Rebecca Tayloe Lee
(1752-1797)
BIRTH
1752
PLACE
Richmond, Virginia Colony
NAME
Rebecca Tayloe
DEATH
1797
PLACE
Menokin Plantation, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
John Tayloe II
(1721-1779)
HUSBAND
Francis Lightfoot Lee
(1734-1797)
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DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Rebecca Tayloe Lee (1752–1797) was the daughter of John Tayloe II of Mount Airy and the wife of Francis Lightfoot Lee. Their 1769 marriage brought the gift of Menokin plantation, where construction began that year and the couple settled in 1771. Rebecca remained connected to the estate while Francis served in the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. Both died in the winter of 1797. The house and records preserve her place in its history.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Rebecca Tayloe Lee’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Rebecca Tayloe Lee is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Rebecca Tayloe Lee died in 1797, in Menokin Plantation, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia. Rebecca Tayloe Lee was the daughter of John Tayloe II of Mount Airy and the wife of Francis Lightfoot Lee. Their 1769 marriage brought the gift of Menokin plantation, where construction began that year and the couple settled in 1771. Rebecca remained connected to the estate while Francis served in the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. Both died in the winter of 1797. The house and records preserve her place in its history. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Mount Airy
9640 Rosaryville Road, Upper Marlboro, MD
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