Product Description
The arrangement of this exhaustive work is as follows: the life of Colonel Lee is traced as well as existing records would allow, with each of his children and grandchildren and succeeding descendants being treated in like manner. As only three of the immigrant's sons have been proven to have left surviving male issue in Virginia, and as the issue of these three sons form three distinct lines of descent, they are treated separately. Under the notice of each head of a family, the names of his children are given, numbered in the order of their birth. Whatever is known as to unmarried sons, and as to all daughters, is given with their parents. That equal prominence might be given to maternal ancestry, brief sketches of the parentage of wives of the Lees of the older generations are added.
The records upon which these sketches are based have been taken from wills, deeds, family Bibles, tombstone inscriptions, and similar authorities. Coats-of-arms or other heraldic representations are reproduced throughout the work wherever it was possible to determine that such coat-armor was actually used. Other textual illustrations, of which there are more than thirty full-page portraits alone, are derived from family portraits, miniatures, engravings, and photographs.
No individual, no institution, no library with an interest in American history and genealogy ought to be without a copy of this illuminating and inspiring family history.
