Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794)
Richard Henry Lee was a correspondent of Bushrod Washington.
Richard Henry Lee, patriot and father of Ludwell Lee, Thomas Jesse Lee, and Hannah Lee Washington, was born on 20 January 1732 at Stratford, the family plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. After an education in England and a tour of Europe, he returned home and started his career in public office as a justice of the peace.
Edmund Jennings Lee, ed., Lees of Virginia, 1642–1892: Biological and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee (Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1895), 206–08.
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"To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 29 June 1775," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0022. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 44–46.]
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Richard Henry Lee at Find a Grave.
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