Talk:Philip Lee Sr.

Moving Unsourced Genealogy, loaded with redlinks to talk
First Marriage

Philip married as his first wife, Sarah (Brooke) Dent (1693-1724), whom he married at “Brookefield”, on the Patuxent River. Sarah was the widow of Col. William Dent, Sr., Gent. (1660-1705), an older brother of her mother, Barbara (Dent) Brooke (1676-1754). Sarah was born in 1693 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and died in November of 1724 at “Lee’s Purchase”, Charles Co., Maryland.

Sarah (Brooke) Dent (1683-1724), was the daughter of Col. Thomas Brooke, Jr., Hon. (1660-1730) of "Brookefield", President of Maryland and his second wife, Barbara Dent (1676-1754).

Second Marriage

After Sarah died Philip married Elizabeth (Lawson) Sewall, of “Mattapony-Sewall Manor”, widow of her uncle Henry Sewall, Gent. (d. 1722). By his two wives, Philip had nineteen children.

Children of Philip Lee

1) Hon. Richard Lee III "Squire" (1706-1789), married Grace Ashton(1712-1789), daughter of Col. Henry Ashton, Sr. (1670-1731), of “Nomini Hall”, near Nomini Creek]], Westmoreland County, Virginia., and 1st wife Elizabeth Hardidge (1678-1721), daughter of Col. William Hardidge, Gent. (1643-1697), and his first wife, Frances (Gerard) Speke Peyton Appleton, widow of Col. Thomas Specke (d. 1659), Col. Valentine Peyton(ca. 1629-1665), and Capt. John Appleton (d. 1676).

2) Thomas Lee (1707-1719).

3) Eleanor Lee (1710-1759), first wife of Benjamin Fendall I, Esq. (1708-1764) of "Potomack".

4) Francis Lee, Esq. (1709-1749), of “Nanticoke River”, married Elizabeth Hollyday, daughter of Col. Leonard Hollyday, Sr. (1692-1741) of "Brookefield", and his first wife (?) Semmes.

5) Philip Lee, Jr. (1712-1739), of “Lee Langley”, married Bridget (?).

6) Anne Lee (1715-1800), wife of James Russell (1708-1788), merchant of London and Prince George’s Co., MD.

7) Sarah Lee (1717-1793), wife of William Potts, Sr. (1718-1761), of Barbados.

8) Henry Lee (ca. 1719-1743), went to England in 1739. No mention in fathers will, and died single.

9) Thomas Lee (1721-1749), married Christiana Sim (1714-1762), of Kilcairn, Scotland, daughter of Dr. Patrick Sim (d. 1740), of Prince George's Co., MD., who immigrated from Scotland, and Mary Brooke (d. 1758), daughter of Col. Thomas Brooke, Jr., Hon. (1660-1730). Thomas and Christiana were the parents of Gov. Thomas Sim Lee, Col. (1745-1819).  Christiana married secondly, Walter Smith.

10) Capt. Arthur Lee (1723-1760), married second, Charity (Hanson) Howard (1724-1756), daughter of Samuel Hanson, Sr., of "Green Hill” (ca. 1685-1740), Charles Co., MD., and wife Elizabeth (Storey) Warren (ca. 1688-1764). Charity was the widow of John Howard, Jr. (d.ca. 1749).

11) Hannah Lee (1726-1781), married first Thomas Bowie (1722-1758), son of John Bowie, Sr., Gent.(ca. 1688-1759); married secondly Joseph Sprigg, Sr. (1736-1800), son of Osborn Sprigg, Sr. (1707-1749) and Rachel Belt (1711-1750).

12) Letitia Lee (1728-1776), married first James Wardropp (d. 1760), of "Ampthill", Chesterfield Co., VA; married secondly Dr. Adam Thompson (d. 1767), of Upper Marlboro, P.G.Co., MD.; married thirdly Col. Joseph Sim (d. 1793).

13) Elizabeth Lee (1730-1752), never married.

14) Alice Lee (1732-1769), married first Thomas Clark, Jr. (1728-1756) of “Backland”, P.G. Co., MD.; married secondly Hon., Col. Meriwether Smith (1730-1794), of Essex Co., VA., son of Col. Francis Smith and first wife, Lucy Meriwether. Meriwether and Alice were the parents of Gov. George William Smith (1762-1811).

15) Hancock Lee (1734-1759), merchant of Nottingham, Prince George’s Co., MD. never married.

16) Corbin Lee (1736-1773) of "The Adventure", married Elinor (Addison) Lowe Smith Thornton.

17) John Lee (1738-1777) of "Smithfield", Essex Co., VA., married Susannah Smith (1740-1818).

18) George Lee (1740-1807), of Washington, D.C.; married Chloe Hanson (d. 1794) of “Green Hill”, Charles Co., MD., daughter of Samuel Hanson, Sr. (ca. 1685-1740) and Elizabeth (Storey) Warren (ca. 1688-1764).

19) Margaret Lee (1742), married Alexander Symer, merchant of Upper Marlboro, MD.

Ancestry

Philip was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., “the scholar” (1647-1715) and Laetitia Corbin (ca. 1657-1706).

Laetitia was the daughter of Richard’s neighbor and, Councillor, Hon. Henry Corbin, Sr. (1629-1676) and Alice (Eltonhead) Burnham (ca. 1627-1684).

Richard II, was the son of Col. Richard Lee I, Esq., "the immigrant" (1618-1664) and Anne Constable (ca. 1621-1666).

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Constable and a ward of Sir John Thoroughgood.

More work needed
I did some triage cleanup on this long-previously unsourced article yesterday and today, including a long chat with a Prince George's County reference librarian, as well as my first visit to the Prince George's Room of the new Hyattsville library (which I now know is about a mile or two from Riversbend, the home plantation of at least some of the Calvert family referenced in the article). However, I'm not principally interested in the Maryland Lees, and the open stacks of that room don't contain anything like the Virginia genealogical resources I typically consult. Thus, there was no equivalent to Cynthia Miller Leonard's Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 which I often cite, and which would allow me to add predecessors, successors, etc. to his legislative offices. I did cite the one volume (U.S. Bicentennial) 1776 history of Prince George's County (written by a man who was a Maryland delegate circa World War I and who thus qualify for a wikipedia article of his own), but could not find any mention of this man of the similar bicentennial history of Charles County, and rather than search for a similar history of Dorchester County, went back to the historic Alexandra Virginia library to add a couple more (obviously flawed) sources.

I didn't restore the unsourced genealogy removed in 2016. Frankly, I restored the birth_place and death_place infobox items this evening because I believe it important to show the movement he made in his life, though both are best-guestimates. Also, I cannot find anything to prove he was a lawyer, despite the category used, for in Virginia of that era I don't believe judges of the General Court needed to be lawyers, just major landowners on the Governor's Council. Nonetheless, he may well have received a legal education in England or somewhere in the middle colonies as part of the family business' dynamics.

I might find the time to make a few more phone calls about this matter tomorrow. I know the Oxon Hill PGCML branch also has a genealogy section, but do not intend to encounter the parking difficulties involved to research at the Enoch Pratt library in Baltimore nor in Annapolis.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:35, 8 March 2023 (UTC)