Laetitia Corbin Lee

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Laetitia Corbin Lee
CALLED LAETITIA CORBIN LEE (MRS. RICHARD LEE II, 1657-1706).jpg
Born
Laetitia Corbin

25 August 1657
Died6 October 1706
Machodoc, Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia
Resting placeMount Pleasant, Westmoreland, Virginia
Spouse(s)Richard Lee II
Children8 (including Thomas, Philip, and Henry)
Parent(s)Henry Corbin
Alice Eltonhead Burnham

Laetitia Corbin Lee (25 August 1657 – 6 October 1706) was an American colonist. She was the daughter of Henry Corbin, one of the most powerful and influential political leaders in the Colony of Virginia. In 1674 she married the politician Richard Lee II, and joined the prominent Lee family of Virginia. The Maryland branch of the Lee family descends from her through her son, Philip Lee of Blenheim Plantation. Another of her sons, Thomas, built Stratford Hall, the future family seat of the Lees.

Biography[]

Lee was born Laetitia Corbin on 25 August 1657 to Henry Corbin, a Virginia statesman, and Alice Eltonhead Burnham.[1][2] She was one of eight children. Through her father, she was a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Corbin and a great-granddaughter of Sir Gawen de Sutton Grosvenor. Her sister, Anne Corbin, married the planter William Tayloe.[3] After her father's death in 1675, Lee's mother married Captain Henry Creyke.[4]

In 1674 she married Richard Lee II, a military officer, statesman, planter, and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia.[5] They had eight children, including Thomas, Philip, and Henry.[6] A granddaughter, Laetitia, was named after her. Shortly after her marriage, Lee's husband was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and later served as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council.

She and her husband maintained one of the largest libraries in the Colony of Virginia at Machodoc, their plantation along the Potomac River in Westmoreland.

She died on 6 October 1706 at Machodoc. She was buried at the Burnt House Cemetery near Mount Pleasant.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Bruce, Philip Alexander; Stanard, William Glover (May 17, 1921). "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography". Virginia Historical Society. – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "called Laetitia Corbin Lee (Mrs. Richard Lee II, 1657-1706) – Colonial Virginia Portraits".
  3. ^ Lancaster, Robert Alexander (1915). Historic Virginia homes and churches (Now in the public domain. ed.). Lippincott. pp. 343–. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  4. ^ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol 1, p 535
  5. ^ "THE LEE WOMEN".
  6. ^ "The Corbin Family (Continued)". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 30 (3): 309–318. 1922. JSTOR 4243888 – via JSTOR.
  7. ^ "The Lee Family". Bedinger Family History and Genealogy.
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