ID: I44
Name: Elizabeth LEE
Given Name: Elizabeth
Surname: LEE
Sex: F
Birth: 1654 in Paradise Plantation,Gloucester,Virginia
Death: INT 1689 (Aft 1689/1728)
Ancestral File #: GHTX-3G
Change Date: 09 Dec 1999 at 14:01:38 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
PEDI: birthFather: Richard LEE b: 1613 in Nordley Reg.,Coton,Shropshire,England
Mother: Anne CONSTABLE b: Abt 1621 in London,,,EnglandMarriage 1 Leonard Howson b: Bef 1641 in York,,,England
Married: 1670 in Dividing Creek,Northumberland,Virginia 8 9 10
Children
William Howson birth b: Abt 1672 in Wicomico Parish,Northumberland,Virginia
Leonard Howson birth b: Abt 1673 in Wicomico Parish,Northumberland,Virginia
Hannah Howson birth b: 1677 in ,Northumberland,Virginia
John HOWSON birth b: Abt 1679 in Wicomico Parish,Northumberland,Virginia
Elizabeth HOWSON birth b: Abt 1680 in Wicomico Parish,Northumberland,VirginiaMarriage 2 John TURBERVILLE b: <1650> in
Children
George TURBERVILLE birthSources:
Title: TYLER'S QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEAOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Publication: Richmond, Virginia: 1927; Kraus Reprint Company, New York: 1967
Repository:
Name: MESA FAMILY HISTORY CENTER
Mesa, AZ 85204Page: Vol VIII p. 44 & 49
Title: TYLER'S QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEAOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Publication: Richmond, Virginia: 1927; Kraus Reprint Company, New York: 1967
Repository:
Name: MESA FAMILY HISTORY CENTER
Mesa, AZ 85204Page: p. 44
Author: Brown, H. Andrew
Title: JOSHUA AND JONAS HUNT OF ALEXANDRIA TWP, HUNTERDON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY & GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Publication: Los Angeles: 10 Oct 1990
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, UT 84150Call Number: 929.273 A1 no. 6279 or Microfilm 1597688 item 39
Page: p. 3050 and 6102
Author: Brown, H. Andrew
Title: HISTORY OF THE BROWNS/BRAUNS--GAFFNEY FAMIILIES OF NORTHEAST IOWA
Publication: Los Angeles: 20 Dec 1987
Repository:
Name: Family History Library
Salt Lake City, UT 84150Call Number: Film 132071 and pamphlet
Page: 3050 & 6102
Author: Wickenkamp, Floyd W.
Title: GROUP SHEET LEONARD HOWSON AND ELIZABETH LEE
Publication: revised 25 June 1991
Repository:
Name: Floyd W. Wickenkamp
Sun City, AZ 85331
Author: Lee, Edmund Jennings
Title: LEE OF VIRGINIA 1642-1892
Publication: Geneaological Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore:1974
Page: p. 62-63
Author: Rich'd Lee, Leo'd Howson, Elizabeth Hoson, Tho Youell, et al
Title: DEED LEE, HOWSON, YOUELL & GRIFFIN vs SYMONDS
Publication: Original Records Office, Essex Co., England
Repository:
Name: Photocopy in Archives
Richmond, VirginiaText: DEED, LEE, HOWSON, YOUELL & GRIFFIN vs SYMONDS. THIS INDENTURE was made the sixteenth day of September in the thirteen year of the reign . . . 1678 . . . BETWEEN Richard Lee of the County of Northumberland in Virginia, sonne and heire of Richard Lee, late of London, Esq., deceased; Leonard Howson of the County of Northumberland . . . and Elizabeth, his wife, one of the daughters of the aforesaid Richard, deceased, Thomas Youell . . . .
Author: Rich'd Lee, Leo'd Howson, Elizabeth Hoson, Tho Youell, et al
Title: DEED LEE, HOWSON, YOUELL & GRIFFIN vs SYMONDS
Publication: Original Records Office, Essex Co., England
Repository:
Name: Photocopy in Archives
Richmond, VirginiaDate: 1678
Text: COPY OF DEED available from Floyd W. Wickenkamp, 10521 Bellarose Dr., Sun City, AZ 85351: Quote from deed: ". . . Leonard Howson and Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters of the aforesaid Richard (Richard Lee of the County of Northumberland in Virginia), deceased . . . ."
