All- ANALYSIS OF JOHN LEE FAMILY of Maryland and South Carolina (REVISED) Having read various conflicting papers on this family, I have come to the following point of view on the descendancy of John Lee who brought his family to SC from Maryland in 1751 and who settled on Wateree/Rocky Creek, Craven Co., SC.. For identification sake, John above is John1 and his sons, Francis and John are Francis2 and John2, and the son of John2 is John3.. John1 was described in Nov 1752 as "very old." His situation was so severe that he could not represent himself in his petition for a land grant before the Council in Charles Town, SC. He was represented by his son, Francis2. As a result John1 was granted 50 acres on Wateree/Rocky Cr., Craven Co., SC Concurrently, John2 petitioned for land (200 acres)., presumably, it included the 9 acres he cleared earlier to establish a home. In his petition John2 identifies himself as a native of Maryland It is quite logical to place John1 as from there. But nowhere does it say that John1 was a native. In the 1758 will of Thomas Lee of Northampton, Lancaster VA,, he names his brother, John Lee, as his executor, but the record shows that John could not serve as he was in SC (1759). It is the strong possibility that this John is John1. If so, then John1 would be from VA and be a Lee descendant in the Cobbs Hall line which connects to Richard, the progenitor of the Lees of VA. Further Thomas, the father of John1 Lee, married Elizabeth Keene of Maryland which would provide a reason for John1 to be in MD before he came to SC. According to The Revolutionary Soldiers of Catholic Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina, p. 79, the sons of John1 were Francis2 who represented John1 before the Council in Charles Town, SC in 1752 and John2. who made his own petition Both had to be adults at the time. A John married Margaret Howard Greenberry in 1746 in Harford Co., MD. What this suggests is that that John2. married Margaret Howard, daughter of Gideon Howard and gdau of Nicholas Greenberry and wife, Ann. John2 states that he had a wife and a child in his 1752 petition in SC. It was the marriage of John2 and Margaret that produced Greenberry Lee, b. c1748 who was probably the child mentioned in the petition of John2. Since the 1786 Fairfield Co., SC will of John2 mentions wife, Mary, she would have to be a second wife. Among the children mentioned is John3. Greenberry, a son of John2, is not mentioned in the 1786 will of John2, because Greenberry had died two years earlier and John2 had settled 500 acres of GA land on his son's widow, Elizabeth Few, in 1784. It was this John2 who is identified as a RW soldier on a memorial stone at the Catholic Presbyterian Church in Chester Co., SC. John2 died in 1787. John2 was married in 1746 assuming at least at the age of 20, then he would have been born c1726 or earlier and would have been at least age 61 at death in 1787. This brings us to John3 who was the oldest surviving son of John2, though not the oldest child, and who was the executor of his father's estate. Calculation would estimate that John3 was born c1753/4 and would have been old enough to serve in the RW. Some children of John3 are known--Susannah (m. Cloud) and Elizabeth (m1. James Wrenn, m2. John Dixon). John3's wife is not known and there is no John4 cited. I'm looking for comment, pro or con, on this analysis. Best regards, Hugh <HFTHusma@aol.com>