Members of the Lee Family of Virginia Appearing in the Papers of George Washington (Appendix to George Washington and the Lees of Virginia) Note: The abbreviation GW refers to George Washington. References following name entries are to GW's Diaries and Correspondence (University of Virginia Press). Lee, Mr. (provided to GW ½ bushel spring barley seed). Diaries, 5:92 Lee, Mr. (visits Mount Vernon overnight with Philip Richard Fendall). Diaries, 3:204 Lee, Mr. (visits Mount Vernon to sollicit Charity for his Mother who represented herself as having nine Children a bad husband and no support. Diaries, 4:219 Lee, Ann Fairfax Washington was GW's half brother Lawrence Washington's wife and the inheritor of Mount Vernon. She was the sister of GW's close friends, Bryan Fairfax and George William Fairfax, and married after Lawerence's death George Lee of Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County. Diaries, 1:xxii, 3, 34, 118, 242; 2:30, 31; 3:168 Colonial Series, 6:199, 418; 7:6, 172-73, 433; 8:225; 9:353, 354 Lee, Anne ( Nancy ) a daughter of Richard Henry Lee, married Charles Lee on 11 February 1789 Diaries, 5:54, 55 (illus.); 6:258, 320 Presidential Series, 6:485 (id.) Lee, Anne Aylett (1738 1768) was the wife of Richard Henry Lee of Chantilly, a few miles down the Potomac River from Pope's Creek and Stratford Hall across Nomini Bay from Bushfield, home of GW's brother John Augustine Washington. She was the half sister of the wife of GW's half brother Augustine Washington, who was also named Anne Aylett. Diaries, 3:326 Lee, Anne Gaskins Pinckard was the second wife of Richard Henry Lee and the mother of Sarah ( Sally ) Lee. Diaries, 5:54; 6:258 Lee, Anne Hill Carter (1773 1829) was a daughter of Charles Carter of Shirley and his second wife, Anne Butler Moore Carter. She became the second wife of Light-Horse Harry Lee in 1793. Diaries, 6:251 (illus.) Retirement Series, 1:494 (id.) Lee, Arthur (1740 1792) served as one of the American commissioners in France until 1780, when he returned to Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1781 to 1783 and in 1785, and in the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1784. In 1785 he was appointed to the Board of Treasury, serving until the new government was established. Although he supported a strong federal government he criticized the Constitution because of its lack of a Bill of rights. Diaries, 2:54, 74, 75 (illus.), 76, 95; 3:372, 373; 4:109, 111, 161, 186, 311, 312; 5:122, 139 (illus.), 140, 277, 426, 455; 6:55 Colonial Series, 7:224, 416; 8:63, 64, 79, 152-53, 199, 295, 322; 10:365; letters from: to GW, 8:498-99 Revolutionary War Series, 3:479 (id.); 4:256-57 (id.) Presidential Series, 3:358 (id.)
Lee, Cassius (1779 1798) was the youngest son of Richard Henry Lee. He died while a student at Nassau Hall. Retirement Series, 1:176 (id.) Lee, Charles (1758 1815) was a brother of Light-Horse Harry Lee. He served as naval officer of the South Potomac Distric He became GW's attorney after the Revolution and was appointed by GW to the office of attorney general of the U.S. in 1795. He also served as naval officer of the South Potomac District and as collector of customs at Alexandria. He served until 1801, after which returned to law practice. Last years spent at his home near Warrenton in Fauquier County. In 1789 he married Anne Lee (1770 1804), daughter of Richard Henry Lee, and later he married Margaret Scott Peyton (1783 1843), a widow. Diaries, 4:290, 5:53, 6:307, 315, 336; draws legal papers for GW, 4:84; id., 4:85; at Mount Vernon, 4:95, 156, 168, 243, 5:19, 30, 41, 152, 236, 260, 383, 399, 6:258, 314, 320, 321, 357; appointed attorney general of U. S., 6:258 Confederation Series, 2:374 (id.); 4:104 (id.) Presidential Series, 1:83 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:126 (id.) Lee, Cornelia (1780 1815) was a daughter of William Lee of Greenspring and his wife Hannah Philippa Ludwell. Her older sister, Portia, married William Hodgson