Members of the Lee Family of Virginia Appearing in the Papers of George Washington (Appendix to George Washington and the Lees of Virginia) Note: The abbreviation GW refers to George Washington. References following name entries are to GW's Diaries and Correspondence (University of Virginia Press). Lee, Mr. —— (provided to GW ½ bushel spring barley seed). Diaries, 5:92 Lee, Mr. —— (visits Mount Vernon overnight with Philip Richard Fendall). Diaries, 3:204 Lee, Mr. —— (visits Mount Vernon to “sollicit Charity for his Mother who represented herself as having nine Children—a bad husband and no support.” Diaries, 4:219 Lee, Ann Fairfax Washington was GW's half brother Lawrence Washington's wife and the inheritor of Mount Vernon. She was the sister of GW's close friends, Bryan Fairfax and George William Fairfax, and married after Lawerence's death George Lee of Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County. Diaries, 1:xxii, 3, 34, 118, 242; 2:30, 31; 3:168 Colonial Series, 6:199, 418; 7:6, 172-73, 433; 8:225; 9:353, 354 Lee, Anne (“Nancy”) a daughter of Richard Henry Lee, married Charles Lee on 11 February 1789 Diaries, 5:54, 55 (illus.); 6:258, 320 Presidential Series, 6:485 (id.) Lee, Anne Aylett (1738–1768) was the wife of Richard Henry Lee of Chantilly, a few miles down the Potomac River from Pope's Creek and Stratford Hall across Nomini Bay from Bushfield, home of GW's brother John Augustine Washington. She was the half sister of the wife of GW's half brother Augustine Washington, who was also named Anne Aylett. Diaries, 3:326 Lee, Anne Gaskins Pinckard was the second wife of Richard Henry Lee and the mother of Sarah (“Sally”) Lee. Diaries, 5:54; 6:258 Lee, Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829) was a daughter of Charles Carter of Shirley and his second wife, Anne Butler Moore Carter. She became the second wife of Light-Horse Harry Lee in 1793. Diaries, 6:251 (illus.) Retirement Series, 1:494 (id.) Lee, Arthur (1740–1792) served as one of the American commissioners in France until 1780, when he returned to Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1781 to 1783 and in 1785, and in the Continental Congress from 1781 to 1784. In 1785 he was appointed to the Board of Treasury, serving until the new government was established. Although he supported a strong federal government he criticized the Constitution because of its lack of a Bill of rights. Diaries, 2:54, 74, 75 (illus.), 76, 95; 3:372, 373; 4:109, 111, 161, 186, 311, 312; 5:122, 139 (illus.), 140, 277, 426, 455; 6:55 Colonial Series, 7:224, 416; 8:63, 64, 79, 152-53, 199, 295, 322; 10:365; letters from: to GW, 8:498-99 Revolutionary War Series, 3:479 (id.); 4:256-57 (id.) Presidential Series, 3:358 (id.) Lee, Cassius (1779–1798) was the youngest son of Richard Henry Lee. He died while a student at Nassau Hall. Retirement Series, 1:176 (id.) Lee, Charles (1758–1815) was a brother of Light-Horse Harry Lee. He served as naval officer of the South Potomac Distric He became GW's attorney after the Revolution and was appointed by GW to the office of attorney general of the U.S. in 1795. He also served as naval officer of the South Potomac District and as collector of customs at Alexandria. He served until 1801, after which returned to law practice. Last years spent at his home near Warrenton in Fauquier County. In 1789 he married Anne Lee (1770–1804), daughter of Richard Henry Lee, and later he married Margaret Scott Peyton (1783–1843), a widow. Diaries, 4:290, 5:53, 6:307, 315, 336; draws legal papers for GW, 4:84; id., 4:85; at Mount Vernon, 4:95, 156, 168, 243, 5:19, 30, 41, 152, 236, 260, 383, 399, 6:258, 314, 320, 321, 357; appointed attorney general of U. S., 6:258 Confederation Series, 2:374 (id.); 4:104 (id.) Presidential Series, 1:83 (id.) Retirement Series, 1:126 (id.) Lee, Cornelia (1780–1815) was a daughter of William Lee of Greenspring and his wife Hannah Philippa Ludwell. Her older sister, Portia, married William Hodgson in May 1799, and in 1806 Cornelia married John Hopkins (c.1757–1827), a Richmond merchant who served as commissioner of continental loans for the state of Virginia from 1780 to 1794 and who had moved to Alexandria before their marriage. Diaries, 6:279, 352, 353 Lee, Edmund Jennings (1772–1843) was the fifth son of Henry Lee of Leesylvania. He and his wife settled in Alexandria, where he practiced law. Diaries, 6:258, 336, 359, 360 (illus.) Retirement Series, 2:226 (id.) Lee, Elizabeth Armistead (“Betsey”) was the second wife of Richard Henry Lee's son Ludwell Lee (1760–1836), of Shuter's (Shooter's) Hill outside Alexandria and later Belmont in Loudon County near Leesburg, and the daughter of Bowles and Mary Fontaine Armistead. She and Ludwell married on 30 May 1797. Diaries, 6:255, 305, 306, 313, 336, 352, 353 Lee, Elizabeth Collins was the wife of Richard Bland Lee. Diaries, 4:290 (illus.) Lee, Elizabeth Steptoe (Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall; died c.1789) widow of Philip Ludwell Lee of Stratford. She and her later husband Philip Richard Fendall were married about 1780 and lived at Stratford Hall until the marriage of Elizabeth's elder daughter, Matilda Lee, to Light-Horse Harry Lee in 1782. Elizabeth and Fendall then moved to Alexandria, leaving Henry and Matilda in possession of Stratford. Diaries, 4:168, 181, 183, 216, 217, 218; 5:19, 20, 30, 36, 38, 67, 365, 426 Lee, Elliot, whom GW noted in his diaries as visiting Mount Vernon in December 1788, was William Aylett Lee. Diaries, 5:432 Lee, Evelyn Byrd Beverley was the wife of George Lee (c.1768–1805) of Loudoun County, a son of Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730–1778). She was a daughter of Robert Beverley (1740–1800) of Blandfield in Essex County and sister of Robert Beverley (1767–1823), the inheritor of Blandfield. Diaries, 6:285 Lee, Flora was the daughter of Elizabeth Steptoe Lee Fendall and her first husband, Philip Ludwell Lee. She was the cousin and first wife of Richard Henry Lee's second eldest son, Ludwell Lee (1760–1836) of Shuter's (Shooter's) Hill near Alexandria and later Belmont in Loudon County near Leesburg. Her sister Matilda Lee married another cousin, Light-Horse Harry Lee. Diaries, 4:216, 217, 218; 5:30, 31, 99, 100, 324, 418; 6:255 Lee, Francis Lightfoot (1734–1797) lived at Menokin in Richmond County. He became a signer of the Declaration of Independence while serving as a virginia delegate to the Continental Congress. Colonial Series, 5:265, 288, 315, 316; 6:372; 7:219-22, 224, 416, 512; 8:63, 153, 569, 571; 10:99-100 Revolutionary War Series, 1:381 (id.) Confederation Series, 1:207 (id.); 5:139 (id.) Lee, George (1714–1761) of Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland County was the second husband of Ann Fairfax Washington, the widow of GW's half brother Lawrence Washington. Diaries, 2:30; 3:168 Lee, George (c.1768–1805) of Loudoun County was a son of Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730–1778). He was married to Evelyn Byrd Beverley, a daughter of Robert Beverley (1740–1800) of Blandfield in Essex County and sister of Robert Beverley (1767–1823), the inheritor of Blandfield. George Lee's visit to Mount Vernon included one with his first cousin Ludwell Lee and either his father-in-law or brother-in-law in March 1798. Diaries, 6:257, 285 Colonial Series, Lee, George, 1:229, 231, 270; 7:433; and division of slaves, 1:227-31; 7:172; id., 1:227-31; 6:199; and lease of Mount Vernon, 1:232, 233, 234; 6:198, 199, 416, 418; 7:4, 9, 106; and Lawrence Washington's estate, 3:351, 352, 437, 438; 4:195, 198, 365; marriage of, 6:416; land surveyed in his name, 8:568; and his estate, 9:353, 354 Retirement Series, 3:401 (id.) Lee, George Fairfax (1754–1804) was the son of George Lee and his wife Ann Fairfax Washington Lee, the wife of GW's half brother Lawrence, and the heir of Mount Pleasant. Retirement Series, 1:46 (id.) Lee, Hancock, (1709–1762) Colonial Series, 7:173 Lee, Hancock (1740–1819) and his first cousin Hancock Taylor went on a surveying trip into Kentucky in the spring of 1774 during which time the latter was killed. Diaries, 3:235, 236 Colonial Series, 9:125-26 Lee, Hannah (1765–1801) was the second daughter of Richard Henry Lee. In 1787 she married Corbin Washington (1765–c.1799), the son of GW's brother John Augustine Washington (“Jack”; 1736–1787). Diaries, 4:181, 182 Confederation Series, 3:197 (id.) Lee, Hannah Ludwell (1701–c.1749) was the wife of Thomas Lee of Stratford Hall. Their children included the five famous Lee brothers of the Revolution. Diaries, 2:74; 3:8; 5:357 Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell was the wife of William Lee and the mother of William Ludwell Lee (1775–1803). Colonial Series, 8:295 Lee, Henry (1691–1747) of Lee Hall in Westmoreland County. His children included a younger son, Colonial Henry Lee (1729–1787) of Leesylvania in Prince William County, who sometimes visited Mount Vernon. Diaries, 2:95, 167 Lee, Henry (1729–1787) of Leesylvania in Prince William County was a younger son of Henry Lee of Lee Hall in Westmoreland County and a cousin of the five famous Lee brothers of the Revolution.