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family lived there in a home which may have pre-dated the final Lee residence, as well as operated a lucrative fishery on the
Potomac. However, the Fairfax home burned in 1910, and ruins of the walls and a chimney and barn foundation are all that remain. and increasing pollution in the Potomac River ended the profitable fishery as well as a duck hunting club which acquired the property in the early 20th century. In modern times, the Lee Society of Virginia erected a monument to his son Lighthorse Henry Lee, which also mentions this man's plantation and honors it as the ancestral home of his grandson
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Fairfax bought the property in 1825 from Alfred Lee, and his
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who operated plantations using enslaved labor, as well as held important political and governmental offices. Lee received a private education appropriate to his class. As the third son (with elder brothers John (b. 1724) and
Richard (b. 1729) and a sister Letitia (b. 1730)), Lee was not expected to
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as their representatives to the last revolutionary convention in 1776. After independence, Lee won election to the
Virginia Senate, representing a district consisting pf Fairfax and Prince William Counties, and continued to serve until his death, when John Pope won election to the vacant seat.
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Meanwhile, Henry Lee II used his legal training as a justice of the peace for Prince
William county, and later led the county's justices who jointly administered the county in that era. Lee also led the county militia as County Lieutenant for Prince William, including during the
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won the new election and was thus seated alongside John Bell for what proved to be a two-year long session. Lee clearly won a seat in 1758 (which proved to be a four year long session), and began serving alongside John Baylis. That year, five Lees (brothers and cousins, led by
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Governor Dumnore prorogued (suspended the assembly in 1775). Prince William County voters then elected Lee and Blackburn their representatives to the first four Virginia Revolutionary Conventions, and elected Lee and
348:(and also the year of a Virginia tax census in Prince William County), Lee owned 29 enslaved teenagers under 16 years old, 26 enslaved adults, as well as 16 horses and 72 cattle and a 4-wheeled carriage.
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inherit the main plantation, but studied law and was admitted to the local bar in Westmoreland County, where he practiced law for three years.
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