GED4WEB version 4.41 Lee Hancock [Male] b. 1650 PARADISE, now Gloucester Co., VA - d. 25 MAY 1709 HANCOCK'S NECK-DITCHLEY, Northumberland Co., VA
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Hancock Lee was born in 1653 at PARADISE PLANTATION, Gloucester Co., VA. He died 25 May 1709, at HANCOCK'S NECK, now called DITCHLEY, Northumberland Co., VA. Hancock was named after Jane Hancock, his grandmother. He married (1)Mary Kendall, 1675 in Northampton Co., VA, daughter of William Kendall and Susanna Perry and (2)Sarah Elizabeth Allerton about 1706 in VA, daughter of Isaac Allerton and Elizabeth illoughby. Hancock Lee first settled in Northampton County, about 1675, where he held office, but returned to Northumberland about 1686, when he established Ditchley. He was a justice of Northampton in 1677 and of Northumberland in 1687. He was a Burgess from Northumberland in 1688. On 3 Jun 1699, he was appointed "Naval Officer and Collector of Virginia Duties in Northumberland County." He was a vestryman for icomico Parish in Northumberland Co., VA. He married, first, in 1675, Mary Kendall, daughter of William Kendall, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1666, and, second, Sarah Allerton, daughter of Colonel Isaac Allerton. His only daughter by his second marriage, Elizabeth, great-granddaughter of Isaac Allerton and of Fear Brewster, who came to Plymouth in the MAYFLOWER, married Zachary Taylor, of Caroline Co., becoming the grandmother of President Zachary Taylor. Her husband's sister, Frances Taylor, became the grandmother of President James Madison. Elizabeth's twin brother, Hancock Lee II, married Mary Willis, a daughter of Colonel Henry Willis and his first wife, Anne Alexander and, becoming the father of Mary Willis Lee, who became the wife of President Madison's brother, Captain Ambrose Madison. (She is buried at Montpelier, Orange Co., VA, where President Madison himself is buried). Elizabeth's great-granddaughter, Sarah Knox Taylor (President Taylor's daughter), became the first wife of President Jefferson Davis. Hancock moved to England, 1657; Northampton Co., VA, 1663 and to Northumberland Co., VA, 1686.
DITCHLEY--Richard Lee secured a patent to 800 acres adjoining the land at DIVIDING CREEK, 21 May 1651. DITCHLEY, situated between Prentice Creek and the south branch of Dividing Creek, was established by Hancock when he inherited the 600-acre southern one-third of DIVIDING CREEK PLANTATION. The name of DITCHLEY comes from two old English words meaning a meadow by a dike. The Lees of DITCHLEY intermarried with the Ball family of BEWDLEY and the DITCHLEY dwelling eventually became a Ball home.
HANCOCK'S NECK--The land was originally called HANCOCK'S Neck, after Hancock Lee, who built the first house there in 1686. The tract was one of the grants made to Colonel Richard Lee in 1642. A second house was built in the footprint of the first, 1732. A third house, was built of brick, by Hancock Lee's grandson, Kendall Lee, 1752. Hancock Lee built a real estate empire by acquiring large tracts of land. He owned land in Fauquier, Fairfax, and Stafford counties, 1704. Land records of Northern Neck show that Hancock Lee patented the following: 1100 acres in Richmond Co., VA, 18 Apr 1704; 570 acres on both sides of the Rappahannock- Horsepen Run and adjoining his own land, 21 May 1705; 1353 acres in Richmond Co., 6 Jun 1707; 460 acres on the north side of Occoquan in Stafford Co., 2 Nov 1707; and 1750 acres at the heads of branches of Chapowamsic in Stafford Co., adjoining the land of Captain homas Harrison, 10 Feb 1707.
The Will of Hancock Lee was dated 31 Dec 1707, codiciled 20 Jul 1709 and recorded in Northumberland Co., VA.
He was buried in the family cemetery at DITCHLEY, 800 feet south of Route 607, in Northumberland Co., VA. His burial site is marked by a horizontal tombstone with the following inscription: "Here lies the body of Hancock Lee, Seventh son of the Hon R. Lee, who departed this life May the 25th Anno. Dom. 1709 AEte 56 years. Also, Mary his first wife, only daughter of Wm. Kendall Gen. Who departed this life Dec. the 24th Anno. Dom. 1694 AEte 33 years. And Sarah his last wife Daughter of Isaac Allerton, Esq. Who departed this life May 17th Anno. Dom. 1731 AEte 60 years."
References: 9NN(1)789; 9V312; 19V10-11; 31V354; 36V299-300; 38V79-80; 4W(1)38, 179; 11W(1)130, 210, 279; 12W(1)267; 25W(1)118; 1W(2)289; PLACE-NAMES of the NORTHERN NECK of VIRGINIA, Mary Rita Miller, Virginia State Library, Richmond, 1983, p. 79; VIRGINIA'S HISTORICAL MARKERS, John S. Salmon, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1996, p. 62.
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Ditchley, Northumberland Co., VA
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