William Lee
BIRTH
Aug 31, 1739
Westmoreland County, Virginia
DEATH
June 27, 1795
Westmoreland County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
Thomas Lee
(1690-1750)
MOTHER:
Hannah Harrison Ludwell
(1701-1750)
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Lee, William
(1739-1795)
William Lee was a Virginia merchant, London alderman, and American diplomat during the Revolution. Congress appointed him to seek recognition and assistance from European powers, including Prussia and Austria.
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BROTHER
Philip Ludwell Lee
(1727-1775)
BROTHER
Richard Henry Lee
(1732-1794)
BROTHER
Arthur Lee
(1740-1792)
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:
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Jun 27, 1795
William Lee was born on Aug 31, 1739 in Westmoreland County, 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 William Lee with work or public activity as a merchant, 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. William Lee died on Jun 27, 1795 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.