Richard LEE

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography. Richard Lee was known as "The Scholar". He was a student in England, presumably at Oxford, in the year 1664. In 1673, he became head of the Lee clan and owner of John's Machodoc Creek property in Westmoreland County, after his father's death.
Wife was 10 years his junior.
After he married, Richard was elected by his neighbors to the House of Burgesses. In 1676, he was named to the highest governing body in VA, the Council of State (State Senate). He found himself tested after arriving in Jamestown when nothing less than civil war broke out, led by Nathaniel Bacon. There was much controversy between Bacon and Richard especially when Bacon had imprisoned the Scholar.
In the 1670's, Virgina began a transformation which persons like Richard the Scholar feared would corrupt society. His fight against progress may explain why Richard disappointed his descendants.
Richard Lee is the most misunderstood and underappreciated member of the Lee clan. Many of Richard's descendents (in his opinion) nearly ruined their lives by pursuing money. Richard spent most of his life in study. He was at least as courageous as his father although his family did not see this. He was also known for his honesty.
Richard's epitaph was appropriately understood. It noted whenever Richard Lee had served in office, "he was a zealous promoter of the public good." It went on to note that he was very skillfull in the Greek and Latin languages and other parts of polite learning.

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• Cemetery: Mt Pleasant, 1714, Westmoreland County, VA. Tombstone reads: "heare lieth the body of Richard Lee, Esq., born in VA, son or Richard Lee, gentleman, descended of an ancient family of Morton-Regis in Shrpshire...He quietly resigned his soul to God whom he always devoutly worshipped, on the 12th day of Mar, in the year 1714, in the 68th year of his age".

He was educated at Oxford, member of Governor's Council, House of Burgesses 1677. He recieved the plantation "Paradise" in his father's will.

• See also. http://www.octhouse.com/leereport.html

Richard married Letitia CORBIN, daughter of Hon. Henry CORBIN and Alice ELTONHEAD, in 1674 in VA. (Letitia CORBIN was born in 1657 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA and died on 6 Oct 1706 in Westmoreland County, VA.)