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Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Robert Spottiswoode

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Robert E. Lee — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 120 
  • Father:
  • John Spottiswoode 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Lindsay   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1596 
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  • 16 Jan 1646 
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  • Bethia Morrison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jun 1629 
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  Robert Spottiswoode (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  • Notes: 

  • Lord President of the Court of Session. Executed after capture during the Battle of Philiphaugh.

• Sources for Robert Spottiswoode

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 247.
  • ² Campbell, Charles, Genealogy of the Spotswood Family in Scotland and Virginia, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), 11.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 141.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 411.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 60.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "John Spottiswoode", (accessed 03/04/2010).