When Josiah Lee Jr was born in 1770, in Maryland, United States, his father, Josiah Lee Sr, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Luten, was 24. He married Mary VanWinkle on 1 April 1797, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Liberty, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died after 1850, in Adams, Illinois, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Maryland is the 7th state.
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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.
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