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Anne Lee (Gaskins)

Also Known As: "Pinkard", "Pinckard"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Montross, Westmoreland County, VA, United States
Death: January 10, 1796 (50-58)
Machodoc, Westmoreland County, VA, United States
Place of Burial: Coles Point, Westmoreland County, VA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Gaskins and Sarah Gaskins
Wife of Thomas Pinkard (Pinckard), III and Richard Henry Lee, signer of the "Declaration of Independence"
Mother of Thomas Pinckard, IV; Elizabeth Virginia Younger; Anne Lucinda Lee; Henrietta Moffitt; Sarah Caldwell Lee (nee Lee) and 5 others
Sister of Thomas Gaskins

Managed by: Tina Marie Brown
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About Anne Lee

Richard Henry Lee married second in June or July of 1769 to Anne (Gaskins) Pinckard. The couple had five surviving children:

  1. Anne Lee (1770–1804), who married Hon. Charles Lee (1758–1815), U.S. Attorney General under John Adams. Charles was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) and Lucy Grymes (1734–1792).
  2. Henrietta "Harriotte" Lee (1773–1803), who married Hon. George Richard Lee Turberville (c. 1770), son of Hon. George Richard Turberville, Jr. (1742–1792) and Martha Corbin (1742).
  3. Sarah Caldwell "Sally" Lee (1775–1837), who married Edmund Jennings Lee I (1772–1843), son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II (1730–1787) and Lucy Grymes (1734–1792).
  4. Cassius Lee (1779–1850).
  5. Francis Lightfoot Lee II (1782–1850), who married Jane Fitzgerald (d. 1816), daughter of Col. John Fitzgerald and Jane Digges. (grandparents of Francis Preston Blair Lee)
  6. ? Lee (1784), who died in infancy.
  7. ? Lee (1786), who died in infancy.

Her maiden name was Gaskins and she was the widow of Pinckard.


Sources:

  1. Stella Pickett Hardy, "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution," Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Co., 1958.
  2. Wikipedia article on Richard Henry Lee
  3. Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with Its History: Biographical ... Page 100
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Anne Lee's Timeline

1738
1738
Montross, Westmoreland County, VA, United States
1755
1755
1759
1759
Lancaster, Lancaster County, VA, United States
1770
December 1, 1770
Westmoreland Co., Va
1773
December 10, 1773
Virginia, United States
1775
November 27, 1775
Westmoreland, Virginia
1779
August 18, 1779
Westmoreland, VA, United States
1782
June 18, 1782
Westmoreland County or Chantilly, Fairfax County, VA, United States