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political and military movements of the day and occupied 

 seats in parliament generation after generation. Their 

 eldest son, Henry Fitzhugh, married Lucy Carter. One of 

 their granddaughters married a Randolph; one of their sons, 

 William Fitzhugh, a near neighbor and trusted friend of 

 Washington, married Anne Randolph. Their daughter Anne 

 married Judge William Craik; their daughter Mary married 

 George Washington Parke Custis and became the mother 

 of Mary Anne Randolph Custis and the grandmother of 

 Robert E. Lee; and their son William Henry Fitzhugh mar- 

 ried Anna Goldsborough, 



Richard Lee, son of Richard and Laetitia (Corbin) Lee, 

 married an English heiress, Martha Silk, and had several 

 children of whom one married a Fairfax, another a Colonel 

 Corbin and a third Major George Tuberville of an ancient 

 English family, himself Justice, Sheriff and Clerk. 



Philip Lee, another son of Richard, married a daughter of 

 Hon. Thomas Brooke and Barbara Addison and their chil- 

 dren married well. Thomas, brother of Philip, was a member 

 of the House of Burgesses, member, and later president of 

 the Council and later Acting Governor of the Colony, He 

 married Hannah, daughter of Colonel Philip Ludwell, a 

 descendant of a brother of Lord Cattington, a prominent 

 statesman and diplomat of the reign of Charles 11. One of 

 the sons of Thomas and Hannah was Richard Henry Lee, 

 a representative to the Continental Congress, who prepared 

 the resolutions for independence; and another son was Fran- 

 cis Lightfoot Lee, a member of Congress; still another, 

 Thomas, was a judge of the General Court. 



Finally there was Henry Lee, son of Richard and Laetitia, 

 who lived quietly at the ancestral Lee Hall. He married 

 Mary, daughter of Colonel Richard Bland, descendant of 

 Sir Thomas Bland, of ancient and honorable family, created 

 baronet by Charles I. Mary Bland's grandfather, Theod- 