Title: TYLER'S QUARTERLY HISTORICAL AND GENEAOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Publication: Richmond, Virginia: 1927; Kraus Reprint Company, New York: 1967
Repository:
Name: MESA FAMILY HISTORY CENTER
Mesa, AZ 85204Page: Volume VIII p. 44 and 49
Title: THE LEES OF VIRGINIA
Publication: Society of the Lees of Virginia, Arlington: 1967
Repository:
Name: The Society of the Lees of VirginiaPage: p. 3
Old Churches Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article LIX. In the county of Northumberland and parish of Great Wycomico, and within sight of the Chesapeake Bay, there is an estate and mansion called Ditchley,--an English name of note,--which has probably from its first settlement, more than one hundred years ago, been the favourite resort of the ministers of the Episcopal Church. Its present owner is Mr. Flexmer Ball. His father, Mr. Joseph Ball, was one of the truest members of our Church. Of his ancestry we have just written in our last article. Many and pleasant have been the hours which, in company with some of the brethren, I have spent at Ditchley within the last thirty years. Ditchley is one of the old residences of the Lees. The mansion called Cobbs, where Colonel Richard Lee, the first of the family, lived for some time, was near to Ditchley, and has only very recently been removed to make place for another, although it must have been built two hundred years ago or more. The first settler, of whom more will hereafter be said, had many sons, of whom the seventh, Hancock Lee, built and lived at Ditchley. He was twice married,--first to a Miss Kendall, then to a Miss Allerton, by each of whom he had children, whose descendants are among us to this day. He died in 1729, as his tombstone in the family buryingground at Ditchley shows to this day. Both of his wives are buried at the same place. That he was a patron of the church is shown by the fact that he presented a Communion-cup to the parish in 1711. In honour either of himself or father, or the whole family, the parish was then called Lee parish, as may be seen by the inscription on the cup. It was afterward called Wycomico. After the downfall of the parish, Mr. Joseph Ball placed this and other pieces into my hands for preservation, in hope that the day might come when the old Lee and more modern Wycomico parish might call for it again. It is now used in the church at Millwood, Clarke county, and the source whence it came and the pledge given are recorded in the vestry-book of the same, as has already been said.
Old Churches Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article LIX. "Richard Lee, of good family in Shropshire, and whose picture, I am told, is now at Cotton, near Bridgenorth, the seat of Lancelot Lee, Esq., some time in the reign of Charles I. went over to the Colony of Virginia as Secretary and one of the King's Privy Council, which last part will for shortness be called 'of the Council.' He was a man of good stature, comely visage, enterprising genius, a sound head, vigorous spirit, and generous nature. When he got to Virginia, which at that time was not much cultivated, he was so pleased with the country that he made large settlements there with the servants he carried over. After some years he returned to England, and gave all the lands he had taken up and settled at his expense to those servants he had fixed on them, some of whose descendants are now possessed of very considerable estates in that Colony. After staying some time in England, he returned to Virginia with a fresh band of adventurers.
Old Churches Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article LIX. "During the civil war here, Sir William Berkeley was the Governor of Virginia: he and Lee, both being loyalists, kept the Colony to its allegiance, so that after the death of Charles I. Cromwell was obliged to send some ships-of-war and soldiers to reduce the Colony, which not being able to do, a treaty was made with the Commonwealth of England, wherein Virginia was styled an independent dominion. This treaty was ratified here as made with a foreign power, upon which Sir William Berkeley (who was of the same family as the present Earl of Berkeley) was removed, and another Governor appointed in his room. When Charles H. was at Breda, Richard Lee came over from Virginia and went there to him to know if he could undertake to protect the Colony if they returned to their allegiance to him; but, finding no support could be obtained, he returned to Virginia and remained quiet until the death of Cromwell, when he, with the assistance of Sir William Berkeley, contrived to get Charles H. proclaimed there King of England, Scotland, France, Ireland, and Virginia two years before he was restored here, and Sir William Berkeley was reinstated as his Governor, in which station he continued until some time after the Restoration, when he came over, and died presently. It was in consequence of this step that the motto of the Virginia arms always till after the union was 'En dat Virginia quintam;' but since the union it was changed to 'En dat Virginia quartam;' that is, King of Great Britain, France, Ireland, and Virginia. Here, by-the-way, I cannot help remarking the extreme ingratitude of this Prince Charles H. Oliver Cromwell, to punish Virginia and some of the other parts of America for adhering to the royal cause, after he had got himself quite fixed in his supreme authority, both here and there, contrived the famous Navigation Act, upon a model he borrowed from the Dutch, by which the American Colonies were deprived of many of their ancient and valuable privileges: upon the Restoration, instead of repealing this Act, it was confirmed by the whole Legislature here; and to add to the ingratitude, at two other periods in his reign, taxes were imposed on American commodities under the pretext of regulations of trade, from which wicked source have flowed all the bitter waters that are now likely to overwhelm America or this country, and most probably will in the end be the ruin of both. But to return. This Richard Lee had several children. The two eldest--John and Richard--were educated at Oxford. John took his degree as doctor of physic, and returned to Virginia, and died before his father Richard. He was so clever and learned, that some great men offered to promote him to the highest dignities in the Church, if his father would let him stay in England; but this offer was refused, because the old gentleman was determined to fix all his children in Virginia. So firm was he in this purpose, that by his will he ordered an estate he had in England, (I think near