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Lee Family of Virginia & London

Richard Lee b. 1679, Leesylvania, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1719, London, England, m. Martha Silk, b. 1680 England. Somewhere about 1710-11, Richard had gone over to London and settled there as a Virginia merchant in partnership with his maternal uncle, Thomas Corbin. Very little information can be found concerning him. In 1719, Richard Lee died in the parish of St. Anne within the Liberty of Westminster, intestate. On the 8th of Nov 1711, William Ellins and Edmund Farrington sold to the said Richard Lee all their wares, merchandises &c. Rice Perry of the parish of St. Catherine Creechurch, London, merchant, appointed the said merchandises. Given at London 2nd January 1718-19. On the 16th of November, 1724, there was issued a commission to John Crabb, creditor of the late Richard Lee, late of the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, but who died in the parish of St. Anne Westminster in Co: Midd. Martha Lee, the relict and George, Martha, and Laetitia Lee, minors, children of the deceased, cited but not appearing. On the 5th of November 1716, “Richard Lee, of London, son of Richard Lee of Cople parish, in Virginia,” leased to Reuben Welch, Thomas Lee and Henry Lee, of Essex, the 2,6000 acres whereupon his father had lived. “Yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one peper corn only on the feast day of the birth of Our Lord God.” This lease is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lee. In a petition from “Martha Lee, widow of the late Richard Lee, of London,” dated 19th of October, 1720, she mentioned this lease of 1716, and stated that her husband was the son of Richard Lee, Sen’r, &c.; gave her residence in “Goodman’s Fields, parish of St. Mary White Chapel, Middlesex, England.” William Lee (in 1771) stated that, “Richard married an heiress in England by the name of Silk, and had by her left one son, George, and two daughters, Lettice and Martha; all of these children went to Virginia and settled. George married a Wormeley, who died leaving one daughter; he then 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 Russell. Lettice married a Corbin and her sister a Turberville; their eldest children intermarried, from which union, George Lee Turberville, now at school at Winton College, is the oldest issue.”