Francis Lightfoot Lee

Portrait by Artist to Come

QUICK FACTS
BORN:
14 October 1734 at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia
  DIED:
11 January 1797 at Menokin, his home Richmond County, Virginia
Buried at Mount Airy Plantation near Warsaw, Virginia.

  • Francis Lightfoot Lee, son of Thomas Lee (1690 – 1750) and Hannah Harrison Ludwell (1701 – 50), was born into one of the most politically powerful families in Virginia. Three of his other (four) brothers also played significant roles in American Revolution:
PLACES TO VISIT
Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

 

[George] Mason’s obvious legacy is in his contribution to America’s founding documents: the Declaration of Independence through the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Constitution through his role at the Philadelphia Convention, and the Bill of Rights through his dogged opposition to a Constitution without one. Mason may have taken a circumscribed view of the rights he advocated — limiting the right of representation to white men or restricting freedom of the press to a ban on prior restraint — but he put words on paper that could be given more expansive meanings by later generations.

Jeff Broadwater
George Mason: Forgotten Founder (2006)