Hon. Richard Lee III

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Richard Henry Lee, III

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Birthplace: Lee Hall, Newport News, Westmoreland, Virginia
Death: 1718 (38-39)
London, Westminster, England (United Kingdom)
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Son of Col. Richard Lee, II and Laetitia Lee
Husband of Martha Lee
Father of Col. George Lee; Lettice Corbin and Martha Fitzhugh
Brother of John Lee; Capt. Philip Lee, Esq.; Ann McCarty; Francis Lee; Hon. Thomas Lee of Stratford Hall and 1 other

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About Hon. Richard Lee III

From Edmund Jennings Lee:

Richard, the oldest surviving son of Richard Lee & Laetitia Corbin, was born in 1678-9, and died in London in 1718. Somewhere about 1710-11 he had gone over to London and settled there as a Virginia merchant in partnership with his maternal uncle, Thomas Corbin. Very little information can be found concerning him. By the kindness of William Blackston Lee, Esq., the few items were copied from the London records: 1719 ............ 1724. On the 16th of November 1724, there was issued a commission to John Crabb, creditor of the late Richard Lee, late of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, but who died in the parish of St. Anne Westminister in Co.: Midd. Martha Lee, the relict and George, Martha, and Laetitia Lee, minors, children of the deceased, cited but not appearing. On the 5th of November, 1716, "Richard Lee, of London, son of Richard Lee of Couple parish, in Virgina," leased to Reuben Welch, Thomas Lee and Henry Lee, of Essex, the 2,600 acres whereupon his father had lived. "Yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one peper corb only on the feast day of the birth of Our Lord God." This lease is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lee. In petition from "Martha Lee, widow of Richard Lee of London," dated the 19th of October, 1720, she mentioned this lease of 1716, and stated her husband was the son of Richard Lee, Sr. & c.; gave her residence in "Goodman's Fields, parish of St. Mary White Chappel, Middlesex," England. William Lee (in 1771) stated that, Richard married an heiress in England by the name of Silk, and by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettice and Martha; all of these children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormeley, who died leaving one daughter; he then married a Fairfax, nearly related to Lord Fairfax of Yorkshire, and died leaving by his last marriage three sons, that are now minors and are at school in England under the care of Mr. James Russell. Lettuce married a Corbin and her sister a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which.... (did not copy next page).



Richard 3, born in Westmoreland Co. Virginia, moved to London, married Martha Silk of England. All children born in England. After Richard 3 died at 40 years old and Martha about 15 years later, all children moved to Virginia.. Son, George moved in with his Uncle Thomas and later took possession of the home/plantation called Machodoc/Mt. Pleasant in Westmoreland Co. Virginia.

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Hon. Richard Lee III's Timeline

1679
1679
Lee Hall, Newport News, Westmoreland, Virginia
1714
August 18, 1714
London, Middlesex County, England
1715
1715
England (United Kingdom)
1716
1716
England (United Kingdom)
1718
1718
Age 39
London, Westminster, England (United Kingdom)
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Christ Church, Middlesex, Not In Igi, Trbdp