Ancestry of
Ben Ames Williams

Novelist and Short Story Author

John Lee

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Ben Ames Williams — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Lee 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Tarrin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Feb 1715/1716 
  • Birth Location:
  • Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Aug 1789 
  • Death Location:
  • Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Raymond
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Jun 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Lee

  Fanny Lee

  Lucy Lee

  Lucy Lee

  Betsey Lee (Ahnentafel No:27 )

• Sources for John Lee

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, pp. 32-33, Burial record for daughter Lucy Watson.
  • ² Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1916, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 234-240.
  • ³ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1916, Vol. 52, No. 2, p. 153.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Manchester, Vol. 1, p. 81, Birth record for daughter Lucy Lee.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Beverly, Vol. 2, p. 189, Marriage record for John Lee and Joanna Raymond.
  • ⁶ Graves, Eben W., The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press (2007), 216.
  • ⁷ Lee, Thomas Amory, Colonel William Raymond Lee of the Revolution, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute (1917), 7.
  • ⁸ Raymond, Samuel, Genealogies of the Raymond Families of New England, 1630-1 to 1886: With a Historical Sketch of Some . . ., New York: Press of J. J. Little and Co. (1886), 123.
  • ⁹ Watson, John Lee, Memoirs of the Marstons of Salem: With a Brief Genealogy of Some of Their Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1873), 42-43.