Col. Greenberry Lee

A Patriot of the American Revolution for GEORGIA with the rank of COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A068546

"Vol. 3, Wilkes County, Georgia Records”

P-11. On October 15, 1773 Greenberry Lee5, a single man from South Carolina was granted 100 acres at the head of a branch or Bryer Creek, called Beaver Dam, half mile above Upper Trading Path at a tree marked J. L. in Richmond County, Georgia."

P-67. Greenberry Lee5 married Elizabeth Few (in 1774, in old Bible); she was born 1752 in Harford County, Maryland, daughter of Col. William Few, Sr., who was born in 1714 at Kennet Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania; he married Mary Wheeler, a Roman Catholic, in 1743 at Hickory, Harford County, Maryland." They removed with their young children to Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina in 1758, where his home was destroyed by the English, during the "Battle of Alamance" on May 17, 1771; they soon removed to Richmond County, Georgia. His son, James Few, was hanged without a trial by the English on May 17, 1771.

References

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rgibson/Lee/Docum... (dead link)
• “Re: Col Greenberry Lee (Greenberry Lee was NOT ‘Thomas Greenberry Lee”)<PDF>