Lucy "Lowland Beauty" Grymes^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1739 - 1792  (52 years)

• Name	Lucy "Lowland Beauty" Grymes
  Born	24 Aug 1739	Richmond, Middlesex County, Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Died	1792	“Leesylvania,” Potomac River, Prince William County
  	so says plaque in Leesylvania area of burials
  Buried	Leesylvania, Prince William County, Virginia
  Person ID	I13229	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Honorable Charles of "Moratico", Richmond Co. Grymes,   b. Abt 1693, Of "Moratico, Richmond Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 4 Jun 1744, "Grymesby" on the Piankatank, Middlesex Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Frances Jennings,   b. Abt 1690, York Co. Virginia Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6577	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Col. Henry Giles Lee, II,   b. Abt. 1729, Lee Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia ,   d. 15 Aug 1787, Leesylvania Plantation, Prince Edward County, Virginia  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	1 Dec 1753	James City Parish, Stafford, Virginia Colony
  	Reverend William Preston performed the marriage ceremony
  Children	+ 1. Henry 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee, III,   b. 29 Jan 1756, Dumfries, Prince William Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 25 Mar 1818, Dungeness, Camden County, Georgia  (Age 62 years)   2. Charles [Grymes] Lee,   b. 1758, Prince William Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 24 Jun 1815, Fauquier Co., Virginia  (Age 57 years)
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F6595	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Lucy L. Grymes Lee lucygrymes.jpg

  
  

  Headstones

  Memorial Plaque for Lucy Grymes and Henry Lee. This is the burial site of Henry Lee (d. 1787) and his wife, Lucy Grymes (d. 1792. They were married in 1753, and their home, Leesylvania, stood on the ridge to the east. Henry Lee was County Lieutenant and Presiding Justice of Prince William County for many years. He also represented the county in the House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary Conventions and the State Senate during the years fro 1758 until 1788.... p13229LucyGrymes.jpg

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		Virginia Heraldica - A Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor with Genealogical Notes of the Families Edited by William Armstrong Crozier, F.R.S., F.G.S.A. Virginia County Record Series Volume V. 1908 virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf
  		Grymes Lineage The Baltimore Sun Oct 29, 1905
  		Lucy Grymes-First Love of Washington The Baltimore Sun Dec 19, 1920

  
  

• Notes

  At the time of early English settlers, Leesylvania was believed to be the site of an Algonquian village, overlooking Neabsco Creek. Henry Lee II settled on the land from 1747 until his death in 1787. He and his wife had eight children at their home including Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. He is also the grandfather to Civil War general Robert E. Lee. George Washington mentions visiting the Lee House three times in his diaries. In 1825 the property was sold to Henry Fairfax, and later passed to John Fairfax in 1847. Fairfax later served as a staff aide to Confederate Lt. General James Longstreet. The site was Fairfax's boyhood home, and he returned to live on the property in late 1875, remaining there until his death in 1908. The land was also used as a small Confederate force and gun emplacement during the Civil War. The Freestone Point Confederate Battery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2] The battery engaged with vessels of the US Navy's Potomac Flotilla on September 25, 1861. There were no casualties on either side, but the Federal vessels withdrew at the conclusion of the fighting. (Ref: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in The War of The Rebellion) Today, only a small cornerstone of the Lee House remains. The house and its path were completely bulldozed in the 1950s to make way for a road. A restored chimney of the Fairfax House remains. Henry Lee II and his wife, along with Henry Fairfax and his third wife are buried on the property. The sites and the cemetery are accessible by trail. The Leesylvania Archeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S122] Genealogy. com, http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/debnam/137/. LUCY4 GRYMES (Charles3, John 2, Katherine1), born 1734, known as the ?Lowland Beauty" who was said to have refused the hand of young George Washington, married in 1754, Colonel Henry Lee II, 1727/9-1787, of ?Leesylvania,? Potomac River, Prince William County. He was a son of Henry Lee, Sr., 1671-1747, and wife Mary Bland of ?Lee Hall,? Westmoreland County. Mary (Bland) Lee, 1703-1764, was a daughter of Richard, 1665-1720, and Elizabeth (Randolph) Bland, 1680-1719/20, of ?Jordan?s Point? on the James River, and grand-daughter of Theodoric and Anne (Bennett) Bland of ?Westover? on the James (later the William Byrd estate), and Colonel William Randolph of ?Turkey Island,? James River, who came to Virginia from Warwickshire, England, sometime between 1669 and 1674, and married Mary Isham, daughter of Henry and Katherine Isham of ?Bermuda Hundred? on the south side of the James. Because of the prominence of their descendants, and their widespread family connections, William and Mary (Isham) Randolph of ?Turkey Island? were long-ago dubbed ?the Adam and Eve of Virginia Society.? Randolph descendants included US President Thomas Jefferson. The Lees, too, had a long history in Virginia, where their descendants included President Zachary Taylor. The immigrant, Colonel Richard Lee, 1618-1664, son of John and Jane (Hancock) Lee and grandson of John and Alice (Harte) Lee, all of Worcester, Worcestershire, England (see Neil D. Thompson under Sources), came to Virginia in 1640 and secured properties in Gloucester and other counties. Colonel Richard Lee?s houses included ?Paradise? in Gloucester County and ?Dividing Creek? in Northumberland County, the latter being his final home. He married Anne (Constable) Owen and they were the parents of Colonel Richard Lee, c.1647-1714, of ?Machodoc?/?Mt. Pleasant,? Westmoreland County, who married Letitia Corbin, daughter of Colonel Henry and Alice (Eltonhead) Corbin of ?Buckingham House,? Middlesex County (see earlier). [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21894049. [S130] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leesylvania_State_Park. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2234039. Leesylvania Plantation Graveyard [S150] Photograph, https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=21894049&PIpi=64297318. [S47] Newspaper Article, http://reynoldspatova.org/showmedia.php?mediaID=20428. Col. Henry Giles Lee m. Lucy Grymes 1 Dec 1753 by the Rev. William Preston, of James city Parish See Newspaper Article