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Colonel Thomas Lee (c. 1690 – November 14, 1750) was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia, and a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty. Lee became involved in politics in 1710, serving in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly , and also held important positions as Naval Officer for the Northern Potomac Region and agent ...
By his death in 1750, Thomas Lee, senior member of the Virginia Council of State, had assumed the title President of Virginia and performed the duties of governor. Although Thomas considered himself a loyal Englishman, his sons and daughters were to become revolutionaries.
In Stratford Hall, Thomas Lee established the seat of one of the most prominent families in colonial Virginia.
Colonel Thomas Lee was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia, and a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty. Lee became involved in politics in 1710, serving in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also held important positions as Naval Officer for the Northern Potomac Region and agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary.
Mar 31, 2024 · Thomas Lee was a Virginia colonist. Thomas Lee (son of Charles Lee and Elizabeth Medstand) was born 1679 in Dividing Creek (Cobbs Hill), Northumberland County, Virginia, and died 16 June 1735 in Lancaster County, Virginia.
As Secretary of State, Lee was the most valuable assistant to the colony’s royal governor, Sir William Berkeley (whose estate Green Spring was later inherited by one of Lee’s descendants), and the most powerful man in the colony after Berkeley.
Col. Thomas Lee (c. 1690 –November 14, 1750) was a planter and politician in colonial Virginia. He was a member of the Lee family, a political dynasty which included many figures from the colonial era until the late twentieth century.
