As Peg has pointed out, Sarah (Lee) GORDON, the daughter of John and Mary (Cassell) LEE, named a son, Greenberry GORDON. As it turns out another sister, Elizabeth, married William MARSHALL and they named a son, Greenberry. Having pursued this LEE family to find a Colonel Greenberry LEE connection has not been fruitful. John LEE's will was written after Colonel Greenberry LEE died (1786). There was no mention in the Will of Colonel Greenberry LEE or the Colonel's children. There are good indications that Colonel Greenberry's father was named John. 1) Just after Colonel Greenberry LEE died in late 1786 in Richmond Co., GA, his widow, Elizabeth (Few) LEE, rec'd for $5 some 500 acres of GA land from John LEE. 2) Colonel Greenberry LEE appears to have named his children (John, William, Mary) after the children's grand parents: John LEE, William FEW, and Mary (Wheeler) FEW. 3) there was a John LEE living in Wrightsboro, Richmond Co., GA at the time. At this time the John LEE in Wrightsboro has not been further identified. We do know at the time that Greenberry LEE rec'd a 100 acre GA land grant in 1773 that he identified himself as single from SC. A John LEE in 1772 had rec'd a GA land grant of 500 acres. This is the land that John transferred to Elizabeth (Few) LEE in 1786. It is a reasonable assumption that John and Greenberry are related. In that John had to have a large family to warrant a 500 acre grant, it can be assumed that he was older than Greenberry and possibly his father. There is another factor, seldom mentioned. Almost concurrent with Greenberry's grant of 100 acres in GA, was a GA grant to Francis LEE for 100 acres (the single person allotment). Subsequently, Francis gave up the grant and returned to NC. Because of the concurrency of Francis with John and Greenberry, he needs to be looked at as a possible member of the same LEE family. Oddly enough, in the hearings in Charleston, SC two John's (father/son) and son, Francis, (all LEEs) sought land at the same time. This family identified itself as from MD. Emma Lee BETTIS in her manuscript asserted that this LEE group was linked to John and Margaret (Howard) LEE who married in Harford Co., MD in 1746. I think this is a leap of faith, but it needs to be sorted out. The phenomenon of the two Greenberry grand children of John and Mary (Cassel) LEE may be a reflection of hero worship rather than family relationship. Until we find the Identity of John LEE of Wrightsboro, Richmond Co., GA we may never know for sure. Best regards, Hugh <[email protected]> [DENTON, FRENCH, GOAR, GURNEY, HOFFMAN, HUFFMAN, KNOX, LEE, MIZNER, POILLON, ROSE, RUTGERS, SMOCK, THOMASON, WOOD]

Hugh, This John & Margaret Lee don't fit the dates I have, but yet Prince Frederick is where David Lee was born and baptised. If John & Margaret were married 1746 in Maryland is there two John & Margaret Lees, or did Boddie get it wrong, or what??? "History of Williamsburg", by William W. Boddie Excerpt From 1735 to 1737, a great many settlers came to the new township on Black River and practically every acre of land had been taken up by these settlers within a year after the township had been surveyed. Within the territory limits of what is now Williamsburg co., but outside of Williamsburg Township as surveyed in 1736, were a JOHN & MARGARET LEE. These people settled along Black River from the point where it turns abruptly Northward, just after entering Georgetown Co. From Williamsburg Co., and along the present Williamsburg-Georgetown Co., line to the Pee Dee River. This settlement was called Winyaw, and this was the first part of the present Co. of Williamsburg that was inhabited by white people. Some of these people lived there in 1710. They organized Prince Frederick's Church in 1713.

From the book "Passports Issued By The Governors of Georgia "(Bryan) 11/5/1810 "Ordered- That a passport be prepared for Messrs. John Lee and John Clark, the former with his wife, one child, his daughter-in-law and two negroes, from Marion District, S.C.., to travel thru the Creek Nation of Indians."