f a m i l y Children with: Anne Gaskins Children: Francis Lightfoot Lee Richard Henry Lee Born: 1732 Married to Anne Gaskins Died: 1794 Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee 2009 Image gallery (3 images) Richard Henry Lee, print at the Boal Mansion Museum Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 - June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. Lee also served as the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785, and as a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1789 to 1792, serving during part of that time as one of the first Presidents pro tempore. Lee was born in Stratford, Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia on January 20, 1732. Richard was the son of Col. Thomas Lee, Hon. (1690-1750) and Hannah Harrison Ludwell (1701-1750). He was the great-uncle of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. His nephew, Light Horse Harry Lee earned minor fame during the Revolution, and is now mainly remembered as the father of Robert E. Lee Richard was sent to England and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield in Yorkshire. In 1752 he returned to Virginia, where he began to practice law. American Revolution In August 1774, Lee was chosen as a delegate to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Lee's Resolution on the 7th of June 1776 during the Second Continental Congress, Lee put forth the motion to the Continental Congress to declare Independence from Great Britain. which read (in part): "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." Due to Lee's absence from the Congress because of his wife's illness, Thomas Jefferson was to write the Declaration. Quotes "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."[1] "the first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

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