{{Short description|American family}} {{about|the U.S. family|the English surname|Lee (English surname)|the Singaporean family|Lee family (Singapore)|the Samsung family|Samsung family|other uses|Lee family (disambiguation)}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox Family | name = Lee | crest = Coat of Arms of the Lee Family.svg | caption = | region = [[Virginia]], [[Maryland]], [[North Carolina]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Florida]] | religion = | early_forms = | origin = England | members = [[Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)|Thomas Lee]], [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]], [[Richard Henry Lee]], [[Henry Lee III]], [[Thomas Sim Lee]], [[Robert E. Lee]] | otherfamilies = | distinctions = | traditions = | heirlooms = | estate = [[Stratford Hall (plantation)|Stratford Hall]] | meaning = | footnotes = }} The '''Lee family''' of the United States is a historically significant [[Virginia]] and [[Maryland]] [[political family]], whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. The family became prominent when [[Richard Lee I]] ("The Immigrant") immigrated to the English [[colony of Virginia]] in 1639 and made his fortune managing a [[Tobacco in the American colonies|tobacco plantation]] worked by enslaved Africans.
Members of the family include [[Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)|Thomas Lee]] (1690–1750), a founder of the [[Ohio Company]] and a member of the Virginia [[House of Burgesses]]; [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]] (1734–1797) and [[Richard Henry Lee]] (1732–1794), signers of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|American Declaration of Independence]], with Richard Lee also serving as one of Virginia's inaugural [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]]; [[Henry Lee III|Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee]] (1756–1818), [[lieutenant colonel]] in the [[Continental Army]] and [[Governor of Virginia]]; [[Thomas Sim Lee]] (1745–1819), [[Governor of Maryland]] and lastly, and most famous, General [[Robert E. Lee]] (1807–1870), commander of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] in the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865). Twelfth President [[Zachary Taylor]] (1784–1850, served 1849–1850), and ninth Chief Justice [[Edward Douglass White]] (1845–1921, served 1894–1921) were also descendants of [[Richard Lee I]]. Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]] married [[Sarah Knox Taylor]], daughter of [[Zachary Taylor]].
Most recently, family members have marked over two hundred years of political service in the United States, as [[Blair Lee III]] (1916–1985), a descendant of Richard Henry Lee, served as the second [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland]] when the office was revived, from 1971 to 1979 and Acting [[Governor of Maryland]] from 1977 to 1979. Charles Carter Lee, a descendant of Henry Lee III and a Superior Court Judge in [[Los Angeles County]], [[California]] was named the U.S. team's [[Head of mission|Chef de Mission]] by the [[United States Olympic Committee]] for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
The Society of the Lees of Virginia, composed of descendants of Richard Lee I, was organised in 1921 and supports research on the family and preservation of associated historical sites.
==History== [[File:Col. Richard Lee I.JPG|thumb|upright|Richard Lee I, founder of the family in North America]]
Richard Lee asserted descent from the Lees of [[Shropshire]] and bore a coat of arms which was confirmed in 1660/1 by [[John Gibbon (officer of arms)|John Gibbon]], [[Bluemantle Pursuivant]] of the [[College of Arms]]. In 1988, a study by William Thorndale was published in the ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly,''<ref>William Thorndale, "The Parents of Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 76 (December 1988): 253–68</ref> asserting that [[Richard Lee I]] was actually the son of John Lee, a [[Cloth production|clothier]], and his wife Jane Hancock; that Richard had been born ''not'' at Coton Hall in Shropshire, but in [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] (some distance down the [[River Severn]]); and that several of their immediate relatives had been apprenticed as vintners. The question, then, has been 'how did Richard Lee descend from the family with whom he shared a coat of arms?' The book ''Collections for the Ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee, Virginia Emigrant'', by English genealogist Alan Nicholls<ref>Alan James Nicholls, "Collections for the Ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee, Virginia Emigrant", published at LULU.COM (June 2011)</ref> presented evidence for the English ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee using contemporary documents, transcribing records left by Richard Lee, his family, and their associates. His research, using original source documents, has shown that some of William Thorndale's conclusions were likely based upon prior transcription errors. His work also looks at the records left by the Shropshire and Worcester Lee families. A great-uncle may have been Richard Lee, who was called 'Richard Lee, Gent' buried at Coton Hall's Alveley Parish in 1613.