Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Charlottesville Chroniclo.l
The Lee Family.

Richardson q Co., of New York, have Just
brought out u beautiful volume that will in
terest all Yirginians and all Southerners, and
many even in the North and in Europe. l.
is chronological History of the Lee Fami-
ly of Virginia and Maryland from A. D, 1900
to A. D. 1866, edited by Edward 9. Mead"
Mr.. Mead is a gentleman of Albemarle
county in whose family had happily been
preserved an ancient manuscript which is the
basis of the present volume, and which gave
the genealogy of the Lee family.
The publishers have spared no pains or ex-
pense in bringing out this work. The arms
of the Lee family are beautifully represented
and there are fine portraits of several of the
distinguished members of this distinguished
family while the binding, typography, and
paper are faultless.
From hurried examination it strikes US
that Mr.. Mead has discharged his part of the
work with great good judgment and taste.
As contribution to the history of Fir-
giEia and Maryland, and as memorial of the
most remarkable man in this country, this
publication deserves to be we'll received
The price of it is six dollars, which will not
be thought high by those who desire to make
beautiful and appropriate present.
There is, in addition to the other portraits,
a portrait of Mrs. Mary Custis Lee, wife of
General Robert e. Lee, which is followed by
q brief narrative of the Custis family. There
is also an engraving of Stratford House, in
Westmoreland county, the birth place of Cen
eral Lee, and of Arlington House, the birth
place of Mrs. Lee.
General Lee was born in 1907, and was
the fifth child of Henry Lee, the celebrated
"Light Horse Harry" of the Revolution, and
bears the names of his maternal unclcs Rob-
crt and Edward Carter of Shirley, the fami-
ly residence of the Carriers.
The founder of the Ice family was I4aun-
celot Lee, who came to England from France
with William the Conqueror, and received,
after the battle Of Hastings, fine estate in
Essex.
The name was originally written De Lcga
or De lie. In 1491 the name is first written
Lee, the representatives of the family at the
time being Richard Lee of Langley in the
county of Shropshire.
The pioneer of the family in America was
Richard Lee, who came TO Virginia in the
reign of Charles 1, as secretary, and one of
the kings privy council. lie adhered to
Charles during the civil wars, and with Sir
William Berkley succeeded in having Charles
IL proclaimed king of England, France,
Scotland, Ireland, and Virginia.
This Richard Lee had a son named Rich
ard was Thomas Lee for whom Stratford Hall
was built by the East India Company
Thomas Lee was the father Of Philip Lud-
well, Richard Henry, Thomas, Francis Light
foot, William, and Arthur Lee
The fifth son of the first Richard Lee was
Henry Lee, who married Miss Bland
From this union sprang three children, two
sons and daughter. Richard Lee, of Lee
Hall, the eldest, married Miss Poythress of
Prince George.
The second son, Henry Lee, married
Miss Grymcs. The daughter married Fitz-
hugh.
Henry Lee and Lucy Grymes were the
parents of six sons and FIVE daughters, their
eldest son being Col. Henry Lee Light
Horse Harry)
Gel. Henry Lee, of Stafford, was born at
Leesylvania. in Prince William county, in
1855. He married twice-frst, Matilda,
daughter of Philip Ludwell, by whom he had
two children-Henry Lee, a Major in the
war of 1912, and daughter Lucy. His
second wife was Ann, daughter of Charles
Carter, and sister of the celebrated Robert
Carter of Crotoman, called liking Carter"
The children of this second marriage were
Charles Carter Lee, Sydney Smith Lee, and
Robert Edward Lee-and two daughters, An
ME Lee and Mildred Lee.