chief, three, two and one in base.
Crest – On a staff raguly, lying fesseways, a squirrel sejant proper, cracking a nut; from the dexter end of the staff a hazel bench vert, fructed or.
Motto – Non incautus futuri.

Lee Family #2

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.

2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co., VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England.

3. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1647, Paradise, Gloucester Co., VA, d. 12 Mar 1714, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1674, Laetitia Corbin b. 1656/57, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 6 Oct 1706, Machodoc, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Henry and Alice (Eltonhead) Corbin).

4. “President” Thomas Lee b. 1690, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 14 Nov 1750, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. May 1722, Green Spring, Williamsburg, VA, Hannah Harrison Ludwell b. 5 Dec 1701, Rich Neck, Bruton Parish, James City Co., VA, d. 25 Jan 1749, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Col. Philip and Hannah (Harrison) Ludwell, II).

5. Hannah Ludwell Lee b. 6 Feb 1728/29, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1782, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. (1) Gawin Corbin b. 1725, d. Dec 1759, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, (son of Col. Gawin and Martha (Bassett) Corbin).

6. Martha “Patty” Corbin b. ca. 1748, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Nov 1809, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1 Jun 1769, George Turberville b. ca. 1742, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Oct 1792, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, (son of Maj. George and Martha (Lee) Turberville).

7. George Richard Lee Turberville, I b. ca. 1772, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Sep 1799, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 14 Dec 1794, Henrietta Lee b. 10 Dec 1773, Chantilly, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Apr 1805, Salona, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of Richard Henry and Anne (Gaskins) Lee).

8. George Richard Lee Turberville, II b. 2 Jun 1799, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 5 Mar 1849, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 2 Jun 1843, Margaret Virginia DeBell b. 19 Jul 1820, Sunny Side, Centreville, VA, d. 22 Dec 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William and Margaret (Violett) DeBell).

9. George Richard Lee Turberville, III b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, VA, Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893,Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William Henry and Mary Adeline (Carter) Thornton).

10. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, SC, Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of William David and Mary Jones (Millan) McWhorter, MD).

11. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976 Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

Lee Family #3

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.
2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co., VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England.
3. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1647, Paradise, Gloucester Co., VA, d. 12 Mar 1714, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1674, Laetitia Corbin b. 1656/57, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 6 Oct 1706, Machodoc, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Henry and Alice (Eltonhead) Corbin).
4. Richard Lee b. 1679, Leesylvania, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1719, London, England, m. Martha Silk, b. 1680 England. Somewhere about 1710-11, Richard had gone over to London and settled there as a Virginia merchant in partnership with his maternal uncle, Thomas Corbin. Very little information can be found concerning him. In 1719, Richard Lee died in the parish of St. Anne within the Liberty of Westminster, intestate. On the 8th of Nov 1711, William Ellins and Edmund Farrington sold to the said Richard Lee all their wares, merchandises &c. Rice Perry of the parish of St. Catherine Creechurch, London, merchant, appointed the said merchandises. Given at London 2nd January 1718-19. On the 16th of November, 1724, there was issued a commission to John Crabb, creditor of the late Richard Lee, late of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, but who died in the parish of St. Anne Westminster in Co: Midd. Martha Lee, the relict and George, Martha, and Laetitia Lee, minors, children of the deceased, cited but not appearing. On the 5th of November 1716, “Richard Lee, of London, son of Richard Lee of Cople parish, in Virginia,” leased to Reuben Welch, Thomas Lee and Henry Lee, of Essex, the 2,6000 acres whereupon his father had lived. “Yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one peper corn only on the feast day of the birth of Our Lord God.” This lease is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lee. In a petition from “Martha Lee, widow of the late Richard Lee, of London,” dated 19th of October, 1720, she mentioned this lease of 1716, and stated that her husband was the son of Richard Lee, Sen’r, &c.; gave her residence in “Goodman’s Fields, parish of St. Mary White Chapel, Middlesex, England.” William Lee (in 1771) stated that, “Richard married an heiress in England by the name of Silk, and had by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettice and Martha; all of these children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormeley, who died leaving one daughter; he then married a Fairfax, nearly related to Lord Fairfax of Yorkshire, and died leaving by his last marriage three sons, that are now minors and are at school in England under the care of Mr. James Russell. Lettice married a Corbin and her sister a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which union, George Lee Turberville, now at school at Winton College, is the oldest issue.”
5. Martha Lee b. 1716, London, England, d. 12 Nov 1751, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. (1) George Turberville, Maj., b. ca. 1694, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1742, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, (son of John and Elizabeth (Lee) Turberville).
6. George Turberville b. ca. 1742, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Oct 1792, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1 Jun 1769, Martha “Patty” Corbin b. ca. 1748, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Nov 1809 Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Gawin and Hannah Ludwell (Lee) Corbin).
7. George Richard Lee Turberville, I b. ca. 1722, Peckatone, Co., VA, d. Sep 1799, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 14 Dec 1794, Henrietta Lee b. 10 Dec 1773, Chantilly, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Apr 1805, Salona, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of Richard Henry and Anne (Gaskins) Lee).
8. George Richard Lee Turberville, II b. 2 Jun 1799, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 5 Mar 1849, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 2 Jun 1843, Margaret Virginia DeBell b. 19 Jul 1820, Sunny Side, Centreville, VA, d. 22 Dec 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William and Margaret (Violett) DeBell).
9. George Richard Lee Turberville, III b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, VA, Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893,Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William Henry and Mary Adeline (Carter) Thornton).
10. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, SC, Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of Rev. William and Margaret McElroy (Kyle) McWhorter).
11. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976 Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