<ref>Harrison Dwight Cavanagh, ''Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants'', Vol. 2 (Dallas, Tex.: p. p., 2014), 118-125, esp. 119.</ref><ref>Richard Bland Lee 5th (1930–2012), "[Lee Family Genealogical Research]" (2009–2013); folder: "Lee: Virginia," vertical files; R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.</ref>
===Colonial Virginia===
In the [[Thirteen Colonies]] destined to [[United States Declaration of Independence|declare independence]] from [[British North America]] and become the [[United States]], the family began when [[Richard Lee I]] immigrated to the [[Colony of Virginia]] and made his fortune in the [[cultivation of tobacco]]. His son [[Richard Lee II]] married [[Laetitia Corbin Lee|Laetitia Corbin]], daughter of The Hon. [[Henry Corbin (colonist)|Henry Corbin]] of Rappahannock County, was a member of the [[House of Burgesses]] and later King's Council. His son, Richard Lee III, was a cotton broker in London for the family and leased to his brothers Thomas and Henry the plantation he inherited from his father, "Machodoc," for "an annual rent of one peppercorn only, payable on Christmas Day". The Lees first gained wider significance with the aforementioned [[Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)|Thomas Lee]] (1690–1750). He became a member of the [[House of Burgesses]] and later went on to found the [[Ohio Company]], and was the co-executor of his uncle, [[John Tayloe I]]'s, estate, what became [[Mount Airy Plantation|Mount Airy]].
===Revolutionary War era=== [[File:Henry Lee III.tif|upright|thumb|General [[Henry Lee III]], "Light Horse Harry," Governor of Virginia]] Thomas Lee<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stratfordhall.org/thomaslee.html?|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708073544/http://stratfordhall.org/thomaslee.html|url-status=dead|title=History Stratford – Thomas Lee 1690–1750|archivedate=8 July 2006}}</ref> (1690–1750) married [[Hannah Harrison Ludwell]]:<ref>Her first cousin twice removed was [[Benjamin Harrison V]]</ref> their children, like the descendants of Thomas Lee's brother [[Henry Lee I]] (1691–1747), included a number of prominent [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] and pre-Revolution political figures.
Thomas and Hannah Lee's two eldest children were [[Philip Ludwell Lee]] (1726–1775) and Hannah Lee (1728–1782).
[[Thomas Ludwell Lee]] (1730–1778) was a member of the Virginia Delegates and a major editor of [[George Mason]]'s [[Virginia Declaration of Rights]] (1776), a precursor to the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], which was signed by his brothers [[Richard Henry Lee]] (1732–1794) and [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]] (1734–1797).
Richard Henry Lee was a delegate to [[Continental Congress]] from Virginia and president of that body, 1774, later serving as [[president of the Continental Congress]] under the [[Articles of Confederation]], and [[United States Senator]] [[List of United States senators from Virginia|from Virginia]] (1789–1792) under the new [[United States Constitution]].
Younger siblings included Alice Lee (1736–1818), who married American Chief Physician William Shippen, Jr.<ref>Shippen's father, [[Continental Congress]]man [[William Shippen Sr.|William Shippen]], was a cousin of [[Peggy Shippen]] wife of [[Benedict Arnold]]</ref> and diplomats [[William Lee (diplomat)|William Lee]] (b. 1739, d. 1795) and [[Arthur Lee (diplomat)|Arthur Lee]] (b. 1740, d. 1792).
Henry Lee's grandson, [[Henry Lee III]] (1756–1818), known as "Light Horse Harry," was a [[Princeton University|Princeton]] graduate who served with great distinction under General [[George Washington]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]], and was the only officer below the rank of General to receive the "Gold Medal," awarded for his leadership at the [[Battle of Paulus Hook]] in [[New Jersey]], on 19 August 1779. He was [[List of governors of Virginia|Governor of Virginia]] from 1791 to 1794. Among his nine children was [[Robert E. Lee|Robert Edward Lee]], later the famed [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] general during the [[American Civil War]].
