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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- 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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