James Lee

Brief Life History of James

When James Lee was born on 12 September 1739, in Aspinock, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Lee, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Wilson, was 32.

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Family Time Line

John Lee
1700–1784
Margaret Wilson
1706–1781
Samuel Lee
1726–1792
Margaret Lee
1728–1760
Phebe Lee
1730–1818
John Lee
1732–1784
Job Lee
1734–1734
Sgt Simeon Lee
1735–
Jonathan Lee
1737–
James Lee
1739–
Jesse Lee
1741–1816
Hannah Lee
1743–1832
Benjamin Lee
1746–1816
Wilson Lee
1750–1754
Sybil Lee
1751–

Sources (2)

  • James Lee, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • James Lee, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"

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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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