in May 1799, and in 1806 Cornelia married John Hopkins (c.1757 1827), a Richmond merchant who served as commissioner of continental loans for the state of Virginia from 1780 to 1794 and who had moved to Alexandria before their marriage. Diaries, 6:279, 352, 353 Lee, Edmund Jennings (1772 1843) was the fifth son of Henry Lee of Leesylvania. He and his wife settled in Alexandria, where he practiced law. Diaries, 6:258, 336, 359, 360 (illus.) Retirement Series, 2:226 (id.) Lee, Elizabeth Armistead ( Betsey ) was the second wife of Richard Henry Lee's son Ludwell Lee (1760 1836), of Shuter's (Shooter's) Hill outside Alexandria and later Belmont in Loudon County near Leesburg, and the daughter of Bowles and Mary Fontaine Armistead. She and Ludwell married on 30 May 1797. Diaries, 6:255, 305, 306, 313, 336, 352, 353 Lee, Elizabeth Collins was the wife of Richard Bland Lee. Diaries, 4:290 (illus.) Lee, Elizabeth Steptoe (Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall; died c.1789) widow of Philip Ludwell Lee of Stratford. She and her later husband Philip Richard Fendall were married about 1780 and lived at Stratford Hall until the marriage of Elizabeth's elder daughter, Matilda Lee, to Light-Horse Harry Lee in 1782. Elizabeth and Fendall then moved to Alexandria, leaving Henry and Matilda in possession of Stratford. Diaries, 4:168, 181, 183, 216, 217, 218; 5:19, 20, 30, 36, 38, 67, 365, 426 Lee, Elliot, whom GW noted in his diaries as visiting Mount Vernon in December 1788, was William Aylett Lee. Diaries, 5:432 Lee, Evelyn Byrd Beverley was the wife of George Lee (c.1768 1805) of Loudoun County, a son of Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730 1778). She was a daughter of Robert Beverley (1740 1800) of Blandfield in Essex County and sister of Robert Beverley (1767 1823), the inheritor of Blandfield. Diaries, 6:285 Lee, Flora was the daughter of Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall and her first husband, Philip Ludwell Lee. She was the cousin and first wife of Richard Henry Lee's second eldest son, Ludwell Lee (1760 1836) of Shuter's (Shooter's) Hill near Alexandria and later Belmont in Loudon County near Leesburg. Her sister Matilda Lee married another cousin, Light-Horse Harry Lee. Diaries, 4:216, 217, 218; 5:30, 31, 99, 100, 324, 418; 6:255 Lee, Francis Lightfoot (1734 1797) lived at Menokin in Richmond County. He became a signer of the Declaration of Independence while serving as a virginia delegate to the Continental Congress. Colonial Series, 5:265, 288, 315, 316; 6:372; 7:219-22, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153, 569, 571; 10:99-100 Revolutionary War Series, 1:381 (id.) Confederation Series, 1:207 (id.); 5:139 (id.) Lee, George (1714 1761) of Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County was the second husband of Ann Fairfax Washington, the widow of GW's half brother Lawrence Washington. Diaries, 2:30; 3:168 Lee, George (c.1768 1805) of Loudoun County was a son of Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730 1778). He was married to Evelyn Byrd Beverley, a daughter of Robert Beverley (1740 1800) of Blandfield in Essex County and sister of
Robert Beverley (1767 1823), the inheritor of Blandfield. George Lee's visit to Mount Vernon included one with his first cousin Ludwell Lee and either his father-in-law or brother-in-law in March 1798. Diaries, 6:257, 285 Colonial Series, Lee, George, 1:229, 231, 270; 7:433; and division of slaves, 1:227-31; 7:172; id., 1:227-31; 6:199; and lease of Mount Vernon, 1:232, 233, 234; 6:198, 199, 416, 418; 7:4, 9, 106; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 3:351, 352, 437, 438; 4:195, 198, 365; marriage of, 6:416; land surveyed in his name, 8:568; and his estate, 9:353, 354 Retirement Series, 3:401 (id.) Lee, George Fairfax (1754 1804) was the son of George Lee and his wife Ann Fairfax Washington Lee, the wife of GW's half brother Lawrence, and the heir of Mount Pleasant. Retirement Series, 