Ancestry of General
Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Henry Lee III

View famous kin of Henry Lee

• • Father of Robert E. Lee — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Henry Lee II 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Grymes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jan 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dumfries, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Mar 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Cumberland Island, Georgia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Hill Carter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jun 1793 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shirley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Charles Carter Lee

  Anne Kinloch Lee

  Sydney Smith Lee

  Robert Edward Lee (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Mildred Lee

  • Notes: 

  • 9th Governor of Virginia

    aka Light-Horse Harry

• Additional marriages for Henry Lee III

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  • Spouse:
  • Matilda Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1782

• Sources for Henry Lee III

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 249.
  • ³ Campbell, Charles, Genealogy of the Spotswood Family in Scotland and Virginia, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), 22.
  • ⁴ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 336-337.
  • ⁵ Faris, John T., Historic Shrines of America: Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who . . ., New York: George H. Doran Company (1918), 280.
  • ⁶ Kennedy, Mary Selden, Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families, Volume 1, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1911), 322.
  • ⁷ Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee . . ., Philadelphia: (1895), 508.
  • ⁸ Lee, Fitzhugh, "Light-Horse Harry", American Magazine: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. 41 (1896), 265.
  • ⁹ Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, New York: Oxford University Press (2007), Chart preceding p. 3.
  • ¹⁰ Pecdquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families. Volume II, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 206, 597.
  • ¹¹ Stratford Hall Plantation (Robert E. Lee Memorial Assoc.), "Henry Lee III", (accessed 07/19/2011).
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Henry Lee III", (accessed 03/03/2010).