Henry Lee III's brothers were the noted [[Richard Bland Lee]], a three-term U.S. Congressman from Virginia, and [[Charles Lee (Attorney General)|Charles Lee]] (1758–1815), [[Attorney General of the United States]] from 1795 to 1801.
[[Thomas Sim Lee]], a second cousin of Henry Lee III, was elected [[Governor of Maryland]] in 1779 and 1792 and declined a third term in 1798. Born in the [[Province of Maryland]] in 1745, he played an important part in the birth of [[Maryland]] as a [[U.S. state|state]] and in the birth of the [[United States of America]] as a nation. A great-grandson of Thomas Sim Lee was [[John Lee Carroll]], the 37th [[List of governors of Maryland|Governor of Maryland]].
===Civil War era=== [[File:Robert Edward Lee.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Confederate general Robert E. Lee]] [[Robert E. Lee]] (1807–1870) was the son of Henry Lee III, and probably the most famous member of the Lee family. He served as [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] general in the [[United States Civil War]] and later as President of [[Washington and Lee University]], which was named for him and for [[George Washington]]. Washington and Lee University houses [[Lee Chapel]], burial site of several members of the Lee family. [[Stratford Hall (plantation)|Stratford Hall]], a Lee family estate and birthplace of Robert E. Lee, houses the [[Lee Family Digital Archive]]. He was married to [[Mary Anna Custis Lee|Mary Anna Randolph Custis]],<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fitzchm.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010210021201/http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fitzchm.htm| archive-date = 2001-02-10| title = William Fitzhugh}}</ref> who was a granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]] and also was Lee's third cousin once removed through [[Richard Lee II]], fourth cousin through [[William Randolph]], and third cousin through [[Robert Carter I]]. R. E. Lee's children were [[George Washington Custis Lee]], [[Mary Custis Lee]], [[Robert E. Lee Jr.]], [[Anne Carter Lee]], [[Mildred Childe Lee]], [[Eleanor Agnes Lee]], and [[William H. Fitzhugh Lee]].
Other Lee relations who were general officers during the Civil War were [[Fitzhugh Lee]] (C.S.A.), [[Samuel Phillips Lee]] (U.S. Navy); [[Richard Lucian Page]] (Confederate States ''and'' Navy); [[Edwin Gray Lee]] (C.S.A.) and [[Richard L. T. Beale]] (C.S.A.). Indirect relations of R.E.Lee who were Confederate general officers included [[William N. Pendleton]] and [[Virginia Military Institute]] graduate [[William H. F. Payne]].<ref>A possible relation was Colonel William R. Lee of the [[20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] who was descended from Henry Lee who died 1675 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Possibly Henry Lee was descended either from Sir [[Henry Lee of Ditchley]] or possibly related to Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia [https://books.google.com/books?id=31wSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25 .p.3]-but no proof either way</ref> Two other civil war generals who were related to Lee were [[George B. Crittenden]] (C.S.A.) and [[Thomas Leonidas Crittenden]] (U.S.); their sister was the author [[Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman]]; and their mother was Sarah O. Lee a great-great-granddaughter of Richard Lee I "the Founder". A son of Thomas L. Crittenden, John Jordan Crittenden III, died at the [[Battle of Little Bighorn]] in 1876. Another distant Lee relation was U.S. Admiral [[Willis A. Lee]] of Kentucky.
