I've had correspondence with the other John LEE family in Bartholomew Co IN. It looked like there could be a connection, as they got to Bartholomew Co about the same time. That's the trouble - oral history says the father of Thomas Greene LEE was John LEE who married Mary Ann BRANDON. I have is no further information on John LEE except where he married Mary Ann, and who his bondsman was (Philip LEE). I know about the Philip LEE in Maryland - think he returned to England? But I can't find anything in NC or TN records on a will - and I live in Maryland, have found nothing here. sighhhhhhhhhhh. Another matter - John LEE spelled his name LEA, although that could have been the clerk's preference, not his. And Abner LEA was married not long before John, in the same county. If we could find out who John LEE and Philip LEE were, we'd have solved a mystery the family has been working on or writing about for the past 50 years. I've wondered if Thomas Greene LEE was illegitimate - but he was educated well, knew law, etc., and had enough money to buy land. (Some of it he may have gotten by rounding up stray horses in Missouri, too. There are records of his doing that.) No, I know of no connection to Thoms LEE of Hawkins, TN.