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Biographical Note
George Washington Parke Custis
Date | Event |
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1781, Apr. 30 | Born, Mount Airy, Md. |
1799 | Aide-de-camp to General Charles C. Pinckney, U.S. Army |
1804 | Married Mary Lee Fitzhugh |
1812 | Volunteer in defense of Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812 |
1824 | Began publishing "Conversations with Lafayette" in the Alexandria Gazette during the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the United States |
1826 | Began publishing "Recollections of Washington" in the United States Gazette |
1827 | Produced first play, The Indian Prophecy, performed at the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. |
1830 | Produced Pocahontas, or the Settlers of Virginia, performed at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, Pa. |
1833 | Produced North Point, or Baltimore Defended, performed in Baltimore, Md. |
1834 | Produced The Eighth of January, performed at the Park Theater in New York, N.Y. |
1857, Oct. 10 | Died, Arlington House, Fairfax County, Va. |
Arthur Lee
Date | Event |
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1740, Dec. 20 | Born, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. |
1764 | M.D., University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland |
1766 | Elected fellow, Royal Society Returned to America Practiced medicine, Williamsburg, Va. |
1768 | Settled in London, England Published "Moniter" letters. Virginia Gazette, William Rind, ed., 25 Feb.-28 Apr. |
1769-1774 | Published "Junius Americanus" letters. London Evening Post, R. Nutt, ed., and London Gazetteer, Charles Say, ed., 17 July 1769-6 Jan. 1772, and London Public Advertiser, H. S. Woodfall, ed., June 1772-Mar. 1774 |
1770 | Assistant to Benjamin Franklin, agent for Massachusetts in England and France |
1770-1774 | Studied law, Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple, London, England |
1774 | Published An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain in the Present Dispute with America. London, England: John Almon |
1775 | Admitted to bar, London, England Agent for Massachusetts in England and France Confidential correspondent, Continental Congress Committee of Secret Correspondence, London, England Published A Second Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People on the Measures Respecting America by the Author of the First. London, England: n.p. |
1776 | Appointed, with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, to negotiate a treaty with France |
1777 | Appointed commissioner to Spain, succeeding Benjamin Franklin |
1780 | Returned to America |
1781-1782 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1782-1785 | Member, Continental Congress |
1784-1789 | Commissioner, U.S. Treasury |
1785-1786 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1792, Dec. 12 | Died, Lansdowne, Middlesex County, Va. |
Charles Lee
Date | Event |
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1758, July | Born, Fauquier County, Va. |
1775 | A.B., College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J. |
1777-1789 | Naval officer of South Potomac |
1789 | Married Anne Lee |
1789-1793 | Collector, Port of Alexandria, Va. |
1793-1795 | Member, Virginia General Assembly |
1794 | Admitted to Pennsylvania bar |
1795-1801 | U.S. attorney general |
1801 | Judge, circuit court |
1802 | Returned to private law practice |
1815, June 24 | Died, Fauquier County, Va. |
Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee
Date | Event |
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1756, Jan. 29 | Born, Leesylvania, Prince William County, Va. |
1773 | Graduated, College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J. |
1776 | Captain, Theodorick Bland's regiment, Virginia Cavalry |
1778 | Major, Continental Army |
1779 | Captured 160 British soldiers, Paulus Hook, N.Y. |
1780 | Promoted to lieutenant colonel |
1781 | Present at Siege of Yorktown and surrender of General Charles Cornwallis |
1782 | Married Matilda Lee |
1785 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1785-1788 | Member, Continental Congress |
1789-1791 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1792-1795 | Governor of Virginia |
1793 | Married Anne Hill Carter |
1794 | Commanded troops that put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania |
1798 | Commissioned major general |
1799-1801 | Member, U.S. House of Representatives |
1800 | Discharged, U.S. Army |
1808 | Imprisoned for debt |
1812 | Published Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Philadelphia, Pa.: Bradford & Inskeep |
1814 | Went to the West Indies |
1818, Mar. 25 | Died, Cumberland Island, Ga. |
Richard Bland Lee
Date | Event |
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1761, Jan. 20 | Born, Leesylvania, Prince William County, Va. |
1784-1788 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1789-1795 | Member, U.S. House of Representatives |
1794 | Married Elizabeth Collins |
1796, 1799-1806 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1815 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
1816 | Appointed commissioner of claims for property destroyed during War of 1812 |
1819-1827 | Judge, Orphans' Court, Washington, D.C. |
1827, Mar. 12 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
Richard Henry Lee
Date | Event |
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1732, Jan. 20 | Born, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. |
1743-1752 | Attended Wakefield Academy, Yorkshire, England |
1752 | Returned to Virginia |
1757 | Married Anne Aylett (died 1768) |
1758-1776 | Member, Virginia House of Burgesses |
1763 | Instrumental in founding the Mississippi Company |
1766 | Signed Westmoreland Resolutions against the Stamp Act |
1769 | Married Anne Gaskins Pinckard |
1774-1779 | Member, Continental Congress Served on Secret Committee of Commerce |
1776 | Introduced resolution in Continental Congress for American independence from Great Britain |
1780-1784 | Member, Virginia House of Delegates |
1784-1787 | Member and president, Continental Congress |
1789-1792 | Member, U.S. Senate |
1794, June 19 | Died, Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Va. |
Robert Edward Lee
Date | Event |
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1807, Jan. 19 | Born, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. |
1829 | Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
1831 | Married Mary Randolph Custis |
1837-1841 | Superintending engineer, St. Louis, Mo. |
1846-1848 | Served in Mexican War under General Winfield Scott |
1852-1855 | Superintendent, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
1859 | Commanded forces that put down John Brown's raid, Harpers Ferry, Va. |
1861 | Resigned from the U.S. Army |
1862 | Appointed commander, Army of Northern Virginia |
1865 | General-in-chief, Confederate armies Surrendered, Appomattox Court House, Va. |
1866-1870 | President, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va. |
1870, Oct. 12 | Died, Lexington, Va. |
William Lee
Date | Event |
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1739, Aug. 31 | Born, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Va. |
1761-1763 | Studied in England |
1763 | Secretary, Mississippi Company |
1763-1766 | Resided in Barbados, West Indies |
1766 | Signed Westmoreland Resolutions against the Stamp Act |
1768 | Merchant and financier, London, England |
1769 | Married Hannah Philippa Ludwell (died 1784) |
1769-1770 | With firm of DeBerdt & Sayre, then self-employed |
1773 | Elected sheriff, London, England |
1775 | Elected alderman, Aldgate ward, London, England |
1777 | Appointed American commercial agent, France |
1778 | U.S. commissioner to Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria Negotiated an unauthorized treaty with Holland |
1779 | Recalled by Congress Settled in Brussels, Belgium |
1780 | Resigned as alderman, London, England |
1783 | Returned to Virginia |
1795, June 27 | Died, Greenspring, James City County, Va. |
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
Date | Event |
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1837, May 31 | Born, Arlington House, Washington, D.C. (now Arlington County, Va.) |
1857 | Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Entered U.S. Army |
1859 | Married Charlotte Wickham |
1861 | Appointed major of cavalry, Confederate States Army |
1862 | Promoted to brigadier general, Confederate States Army Served in Fredericksburg and Gettysburg campaigns |
1863 | Captured and imprisoned by Union Army |
1864 | Released from Union prison |
1865 | Second in command of Confederate cavalry, Appomattox, Va. |
1867 | Married Mary Tabb Bolling |
1875-1879 | Member, Virginia state senate |
1887-1891 | Member, U.S. House of Representatives |
1891, Oct. 15 | Died, Ravensworth, Alexandria County, Va. |