. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ In-dians. He represented YorkCounty as burgess in 1647,and Northumberland in 1651. HI 1J 1 .I rr r MRS. RICHARD LEE II. e held also the office of Justice, was Secretary of State and member of the Kings also served on various commissions. He died in 1663-4. The political history of the colony in his time is well during these years was a battle ground between Church-men and Dissenters, Loyalists and Roundheads, with the occasionalspice of a terrible outbreak on the part of the Indians. The eightshires
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. ^ In-dians. He represented YorkCounty as burgess in 1647,and Northumberland in 1651. HI 1J 1 .I rr r MRS. RICHARD LEE II. e held also the office of Justice, was Secretary of State and member of the Kings also served on various commissions. He died in 1663-4. The political history of the colony in his time is well during these years was a battle ground between Church-men and Dissenters, Loyalists and Roundheads, with the occasionalspice of a terrible outbreak on the part of the Indians. The eightshires were strung along the water courses, and back of these. 74 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Covered a sullen cloud of savages. Although these Indiaus tradedfreely with the colonists, it was necessary in the early life of thecolony to harry them by going three severall marches everieyear to drive them back within the bounds prescribed to them by law. They frequentlyattacked the colony, butthese outbreaks wereeasily quelled. The ever-beginning, never-endingstrife was between theCavaliers and Round-heads, each party beinglargely represented bythe people. But underno circumstance did theVirginians ever losesight of their own they were forthe most part Cavaliers—stanch supporters ofchurch and king—theywere prepared to take uparms against either iftheir sense of justice tothemselves demanded of right wentbefore all, and neverslept; and from thisrooted sentiment resulted,as the years went on, thelong antagonism, the incessant protest and the steady developmentof republican ideas which culminated in the American Revolutio
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