Glenda - I was able to open the Andrea's document you sent. I'm not sure that I rec'd all of it. Can you lell me about how many pages were involved? Would you type out what little there is from Maryland and Virginia and North Carolina? In MD and NC a look for Francis Lee, brother of John Lee, could be helpful. There just might be the clue I'm seeking. Francis Lee settled in an area that was at the time (after 1751) part of NC that later became SC. (I think still on Rocky Creek upon which his father and brother were located in SC) I'll need some help from a Carolina history buff to explain the reason for the transition of the area from NC to SC and when. From the Andrea data you sent I'm sure that Mrs. Bettis' "Lees of Virginia" is on the right tract, but she missed a generation by consolidating the bios of 2 Johns (father and son). This, of course, needs to be corrected. The problem is in what forum. The basic problem is that the BETTIS document assumed that only one John Lee came from MD to SC in 1751. In fact both a father, John, and his sons, John and Francis, came to SC. In Francis' 1752 presentation of his father's petition for 50 acres of land to establish a mill, Francis states that he is representing his father, John, who is "very old". On the same day Francis' brother, John Lee, represents himself in a petition for 200 acres. This later petition apparently has been read without the researchers knowledge or recognition of Francis' preceding petition. At least Mrs. Bettis does not reference it in her document. She cites Dr Robert L. Meriweather of the University of SC as a source. Neither recognized as reported by Mrs. Bettis that there were two Johns involved. An inconsistency is created in the Bettis story as she tries to establish that the John Lee, son to Thomas and Elizabeth (Keene) Lee, born in Lancaster Co., VA who was in SC by 1759 is the same as John whose petition for 200 acres of land in SC cites that he is a native of MD. The fact is that John of VA, son of Thomas, was the father of John of SC who claimed to be a native of MD . What is not explained is why John of VA was in MD at the birth of his son, John. in c1725. and why did they go to SC in 1751. In a document entitled "The Revolutionary Soldiers of Catholic Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina" by Mary Wylie Strange, Historian of the Catholic Memorial Association, the relationship of father and son as I have presented it is confirmed. Do I make a point here? Best regards, Hugh