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Ann Aylett Lee

Grave of Ann Aylett, first wife of Richard Henry Lee.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Anne Constable Lee

Grave of Anne Constable, ward of Governor Sir Francis Wyatt and wife of Richard Lee I. Buried beside her husband at Cobbs Hall.

Cemetery:

Cobbs Hall Burying Ground

Location:

Near Kilmarnock, Northumberland County, Virginia

Branch:

Cobbs Hall

Anne Gaskins Pinckard Lee

Grave of Anne Gaskins, second wife of Richard Henry Lee.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Arlington House

Preserved as a memorial to Robert E. Lee. Lee wrote his resignation from the United States Army in his second floor bedchamber.

Location:

Arlington, Virginia

Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial

Arlington House, home of Robert E. Lee and his family for thirty years, built between 1802 and 1818 by George Washington Parke Custis.

Location:

Arlington, Virginia

Arthur Lee

Grave of Arthur Lee, born at Stratford in 1740, who wrote in support of revolution as "Junius Americanus" and joined Benjamin Franklin in Paris to secure French support for American independence.

Cemetery:

Lansdowne Graveyard

Location:

Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Dates:

1740–1792

Descent of the Leesylvania Line

Lineage of the Leesylvania branch, from Henry Lee, youngest son of Richard Lee II, through Henry III "Light Horse Harry" and Anne Hill Carter to their six children.

Location:

Near Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia

Branch:

Leesylvania

Descent of the Stratford Line from Richard Lee I

Society lineage chart tracing the Stratford branch from Richard Lee, the Emigrant, through Richard Lee II and Thomas Lee to the six sons of Stratford.

Branch:

Stratford

Hannah Ludwell Lee

Grave of Hannah Ludwell, wife of Thomas Lee and mother of eleven children, including two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Henry Lee III, "Light Horse Harry"

Portrait of Henry Lee III, cavalry commander of the Revolution, Governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee.

Branch:

Leesylvania

Dates:

1756–1818

Laetitia Corbin Lee

Grave of Laetitia Corbin, wife of Richard Lee II and mother of Thomas Lee, builder of Stratford Hall.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Mount Pleasant

Lee of Virginia, by Edmund Jennings Lee (1895)

The standard published genealogy of the family. Applicants generally establish descent by connecting to the most current citation in this work.

Dates:

1895

Lee-Fendall House

The Lee-Fendall House in Alexandria, where the Society's portraits and artifacts are among the collections on display.

Location:

Alexandria, Virginia

Lee-Fendall House

Built in 1785 on land purchased from Light Horse Harry Lee; home to thirty-seven Lees over 118 years.

Location:

Alexandria, Virginia

Objectives of the Society, 1921

The founding objectives adopted in December 1921: to draw the scattered members of the family together, to preserve neglected burial places, and to compile family data of state and national interest.

Dates:

1921

Portrait collage of the Ladies of the Lee family

Portraits owned by the Society and displayed at Stratford Hall, Arlington House, Sully Plantation and the Lee-Fendall House.

Resolution for Independence, 7 June 1776

The motion offered in the Continental Congress: "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States…"

Dates:

1776

Restoring the Burnt House Field Cemetery

Society account of the purchase and restoration of the burying ground left when Mount Pleasant burned in 1729, and its continued maintenance today.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Richard Henry Lee

Grave of Richard Henry Lee, who made the motion for independence in the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence and served as President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Dates:

1732–1794

Richard Lee I, "The Emigrant"

Grave of the founding ancestor of the Society, Clerk of the Quarter Court, Attorney General of Virginia and member of the Council. Died 1664.

Cemetery:

Cobbs Hall Burying Ground

Location:

Near Kilmarnock, Northumberland County, Virginia

Branch:

Cobbs Hall

Dates:

1664

Richard Lee II

Grave of Richard Lee II, son of the Emigrant, member of the Council and Receiver of Customs for the Potomac.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Mount Pleasant

Shaping a Nation: The Story of the Lees

Society publication on the family's part in the Revolution and the early republic. Available from the Society for $18.45 including shipping.

Stratford Hall

Six miles northwest of Montross on State Route 214. Home of Thomas Lee and the birthplace of two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Location:

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Stratford Hall, exterior

The great brick house begun about 1730 by Thomas Lee, birthplace of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Robert E. Lee.

Location:

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Sully Plantation

Home of Richard Bland Lee, Northern Virginia's first Representative to Congress. Society artifacts and portraits are on display here.

Location:

Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia

The Cobbs Hall and Ditchley Branches

Descent of the two youngest sons of Richard Lee I, who divided the Dividing Creek plantation and founded the Cobbs Hall and Ditchley branches of the family.

Location:

Dividing Creek, Northumberland County, Virginia

Branch:

Cobbs Hall

Thomas Lee, President of the Council

Grave of Thomas Lee, builder of Stratford Hall, President of the Council and Acting Governor of the Colony until his death in 1750.

Cemetery:

Burnt House Field Cemetery

Location:

Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia

Branch:

Stratford

Dates:

1690–1750

Westmoreland Resolves, 1766

Transcription of the Westmoreland Resolves drafted by Richard Henry Lee, pledging life and fortune to the cause of liberty.

Location:

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Dates:

1766

Will of Richard Lee I, proved 1664

Abstract of the will directing the sale of the Stratford, England property and dividing the Virginia plantations among his sons.

Dates:

1664