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Subject: Re: [GM-L] Re: GenMassachusetts-D Digest V00 #577
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:53:44 EDT
Here is information that was listed in Vol. #4 of "Historic Homes and Places
and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs" relating to the families of Middlesex
County, Massachusetts, prepared under the editorial supervision of "William
Richard Cutter, A.M." and published in 1908. (Hope I typed the following
correctly, it's late! <smile> ) Patty
(I)Henry Lee, the immigrant ancestor, came from Cheshire, England, where
presumably he was born, and settled in Manchester, Massachusetts, in 1650,
and he died there in 1675. He was in Boston, however in 1656. His will is
dated at Manchester, March 29, 1675, His widow married in 1675 Thomas West,
and she died October 28, 1690. Children born at Manchester; 1. Mary,
baptized June 1666. 2. John, born June 1668; had many children and
descendants in Manchester. 3. Samuel, born August 16, 1667, baptized August
1670, mentioned below. 4. Thomas, died about 1697. 5 Hannah died young. 6.
Sarah died young.
(II) Samuel Lee, son of Henry Lee (I) was born at Manchester, August 16,
1667, baptized August 1, 1670. He was a housewright by trade and erected a
hundred or more houses and stores in Marblehead and vicinity He had a
sawmill in Manchester. He removed late in life to Marblehead and resided at
the Training Fields Hill. He died in 1755. He married Rebecca Masters. The
children of Samuel and Rebecca, as given in the Lee Genealogy were: (with
some additions from the town records). 1. Samuel, born 1693, mentioned
below. 2. Mary, baptized October 20, 1695. 3 Jacob 4. Jeremiah. 5. Ludia,
born April 19, 1699. 6. Andrew. 7. Ezekiel. 8. Amos. 9. David. 10. Rebecca.
11. Abigail. 12. Elizabeth, born August 17, 1710. 13. Josiah, born October
24, 1706, baptized at Beverly, October 5, 1707. 14 John, baptized May 6,
1716, at Beverly. 15. Jonathan, born June 15, 1718, at Manchester. The
foregoing are not give in order of birth.
(III) Captain Samuel Lee, son of Samuel Lee (2) was born in 1693 in
Manchester or Beverly; was baptized October 4, 1696. He married (first) Mary
Tarrin, and (second) Hannah Sweet, widow of Dr. Joseph Sweet. Children, born
in Manchester, by the first wife; 1. Mary, born May 14, 1713. 2. Samuel,
born October 21, 1714. 3. John, born July 23, 1716 or February 12, 1715-16.
4. Jacob, born January 6, 1717, mentioned below. 5. Jeremiah, born April 16,
1721. 6. Ezekiel, born July 5, 1724. 7 Rebecca, born September 16, 1725. 8.
Amos, born January 5, 1732-33. 9. Abigail, born December 26, 1733.
(IV) Jacob Lee, son of Captain Samuel Lee (3) was born in Manchester,
January 6, 1717. He married, April 29, 1745. Eunice Hibbard, of Gloucester,
a descendant of Robert Hibbard, a pioneer at Salem and Beverly. Their eldest
daughter, Eunice, born November 4, 1746, married Benjamin Morgan of Beverly
and Manchester.
(Patty's note: Information on the Robert Morgan family follows on the next
page and 1/2.)
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