1:46 (id.) Lee, Hancock, (1709 1762) Colonial Series, 7:173 Lee, Hancock (1740 1819) and his first cousin Hancock Taylor went on a surveying trip into Kentucky in the spring of 1774 during which time the latter was killed. Diaries, 3:235, 236 Colonial Series, 9:125-26 Lee, Hannah (1765 1801) was the second daughter of Richard Henry Lee. In 1787 she married Corbin Washington (1765 c.1799), the son of GW's brother John Augustine Washington ( Jack ; 1736 1787). Diaries, 4:181, 182 Confederation Series, 3:197 (id.) Lee, Hannah Ludwell (1701 c.1749) was the wife of Thomas Lee of Stratford Hall. Their children included the five famous Lee brothers of the Revolution. Diaries, 2:74; 3:8; 5:357 Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell was the wife of William Lee and the mother of William Ludwell Lee (1775 1803). Colonial Series, 8:295 Lee, Henry (1691 1747) of Lee Hall in Westmoreland County. His children included a younger son, Colonial Henry Lee (1729 1787) of Leesylvania in Prince William County, who sometimes visited Mount Vernon. Diaries, 2:95, 167 Lee, Henry (1729 1787) of Leesylvania in Prince William County was a younger son of Henry Lee of Lee Hall in Westmoreland County and a cousin of the five famous Lee brothers of the Revolution. A colonel in the Virginia provincial service until the Revolution, Lee and GW were both first elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758. After the Revolutionary War Lee represented Fairfax and Prince William counties in the Virginia legislature. He was married to Lucy Grymes, with whom he had sons Light-Horse Harry, Charles, Richard Bland, Theodorick, and Edmund Jennings, and daughters Lucy, Mary, and Anne. In April 1785 Lee sent to GW 12 Horse Chesnut Trees (small) and an equal number of cuttings of the Tree Box. They appeared to have been sometime out of the ground being very dry. Planted 4 of the Chesnuts in my Serpentine Walks and 4 of the Box in my shrubberies two on each side the rest in the Vineyard. Diaries, 2:23, 95 (illus.), 96, 100, 167, 190; 3:52, 144, 321; 4:290; 5:53, 206; 6:258, 336, 346 Colonial Series, 3:117; 8:138; id., 1:34; 2:88; 3:100; 5:185; 7:158; and Prince William militia, 2:252; 3:68, 99, 267; 4:236, 237; 5:229, 230; election challenged, 3:97; council of war, 3:129-31; charters ship for tobacco, 7:157, 163; and Dismal Swamp Company, 7:271; accounts with, 7:434, 495, 496; and the Savage affair, 7:502, 506, 513; 8:110-11; elected burgess, 8:569, 571; and meeting at Raleigh Tavern, 10:99-100; letters from: to GW, 4:272; 7:502-6; letters to: from GW, 2:87-88; 3:28; 4:222-23, 257-58, 275-76; 5:184-85; from John Blair, 5:185 Revolutionary War Series, 11:63 (id.) Confederation Series, 1:485 (id.) Lee, Henry, Jr. ( Light-Horse Harry ; 1756 1818), was the Revolutionary War cavalry hero and later member of the Virginia House of Delegates, governor of Virginia, and U.S. Congress. He made extensive land speculation deals, including some with GW. Lee married two times, first to Matilda Lee (d. 1790), the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall and the heiress to Stratford, and the second time to Anne Hill Carter (1773 1829), a daughter of Charles Carter of Shirley and his second wife, Anne Butler Moore Carter. Among the children of Lee and his second was Robert E. Lee. When GW was considering candidates for the command of the new military force that Congress authorized in 1792, he described Lee as having a better head & more resource than any of them, but no economy, & being a junior officer, we shd lose benefit of good seniors who wd not serve under him. Diaries, 3:102, 321 (illus.); 4:85, 168, 169, 217, 290, 5:19, 53, 324, 432, 6:336; id., 3:321, 4:118, 6:251; at Mount Vernon, 3:321, 4:241, 5:84, 99, 100, 129, 220, 318, 415, 431, 432, 443, 6:251, 291, 319--20, 346; and the Revolutionary War, 3:380, 381, 6:143; sends GW plants and seeds, 4:118, 135, 286, 302, 5:130, 315, 316; GW visits, 5:107, 426; and St. Clair expedition, 6:106; and Whiskey Insurrection, 6:174, 177, 186, 193, 195, 196, 197; elected to House of Representatives, 6:344 Colonial Series, 2:88