Stratford-by-Bow in Middlesex,) at that time worth eight hundred or nine hundred pounds per annum, to be sold and the money to be divided among his children. He died and was buried in Virginia, leaving a numerous progeny, whose names I have chiefly forgot. His eldest son then living was Richard, who spent almost his whole life in study, and usually wrote his notes in Greek, Hebrew, or Latin,--many of which are now in Virginia; so that he neither improved nor diminished his paternal estate, though at that time he might with ease have acquired what would at this day produce a princely revenue. He was of the Council in Virginia, and also in other offices of honour and profit, though they yielded little to him. He married a Corbin or Corbyne, I think of Staffordshire: from this marriage he had and left behind him when he died in Virginia--which was some time after the Revolution [in England under William and Mary]--five sons,--Richard, Philip, Francis, Thomas, and Henry, and one daughter. *[* The daughter married Mr. William Fitzhugh, of Eagle's Nest, King George county,--son of the first William Fitzhugh,--and was the mother of the late William Fitzhugh, of Chatham.] Richard settled in London as a Virginia merchant, in partnership with one Thomas Corbin, a brother of his mother: he married an heiress in England of the name of Silk, and by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettuce and Martha. All these three children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormly there, who died leaving one daughter; then he married a Fairfax--nearly related to Lord Fairfax, of Yorkshire--and died, leaving by his last marriage three sons that are now minors and are at school in England under the care of Mr. James Russul. Lettuce married a Corbin, and her sister married a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which union George Lee Turberville, now at school at Winton College, is the eldest issue. Philip, the second son, went to Maryland, where he married and settled. He was of the Proprietor's Council, and died leaving a very numerous family, that are now branched out largely over the whole Province, and are in plentiful circumstances. The eldest son, Richard, is now a member of the Proprietor's Council. Francis, the third son, died a bachelor. Thomas, the fourth son, though with none but a common Virginia education, yet, having strong natural parts, long after he was a man he learned the languages without any assistance but his own genius, and became a tolerable adept in the Greek and Latin. He married a Ludwell, of whose genealogy I must give a short account, being maternally interested therein. The Ludwells, though the name is now extinct, are an old and honourable family of Somersetshire, England, the original of them many ages since coming from Germany. Philip Ludwell and John Ludwell, being brothers, and sons of a Miss Cottington, who was heiress of James Cottington, the next brother and heir to the famous Lord Francis Cottington, of whom a pretty full account may be seen in Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, were in court favour after the restoration of Charles H. John was appointed Secretary, and was one of the Council in Virginia, where, I believe, he died without issue. Philip, the eldest brother, went to America Governor of Carolina, from whence he went to Virginia, and married the widow of Sir William Berkeley, by whom he had a daughter, (that married Colonel Parke, who was afterward the Governor of the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies, and died in Antigua, the seat of his government,) and one son named Philip.
Old Churches Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article LIX. Since the foregoing article was written, I have received some further information concerning the first of the Lee family and his children, which is worthy of insertion. The will of the first Richard Lee, dated 1663, may be seen in Mr. Charles Campbell's History of Virginia, p. 157. From it I extract the following:--"I, Colonel Richard Lee, of Virginia, and lately of Stratford-Langton, in the county of Essex, Esquire, being bound out upon a voyage to Virginia aforesaid, and not knowing how it may please God to dispose of me in so long a voyage," &c. "First, I give and bequeath my soul to that good and gracious God that gave it me, and to my blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ, assuredly trusting in and by his meritorious death and passion to receive salvation, and my body to be disposed of, whether by sea or land, according to the opportunity of the place, not doubting but at the last day both body and soul shall be united and glorified." Here again we see the faith and the divinity of that day. He then directs that his wife and children, who it seems had not yet been to Virginia, should be sent there, except Francis, to whose option it was left. To his wife Anna he left Stratford-on-the-Potowmacke (to which he had removed from Cobbs) and Mock Necke, together with servants black and white, and other property during her life. To his son John he leaves his plantation called Matholic, with servants, &c. This is now the Mount Pleasant farm owned by Mr. Willowby Newton. To his son Richard he leaves his plantation called Paradise, and the servants there. To his son Francis he leaves his plantations called Paper-Maker's Neck and War Captain's Neck, with servants black and white. To his five younger children, William, Hancock, Betsy, Anne, and Charles, he leaves a plantation, including Bishop's Neck on the Potomac, four thousand acres on the Potomac, together with Stratford and Mock Neck at the death of their mother. To William he leaves his lands on the Maryland side; to Francis an interest in his two ships. He also leaves a fund for the better education in England of his two oldest sons, John and Richard.
Old Churches Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article LX. Although no vestry-book of this parish has come down to us from which we might give a connected list of the vestrymen, yet we are glad to present to our readers the result of two elections which were held in this parish,--the one in 1755, and the other in 1785. Those chosen in 1755 were John Bushrod, Daniel Tibbs, Richard Lee, Benedict Middleton, Willowby Newton, Robert Middleton, George Lee, John Newton, Samuel Oldham, Robert Carter, Fleet Cox, James Steptoe. Those chosen in 1785--thirty years after--were Vincent Marmaduke, Jeremiah G. Bailey, John A. Washington, Samuel Rust, John Crabb, Richard Lee, George Garner, George Turberville, Patrick Sanford, John Rochester, Samuel Templeman.