Burnt House

The Lee Family Cemetery

In a wide open field, down a single-lane dirt road is the family cemetery.

Here lyeth the body of RICHARD LEE, Esq. born in
Virginia, son of RICHARD LEE Gentleman, desended of an
Ancient family of Morton Regis in Shropshire, while
he […]sed the Office of a Magistrat he was a zealous
Promoter of the publick good. He was very skillful
in the Greek and Latin Language and other parts
of the learning. He quietly resigned his soul to God
Whom he always devoutly worshipped the 12^th day
Of March in the year 1714 in the 68 year of his age.
Here lyeth the body of LETTICE his faithful wife a
Most tender mother of her Children, daughter of
Henry Corbin Gentleman He was the eminenr for piety
Toward God, Charity towards the poor and kindness
Towards all died in the 6^th of ^ober 1706 in the 49^th
Year of her age.

Here lies buried
The Hon^ble Col. THO^s. LEE
Who dyed Nov. 14^th 1750
Aged 60 Years.
And his beloved Wife
M^rs HANNAH LEE*
She departed this Life
January 25^th 1749/50
Their Monument is Erected
In the lower Church of
Washington Parish
In thys County 6 Miles above
Their county seat
STRATFORD HALL

*Hannah Philippa Harrison Ludwell
born Dec 5, 1701

Here was Buried
RICHARD HENRY LEE
of Virginia
1732 – 1794
Author of the
Westmoreland Resolutions
of 1766,
Mover of the Resolution
for Independence
Signer of the
Declaration of Independence
President of the
Continental Congress
United States Senator
from Virginia.
‘We cannot do without you ’

Burnt House Field
Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Virginia

In memory of
GEORGE LEE (1714 – 1761)
Of Mount Pleasant
Son of Richard Lee
of London
and his two wives
JUDITH (1714 – 1751)
Daughter of John Wormeley
of Rosegill
and
ANNE (1728 – 1761)
Daughter of William Fairfax
Of Belvoir and widow of
Lawrence Washington
of Mount Vernon,
all buried near this site.