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    Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734 – January 11, 1797) was a Founding Father of the United States and a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony...
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    Cassius Lee (August 18, 1779 - July 08, 1798) Francis Lightfoot Lee (June 18, 1782 - April 13, 1850) Unnamed child (1784 - 1784) Francis Ludwell Lee (1786...
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    Burgesses; Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), signers of the American Declaration of Independence, with Richard Lee also serving...
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    Menokin (category Lee family residences)
    Menokin, also known as Francis Lightfoot Lee House, was the plantation of Francis Lightfoot Lee near Warsaw, Virginia, built for him by his wife's father...
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  • bearing Francis Lightfoot Lee (1782-1850). Meanwhile, these two elder brothers were sent to London, England, where their merchant uncle William Lee lived...
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  • Senate Francis Joseph Lee (1857–1909), chess player Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797), signer of the United States Declaration of Independence SS Francis L...
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    Sully Historic Site (category Lee family residences)
    second cousin, Francis Lightfoot Lee II, son of Richard Henry Lee. For several years after his purchase of Sully, Francis Lightfoot Lee II, called F. L...
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    Independence, Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), and Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797). Stratford Hall is also the birthplace of Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), who was...
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    Virginia, to Francis Lightfoot Lee II and Jane Fitzgerald. He was the grandson of Richard Henry Lee, great-nephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee I, brother-in-law...
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    birthplace of Robert E. Lee and Founding Fathers and signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee). The town's slogan...
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  • "Richard Lee" in February 1727. The family would also include Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Arthur Lee, William Lee and Hannah Lee Corbin....
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    of Independence, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee, and the Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Richard Henry Lee was elected as the...
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  • to his class. Two of his elder brothers, Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) and Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) were planters and politicians active within...
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    the United States Senate, and Francis Lightfoot was in the Virginia Senate. Lee's youngest sons William Lee and Arthur Lee served as diplomats to various...
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    Mount Airy Plantation (category Lee family residences)
    Rebecca and her husband Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence (Richard Henry Lee being the other brother)...
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    January 19, 1794); sponsor of the Lee Resolution, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734 – January...
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  • Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were the radicals in Virginia's delegation to the Continental Congress. Thomas Ludwell Lee and his cousin Richard Lee corresponded...
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    five surviving elder brothers, Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794), Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734–1797) and William Lee (1739–1795), also became Revolutionary-era...
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    1775–1777 Serving with Carter Braxton, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, George Wythe Preceded by Patrick Henry...
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    Oliver Wolcott, Thomas McKean, and possibly Elbridge Gerry. Richard Henry Lee and George Wythe were in Virginia during July and August, but returned to...
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  • identity of the author is unknown. Scholars have suggested Richard Henry Lee and Melancton Smith as possibilities, though recent evidence suggests Smith...
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    tourism. Historic sites nearby include Menokin, the former home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, Mount Airy and Sabine Hall. A former plantation estate, Belle Mount...
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  • Voters continued to re-elect him and neighbor (and fellow planter) Francis Lightfoot Lee, including after Lord Dunmore suppressed the Virginia General Assembly...
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    Thomas Lee[citation needed] or more generally for the Lee family. The name change was passed by an Act of Assembly in 1758. Francis Lightfoot Lee and Phillip...
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    Martin, Maryland George Mason, Virginia * James McClurg, Virginia John Francis Mercer, Maryland William Pierce, Georgia Edmund Randolph, Virginia * Caleb...
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    Thomas Heyward Jr. Virginia Richard Henry Lee John Banister Thomas Adams John Harvie Francis Lightfoot Lee Roger Sherman (Connecticut) was the only person...
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    unanimous adoption, the Second Continental Congress unanimously passed the Lee Resolution, which established the consensus of the Congress that the British...
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    Richard Lee I "The Immigrant" Thomas Lee of Stratford Hall Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Richard Henry Lee by Charles...
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    governor of Florida Francis Lightfoot Lee, U.S. Founding Father and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Laetitia Corbin Lee (1657–1706), American...
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    Francis Hopkinson (October 2, 1737 – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer. He designed Continental paper...
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