"Bedford", the [[Jefferson County, West Virginia|Jefferson County]] home of his cousin Edmund J. Lee Jr. (1797–1877), son of [[Edmund Jennings Lee I]], was burned in July 1864, along with others of Confederate sympathizers in what became the [[Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia]].<ref>Bushong, Millard Kessler (1941). A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1719–1940 pp. 231-232.</ref>
=== 20th and 21st centuries === [[File:blair lee I.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Blair Lee (1857–1944), US senator from [[Maryland]]]] [[Francis Preston Blair Lee]] (1857–1944) was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[United States Senate]], representing the [[Maryland|State of Maryland]] from 1914 to 1917. He was also the great-grandson of American patriot [[Richard Henry Lee]], father of [[E. Brooke Lee]] comptroller of Maryland and "Father of Silver Spring" and grandfather of [[Blair Lee III]], [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland]] from 1971 to 1979 and Acting Governor of Maryland from 1977 to 1979.<ref name=bsun>{{cite news|first=Frederick N. |last=Rasmussen |title=Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee, former acting first lady of Maryland, dies at 91 |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2011/08/13/mathilde-b-mimi-lee-former-acting-first-lady-of-maryland-dies-at-91/ |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=2011-08-13 |access-date=2011-09-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002063009/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-08-13/news/bs-md-ob-mathilde-lee-20110812_1_first-lady-canoe-direct-descendant |archive-date= 2 October 2012 }}. [[Willis Augustus Lee]] a Vice Admiral and member of the Kentucky Branch of the Lee family won the Naval Battle of Gaudalcanal in 1942.</ref>
Judge Charles Carter Lee, a direct descendant of [[Henry Lee III]], was selected to represent the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games as the [[United States Olympic Committee]]'s Chef de Mission. Judge Lee, a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge since 1989, was also involved with the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] as he headed a delegation sent to China after the Soviet Union announced a plan to boycott the Olympics in Los Angeles. These talks concluded with China's formal agreement in writing to participate in the 1984 Olympics.
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== Gallery ==
{{gallery | width=150 | File:Col. Thomas Lee.jpg|Thomas Lee (1690–1750), Virginia colonist and cofounder of the Ohio Company | File:Charles Willson Peale - Richard Henry Lee - NPG.74.5 - National Portrait Gallery (cropped).jpg|[[Richard Henry Lee]] (1732–1794), signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] and [[president of the Continental Congress]] |File:RLPage.jpg|Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army |File:Samuel Phillips Lee.jpg|Samuel Phillips Lee, United States Navy Rear Admiral |File:Willis A. Lee;h95009.jpg|Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, Jr., USN; circa 1942. }}
== The Society of the Lees of Virginia ==
The Society of the Lees of Virginia, organized in 1921, is composed of descendants of the Lee family's original [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] immigrants, [[Richard Lee I]] and his wife, Ann Constable. The Society is actively involved in many endeavors consistent with its ongoing mission, including: * Helping to coordinate and promote an up-to-date contextual understanding of the family derived from archeological, genealogical, and historical research;<ref>{{cite web |author1=Moses |title=Transcript of "The Lost Child of Richard Lee of Ditchley; re: Lucy Lee who married Baldwin Matthews Smith |url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lelandva/genealogy/lucylee1.html |website=Rootsweb |access-date=23 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250126225403/https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lelandva/genealogy/lucylee1.html |archive-date=Jan 26, 2025 |date=October 29, 1967|first=Grace McLean}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Enslaved Africans and African Americans at Stratford Hall |url=https://www.stratfordhall.org/enslavedcommunity/ |website=Stratford Hall Historic Preserve |access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Kelley Fanto Deetz |title=Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room: The story of Caesar, an enslaved chef and chocolatier in Colonial Virginia |url=https://theconversation.com/oppression-in-the-kitchen-delight-in-the-dining-room-the-story-of-caesar-an-enslaved-chef-and-chocolatier-in-colonial-virginia-151356}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stratford Hall honors the enslaved people who built the Lee family's plantation and