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Weems was born in Tennessee, the son of Joseph Burch and May Elizabeth Rye Weems. [2] When he was a child, he and his six brothers and one sister were orphaned. [3] He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1908. At the Academy, he excelled at various sports, and was an All-American center on the Navy ...
The Lee Family Digital Archive is a scholarly effort to collect, edit, and disseminate the papers of the Lee family of Virginia. The Lees of Virginia included Richard Lee I , the immigrant founder of the family, who came to Virginia from England around 1640, and his descendants. [ 1 ]
After Philip’s death, his son Hon. Richard Lee III “Squire” (1706–1789) purchased half interest in the Lee’s Purchase plantation held by the widow of Col. Thomas Lee, Hon. (1690–1750) and replaced the house that stood during Philip’s lifetime with a larger 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story house.
Colonel Richard Lee "the Founder" of the family in North America Thomas Lee (1690–1750), Virginia colonist and cofounder of the Ohio Company. Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and served as the president of the Continental Congress.
Richard Lee (d. 1787-1789) married a woman named Grace and had a son Philip T. Lee who married a Miss Russell but died before his father in 1778. The second son, Thomas Lee (d. 1749) married a Miss Sim and had a son Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) who served in the Patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War and twice as Maryland's governor.
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Lee was born Hannah Harrison Ludwell on December 5, 1701, at Green Spring Plantation to Hannah Harrison Ludwell and Philip Cottington Ludwell II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was their second daughter. [ 3 ] Her father served as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council and was an auditor of the king's revenue. [ 4 ]
Born into the First Families of Virginia (as described below), he was the couple's third son and the second to survive into adulthood. Although the couple's firstborn son died shortly after being christened "Richard Lee", in February 1727 Hannah Ludwell Lee bore Philip Ludwell Lee (1727-1775) and named him for her beloved father.