Richard Bland Lee, Sr., U.S. Congress

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Richard Bland Lee, Sr., U.S. Congress

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, Colonial America
Death: March 12, 1827 (66)
Pointlick Click, Madison County, KY, United States
Place of Burial: Congressional, Cemetery, Wash. D. C.
Immediate Family:

Son of Col. Henry Lee, ll and Lucy Ludwell Lee
Husband of Elizabeth "Eliza" Lee
Father of Ann Matilda Washington; Richard Bland Lee, II; Cornelia Marcrae; Zaccheus Collins Lee and Mary Collins Lee
Brother of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee, "Light Horse Harry", Governor of Virginia; Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General; Mary ‘Mollie’ Fendall; Theodorick Lee; Edmund Jennings Lee, I and 2 others

Occupation: Planter, Statesman, statesman
Managed by: James Hutchison
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About Richard Bland Lee, Sr., U.S. Congress

3. Richard Bland Lee I (1761–1827) of "Sully", who married Elizabeth "Eliza" Collins (1768–1858), daughter of Stephen Collins and Mary Parish.

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bland_Lee

Children

  1. Mary Ann Lee[13] born May 11, 1795, died June 21, 1796 of dysentery. Buried at Sully in unmarked grave.
  2. Col. Richard Bland Lee II[13] born July 20, 1797, died August 2, 1875. Married Julia Anna Marion Prosser (1806–1882), daughter of John Prosser and Mary "Polly" Poole.Both buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
  3. Ann Matilda Lee[13] born July 13, 1799, died December 20, 1880. Married Dr. Baily Washington III (1787–1854).
  4. Mary Collins Lee[13] born May 6, 1801, died February 22, 1805. Buried at Sully in unmarked grave.
  5. Laura Lee[13] born May 10, 1803, died in infancy
  6. Cornelia Lee[13] born March 20, 1804, died December 26, 1876. Married Dr. James W. F. Marcrae.
  7. Hon. Zaccheus Collins Lee[13] born December 5, 1805, died November 1859 in Baltimore, MD; Served as U.S. District Attorney from 1848 to 1855. Married Martha Jenkins.
  8. Male Infant[13] born April 15, 1807, died April 15, 1807
  9. Male Infant[13] stillborn June 11, 1809

DAR Ancestor # A068698

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bland_Lee

http://leearchive.wlu.edu/papers/books/by_date_list_1.html



Added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood, published 1895

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Richard Bland Lee (1761-1827) — Born in Prince William County, Va., January 20, 1761. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1784; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1789-95 (at-large 1789-91, 4th District 1791-93, 17th District 1793-95); judge in District of Columbia, 1827. Died March 12, 1827 (age 66 years, 51 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; subsequent interment at Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in 1975 at Sully, Chantilly, Va.
		Relatives: Brother of Henry Lee and Charles Lee; grandnephew of Richard Bland; granduncle of Fitzhugh Lee (1835-1905); first cousin once removed of Richard Henry Lee; third cousin of Zachary Taylor.
		 Political families: Lee-Muhlenberg family; Mason family of Virginia; Randolph-Tucker-Meriwether family of Virginia (subsets of the Thousand Related Politicians).
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416
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LEE, Richard Bland, (1761 - 1827)

LEE, Richard Bland, (brother of Henry Lee), a Representative from Virginia; born at “Leesylvania,” in Prince William County, Va., January 20, 1761; pursued English and classical studies in private schools; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; member of the state house of delegates 1784-1788; elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the First, Second, and Third Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1794 to the Fourth Congress; again a member of the state house of delegates 1796 and 1799-1806; moved to Washington, D.C., about 1815; appointed by President Madison in 1816 commissioner to adjudicate claims arising out of the loss or destruction of property during the War of 1812; appointed by President Monroe in 1819 judge of the Orphans’ Court of the District of Columbia and served until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 1827; interment in the Congressional Cemetery; reinterment on the grounds of his home, ‘’Sully,” near Chantilly, Va.




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Richard Bland Lee, Sr., U.S. Congress's Timeline

1761
January 20, 1761
Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia, Colonial America
1790
1790
United States
1797
July 20, 1797
Sully Plantation, Fairfax, Virginia
1804
1804
1805
December 5, 1805