its wealth |url=https://www.wvtf.org/2023-07-27/stratford-hall-honors-the-enslaved-hands-who-built-the-lee-familys-plantation-and-its-wealth |website=Virginia Public Radio |access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref> * Curating the [[Lee Family Digital Archive]], a central repository of Lee family papers and secondary sources;<ref>{{cite web |title=Project Overview |url=https://leefamilyarchive.org/about/ |website=Lee Family Archive |access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref> *Preserving and interpreting sites of historical importance such as gravesites,<ref>{{cite web |title=Lee Burial Sites |url=https://thesocietyoftheleesofva.org/index.php/the-lees-of-virginia/lee-burial-sites |website=The Society of the Lees of Virginia |access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref> [[Stratford Hall (plantation)|Stratford Hall]] and the [[Lee–Fendall House|Lee–Fendell House]]; *Reuniting family members through its annual meeting and other events.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Society |url=https://www.thesocietyoftheleesofva.org/index.php/about-the-society/about-the-society2 |website=The Society of the Lees of Virginia |access-date=22 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241102085744/https://www.thesocietyoftheleesofva.org/index.php/about-the-society/about-the-society2 |archive-date=Nov 2, 2024}}</ref>
==Family tree== Below is a list of notable members of the Lee family, beginning with Virginia Governor Thomas Lee and Henry Lee:{{Original research inline|date=November 2017|reason=With no sources, much of this tree may be wrong}} {{hidden begin|border=1px #aaa solid|title=Partial Lee family tree|ta1=center}} {{tree list}} * [[Richard Lee II]] (1647–1714), ** [[Henry Lee I]] (1691–1747), ∞ 1722 : Mary Bland (1704–1764) *** [[Richard "Squire" Lee|Richard Lee]] (1726–1795), ∞ 1786 : Sarah Bland Poythress (1768–1828) *** [[Henry Lee II|Henry Giles Lee II]] (1730–1787), ∞ 1753 : Lucy Ludwell Grymes (1734–1792) **** [[Henry Lee III|Henry Lee III, 9th Governor of Virginia]] (1756–1818), ∞ 1782 : Matilda Ludwell Lee (1764–1790); ∞ 1793 : [[Anne Hill Carter Lee|Anne Hill Carter]] (1773–1829) ***** Lucy Grymes Lee (1786–1860), ∞ 1802 : Bernard Moore Carter (1780–1842) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} Charles Henry Carter (1804–1872), ∞ 1830 : [[George Calvert (planter)#Family life|Rosalie Eugenia Calvert]] (1806–1845) ******* Alice Carter (born 1832), ∞ 1851 : [[Oden Bowie|Oden Bowie, 34th Governor of Maryland]] (1826–1894) ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Annette Carter Bowie (born 1863), ∞ 1884 : Eugene Roberts (born 1859) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} Eugene Bowie Roberts (1898–1983), ∞ 1933 : [[Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi#Marriage|Countess Cornelia Széchényi]] (1908–1958) ********** {{Tree list/final branch}} Cornelia Carter Roberts (1936–1982), ∞ 1969 : [[Coudenhove-Kalergi#Family members|Count Hans-Heinrich Richard Gerolf Karl Urban Maria Omnes Sancti von Coudenhove-Kalergi]] (1926–2004) *********** {{Tree list/final branch}} Count Dominik Cornelius Valentin Gerolf Eugene von Coudenhove-Kalergi (b 1973), ∞ 2009 : [[Vincenz Liechtenstein|Princess Adelheid Marie Beatrice Zita von Liechtenstein]] (born 1981) ******* {{Tree list/final branch}} Bernard Carter (1834–1912), ∞ 1858 : Mary Buckner Ridgely (1834–1894) ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[John Ridgely Carter]] (1864–1944), ∞ 1887 : Alice Morgan (1865–1933) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Mildred, Countess of Gosford|Caroline Mildred Carter]] (1888–1965), ∞ 1910 (div 1928) : [[Archibald Acheson, 5th Earl of Gosford|Archibald Charles Montagu Brabazon Acheson, 5th Earl of Gosford]] (1877–1954) ********** [[Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford|Archibald Alexander John Stanley Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford]] (1911–1966), ∞ 1935 (div 1960) : Francesca Augusta Maria Cagiati (1912–2009); ∞ 1960 : Cynthia Margaret Cave (1911–2015) *********** {{Tree list/final branch}} Charles David Alexander John Sparrow Acheson, 7th Earl of Gosford (born 1942) ********** Lady Mildred Camilla Nichola Acheson (1917–1988), ∞ 1937 (div 1949) : Hans-Christoph Schenk Freiherr von Stauffenberg (1911–2005); ∞ 1950 : [[Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst|Axel Ernst-August Clamor Franz Albrecht Erich Leo Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst]] (1919–1993) ********** {{Tree list/final branch}} Lady Mary Virginia Shirley Acheson (1919–1996), ∞ 1941 : Fernando Corcuera y Mier (1914–1978) *********** {{Tree list/final branch}} Jaime Corcuera y Acheson (born 1955), ∞ 1983 : [[Archduke Felix of Austria#Marriage and children|Archduchess Myriam of Austria]] (born 1959) ***** [[Henry Lee IV]] (1787–1837), ∞ 1817 : Anne