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Charles Lee (17581815)

Role

Charles Lee and Bushrod Washington corresponded on legal matters.

Description

Charles Lee, brother of Henry Lee IIIEdmund Jennings Lee, and Richard Bland Lee and uncle of Edmund Jennings Lee Jr. and Robert E. Lee, was born on 1 January 1758 at the family plantation in Prince William County, Virginia.

Citations

Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 63234.

Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: First Term, 18011805 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970), 145, 477.

Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 18051809 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), 336.

"To George Washington from Charles Lee, 29 October 1788," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0062. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 24 September 1788 – 31 March 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 82–84.]

Charles Lee at U.S. Department of Justice: Office of the Attorney General.

Charles Lee at Find a Grave.

Charles Lee at FamilySearch.