Robert ELee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 . orse in Washingtons armies. Stratford, the stately dwelling-place, had becomethe property of Colonel Lee through his marriagewith the daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee in 1782;about 1790 she had passed away, leaving behind hera daughter and one son, who bore his fathers name,Henry Lee. From Thomas Lee, of the third gen-eration of Lees in Virginia, this mansion haddescended to the succeeding heirs in the days ofKing George IL The tradition runs that QueenCarolines admiration for the colonial officer led herto send a private gift of money to Tho
Robert ELee and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870 . orse in Washingtons armies. Stratford, the stately dwelling-place, had becomethe property of Colonel Lee through his marriagewith the daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee in 1782;about 1790 she had passed away, leaving behind hera daughter and one son, who bore his fathers name,Henry Lee. From Thomas Lee, of the third gen-eration of Lees in Virginia, this mansion haddescended to the succeeding heirs in the days ofKing George IL The tradition runs that QueenCarolines admiration for the colonial officer led herto send a private gift of money to Thomas Lee forthe construction of a mansion befitting the dignityof the President of the colonial Council. Spaciouswere the rooms, and lofty w^as the ceiling of thisdw^elling of brick; from the platforms laid betweenthe chimney towers, the promenader could catchglimpses of Virginias broadest and deepest river. Since the early reign of Governor Berkeley, thefamily of Lee had become native to the soil of theOld Dominion. Richard Lee, first of his line to. 16421 Family. 3 cross the seas, was a landholder of Stratford-Lang-ton, in the county of Essex, England. Accordingto his own claim, this founder of the Virginianhouse sprang from that line of knights and gentle-men bearing the name of Lee who dwelt originallyin Shropshire. By King James L, in 1620, a mem-ber of this Shropshire family was honoured with abaronetcy; but, in 1660, the title passed away on thedeath of the second baronet. The Virginian emi-grant did not claim descent from these two baronetsof the Langley branch, but from the collateral andyounger branch, the Lees of Coton Hall. Withthe Lees of Ditchley he had no afifinity; but adaughter of the latter house, Eleanor Calvert, be-came the wife of John Parke Custis, and thus untothe wife of Robert Edward was transmitted theblood of a separate and distinct family of Lees. In the portrait handed down to us, the face ofthe first Richard Lee of Virginia, framed in the of-ficial
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