Revolutionary War Series, 11:63-64 (id.) Confederation Series, 2:140 (id.) Presidential Series, 1:96-97 (id.); 10:119 (id.) Lee, John (1709 1789) was known as Captain and lived on Chopawamsic Creek in Stafford County. Diaries, 2:331 Colonial Series, 8:82 Lee, John (1724 1767) of Essex and Westmoreland counties. Known as Colonel, he was the second husband of Mary Ball Smith, to whom he left life right to his land and slaves at Cabin Point in Westmoreland County, about three and one-half miles east of Bushfield near the mouth of the Lower Machodoc Creek. Diaries, 2:88, 278 Colonial Series, 8:83; 9:35 Lee, John, Jr., of Essex County was the son of Colonel John Lee. Colonial Series, 8:83 Lee, Lancelot was George William Fairfax's nephew, the son of his sister Ann Fairfax Washington Lee by her second husband, George Lee of Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County. Diaries, 3:167, 168 Presidential Series, 1:193 (id.) Lee, Lucy (b. 1774) was a daughter of Henry Lee of Leesylvania and a sister of Light-Horse Harry Lee and Mary Lee Fendall, the third wife of Philip Richard Fendall. Diaries, 6:336 Lee, Lucy Grymes (1786 1860) was the third child of Light-Horse Harry and his first wife Matilda Lee. As an infant she was left in the care of her grandmother, Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall, in Alexandria, because of her mother's poor health. Diaries, 5:19; 6:251 Colonial Series, 7:496 Lee, Lucy Grymes was daughter of Charles Grymes of Moratico in Richmond County and the the wife of Colonial Henry Lee of Leesylvania. Diaries, 2:95, 96, 100 Lee, Ludwell (1760 1836) was the second eldest son of Richard Henry Lee. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1787 to 1790 and later in the Virginia senate. Lee married two times, first to his cousin Flora Lee, a daughter of Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall and her first husband, Philip Ludwell Lee, in 1788, and then to Elizabeth Armistead, in 1797. Lee lived at Shuter's (Shooter's) Hill outside of Alexandria, and later, for much longer, at Belmont in Loudon County, which still stands in sight of Route 7 east of Leesburg. Diaries, 4:217, 231; 5:324, 418, 432; 6:255, 285, 305, 306, 307, 313, 336, 352, 353, 365 Confederation Series, 3:72 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:136 (id.) Lee, Margaret Scott Peyton (1783 1843) was the second wife off Charles Lee (1758 1815). Diaries, 6:258 Lee, Mary (born c.1775) was a daughter of Henry Lee of Leesylvania and a sister of Light-Horse Harry Lee and Lucy Lee (b. 1774), the third wife of Philip Richard Fendall. Lee, Mary (b. 1764) was the eldest daughter of Richard Henry Lee. In 1792 she became the second wife of GW's nephew, William Augustine Washington. Diaries, 4:168; 5:206, 207, 208, 253, 254, 383 Confederation Series, 3:197 (id.) Lee, Mary Aylett was the wife of Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730 1778) of Belleview in Stafford County, with whom she sons William Aylett and Thomas Ludwell Lee (d. 1807). Presidential Series, 1:191 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:46 (id.) Lee, Mary Smith Ball (d. 1802) was a daughter of Philip Smith (c.1695 1743) and his first wife Mary Matthews and the widow of, first, Jesse Ball (1716 1747) of Lancaster County, and, next, Colonel John Lee (1724 1767) of Essex and Westmoreland counties. In October 1767 Mary Lee sold to GW four slaves, including a mulatto body servant, William ( Billy ; Will ), who accompanied GW throughout the Revolutionary War and lived at Mount Vernon after his master's death in 1799. Mary Lee married a third time in August 1768, to an old widower first cousin, John Smith (1715 1771). GW dined with them the day after their marriage, at Cabin Point in Westmoreland County. Her last two marriages netted her a very nice income, and she never had any children.
