The John Lee you inquire about of the VA Lees in the John who marries Elizabeth Bell. I have more. Pat Maxine wrote: > John Lee born April 20,1760 in Flemington, New Jersey married in > Morris > County, NJ Margaret Lowery. He apparently came to Woodford, Kentucky > with > his father, but there is considerable confusion in the records there, > since > there was another John Lee there from the Virginia family of Lees, who > was > very prominent citizen of Versailles, being an original settler of > that > town. He is however reported in Gallatin County in the census of 1810 > but > appears in Jefferson County, IN in 1814. John Lee was a Revolutionary > soldier. He obtained land (as the result of military duty) in > Switzerland, > IN. His widow applied for pension on June 26, 1845 and in various > affidavits made by acquaintances to help her in getting this pension, > we > learn something of his various movements. Robert Poindexter, aged 78 > testified that he knew John and Margaret for 50 years, first in > Woodford > county, and then in Gallatin County, where most of their family was > born, > that the family later resided on the waters of Indian-Kentuck River in > > Milton Township, Jefferson County, IN. Thomas Mounts testified that he > knew > them since they lived at the mouth of the Kentucky River since 1790. > The > affadavit of Samuel Bellamy, a Methodist clergyman living across the > line in > Switzerland County, In said that he knew John Lee and his wife for > about 14 > years before John died and that he lived within 8 miles of them for 26 > years > until they moved onto the waters of the Indian-Kentuck about 3 miles > from > where the dependent now lives. John Lee died September 17, 1838. Their > > children were according to the widows statement; Gershom b. 2-11-1781, > Mary > b. 12-8-1783, Rebecca b. 2-10-1787, Nathan b. 10-15-1789, John b. > 4-15-1792, > James b. 5-12-1796, Sarah b. 2-24-1799, Nancy b. 8-4-1801, Nathaniel > b. > 5-16-1804. John and Margaret sold 40 acres of land in 1835 to > daughters > Nancy and Rebecca. They sold land on the south side of Indian-Kentuck > to > Nathaniel Lee. > > I believe we are another line of Lee's entirely from the Virginia Lees > and the > Connecticut branches. Does anyone know of the John Lee of the Virginia > > branch mentioned here? Our John's father was Gershom Lee who helped > found > Flemington, NJ.