Ancestral Trails 2016 » Richard "Squire" LEE (1726-1794)

Données personnelles Richard "Squire" LEE 

• Il est né en l'an 1726 dans Lee Hall, Cople, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.

  Attention: Avait plus de 65 ans (66) lors de la naissance (??-??-1792) de l'enfant (Lettice LEE).

• Il est décédé le 10 octobre 1794 dans Westmoreland County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, il avait 68 ans.
• Il est enterré octobre 1794 dans Lee Hall, Cople, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA.
• Un enfant de Henry I LEE et Mary BLAND

Famille de Richard "Squire" LEE

Il est marié avec Sarah Bland POYTHRESS.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1786, il avait 60 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Mary LEE  1790-1848
2. Lettice LEE  1792-1827

Notes par Richard "Squire" LEE

Richard Lee (1726-1795), known most commonly as "Squire", was a prominent Virginian colonist, and American politician, who was active in the American Revolutionary War.

He was born at "Lee Hall" in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the third of seven children born to Henry Lee I (1691-1747) and Mary Bland (1704-1764). Through his father's brother, Thomas 1690-1750, he was the first cousin of Revolutionary War hero's Henry Lee and “Light Horse Harry” Lee both signers of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1786, at the age of 60, he married 17-year-old Sarah Bland "Sally" Poythress (1768 - 24 May 1828), a daughter of Peter Poythress (1715-1785) of "Branchester" and Elizabeth Bland (1733-1792). The couple had 5 children;

Richard Lee II (1788-1790)
Mary Lee (12 February 1790 - 1848)
Lettice Lee (1792-1827)
a son who died in infancy (c. 1793)
Richardia (b. 1795)

Great uncle of Robert E Lee

After his death, Sally married secondly Willoughby Newton and was the mother of Willoughby Newton.

Career
Squire served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, as a representative from Westmoreland, for the years 1757-58, 1762, 1769, 1772, & 1774. The House of Burgesses became the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776, due to the outbreak of the war, and Richard served there during the years 1777, 1780, 1784-87, 1790 & 1793.

He was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1775-76, which drafted the 1776 version of the Constitution of Virginia. He later served as Justice of the Peace for Westmoreland County, Virginia and was a Naval Officer for the Port of Potomac.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_%22Squire%22_Lee

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