Rebecca Lee

Brief Life History of Rebecca

When Rebecca Lee was born about 1795, in Chester, South Carolina, United States, her father, Ambrose Lee, was 51 and her mother, Frances Wheeler, was 31.

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Ambrose Lee
1746–1803
Frances Wheeler
1765–1825
Vincent W. Lee
1780–1858
William Lee
1783–1857
Rebecca Lee
about 1795–
Ambrose Lee
1784–
Sarah Sooky Lee
1788–1858
John Lee
1793–1886
Nancy Lee
1794–1850
David Anderson Lee
1798–1870
William Ambrose Lee
1800–1855

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Rebecca Lee - Published information: birth-name: Rebecca Lee

World Events (3)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1822 · Slave Rebellion

"On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called ""the rising."" The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it."

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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