Lee Family #4

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.
2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co., VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England. 3. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1647, Paradise, Gloucester Co., VA, d. 12 Mar 1714, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1674, Laetitia Corbin b. 1656/57, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 6 Oct 1706, Machodoc, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Henry and Alice (Eltonhead) Corbin).
4. Richard Lee b. 1679, Leesylvania, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1719, London, England, m. Martha Silk, b. 1680 England.
5. George Lee, Col. b. 18 Aug 1714, London, England, d. 19 Nov 1761, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m (2) 16 Dec 1752, Anne Fairfax, b. 1728, Salem, Massachusetts, d. 14 Mar 1761, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of William and Sarah (Walker) Fairfax, Esq.). George came over to Virginia after the death of his father and settled at Mount Pleasant, in Westmoreland County, where he died the 19th of November 1761 The probabilities are that George was educated in England, and did not come to Virginia until a year or so before his first marriage. George married secondly, the widow of Lawrence Washington, of Mt. Vernon, who was the elder ½ brother of Gen. George Washington. Mt. Vernon was owned by Lawrence Washington, and his Anne, and after his death, the property belonged to George and Anne Lee. They leased the property to George until Anne’s death, when the property was bequeathed to George Washington. George paid a yearly rent of L82 from 1752 to 1761. George Lee was deputy clerk of Westmoreland, under his brother-in-law, George Turberville, from 1740 to 1742, at which date he succeeded him in office, and held it until his own death. He also represented the county as Burgess in 1748, 1751, and perhaps other times; was a Justice for Westmore- land in 1737; a vestryman of Cople parish in 1755. His will dated 13 Sep, 1761, probated at Westmoreland the 26th January, 1762. Richard Henry Lee, one of the executors of this estate, kept an account of receipts and payments in the neatest and most clerk-like manner; from this account, in his own writing, a few extracts are given: "1762, 9th March, received by cash of Mr. Lane for prizes in the Northern Lottery, L1,3. 1st June ‘By 4 hhds. Tob: received from Mr. Pierce for Clerks fees, 4004 llbs.’ 29th July, ‘By 4 hhds. Tob: from Mr. Pierce for Clerk’s fees, 4045 llbs.’ 24th November, ‘By cash from Col. George Washington for rent L82.10.’ On the side of payments there are frequent entries of a guinea or several guineas to ‘Miss Betty Lee for pocket money.’ But the boys fared rather better, for he gave ‘Mr. George Lee for pocket money, L12. The doctors also did well, even in ‘ye olden time,’ for ‘Dr. Steptoe’s medical account of L27.10,’ was a good one for those days, when a guinea was of considerable value. Nor did the executor fail to keep an exact account; consequently he charged up ‘postage on Mr. Lancelot Lee’s letter, 8d.’"
6. Lancelot Lee b. 19 Jan 1756, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1 Jul 1812, Fairfax Co., VA, m. (1) Mary Bathurst Jones b. Spring Garden, Hanover Co., VA, (daughter of Col. Thomas and Sally Jane (Skelton) Jones, II).
7. Thomas William Lee b. ca. 1789, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA, d. Oct 1841, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 1818 in Fairfax Co., VA, Harriet Hutchison b. 31 Oct 1799, Pleasant Valley, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Aug 1868, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of Samuel and Martha (Moss) Hutchison).
8. Mary Elizabeth Jones Lee b. 3 Apr 1819, d. 29 Mar 1844, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 23 Nov 1840, Fairfax Co., VA, George Washington Millan, b. 19 Nov 1820, Locust Grove, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 1876, Fairfax Co., VA (son of Capt. George and Anne (DeBell) Millan).
9. Mary Jones Millan b. 19 Mar 1844, The Hermitage, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 5 Mar 1895, Washington, DC, m. 27 Nov 1866, The Hermitage, William David McWhorter, MD b. 27 Dec 1838, Pontotoc, Mississippi, d. 20 Feb 1895, Washington, DC, (son of Rev. William and Margaret McElroy (Kyle) McWhorter).
10. Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jul 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, SC, Harriette Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, (daughter of George Richard Lee and Adeline Stuart (Thornton) Turberville, III).
11. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976 Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).
12. Mary Madeline McWhorter b. Washington, DC, m. 25 Aug 1951, Washington, DC, William Raymond Brown, Jr., b. Lignum, VA, (son of Willie Raymond and Clara Maude (Johnson) Brown).
13. Patricia Lynn Brown b. Great Lakes, Ill, m. 19 Sep 1993, Elkton, VA, Morris Carroll Petitt, II b. Alexandria, VA, (son of Morris Carroll and Ruby Regina (Corbin) Petitt, I).

