John Lee Jr 1.4 Notes

Updated February 29, 2012

There is not known to have been in Charlotte Co/Lunenburg Co., VA area in 1820 a John Lee other than John Lee Jr. son of John Lee Senr Sen d. 1805 in Charlotte Co., VA near the Lunenburg County line. John Lee Senr's will named a son John Lee.

Page 1 of letter written by Edward Lee Jr shows "our old uncle John Lee " was in Tenn in 1845.

Bible record shows John Lee & Frances had 10 children: 2 sons and 5 daughters

The following censuses pretty well progress in agreement.
Censuses show John Lee was born roughly 1773-1780
Censuses show Frances was born roughly 1790-1794

John Lee 1820 Census Lunenburg Co., VA.
Male age 16-45 (b. 1775-1794)
Female 26-45 (b. 1775-1794)
no male children
4 female children
(total 4 female children)

John Lee 1830 Census Williamson Co., TN
1 male 40-50 (b. 1780-1790)
1 female 30-40 (b. 1790-1800)
2 males younger than oldest male
5 females younger than oldest female
(total 7 children)

John Lee 1840 Census Marshall Co., TN
1 male 50-60 (b. 1780-1790)
1 female 50-60 (b. 1780-1790) ( b. abt 1790
2 males younger than oldest male
6 females younger than oldest female
(total 8 children)

1850 Census Marshall Co. TN
Jno Lee, 77, Farmer, $1714, b. VA
Frances, 56, b. ditto VA
Ann E. 35 b. ditto VA(b. 1815)
Rebecca L. 28 b. ditto VA(b. 1822)
Mary H. 26 b. ditto VA(b. 1824)
Wm T. 23 b. ditto VA (b. 1827)
(total 4 children in the home)

John Lee 1856 Marshall Co., TN named "my five children" in will:
Ann Lee
Jane Mannion (sp)
Rebecca Lee
Sarah Marler (sp)
William T. Lee
(Names indicate one son and one daughter died before the 1856 will.)

Charlotte Co., VA marriage records show
John Lee m.b. 11 Feb 1812, Sur. Charles H. Pearson, married
Frances Webb (widow) 12 Feb by Rev. Richard Dabbs.

Previous marriage records show Frances was nee Terry.  M.b. dated
7 Sep 1807 Lazarus Webb (jr?) & Fanny Terry, ward of Lazarus Webb,
Sur. Singleton Foster, married 8 Sep by Rev. Richard Dabbs, Jr.
See will of 1st husb. Lazarus Webb (s/o Thomas) 1808
No known child by Lazarus Webb unless she was with child when he died

Marshall Co. Tennessee Wills 1835-1865, p. 62
Transcribed by Deane Porch, pub. by Louise G. Lynch 1978
(29) [page # I assume, didn't get book #-sorry/jgs]
John Lea
"...land on which I now reside"...in Williamson and Marshall
Counties ... adjoining M. R. Hughes, Margret Wilson, John H. Floyd, T.
H. Fagan and A. H. Clardy's heirs ... shall be sold, and all personal
property except Negro man, Bob.
Balance of slaves - Sarah, Margret, Caroline, Tennessee, Albert and
Susan - their value taken into account - be allotted to children Jane
Mannion, Rebecca Lea, Sarah Marler, and William T. Lea.
Extra money be given to William T. Lea and Rebecca Lea for "their
labor and services" after age twenty-one. Estate then be equally
divided between "my five children: Ann Lea, Jane Mannion, Rebecca Lea,
Sarah Marler and William T. Lea."
Excr: Son, William T. Lea
December 15 1856
Wit: James A. Jarrat, John W. Johnson & Joseph F. Smith
Probated January 5, 1857
Marshall Co., TN Tax Records 1839-1841 show John Lee taxed with 78
acres in District #8.

Marriage Records Marshall Co., TN 1836-Transcribed by Deane Porch, Pub
by Louise G. Lynch.
I didn't spend long in these. Noted the following:
Martin, Patrick H. & Sarah Lee, Lic. issued Feb 8, 1841.
I don't know if this could be the "Sarah Marler" in the will.

Marriages of Williamson Co., TN 1804 - 1850
p. 116
Manire, John A. to Frances J. Lee
July 14, 1847 (bond) BM: John L. Webb.

— Jo Lee Gregory Spears

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