• General Notes

  George Lee, Col. b. 18 Aug 1714, London, England, d. 19 Nov 1761, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, m (2) 16 Dec 1752, Anne Fairfax, b. 1728, Salem, Massachusetts, d. 14 Mar 1761, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of William and Sarah (Walker) Fairfax, Esq.). George came over to Virginia after the death of his father and settled at Mount Pleasant, in Westmoreland County, where he died the 19th of November 1761 The probabilities are that George was educated in England, and did not come to Virginia until a year or so before his first marriage. George married secondly, the widow of Lawrence Washington, of Mt. Vernon, who was the elder ½ brother of Gen. George Washington. Mt. Vernon was owned by Lawrence Washington, and his Anne, and after his death, the property belonged to George and Anne Lee. They leased the property to George until Anne’s death, when the property was bequeathed to George Washington. George paid a yearly rent of L82 from 1752 to 1761. George Lee was deputy clerk of Westmoreland, under his brother-in-law, George Turberville, from 1740 to 1742, at which date he succeeded him in office, and held it until his own death. He also represented the county as Burgess in 1748, 1751, and perhaps other times; was a Justice for Westmore- land in 1737; a vestryman of Cople parish in 1755. His will dated 13 Sep, 1761, probated at Westmoreland the 26th January, 1762. Richard Henry Lee, one of the executors of this estate, kept an account of receipts and payments in the neatest and most clerk-like manner; from this account, in his own writing, a few extracts are given: "1762, 9th March, received by cash of Mr. Lane for prizes in the Northern Lottery, L1,3. 1st June ‘By 4 hhds. Tob: received from Mr. Pierce for Clerks fees, 4004 llbs.’ 29th July, ‘By 4 hhds. Tob: from Mr. Pierce for Clerk’s fees, 4045 llbs.’ 24th November, ‘By cash from Col. George Washington for rent L82.10.’ On the side of payments there are frequent entries of a guinea or several guineas to ‘Miss Betty Lee for pocket money.’ But the boys fared rather better, for he gave ‘Mr. George Lee for pocket money, L12. The doctors also did well, even in ‘ye olden time,’ for ‘Dr. Steptoe’s medical account of L27.10,’ was a good one for those days, when a guinea was of considerable value. Nor did the executor fail to keep an exact account; consequently he charged up ‘postage on Mr. Lancelot Lee’s letter, 8d.’" 

Details of George's family with Judith Wormeley

Details of George's family with Ann Fairfax