Lee Family #5

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.
2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co., VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England.
3. Elizabeth Lee b. 1654, d. 1714/15, Lancaster Co., VA, m. (1) John Turberville d. 1728, Lancaster Co., VA.
4. George Turberville, Maj. B. ca. 1694, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1742, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, m(3) Martha Lee b. 1716, London, England, d. 12 Nov 1751, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Richard and Martha (Silk) Lee).
5. George Turberville b. ca. 1742, Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Oct 1792, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1 Jun 1769, Martha “Patty” Corbin b. ca. 1748, Peckatone, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 20 Nov 1809 Hickory Hill, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Gawin and Hannah Ludwell (Lee) Corbin).
6. George Richard Lee Turberville, I b. ca. 1722, Peckatone, Co., VA, d. Sep 1799, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 14 Dec 1794, Henrietta Lee b. 10 Dec 1773, Chantilly, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Apr 1805, Salona, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of Richard Henry and Anne (Gaskins) Lee).
7. George Richard Lee Turberville, II b. 2 Jun 1799, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 5 Mar 1849, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 2 Jun 1843, Margaret Virginia DeBell b. 19 Jul 1820, Sunny Side, Centreville, VA, d. 22 Dec 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William and Margaret (Violett) DeBell).
8. George Richard Lee Turberville, III b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, VA, Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893,Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of William Henry and Mary Adeline (Carter) Thornton).
9. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, SC, Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of William David and Mary Jones (Millan) McWhorter, MD).
10. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, Fairfax, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976 Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

