Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III

Henry Lee III, called “Light-Horse Harry” for his cavalry exploits in the Continental Army, was born at Leesylvania plantation in Prince William County to Henry Lee II (1730–1787) and Lucy Grymes. He served as ninth governor of Virginia (1791–1794) and delivered the famous funeral eulogy for George Washington Person George Washington b. 1732 · d. 1799 Planter, military commander, and first President of the United States. Master of Mount Vernon from 1761 until his death in 1799, and a regular presence in Alexandria, which he … (“First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”). ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website

His Alexandria connection ran through real estate and family: in December 1784 he sold the Oronoco Street lot to his cousin 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 … for £300, the parcel on which Fendall built 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 … the next year. Lee’s later financial collapse landed him in debtors’ prison; he died in 1818 on Cumberland Island, Georgia. His second wife was Anne Hill Carter Lee Person Anne Hill Carter Lee b. 1773 · d. 1829 Mother of ; second wife of . Rented the Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, raising her children there after her husband's financial collapse and imprisonment. , mother of Robert E. Lee.