Robinson McCarty (1798–1840) ***** [[Sydney Smith Lee]] (1802–1869), ∞ 1834 : [[John Mason (planter)#Marriage and children|Anna Maria Mason]] (1811–1898) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Fitzhugh Lee|Fitzhugh Lee, 40th Governor of Virginia]] (1835–1905) ***** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Robert E. Lee|Robert Edward Lee]] (1807–1870), ∞ 1831 : [[Mary Anna Custis Lee|Mary Anna Randolph Custis]] (1808–1873) ****** [[George Washington Custis Lee]] (1832–1913) ****** [[Mary Custis Lee]] (1835–1918) ****** [[William Henry Fitzhugh Lee]] (1837–1891), ∞ 1859 : Charlotte Georgiana Wickham (1841–1863); ∞ 1867 : Mary Tabb Bolling (1846–1924) ****** [[Anne Carter Lee]] (1839–1862) ****** [[Eleanor Agnes Lee]] (1841–1873) ****** [[Robert Edward Lee, Jr.]] (1843–1914), ∞ 1871 : Charlotte Haxall (1848–1872); ∞ 1894 : Juliet Carter (1860–1915) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Mildred Childe Lee]] (1846–1905) **** [[Charles Lee (Attorney General)|Charles Lee]] (1758–1815), ∞ 1789 : [[Richard Henry Lee#Marriages and children|Anne Lee]] (1770–1804); ∞ 1809 : Margaret Christian Scott (1783–1843) **** [[Richard Bland Lee|Richard Bland Lee I]] (1761–1827), ∞ 1794 : Elizabeth Collins (1768–1858), owner of [[Sully Historic Site|Sully]] ***** Ann Matilda Lee (1799–1880), ∞ : Bailey Washington III (1787–1854) ****** Euphan Wallace Washington (1831–1918), ∞ 1856 : [[Pierson B. Reading|Pierson Barton Reading]] (1816–1868) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} Anna Louisa Washington (1836–1885), ∞ 1862 : Walter Dorsey Davidge (1823–1901) ******* {{Tree list/final branch}} William Fendall Davidge (1871–1941), ∞ 1896 : Estelle Courtenay Washington (1875–1942) ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Courtenay Washington Davidge (1896–1960), ∞ 1922 : Lamont Waltman Marvin (1896–1971) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Lee Marvin]] (1924–1987), actor ***** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Zaccheus Collins Lee]] (1805–1859), ∞ 1837 : Martha Ann Jenkins (1819–1864) **** Mary Lee (1764–1827), ∞ 1791 : [[Philip Richard Fendall I]] (1734–1805), owner of [[Lee-Fendall House]] ***** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Philip Richard Fendall II]] (1794–1868), ∞ 1827 : Elizabeth Mary Young (1804–1859) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} Philip Richard Fendall III (1832–1879), ∞ : Anne Catherine Tredick (born 1836) ******* {{Tree list/final branch}} Marian Fendall (1870–1949), ∞ 1895 : [[Jacob Wendell (actor)|Jacob Wendell III]] (1869–1911) ******** [[Catherine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon|Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell]] (1900–1977), ∞ 1922 (div 1936) : [[Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon|Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon]] (1898–1987); ∞ : Geoffrey Seymour Grenfell (1898–1940) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon|Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon]] (1924–2001), ∞ 1956 : Jean Margaret Wallop, owner of [[Highclere Castle]] ********** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon|George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon]] (born 1956), ∞ 1989 (div 1998) : Jayne Wilby; ∞ 1999 : Fiona Aitken, owner of [[Highclere Castle]] ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway|Philippa Fendall Wendell]] (1905–1974), ∞ 1924 : [[Randolph Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway|Randolph Algernon Ronald Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway]] (1892–1978) ********* Antonia Marian Amy Isabel Stewart (1925–1971), ∞ : [[Dalrymple baronets#Dalrymple baronets, of New Hailes (1887 UK)|Charles Mark Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet]] (1915–1971) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway|Randolph Keith Reginald Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway]] (1928–2020), ∞ 1975 : Lily May Budge (died 1999) **** [[Edmund Jennings Lee I]] (1772–1843), ∞ 1796 : [[Richard Henry Lee#Marriages and children|Sarah Caldwell Lee]] (1775–1837) ***** Edmund Jennings Lee II (1797–1877), ∞ : Henrietta Bedinger (1810–1898) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} Edmund Jennings Lee III (1845–1896), ∞ 1876 : Rebecca Lawrence (died 1882) ******* {{Tree list/final branch}} Edmund Jennings Lee IV (1877–1962), ∞ 1911 : Lucy Chaplin (1884–1971) ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Duncan Lee|Duncan Chaplin Lee]] (1913–1988) ***** {{Tree list/final branch}} Anne Harriotte Lee (1799–1863), ∞ 1820 : John Lloyd (1775–1854) ****** {{Tree list/final branch}} Anne Harriotte Lloyd (1826–1888), ∞ : John Stearns (1812–1864) ******* {{Tree list/final branch}} John Lloyd Stearns (born 1852), ∞ 1878 : Ella Powell (born 1856) ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Robert