Thomas Lee, of Lancaster County

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lee-325

Thomas Lee (son of Charles Lee and Elizabeth Medstand) was born 1679 in Dividing Creek (Cobbs Hill), Northumberland County, Virginia, and died before 11 June 1735 in Lancaster County, Virginia, when his Will dated 16 June 1733 was probated. He married first wife Anne Morton in 1700 in Northumberland and she died about 1715 in Northumberland, Virginia. He married second wife Elizabeth Keene, 01 November 1716, in Virginia, daughter of William Keene and Ann Therriot.

Thomas was the father of

1. William Lee 1717-1742,
2. Thomas Lee 1718-1759,
3. Richard Lee 1719-1758,
4. John Lee 1725-,
5. Lucy Lee 1729-,
6. Leanna Lee 1730-,
7. Charles Lee 1731-1792,
8. Elizabeth Lee 1731-.

Estate

• 1653-1800 Lancaster County, Virginia Wills [Ida J. Lee];
• LEE, Thomas. 16 June 1733. Rec. 11 June 1735.
• Name of wife not given.
• Sons: William, Thomas, Richard and Charles to whom is given "the land I now live on." Child unborn.
• Son: John.
• Exors: Wife, brother Charles Lee and Nicholas Martin.
• Wits: Ezekiel Gilbert, Isaac Currell. W.B. 12, p. 342. Inv. returned by Elizabeth Lee his Extrx. W.B. 12, p. 243.

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• 1653-1800 Lancaster County, Virginia Wills [Ida J. Lee];
• LEE, Thomas. Division of estate. Rec. 12 Nov. 1742.
• James Scrosby & Eliza. his wife, Exors. Estate divided between Elizabeth & her children Leanna, Elizabeth, Thomas, Richard, John, Charles, & Lucy Lee. W.B. 13, p. 303.

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• Contributed by: James Hughes
• Lee of Virginia, Page 56

THOMAS3, the eldest son of Charles Lee2 (Richard1) and Elizabeth Medstand, his wife, was born about 1679, he being the only child of age in 1700; he died some time in the year 1735. A Mr. Thomas Lee was Justice for Lancaster in 1712 and Sheriff in 1714.

Will

His will, dated the 16th of June, 1733, and probated the 11th of June, 1735, was as follows:

In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Lee being in good health and Memory do make and appoint this my Last will and testament, Imprs. I give and bequeath my soul to God that gave it hoping in and through the Merrits of my blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to receive remission of all my sins, my body to ye ground to have a Christian and Decent burial.

Item, I give my son Wm. Lee all Land where WM. RANKINS and Richard Weaver now live to him and the heirs of his body Lawfully begotten forever.

Item, I give unto my sons, Thomas, Richard, and Charles all that tract of Land whereon I now live to be Equally Divided between them and the heirs of their body Lawfully begotten for ever.

Item, I give and bequeath unto son John all that tract of Land on ye head of Corrotoman River which I had by my wife where Harvey now lives to him and the heirs of his body Lawfully begotten for ever Provided the Child my wife goes with be not a boy which if it be then my will is that the sd. Land be Equally Divided between them and the heirs of their Bodys Lawfully begotten for ever.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my wife one fourth part of my personal Estate during her natural Life or Widowhood but if she should Intermarry then to have but one Childs part, also my will is that she have Liberty to dispose of her said fourth part to such of her Children as she shall think proper at her decease provided she live unmarried.

Item, my will is that my Estate be kept together until my children come to Lawfull age or marriage.

Item, my will and Request is that my loving Brother Major Charles Lee, my good friend Mr. Nicholas Martin and my loving Wife be Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and that my son William Lee, when he comes to the age of one and twenty be allowed to be one of my Executors.

Item, my will is that my personal Estate after my Wife's part is taken out be Equally Divided between all my Children.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my son William Lee my Phillip's English Dickonary.

Item, I do ordain and appoint this my Last Will and Testament, Revoking all former Wills, &c.

Notes

http://genforum.genealogy.com/lee/messages/15997.html

Thomas LEE Sr. is thought to have married Elizabeth d/o William KEENE Sr. and Elizabeth, the d/o John and Ellen ROGERS of Northumberland. Elizabeth the wife of William KEENE Sr. married after his death to Thomas BANKS, on 8 Dec. 1687. Elizabeth ( ROGERS KEENE ) BANKS will probated 15 Mar. 1722 ( 23? ) mentions daughter Elizabeth LEE, no husband's name. Thomas LEE Sr.'s will mentions a wife but no name, his will dated 16 June 1733 and probated 11 June 1735 in Lancaster Co. His children were most likely minors or most of them were young and delayed the inventory?? Thomas LEE Sr. had William ( register of old Christ Church, Lancaster gives William, son of Thomas and Ann Lee, dyed 13th January, 1735, who was this William and was this a first wife of Thomas LEE Sr.??? ), Thomas, Richard, Charles, John, Elizabeth and Leanna LEE. I think your Richard Evers LEE is the son of this children or possibly this Richard, but this Richard probably to old?? There is not alot know about this children. Thomas LEE Jr. married Lucy ( ?? ), will dated 1 Dec. 1758, probated 16 Mar. 1759 Lancaster Co., mentions young children Mary and George LEE, brother John LEE then unmarried, his brother Richard LEE who was probably dead, Thomas had two slaves from Richard named Dick and Cate. Lucy, the widow, married 1762 in Lancaster Co. to Rev. John LELAND, Mary married a REYNOLDS and moved to Maryland and I'm not sure what happened to George LEE.

Garner-Keene families of Northern Neck, Virginia, by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood. Page 203.

References

• John Lee, of Goochland County was not the son of this Thomas Lee
• https://colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I27686&tr...
• Garner-Keene families of Northern Neck, Virginia, by Ruth Ritchie and Sudie Rucker Wood. by Ritchie, Ruth, 1903- (Publication date 1952) Topics Garner family Publisher [Charlottesville? Va., 1952]. Page 203. <Archive.Org>