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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
lities of the son as soldier and statesman. This attachment was deeply appreciated by General Henry Lee, and throughout his career he was steadfast in his devotion to Washington. Light-Horse Harry's father, Henry Lee, of Leesylvania, and Lucy Grymes were married at Green Spring, on James River, December 1, 1753. His mother was the daughter of Lucy Ludwell, who married Colonel Grymes, of the Council of Virginia. Bishop Porteus, of England, was her uncle. Their son Henry was born January 29, 1756, at Leesylvania, some three miles from Dumfries, a village built by Scotch merchants, and then the county town of Prince William. His brother, Charles Lee (not to be confounded with General Charles Lee, an Englishman, and no relation to this family), was subsequently Attorney General in Washington's second Cabinet. The future cavalry leader was educated at Princeton. Dr. William Shippen writes to Richard Henry Lee from Philadelphia, August 25, 1770: I am persuaded that there is no s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, Henry 1756- (search)
Lee, Henry 1756- Military officer; born in Leesylvania, Westmoreland co., Va., Jan. 29, 1756; graduated at Princeton in 1773. His mother was Mary Bland, the lowland beauty, whose charms inspired Washington in his youth. He was a captain in Bland's cavalry in 1776, and joined the main army in September, 1777. Lee's Legion was one of the most active and efficient of the cavalry corps of the Continental army, and it was Washington's body-guard in the battle of Germantown. In 1778 he was made a major, in independent command, first of two companies of horse, and then of three, with a small body of infantry. With these he surprised the British post at Paulus's Hook, in July, 1779. With the commission of lieutenant-colonel, he joined General Greene in the South, and was active and efficient in the Southern campaigns. Soon after the battle of Eutaw Springs, Major Lee retired from the service, married, and settled at Stratford. He was a delegate to Congress in 1786, and advocat
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
ces Prentiss, 24 May, 1827, had Theodore Gray, bap. 27 July, 1828; a son, d. 2 Sept. 1837, a. 2 days; and Frances Maria, d. 24 Jan. 1847, a. 13 yrs. (g. s.); Benjamin Franklin, second son, d. 25 Nov. 1832, a. 3. Rachel, sister of Jesse, m. Reuben Johnson, 24 Oct. 1826. Budge or Bodge, James, who o c. and was bap. 31 Mar. 1751, aged 31, had w. Elizabeth, adm. to the ch. 31 Mar. 1751, and chil. Elizabeth, b. 18 Oct. 1746, and James, b. 1 May, 1748, both bap. 31 Mar. 1751; and Ruth, b. 29 Jan. 1756, bap. 8 Feb. 1756; Daniel, s. of James, of Medford, was bap. 25 Apr. 1762. A nurse child at Budge's. of name Prince, of Boston, d. 6 July, 1749, a. 5 mos. A Tufts child, belonging to Medford, d. at J. Budge's, 16 Jan. 1754, a. 13 mos. James Budge m. Elizabeth Stearns of Camb. 1746. He and wife. with Ruth and Daniel, from Medford, became tenants in house of P. De Carteret, 1767.—Wyman's Charlestown, 149, 897. Bull, Robert, and w. Tabitha, adm. to the ch. 12 July, 1741. Robert, adult