Lawrence Stearns (1892–1977), ∞ 1920 : Amy Pitkin (1897–1985) ********* {{Tree list/final branch}} Marion Lloyd Stearns (1921–2009), ∞ 1946 : [[Byron White|Byron Raymond White]] (1917–2002) ********** {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Nancy White (field hockey)|Nancy Pitkin White]] (born 1958), ∞ 1985 : Peter Maxwell Lippe **** {{Tree list/final branch}} Anne Lee (1776–1857), ∞ 1793 : William Byrd Page (1773–1818) ***** {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Richard Lucian Page]] (1807–1901) ** [[Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)|Thomas Lee]] (1690–1750), Governor of [[Virginia Colony]] 1749–1750. Father of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, and Arthur Lee. *** [[Richard Henry Lee]] (1732–1794), Delegate to the Continental Congress from [[Virginia]] 1774, member of the Virginia Legislature 1777, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1789–1792. Son of Thomas Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/925/000049778/|title=Richard Henry Lee|website=www.nndb.com}}</ref> **** {{Tree list/final branch}}Francis Lightfoot Lee II (1782–1850), ∞ Jane Digges Fitzgerald (1789–1816). ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Samuel Phillips Lee]] (1812–1897), ∞ [[Elizabeth Blair Lee]] (1818–1906). ****** {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Blair Lee I]] (1857–1944), [[Maryland]] State Senator 1906–1912, candidate for Governor of Maryland 1911, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1914–1917, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1916. Great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000189|title=LEE, Blair - Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref> ******* {{Tree list/final branch}}[[E. Brooke Lee]], Comptroller of Maryland 1919–1923, Maryland Secretary of State 1923, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924 1940, Maryland House Delegate 1927, candidate for U.S. Representative from Maryland 1942. Son of Blair Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#03919U7RY|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, E to F|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> ******** [[Blair Lee III]] (1916–1985), delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1948 1960 1964 1972, Maryland House Delegate 1955–1962, Maryland State Senator 1967–1969, Maryland Secretary of State 1969–1971, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland 1971–1979, Governor of Maryland 1977–1979. Son of E. Brooke Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#RL20NFXLI|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, A to B|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> ******** {{Tree list/final branch}}E. Brooke Lee, Jr., delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1944. Son of E. Brooke Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#S3Q0K8E6H|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lee, E to F|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> *** [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]] (1734–1797), Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1775, Virginia State Senator 1778, member of the Virginia Legislature 1780. Son of Thomas Lee. *** {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Arthur Lee (diplomat)|Arthur Lee]] (1740–1792), member of the Virginia Legislature 1781, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1782. Son of Thomas Lee. * {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Hancock Lee]] ∞ [[Isaac Allerton Jr.|Sarah Allerton]] ** {{Tree list/final branch}}Elizabeth Lee ∞ Zachary Taylor *** [[Richard Taylor (colonel)|Richard Taylor]] (1744–1829), ∞ 1779 : Sarah Dabney Strother **** [[Zachary Taylor]] (1784–1850), President of the United States 1849–1850. Second cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#RAU1DK7S1|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Taylor, U to Z|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> ***** [[Sarah Knox Taylor]] (1814–1835), ∞ 1835 : [[Jefferson Davis]] (1808–1889), candidate for [[Mississippi]] State Representative 1843, U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1845–1846, U.S. Senator from Mississippi 1847-1851 1857–1861, candidate for Governor of Mississippi 1851, U.S. Secretary of War 1853–1857, President of the [[Confederate States]] 1861–1865.