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William Lee (b. ca. 1651 - bef. 1697/8) "Lee of Virginia" contains conjectures, but no further concrete information.
Historical and Genealogical Notes

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 3.
(Jan., 1901), pp. 194-200.

ONE LINE OF DESCENT FROM CAPT. WM. LEE. (Communicated by James A. Leach, of Richmond, Va).
Capt. Wm. Lee, born in Virginia about 1651, was the fourth son of Col. Richard Lee and Anny,
his wife. He was a member of the House of

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Burgesses for Northumberland county, Va., 1680-1693. He lived until 1694, and probably until
September, 1696. His father, Colonel Richard Lee, was the first of name in Virginia; was
from Shropshire, England; was Secretary of the Colony of Virginia 1659; was one of the king's
privy council. Capt. Wm Lee's daughter, Mary, married twice; first, a Mr. Heath; secondly,
Bartholomew Schreever, Sr., of Virginia. She was executrix of her father's (Capt. Wm. Lee)
will in 1681.

She had three sonx, viz., Thomas and Samuel Heath and Bartholomew Shcreever, Jr. Her son
Thomas Heath (died in Northumberland county, Va., 1726) had a daughter, Mary Heath, who
married Wm. Miller, of Goochland county, Va., a Revolutionary soldier.

Their daughter, Winifred Jones Miller (born May 22, 1743), married Robert Povall 3d,
June 14, 1760.

Their daughter, Mary Heath Povall (born January 22, 1762), married John Guerrant, Jr.,
July 25, 1782, a lieutenant in Revolutionary War and member of Virginia Convention of 1788,
and Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia 1805.

Their daughter, Winifred Jones Guerrant (born January 17, 1787), married Samuel Branch 3d,
of Virginia, November 24, 1807. He was an officer in War 1812.

Their daughter, Martha Winifred Branch (born May 2, 1827), married Edward Albert Palmer,
of Appomattox county, Va., December 3, 1846, at Lunchburg, Va.

He was afterwards a lawyer and judge in Houston, Texas. Their three children are, viz.:

First, WM. HENRY PALMER (born in Virginia, September 15, 1846), married Susan Manella
Shepherd December 14, 1882, at Houston, Texas. Their children are Edward and Daphne Winifred
Palmer.

Second, BETTIE (H. Elizabeth) PALMER, daughter of Edward Albert Palmer and Martha Winifred

Branch, his wife, was born in Houston, Texas, March 20, 185-; married twice; first, to
Edward Milby, at Lynchburg, Va., September 12, 1872. After his death she married Hon. Joseph
Chappell Hutcheson, Sr., of Mecklenburg county, Va., at Houston, Texas, August 11, 1886. He
was a lawyer and a member of fifty-third and fifty-fourth United States Congresses from
Houston, Texas. Their two children are Palmer Hutcheson and Rasalie Winifred Hutcheson.

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Third, ROSALIE HEATH PALMER, daughter of Edward Albert Palmer and Martha Winifred Branch,
his wife, was born in Houston, Texas, May 12, 185-; married at Houston, Texas, June 1, 1882,
to Sinclair Taliaferro, of Gloucester county, Va. Their children are Bettie M. and Thomas S.
Taliaferro. - Northumberland county records and register of Rev. William Douglas.

[In Lee's Lee of Virginia it is stated that mary Schreever was either widow or, more
probably, the daughter of Capt. William Lee. that she was his daughter is proved by the
fact that Capt. William Lee was lving as late as January, 1696. His will was proved
September, 1696, by "Mary Schreever, formerly Heath, executrix of the last will and testament
of Capt. Wm. Lee". At this time she had by Heath children Thomas and Samuel Heath, and by
Schreever, Bartholomew Schreever, Jr., - EDITOR.]