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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with Its History
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with Its History
Author: Frederick Warren AlexanderPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Richard Lee (1590?-1663?) emigrated during or before 1642 from Shropshire, England to York (later Gloucester) County, Virginia. About 1650/1651 he moved to land in Northumberland County, Virginia. Many of the men of subsequent generations served professionally in the United States army, including General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) before he commanded the Confederate army. Includes descendants and relatives through the seventh generation, living in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina and elsewhere. Stratford Hall is in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Stratford Hall
Author: Ethel ArmesPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected With Its History
Author: Frederick Warren AlexanderPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with Its History; Biographical, Genealogical and Historical - Primary Source Edition
Author: Frederick Warren AlexanderPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294888406
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected With Its History
Author: Frederick Warren AlexanderPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331008873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A Visit to Stratford and the Story of the Lees
Author: Alonzo Thomas DillPublisher:
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Category : Stratford Hall (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Tidewater Dynasty
Author: Carey RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780156903363
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Bound to the Fire
Author: Kelley Fanto DeetzPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174740
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represented the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions, even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon knowledge and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history by uncovering their rich and intricate stories and celebrating their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations.
The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family
Author: Paul C. NagelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199754853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history. We meet Thomas Lee, who dreamed of America as a continental empire. His daughter was Hannah Lee Corbin, a non-conformist in lifestyle and religion, while his son, Richard Henry Lee, was a tempestuous figure who wore black silk over a disfigured hand when he made the motion in Congress for Independence. Another of Thomas' sons, Arthur Lee, created a political storm by his accusations against Benjamin Franklin. Arthur's cousin was Light-Horse Harry Lee, a controversial cavalry officer in the Revolutionary War, whose wild real estate speculation led to imprisonment for debt and finally self-exile in the Caribbean. One of Harry's sons, Henry Lee, further disgraced the family by seducing his sister-in-law and frittering away Stratford, the Lees' ancestral home. Another son, however, became the family's redeeming figure--Robert E. Lee, a brilliant tactician who is still revered for his lofty character and military success. In these and numerous other portraits, Nagel discloses how, from 1640 to 1870, a family spirit united the Lees, making them a force in Virginian and American affairs. Paul Nagel is a leading chronicler of families prominent in our history. His Descent from Glory, a masterful narrative account of four generations of Adamses, was hailed by The New Yorker as "intelligent, tactful, and spiritually generous," and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian W.A. Swanberg, in the Chicago Sun-Times, called it "a magnificent embarrassment of biographical riches." Now, in The Lees of Virginia, Nagel brings his skills to bear on another major American family, taking readers inside the great estates of the Old Dominion and the turbulent lives of the Lee men and women.