Lee (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
Still to do of December 28, 2022:
- Recruit patrilineal descendants of Richard Lee (preferably through his son Hancock) to Y-DNA test and publish their results. Such descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
Biography
First Generation
(Capt.) Hancock Lee, son of (Col.) Richard Lee and Anne Constable was born Dividing Creek, VA Mar 1652/3 and died Wicomico, VA 25 May 1709. He married twice, first abt 1675 Mary Kendall (not descended from a Mayflower passenger) and second Westmoreland Co., VT abt 1700 Sarah Allerton. By his second wife he had five children: Isaac (1702-b1727 unm.), Ann (c1704), John (c1707 unm.), Elizabeth (1709) and Hancock (1709).
Second Generation
Hancock Lee (II) was born Ditchley, VA aft 18 May 1789[1] and died King George Co., VA Oct 1762. He married Fredericksburg, VA 23 Jan 1733/4 Mary Willis and they had seven children:[2] Hancock (1740), John (1743), Willis (?1745-1776 likely never marr.), Sarah Alexander (1749), Henry (1750), Richard (1753 unm.) and Mary (c1757).
Third Generation
- ↑ His father made a codicil to his will adding in a bequest to his unborn child.
- ↑ Some records include additional children (likely fictional): Ann (1734), Mary (1735), George Henry (1737), John Arthur and Richard Bland
DNA results TBD
Further DNA testing needed
Testing of patrilineal descendants is needed. Any male who believes their patrilineal ancestry goes through Hancock Lee is encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
References and External links
- Lee Family Digital Archive
- Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical sketches of the descendants of Col. Richard Lee... 1895, Franklin Printing Co., Philadelphia. Online at https://archive.org/details/leeofvirginia16400inleee