Lee Family #6

1. John Lee b ca. 1590, England, d. 23 Feb 1630, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, m. bef 1616 Jane Hancock b. ca. 1590, Twining, Gloucestershire, England, d. 24 Feb 1637/38, Worcester, England (daughter of Edward and Alice (Jeffreys) Hancock). John was a clothier. Jane’s will was prob. 26 Mar 1639, Worcester Consitory Court 1639, No. 147, transcribed from the British film collection, Film 098. 058.
2. Richard Lee, Col. b. 1617/18, Worcestershire, England, d. 1 Mar 1664, Dividing Creek, Northumberland Co.,VA, m. Mar 1641, Jamestown, VA, Ann Constable b. 1621/22, England.
3. Hancock Lee b. 1653, Ditchley, Northumberland Co., VA, d. 25 May 1709, Hancock’s Neck, Northumberland Co., VA, m. (1) 1675, Northampton Co., VA, Mary Kendall b. Newport House, Northampton Co., VA, (daughter of William and Susannah (Baker) Kendall). M. (2) bef 1707, Sarah Allerton, b. 1656, "Narrow's Plantation", Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Isaac Allerton, Col. and Elizabeth Willoughby) d. 17 May 1731, "Hancock's Neck", Northumberland Co., VA. Hancock was buried at Ditchley, where his tombstone is still seen. This burying ground was used by this branch of the family for several generations, probably until the estate was sold in 1789, to Col. James Ball, Jr., whose descendants own it today. The inscription reads as follows:
“Here Lyeth the Body of Hancock Lee, Seventh son of the Honourable Richard Lee, Who departed this Life the 25th May, Anno Domo 1729, Aeta. 56 years. Also Mary his first Wife, only Daughter of William Kendall, Gent., Who departed this life the 24th December, Anno Domo 1694, Aeta. 33 years. And Sarah, his last Wife, Daughter of Isaac Allerton, Esq., Who departed this Life 17th May, Anno Domo, 1731, Aeta. 60 years.” Although this inscription states that he died in 1729, there can be no doubt that Hancock Lee died in 1709; for these reasons, : The certificate of probate of his will reads: “Die July 20: 1709. This will was proved in Northumberland County Court to be the last Will and Testament of Mr. Hancock Lee, dec’d by ye oaths of Thomas Knight and Mary Knight, two of ye witnesses thereto admitted to Record. (Signed) Tho: Hobson C. Cur. Northumberland. The Clerk’s office of Northumberland was burned the 25th of October 1710; later all the records that could be found were recorded a second time to replace those destroyed. So, on Hancock’s will there is this second note of record: “Die Martii 21, 1711, This Coppie of Mr. Hancock Lee’s Will and the Codicils thereto annexed were approved by ye Court and upon motion of Capt. John Howson were admitted to Record. (signed) Tho: Hobson C. Cur. Northumberland.” Again, an inventory of Hancock’s property was filed the 21st of Mar, 1710, and moreover in an application for a land patent, made the 6th of March, 1709-10, it was stated that the patent was for “Hancock Lee son of Hancock Lee dec’d.” These records clearly prove that Hancock was deceased in 1709. If the inscription on his tombstone were correct in that died in 1728, aged 56 years, then he would have been born in 1673, about nine years after the death of his father. Whilst, if the record of his first marriage, in 1675, be correct, then he married at the early age of two or three years! Hancock is supposed to have settled in Northampton at the time of his first marriage and to have returned to Northumberland about 1686. He was a Justice for Northampton County in 1677, and held similar positions in Northumberland in 1687, 1699; was also a Burgess from Northumberland in 1688. A list of civil officers, dated 3 Jun 1699, names him as the “Naval Officer and Collector of Virginia Dutys in Northumberland County;” another list of the date of 1702, mentions him as Justice, showing him to have been in commission at the time of his death. The Northern Neck land records show that Hancock patented land as follows: 1,100 acres in Richmond County, the 18th Apr 1704; 570 acres on both sides of Rappahannock Horsepen Run and adjoining his own land, 21st May 1705; 1,353 acres in Richmond County, 6th Jun 1704; 460 acres on north side of the Occoquan in Stafford County, 2nd Nov 1707; 1,750 acres at the heads of the branches of Chapowamsic in Stafford, adjoining the land of Capt. Thomas Harrison, 10th Feb 1707. Hancock Lee, son of Hancock dec’d, patented 1,025 acres on Wolf Run in Stafford, for which Hancock Lee the elder had obtained a warrant, 1708, and by codicil to his will, 21st Dec 1706, gave to his son the said Hancock, 6th Mar 1709-10. In 1678, Hancock Lee, gent., obtained a patent for 268 acres in Accomac County. The land formerly included in the Ditchley estate was patented the 21st May 1651. It has usually been stated that Hancock built Ditchley mansion about 1687, but there is no evidence to substantiate this tradition. The present house was built by Kendall Lee, grandson of Hancock, and was completed about 1765-70, as estimated by James Flexmer Ball. Hancock’s will was made 31st Dec 1706; one codicil was added 1st Jan 1706/07; a second the 18th May, and a third the 20th of May, 1709. It was probated at Northumberland County Courthouse the20th Jul 1709.

Picture of "Ditchley", Northumberland Co., VA

4. Anne Lee m. 1719, in Northumberland Co., VA, William Eustace, Capt., b. Lancaster Co., VA (son of John Eustace and Sarah Jauncey). d. bef 10 Mar 1740, Eastmore River, Gloucester Co., VA.
5. Sarah Eustace m. 1741 Thomas Gaskins, V., Col., (son of Thomas Gaskins, IV and Miss Conway), d. bef 12 Apr 1785, Northumberland Co., VA. Sarah died at Gascony, Northumberland Co., VA.
6. Anne Gaskins m. Richard Henry Lee. (see above line of Richard Henry Lee).

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