The Lees of Virginia - Primary Sources: People - The American Revolution - LibGuides at Christopher Newport University

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Journal of Arthur (Arther) Lee December 12, 1777
Letter to Arthur Lee from George Mason | May 21, 1787
Letter to Arthur Lee from George Washington | May 20, 1787
Letter to Arthur Lee from John Dickinson | April 29, 1775
Letter to Henry Lee from George Washington | April 5, 1786
Letter to Henry Lee from George Washington | October 31, 1786
Letter to Henry Lee from Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
May 8, 1825
Resolution introduced in the Continental Congress (Lee's Resolutions)
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by Richard Henry Lee
Proposing a Declaration of Independence, June 7, 1776
June 7, 1776
Teaching American History: Richard Henry Lee Documents
Lee Family Digital Archive
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"Welcome to the Lee Family Digital Archive! Our editorial staff is expanding the online archive of the papers of the Lee family of Virginia. The aim of the LFDA is to provide the most comprehensive collection of Lee family documents ever assembled. The project, which has been hosted by Stratford Hall since 2014, is funded through the generosity of the Ratcliffe Foundation."

Book Sources: Lees of Virginia

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An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican by Richard Henry Lee and Mercy Otis Warren
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leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention; to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot.
An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain by Arthur Lee
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in the Present Disputes with America. By an old member of Parliament.
An Essay in Vindication of the Continental Colonies of America by Arthur Lee
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from a censure of Mr. Adam Smith, in his Theory of moral sentiments. With some reflections on slavery in general. By an American
Life of Arthur Lee, LL. D by Richard Henry Lee
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Joint commissioner of the United States to the court of France, and sole commissioner to the courts of Spain and Prussia, during the revolutionary war. With his political and literary correspondence and his papers on diplomatic and political subjects, and the affairs of the United States during the same period
Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee by Richard H. Lee
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and his correspondence with the most distingushed men in America and Europe, illustrative of their characters, and of the events of the American revolution
By his grandson Richard H. Lee, of Leesburg, Virginia.
The American Revolution in the South by Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee
Call Number: E230.5.S7 L43 1969
"Originally published as Memoirs of the war in the Southern Department."
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The Letters of Richard Henry Lee by Richard Henry Lee
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Collected and ed. by James Curtis Ballagh
The Nature of Colony Constitutions by Arthur Lee
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Two pamphlets on the Wilkes fund controversy in South Carolina by Sir Egerton Leigh and Arthur Lee.

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