Diaries, 2:88 Colonial Series, 8:82, 83, 103 Retirement Series, 4:494 (id.) Lee, Mary Bland Diaries, 2:167 Lee, Mary Digges Diaries, 2:84; 4:141, 179; 5:2; 6:288 Lee, Matilda (d. 1790) was the eldest daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee (1727 1775) and Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall (died c.1789) and the first wife of Light-Horse Harry Lee, whom she married in 1782. Diaries, 4:118, 168, 216, 217, 218, 241; 5:19, 99, 100, 107, 220, 426; 6:251 Confederation Series, 2:140 (id.) Lee, Mildred Washington (b. 1760) was a daugther of GW's brother John Augustine and his wife Hannah Bushrod Washington and the second wife of Richard Henry Lee's eldest son Thomas Lee (1758 1805), a lawyer at Dumfries. Diaries, 6:107 Confederation Series, 1:262 (id.) Presidential Series, 3:247 (id.); 9:239 (id.) Lee, Philip Ludwell (1727 1775) was a member of the Ohio Company, of which GW's half brother Lawrence Washington played a prominent role. Diaries, 1:120; 4:118, 168, 217 Colonial Series, 3:32; 7:209; 9:353, 354; and Ohio Company, 1:59; and recruiting, 4:58, 100; id., 4:101-2; 5:154; 7:212; 8:571; on council, 4:124, 125-26; recommends French Mason, 5:153; casts illegal votes, 8:569; and soldiers' bounty lands, 9:121; town laid out on his land, 9:340; death of, 10:271 Lee, Philip Ludwell (c.1785 1792) Diaries, 5:19 Lee, Portia (1777 1840) was a daughter of William Lee of Greenspring and his wife Hannah Philippa Ludwell. After her father died she and her sister Cornelia lived for a time with her cousin Richard Bland Lee at Sully. Portia married William Hodgson in May 1799, and in 1806 her younger sister, Cornelia, married John Hopkins. Diaries, 6:306 Lee, Richard ( Squire ; 1726 1795) of Lee Hall in Westmoreland County, the son of Henry and Mary Bland Lee and elder brother of Colonial Henry Lee of Leesylvania, was a Westmoreland burgess from 1754 to 1774, naval officer of the South Potomac district, and a member of the Ohio Company. He purchased a spinning wheel from GW in July 1769. Diaries, 1:120; 2:167, 228; 3:245, 312, 319; 5:36 Colonial Series, election, 5:288; 8:569; carries money, 7:299; account with, 8:221; and Samuel Washington, 8:521; at Mount Vernon, 8:223; id., 8:487, 571; 9:505; 10:27; his difficulties collecting duties, 10:26; confused with Richard Lee of Maryland, 10:197; and second Virginia Convention, 10:308 Revolutionary War Series, 4:173 (id.) Lee, Richard Bland (1761 1827) was the third son of Henry Lee of Leesylvania, and younger brother of Light- Horse Harry and Charles Lee. He lived at Sully in Loudoun County, which he represented in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1784 to 1788 and in 1796. He later moved to Alexandria and served as a delegate from Fairfax County in 1799 and 1800. As a federalist and supporter of the Constitution, he actively opposed antifederalist attempts to call a second convention to amend the Constitution. Diaries, 4:290 (illus.); 5:95, 129, 206, 207, 208, 253, 254, 382, 444; 6:7, 8, 48, 299, 306, 344, 346 Confederation Series, 5:450 (id.) Presidential Series, 3:145 (id.) Retirement Series, 3:107 (id.) Lee, Richard Henry (1732 1794) of Chantilly in Westmoreland County served in the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1787. He declined to serve in the Constitutional Convention and became one of the leading opponents of the Constitution at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, contributing a series of Letters of the Federal Farmer to the antifederalist position. In 1789 he was chosen to serve as one of Virginia's U.S. senators and served in that capacity until 1792. Diaries, 3:326 (illus.), 4:13, 163, 168, 181, 182, 231, 5:54, 6:107, 255, 258, 353; in the Va. House of Burgesses, 2:200, 201, 202, 3:166, 250; at Philadelphia and the Continental Congress, 3:268, 275, 280, 287, 326, 327, 329; at Mount Vernon, 3:325, 4:231, 5:54, 214, 258; id., 3:326; writes letter of introduction for Catherine Macaulay Graham, 4:148; sends GW seeds and plants, 4:286--87, 5:440; declines appointment to Constitutional Convention, 5:158; as U. S. senator, 6:55, 68; visits GW in N.Y., 6:71, 89
