Through the past few hundred years it was believed that Colonel Richard Lee of Virginia descended from the Lee family of Coton Hall, Alveley in the county of Shropshire, England. But in 1987 this ancestral line was challenged by a hypothesis that Richard Lee, son of a Worcester clothier, was the Virginian Colonel. This book presents the evidence for the English ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee using contemporary documents. It looks at the records left by the Colonel, his family and their associates. It also looks at the records left by the Shropshire and Worcester Lee families. Several of the associated families are traced back through the records to their medieval roots. Much new evidence is presented and many questions are answered and asked in this work which brings together all the research on the founder of the Virginian family for the first time.
- ISBN10 1447723996
- ISBN13 9781447723998
- Publish Date 10 June 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English