Arthur Lee
BIRTH
Dec 20, 1740
Stratford, Virginia
DEATH
December 12, 1792
Urbanna, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
Thomas Lee
(1690-1750)
MOTHER:
Hannah Harrison Ludwell
(1701-1750)
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Lee, Arthur
(1740-1792)
Arthur Lee was a Virginia physician, lawyer, political writer, and Revolutionary diplomat. Working in London and France, he promoted the American cause, helped secure European support, and served as one of the American commissioners negotiating with France.
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BROTHER
Philip Ludwell Lee
(1727-1775)
BROTHER
Richard Henry Lee
(1732-1794)
BROTHER
William Lee
(1739-1795)
SISTER
Hannah Lee Corbin
(1728-1782)
BROTHER
Francis Lightfoot Lee
(1734-1797)
BROTHER
Thomas Ludwell Lee
(1730-1778)
SISTER
Alice Lee Shippen
(1736-1817)
Thomas Lee
(1690-1750)
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DIED:
Urbanna, Virginia
Dec 12, 1792
Arthur Lee was born on Dec 20, 1740 in Stratford, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Arthur Lee with work or public activity as a doctor, lawyer, writer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Arthur Lee died on Dec 12, 1792 in Urbanna, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.