Mary Jacquelin Lee

Some trees state that her DOB is 23 Jun 1769; however, while many sources verify the year, there doesn't yet seem to be one for the day and month.

from "Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Col Richard Lee"

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine vol. 52, no.1

GEDCOM Note

Thornton family papers, 1744–1945. 1,248 items. Mss1T3977b. Microfilm reels C508–513. Papers of the Thornton family of Lauderdale County, Shelby County, and Memphis, Tenn. Section 16 contains an 1844 agreement concerning thirty slaves including dower slaves. Also in the same section, a hiring agreement, 1855, specifies clothes to be provided, and an 1855 notice concerns acceptable terms of credit for an auction to hire out slaves. A letter, 1866, from John Zachariah of Memphis, Tenn., requests his former mistress, Agatha Bush of Nashville, Tenn., to send a letter of character reference to the employer for whom he works tending cows (section 61).
Thornton family papers, 1773–1909. 57 items. Mss1T3977c.
This collection consists of widely scattered personal and family correspondence, financial accounts, and legal records concerning the purchase or sale of land in Stafford County, and of slaves, kept by members of the Forbes, Taylor, and Thornton families of Virginia. Section 4 contains a deed, 1799, of Benjamin Alsop to Robert Dunbar concerning a slave. Section 5 contains deeds, 1814–1824, of John Browne Cutting and John Moncure to Murray Forbes (1782–1863) concerning slaves. Section 9 contains an undated inventory of slaves, corn, livestock, and tools rented at Mount Poney, Culpeper County(?), by John Thompson to Samuel Haning. Section 10 contains a deed, 1811, of William Brooke to Lewis Alexander concerning slaves.

References

• “The Smiths of Virginia: II. Family of John Augustine Smith, President of William and Mary College, 1814-1826.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, 1895, pp. 101–03. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1915050. Accessed 23 May 2022.