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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.
The Lee family (; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a political family in Singapore, with members prominent in Singaporean politics, public service, law, business and academia. Lee Kuan Yew served as the first prime minister of Singapore and his eldest son Lee Hsien Loong served as the third prime minister.
Hannah Lee was an early proponent of women's rights, and Alice Lee married the prominent physician William Shippen Jr. (1736–1808) of Philadelphia. Philip Ludwell Lee Sr. (1727–1775), a member of the House of Burgesses and the King's Council, continued to expand the plantation after he inherited Stratford until it eventually encompassed ...
Richard Lee I (c. 1618 – 1 March 1664) was an English-born merchant, planter and politician who was the first member of the Lee family to live in America. Poor when he arrived in the colony of Virginia in 1639, Lee may have been both the colony's wealthiest inhabitant and as its largest landholder by the time of his death, owning 15,000 acres (23 sq mi) in Virginia and Maryland.
View of the main façade of Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, the ancestral home of the Lee family of Virginia.Along with the Byrds, Carters, Washingtons, Harrisons and others, these families were at the core of Virginia's plantocracy for centuries.
The Lee family produced its own statement, which was submitted to NorthJersey.com by Cho on Aug. 7, detailing the events of that night as they remember it.. The family maintains that Lee, who was ...
Lee, Legh, Leigh Burke's Peerage & Baronetage and Burke's Landed Gentry The Leghs of Lyme were a gentry family seated at Lyme Park in Cheshire , England , from 1398 until 1946, when the stately home and its surrounding parkland were donated by the 3rd Lord Newton to The National Trust .
Bob Lee, who founded Cash App and was an executive at Square and Mobile Coin, was stabbed three times with a paring knife in San Francisco. Tech titan's murder rocked Silicon Valley. For his loved ...