Colonial Series, 7:336; 8:486; 9:183; 10:42; elected to House of Burgesses, 5:288; 8:569; and George Lee, 7:106; 9:354; and Mount Vernon rent, 7:106; and Mississippi Company, 7:219-22, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153; id., 7:224; 8:571; and Potomac navigation, 8:289, 294; and the Association, 8:354; account with, 10:41; delegate to Continental Congress, 10:174, 000, 000; acts as justice on ship, 10:148; GW lends money to, 10:160; sends cherry grafts to GW, 10:301; delegate to Virginia Convention, 10:309; accompanies GW to Philadelphia, 10:358; letters from: to GW, 9:353-54; letters to: from GW, 9:354; 10:150-51 Revolutionary War Series, 1:45 (id.) Confederation Series, 2:7 (id.) Presidential Series, 1:73 (id.) Lee, Sarah ( Sally ; 1775 1837) was a daughter of Richard Hennry Lee and his second wife, Anne Gaskins Pinckard Lee. Sally married her cousin Edmund Jennings Lee in 1796. Diaries, 6:258 Lee, Sarah Lettice (d. 1761) was a cousin and first wife of Philip Richard Fendall, whom she married in September 1759 and who eventually married three Lee women, all his cousins. Diaries, 5:36 Lee, Theodorick (1766 1849) was the fourth surviving son of Henry Lee of Leesylvania and his wife Lucy Grymes, and the younger brother of Charles, Richard Bland, and Light-Horse Harry Lee. Diaries, 5:53, 95, 382 Retirement Series, 3:470 (id.) Lee, Thomas (1690 1750) of Stratford Hall was married to Hannah Ludwell. Their children were Philip Ludwell, Hannah, Thomas Ludwell, Richard Henry, Francis Lightfoot, Alice, William, and Arthur, and three who died young. Diaries, 1:120; 2:74; 3:8 Colonial Series, 1:45, 58, 59; 4:101; 5:265; 7:224; 8:547 Lee, Thomas (1758 1805) was the eldest son of Richard Henry Lee and Anne Aylett. He lived at Park Gate in Prince William County, near Dumfries. He studied law in England before marrying in 1788 Mildred Washington, the daughter of GW's brother John Augustine and his wife, Hannah Bushrod Washington. Lee's first wife had been Susannah Brent, by whom he had one daughter, and his third wife was Eliza Ashton Alexander, with whom he had one son who died young, and who married after her husband's death William Stuart. Diaries, 6:107 Confederation Series, 1:262 (id.) Presidential Series, 3:247 (id.); 9:239 (id.) Lee, Thomas Ludwell (1730 1778) of Belleview in Stafford County was a son of Thomas and Hannah Ludwell Lee of Stratford Hall. He was educated in London at the Inns of Court and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1758 to 1765. His sons included George Lee (c.1768 1805) of Loudoun County, Thomas Ludwell Lee (d. 1807), and William Aylett Lee. The first annual meeting of the Mississippi Company, at which GW and his brother John Augustine Washington attended, was held at Belleview in September 1763. Diaries, 1:313; 2:331, 332; 3:8, 9, 325; 5:40; 6:257 Colonial Series, 5:288; 7:219-22, 223, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153; 10:140, 141 Revolutionary War Series, 1:381 (id.); 13:514 Presidential Series, 1:191 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:46 (id.); 3:401 (id.) Lee, Thomas Ludwell (d. 1807) was a son of Thomas Ludwell Lee of Belleview and a brother of William Aylett Lee. Diaries, 5:39, 40 Lee, William (1739 1795) was the husband of Hannah Philippa Ludwell. Their children included William Ludwell Lee (1775 1803), Portia Lee Hodgson (1777 1840), and Cornelia Lee Hopkins. Lee was treasurer-secretary of the Mississippi Company, a speculative land venture to which GW subscribed. Diaries, 1:313; 2:64, 74, 75, 95; 3:372, 373; 4:151; 5:357; 6:279, 299 Revolutionary War Series, 1:141 (id.) Colonial Series, 7:219-22, 224, 250, 416, 512; 8:63-64, 83, 152, 153; letters from: to GW, 8:294-95, 299-300 Confederation Series, 5:139 (id.) Lee, William ( Billy ; Will ) was a mulatto body servant that GW purchased from Mary Smith Ball Lee at Cabin Point in 1767 and who accompanied GW throughout the Revolution. Billy apparently had adopted the Lee surname by the time GW purchased him. Diaries, 2:238, 278, 279 (illus.), 286, 287, 288; 3:276; 4:125; 5:73, 281, 349 Revolutionary War Series, 9:323 (id.) Confederation Series, 2:14 (id.) Presidential Series, 2:133-34 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:200 (id.); 4:494-95 (id.)
Lee, William Aylett (d. young and unmarried) was a son of Thomas Ludwell and Mary Aylett Lee of Belleview and a brother of Thomas Ludwell Lee (d. 1807) and George Lee (d. 1805). Diaries, 5:39, 40, 432 Presidential Series, 1:191 (id.); 4:172 (id.) Retirement Series, 4:86 (id.) Lee, William Ludwell (1775 1803) was the son of William and Hannah Philippa Ludwell Lee. Diaries, 5:357; 6:346 Return to George Washington and the Lees of Virginia