Hannah [Hewitt] [Lee] Price

Hugh Lee (I) "The Immigrant" was married to Hannah Huett (Hewett) who was the widow of Robert Huitt (many spellings found for Hewitt). She married 3rd to William Price.

Hannah Hewitt/Huett (nee Rhodan), came to VA via MD, ca 1648-50

• b. 1616, St. Mary’s Co, MD
• d. VA
• m1. Robert Hewitt
• m2. Hugh Lee
• m3. William Price

(there is no conclusive evidence that Hugh 1 and Hannah had kids…)

Notes

1661 Maryland. Transported "long before 1651": Hannah LEE, of Chicacone (VA)widow of Robert HEWETT, now wife of Hugh LEE, mother in law of Matthew RHODEN. Skordas, Early Settlers of Maryland.

From http://myancestrallegacy.org/getperson.php?personID=I3451&tree=Tree2

... The young and adventurous marinermerchant had an interesting story to tell how the unbusinesslike Madam Lee misunderstood her obligations to him with respect to the payments for her passage and for the "fraught" of the tobacco. Unfortunately for her, he was obliged to relate his experiences with her in Holland [Page 317] and England before the justices of the County Court of Northumberland. She had also returned to Virginia, though in a different vessel. The action was precipitated by the lady's husband, who may have imagined that the failure of Wright to depart for England before May 7, 1657, might excuse Madam Lee's actions in Holland. ...”

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Witkowski, Monica C., ""Justice Without Partiality": Women and the Law in Colonial Maryland, 1648-1715" (2010). Dissertations (2009 -). Paper 27. Page 30. link

One woman who used the court system to retain her own property was Hannah Lee Price. When Hannah Price arrived in Maryland she was married Robert Huett. When Huett died in 1650, Hannah acres of land due to her previous husband for indentured servants whose transport fee 67 they had paid. contact with the authorities, perhaps helping her better comprehend the law. When Hugh Lee died in 1662, he left Hannah a life interest in his estate. When she married William Price shortly thereafter she controlled a considerable estate. However, under laws of coverture Price gained control of his wife’s estate when he married her. This arrangement disadvantaged Hannah Price, who fell into poverty because Price did not use profits from her property to support her. In 1666, Hannah petitioned the Provincial Court that all goods and charity she received from her “friends and neighbors” to help with her maintenance would be for her sole use. Her husband, she begged, should have no part of what she rightfully owned. The commissioners of the Provincial Court acquiesced to this plea, granting Hannah all profits gained from a plantation she had inherited from her husband Hugh Lee. William Price, they ruled, was “forever debarred from any claim thereto.”68 Although it took some work, women in the earliest years of Maryland’s existence were allowed to control their own property.

• 67 Land Office, (Patent Records), AB&H, 44, [MSA SM2-5]. Lee also made an oath at this time that her “son-in-law” had transported himself seven year prior and deserved a land grant.
• 68 AOMOL, 57:131

Origins

Seen as daughter of Robert Huett without supporting evidence. Hewett was a married name, not maiden.

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0737... indicates that she was a sister of Sampson Cooper; Hugh Lee is mentioned in his will written 20th February 1659, and called “cozen” in a land deed:

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0717...

1658-1662 Deed & Will Book Northumberland Co Va; Antient Press: Pg 37 To all &c. Whereas &c., Now knowe yee that I the said SAMUELL MATHEWS Esqr. &c,. give & grant unto Mr. HUGH LEE 1100 acres of land in POTOMACK FRESHES above PUSCATOWAY on the Westward side of the River, bounding Easterly upon the POTOMACK RIVER, Southerly upon the Land called Mr. CLAIEs Land & running Northerly alonge the River from CLAY 275 poles WEsterly from the River parallel to Mr. CLAY 640 poles into the Woods; the sd. Land being due unto the sd, HUGH LEE by & for the transportacon of 22 p:sons; To have & to hold &c., yeilding &c., Dated ( )th July 1657, Vera Copia Test THO: BRERETON
KNOWE ALL MEN by these pr:sents that I HUGH LEE with the consent of my Wife. SARAH LEE for the love I beare my Cozen, SAMUELL COOPER, doe freely give & sett over all my right of the 1100 acres of land within menconed due to me by Pattent; To have & to hold the sd. Land as his owne proper goods for ever to him the sd. COOPER his heires or assignes: In Confirmation thereof of the pr:misses wee have hereunto sett our hands and seales this ( ) of Aprill 1660 HUGH LEE HANNAH LEE her mke. 20th April 1660. This Deed was acknowledged in Court by HUGH LEE & RICHARD FLYNT, Attorney of HANNAH, the Wife of the said HUGH LEE, and is recordedI doe freely give my consent to my Husband's ( ) in the Freshes of POTOMACK to my ) COOPER and I doe authorize you to ( ) my behalfe & request you to doe soe ( ) very loveing Freind HANNAH LEE her marke 20th April 1660, This Lre. of Attorney was recorded

References

• Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 AncestryImage