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Thomas Lightfoot Lee (1690 – 1750) – He was the founder of the Virginia dynasty which included many influential Virginians. He and his wife had eleven children with eight living to adulthood. Hannah Harrison Ludwell (1701 – 1750) – She was the daughter of Philip Ludwell II and Hannah Harrison, a member of the prominent Harrison family ...
Francis Lightfoot Lee est né le 14 octobre 1734 à Stratford Hall Plantation, dans le comté de Westmoreland, dans l' État de Virginie, de Thomas Lee ( 1690 - 1750) et Hannah Harrison Ludwell ( 1701 - 1750 ). Il reçut une éducation à domicile et poursuivit des études classiques avec des professeurs privés.
Francis Lightfoot Foot Lee was the son of Thomas Lee, and born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 14th of October, 1734. He was the brother of Richard Henry Lee, whose eloquence rose higher but whose reflections were no deeper than those of Francis. In childhood he was admired for his docility and amiable deportment, in youth he was the ...
Francis Lightfoot Lee (brother of R.H. Lee) was born in Westmoreland, Virginia, on the fourteenth of October, 1734. He was educated at home by Doctor Craig, in the manner of an enlightened country gentleman. In 1765 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served until 1775.
Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) “Francis Lightfoot Lee was an early, zealous, and active friend to the revolution, which established the Independence of the United States of America. He was a firm, calm, and enlightened patriot and a most unequaled social companion.” – From the obituary of Francis Lightfoot Lee in the Republican Citizen
Frank signed the seditious act, which later gave a base of the Declaration of Independence. In 1769, at age 35, Francis married his love, Rebecca “Becky” Plater Tayloe of “Mount Airy” in Warsaw, Va., who was 16 years old. They built a home named “Menokin” in Richmond County, Va. Lee was elected to the House of Burgesses, and became ...
29 de jan. de 2020 · During this time, Lee was also a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. After Lee left the Continental Congress, he served in the Virginia Senate until 1782 at which point he retired from public life, and he spent the rest of his life managing his plantation until his death in 1797 at the age of 62. Francis Lightfoot Lee in Philadelphia
