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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 1: ancestry. (search)
s I. He believed, however, from his inherited traditions and the Coat of Arms borne by his progenitors in this country, that his family came originally from Shropshire, England; and when the world rang with his name and fame, and he paid the usual penalty of greatness by being besieged with reiterated queries respecting his pedigref the second Richard Lee, at Burnt House Fields, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, describes him as belonging to an ancient and noble family of Morton Regis in Shropshire. It is clearly established that the three earliest representatives of the family in America, Colonel Richard Lee and his two eldest sons, claimed this ShropshiShropshire County descent. It is our purpose to trace the Lees in America, not in England. The first emigrant, Colonel Richard Lee, is described as a man of good stature, of comely visage, enterprising genius, a sound head, vigorous spirit, and generous nature; and when he reached Virginia, at that time not much cultivated, he was so
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
furnace is charged. Under the plate and inside the columns is built the cylindrical shaft of the furnace, filling the space from the plate to the ground. d is a tuyere, and e the stirring and discharging hole. The smelting-furnace of Shropshire, England, is a stone and brick structure of a truncated conical form, 55 feet high, and 38 wide at bottom. Its cost, there, is about £ 1,800; and it requires in its construction 160,000 bricks, 3,900 fire-bricks, and 825 bosh-bricks. Its produch malleable iron caps were used in 1716. Cast-iron rails in 1767. L-shaped rails in 1776. Rolled rails in 1820. See rail, pages 1857, 1858. The railways originated in the collieries of the North of England, and the iron district of Shropshire. They were at first used entirely for freight. When rails were invented it was a century and a half before steam-cars were made to run upon them. On the early railways of England horses were employed for 150 years. The Milton and Quincy, M
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
h scholars in Oriental and Sanscrit literature. We were in the midst of the first course when your letters came; and I instantly read enough of them to give a new zest to the other courses. Sir John was full of talk, and knowledge of books and things, and by the help of a cigar,—which the chaplain and I took, but not Sir John,—we went on till near midnight. He is certainly a most remarkable young man, and much advanced and ripened since we saw him. August 20.-Sir John's estate here in Shropshire—he has lands elsewhere—consists of eight thousand acres, a part of which has been in his family above five centuries. His house, built about a hundred and fifty years ago, is in the Italian style of that period, and the court, in the centre of its quadrangle, has been covered in, and he is now making it into a grand library, books just at this time being his passion. . . . . August 21.—Sir John lives here, somewhere between prince and hermit, in a most agreeable style. Yesterday, be
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Dissenting Academics. (search)
presenting it as a figurative account of the train of reflections which naturally suggested themselves to our Saviour's own mind, arising from his peculiar situation. Another excellent person, whose name we are unwilling to pass over entirely in this connexion, though little can now be recovered of his history, is Dr. Ebenezer Latham. He was born in 1688; his father, from whom he received a religious, virtuous, and liberal education, was a worthy dissenting minister, settled at Wem, in Shropshire. He was early destined, both by his parents and his own inclination, to the work of the ministry; but being for some time apprehensive lest a weakness of voice, brought on by the small-pox, might disqualify him for it, he applied himself also to the study of medicine, and graduated as M. D. at the university of Glasgow. He lived, however, to be very useful and acceptable in both capacities; and added to them that by which his name is now chiefly remembered, the tutorship of a private aca
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], The pedigree of the Lee family. (search)
ling white indicates Royalty; the Star, grandeur; the Lion, courage; the Red, war; the Cross, religion, and, with the crowned lion, denotes the Church of England. The pedigree was extracted from the London Tower, and is certified by Charles Townley, York, and John Pomfret, Rouge Croix, August 1st, 1750. Richard Lee, who came to Virginia in the reign of Charles I., was of a good family, Shropshire; and his son, William Lee, speaks of his picture being (as he is told) "at Cotton, in Shropshire, near Bridgeworth, the seat of Lancelot Lee, Esq. " He came to the colony of Virginia as Secretary and one of the King's Privy Council. He settled permanently in Virginia, and exercised great influence. It was he who, with the assistance of Sir William Berkeley, on the death of Cromwell, had Virginia (which was independent under the Protectorate,) re-united with England — having Charles H. proclaimed King of England, Scotland, France, Ireland and Virginia--two years before the Restoratio