Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Richard LEE
Mount Pleasant Estate, numbered 2600 acres, rested on the Potomac near Matholic Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA
Served as Col. of Horse of Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Stafford Co.'s; of the King's Council 1676-80-83-88-93-98' a Burgess, and a supporter of the Established Church; Burial: Brent House Fields Mt. Pleasant Westmoreland Co. VA
No of Marriages: 1 to CORBIN, Leatitia
No of Children: 7
Military: Colonel of Horse of Counties of Westmoreland, Northumberland, and
Stratford. He became Heir-at-law for the family. He is the founder of the
Stratford Line of Lees.
He was devoted to the public good and domestic virtues. He held the public offices of Burgess, councilor, naval officer-receiver of duties and colonel of the militia. He was sent to England to complete his studies and so impressed the instructors that they wished him to remain and enter the Church of England. He was also known as "Richard The Scholar".
Mount Pleasant Estate, numbered 2600 acres, rested on the Potomac near Matholic Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Known as "The Scholar", Richard Lee, second son of the Emigrant was the head of the Stratford Line of the Lees.
When his father, Richard the emigrant, died in 1664, young Richard Lee was a student in England, presumably at Oxford. Although he was only seventeen at the time, his talents had already profoundly impressed the faculty, and it was predicted he would rise to great heights in the Anglican Church. After his graduation, though, Richard followed his father's dying wish and returned to Virginia to see to his inheritance. He may have planned to go back to England, but in 1673 his older brother, John, died childless, and Richard suddenly found himself head of the Lee clan and owner of John's Machodoc Creek property in Westmoreland County. He never returned to England.
Richard quickly found a wife, Laetitia Corbin. She was the daughter of one of his Machodoc neighbors, Henry Corbin, who was one of the most powerful persons in the colony. Immediately after his wedding in 1674, he was elected by his neighbors to the House of Burgess.
For most of his life, Richard was loyal to the Crown of England. He retired from public life by about 1698, possessing a sterling reputation. In 1712, Governor Alexander Spotswood wrote a description of Lee to his superiors in London, calling him, "a gentleman of as fair character as any in the country for his exact justice, honesty, and unexceptionable
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