When Young Lee was born about 1752, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Henry Lee, was 43 and his mother, Mary Gresham, was 38. He married Jemima Matthews on 1 December 1775, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Washington, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 September 1840, in Smyth, Virginia, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Virginia, United States.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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.
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