The LEE Family
HISTORY OF HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND WYOMING VALLEY
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
By: Henry Blackman Plumb, 1885, 498 pp.
Robert Baur, Printer and Stationer, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Website Compiled By: James H. Culbert
THE LEE FAMILY
CONTAINED IN THE HANOVER GENEALOGICAL TABLES TO 1830, pp. 444-445
This page last updated: 17 Jul 2009
Captain Andrew LEE 1 was born in Lancaster County, now Dauphin, in 1739; was one of the "Paxtang Boys;" served as a captain of dragoons during the Revolutionary War; was noted for his services as a partisan officer during that war; was taken prisoner by the British and confined in a hulk in New York harbor; after the peace of 1783 he returned to Lancaster County; married Priscilla ESPY, widow of James STEWART, brother of Capt. Lazarus STEWART; removed to Harrisburg, and in 1804 removed to Hanover; resided on the river bank at the mouth of Nanticoke Creek, a half mile above Nanticoke Falls; died there in 1821. They had:
Col. Washington LEE, b. 1786, m. Elizabeth CAMPBELL, d. 1871
James S. LEE, b. 1789, m. Martha CAMPBELL, d. 1850
Col. Washington LEE 2 (Andrew 1) was born in Harrisburg in 1786; was an officer in the United States Army; served through the War of 1812 as a paymaster; married Elizabeth CAMPBELL; removed to Nanticoke in 1817; lived at the homestead on the bank of the Susquehanna about a half mile from the "falls" (afterwards the Nanticoke dam); was engaged in iron making on the Newport branch of Nanticoke Creek before the canal was built, and afterwards in coal mining for many years; removed to Wilkes-Barre in 1869; died there without issue in 1871.
James S. LEE 2 (Andrew 1) was born in Harrisburg in 1789; came to Hanover with his father's family in 1804; married Martha CAMPBELL; lived on the River Road about a mile above Nanticoke, near the Nanticoke Creek (LEE's Creek); died there in 1850. They had:
Andrew LEE, b. 1815, m. Sarah Jane BUCKHOUT, d. 1882
Priscilla LEE, b. 1819, m. Ziba BENNETT
Washington LEE, b. 1821, m. Emily THOMAS, d. 1883
Margaret LEE, b. 1823, m. Dr. James F. DOOLITTLE, d. 1866
Mary LEE, b. 1829, m. Lewis C. PAINE, d. 1853
Andrew LEE 3 (James 2, Andrew 1) was born in Hanover in 1815; married Sarah Jane BUCKHOUT; lived in Nanticoke and in Wilkes-Barre; died in Wilkes-Barre in 1882. They had:
James S. LEE, m. [blank]
William W. LEE
Minnie LEE
Washington LEE 3 (James 2, Andrew 1) was born in Hanover in 1821; married Emily THOMAS; lived in Wilkes-Barre and in New York City; died in New York in 1883. They had:
Elizabeth LEE, m. Dr. W. J. MORTON
J. Frank LEE, m. Madge SWETLAND
Josephine LEE, m. Bruce PRICE
Emma LEE, m. Benjamin BARROLL
Charles W. LEE, m. Priscilla L. DOOLITTLE
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