Francis Lightfoot Lee and Patriots of the Revolution: 1776 – 1781

Born at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Francis Lightfoot Lee became a resident of Richmond County when he married Rebecca Tayloe of Mount Airy. Lee signed the Leedstown Resolutions against the Stamp Act in 1766 and was a member of the Virginia Convention of March 1775 in which the “Virginia Revolution may be said to have begun” (Ryland, 1976) On July 4^th, 1776, Lee signed the Declaration of Independence. Landon Carter and His son Robert Wormley Carter of Sabine Hall also ardently opposed the Stamp Act. William Peachey of Milden Hall was commissioned a colonel in the 5^th Regiment of the Continental Army and held many important posts until the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781.

Source: Richmond County Virginia, A Review Commemorating the Bicentennial, Edited by Elizabeth Lowell Ryland, Richmond County Board of Supervisors, 1976

Source: Richmond County, Virginia, 1692-1992, A Tricentennial Portrait by Robert Harper, Richmond County Board of Supervisors, 1992