Edmund Jennings Lee (1772–1843)
Lee and Bushrod Washington were colleagues in law and occasional correspondents.
Edmund Jennings Lee, brother of Richard Bland Lee, Henry Lee III, and Charles Lee and uncle of Robert E. Lee, was born on 20 May 1772 at the family plantation in Prince William County, Virginia. He attended what is now Princeton University before embarking on a successful career in law.
"From George Washington to Edmund Jennings Lee, 5 April 1798," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0152. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 226.]
"From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund J. Lee, Cuthbert Powell, and Archibald McClean, 15 April 1803," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0153. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 212–213.]
Kathy Orton, "Stately Georgian in Old Town Alexandria was home to Robert E. Lee’s Uncle," The Washington Post, 22 July 2016.
Edmund Jennings Lee Sr. at Find a Grave.
Edmund Jennings Lee, I at FamilySearch.