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ngeorgia.com/ang/Jefferson_Davis|title=Jefferson Davis|website=ngeorgia.com|access-date=21 April 2013|archive-date=26 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126011907/http://ngeorgia.com/ang/Jefferson_Davis|url-status=dead}}</ref> ***** [[Mary Elizabeth Bliss]] (1824–1909), ∞ 1848: [[William Wallace Smith Bliss]] (1815–1863), [[Secretary to the President of the United States]] ***** [[Richard Taylor (Confederate general)|Richard Taylor]] (1826–1879), general ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. Taylor ****** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ******* {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ******** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ********* {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Victor Crist]] (1957-), [[Florida]] State Representative 1993–present. Descendant of Zachary Taylor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statesurge.com/members/114884-victor-d-crist-florida|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910164717/http://www.statesurge.com/members/114884-victor-d-crist-florida|url-status=usurped|archive-date=10 September 2012|title=Victor D. Crist, Florida Senator|website=www.statesurge.com}}</ref> **** [[Joseph Pannell Taylor]] (1796–1864), general ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}Sarah Taylor, ∞ [[David Rumph Jones]] (1825–1863), general **** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. Taylor ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. Taylor ****** {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Edmund H. Taylor Jr.]] (1830–1923), Mayor of [[Frankfort, Kentucky]] 1871-1877 1881–1890; [[Kentucky]] State Senator 1902–1904. Grandnephew of Zachary Taylor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#02S1A5NUB|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Taylor, E to F|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> *** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. Taylor **** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ****** N. N. ******* {{Tree list/final branch}}[[Elliot Woolfolk Major]] (1864–1949), [[Missouri]] State Senator 1897–1901, Attorney General of Missouri 1909–1913, Governor of Missouri 1913–1917. First cousin thrice removed of Zachary Taylor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#RIO0QXQJO|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Major to Majoras|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> and Second cousin thrice removed of [[James Madison]].<ref name=Madison>{{cite web|url=https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-chart.php?name=7872+zachary+taylor&kin=9339+james+madison&via=9349+james+taylor+jr|title=Family relationship of Zachary Taylor and James Madison via James Taylor Jr..|website=famouskin.com}}</ref> ****** {{Tree list/final branch}}N. N. ******* {{Tree list/final branch}}Edgar Bailey Woolfolk (1865–1956), member of the Missouri Legislature 1899–1901, Missouri State Court Judge 1913–1943. First cousin thrice removed of Zachary Taylor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#RKS1AM034|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Woody to Worthing|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> and Second cousin thrice removed of James Madison.<ref name=Madison/> {{Tree list/end}} {{hidden end}} U.S. Representative [[David Dreier]] also has stated that he is a distant relative of Richard Bland Lee.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} Zachary Taylor was also nephew by marriage of Maryland House Delegates [[Benjamin Mackall IV]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#1LX0VDG40|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mackaig to Mackay|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> and Thomas Mackall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#1LX0Z7BUW|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mackaig to Mackay|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref>
==See also== * [[First Families of Virginia]] * [[Zachary Taylor]] * [[Carroll family]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Nagel, Paul C., ''The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family'', Oxford University Press, reprinted 1992, {{ISBN|0-19-507478-5}}. * Lee, Edmund Jennings (editor), ''Lee of Virginia'', Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. reprinted 1983, {{ISBN|0-8063-0604-1}} * Burton J. Hendrick (author), "The Lees of Virginia", Halcyon House Editions, published and distributed by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 386 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York. Hardcover, copyright 1935, ASIN: B000NWSC4Q
==External links== * [http://www.stratfordhall.org/ Straford Hall, home of the Lees of Virginia] * [http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0829234.html Profile of Richard Lee] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2005/04/08/history_lee_house_feature.shtml BBC on Shropshire Lees] * [http://thesocietyoftheleesofva.org/ Society of the Lees of Virginia] * [http://www.leesofvirginia.org/ Lees of Virginia] * [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1166 Lee Family papers] at the [[University of Maryland Libraries|University of Maryland libraries]]
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