Edmund Jennings Lee

Edmund Jennings Lee I was the youngest son of Henry Lee II and Lucy Grymes of Leesylvania. He practiced law in Alexandria and served as the city’s elected mayor from March 1815 through 1818. He married Sally Lee, daughter of Declaration signer Richard Henry Lee Person Richard Henry Lee b. 1732 · d. 1794 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; introduced the resolution for independence in the Continental Congress (June 7, 1776). His daughters Anne and Sally married and … — the same family his brother Charles married into.

Lee built a brick Federal-style house at 428 North Washington Street in 1801 and occupied it until 1837. After the death of Philip Richard Fendall Person Philip Richard Fendall b. 1734 · d. 1805 Builder of the (1785), secretary to George Washington's Potomac Company, and first president of the Bank of Alexandria. Twice a widower, his three marriages produced the dense … ’s third wife Mary Lee Fendall in 1827, Edmund acquired the 614 Oronoco Street Place 614 Oronoco Street Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family members through the nineteenth century … at auction in 1828 and moved his family there in 1837. The house remained in Lee hands through his daughters Hannah and Sally for another half-century. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website ^[2] Source 2 Wikipedia, Lee–Fendall House Website