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The Lee Coat of Arms
 "The Lee Coat of Arms shown in the
Album is that of the Lees of Shropshire, created in 1641. Coats of Arms
very similar to it are used by the Lees of Langley, co. Salop (bart.,
extinct 1660), who were descended from Richard Lee, High Sheriff of Salop,
1479; the Lees of Coton, co. Salop; and many other. Numerous other
branches of the Lee family have Coats of Arms resembling it.
This is the most widely used of all
Lee Coats of Arms and has been in existence for many centuries. It is
dexcribed in BURKE'S GENERAL ARMORY, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY, BURKE PEERAGE
AND BARONETAGE, Crozier's AMERICAN ARMORY and other reliable works on
heraldry, in some cases accompanied by illustrations and pedigrees. It is
the arms of the Lee family of Virginia, and has been used for generations
by their descendants and by many other American branches of the Lee
family."
From pg. 6 of "Lee Family History"
by J. Montgomery Seaver. Published by American Historical-Genealogical
Society, 1929.
From Wikimedia  "Description: �Gules, a fesse chequy or and azure between ten billets argent, four in chief, and three, two and one in base�. (On a red shield a broad horizontal bar composed of three rows of alternating blue and gold squares between ten silver oblong figures, four in the top part of the shield and six in the lower, arranged three, two, and one.). The Lees of Virginia have adhered to quartering their arms with that of the Astley family, which described them as follows: �Azure a cinqfoil pierced ermine within a bordure engrailed of the second� (On a blue field a pierced five-leaved figure, within a scalloped ermine border). However, this quartering was not used in the Virginia Lees until about the fourth generation, when Hon. Philip Ludwell Lee, Sr., Esq. (1727-1775) used it on his bookplate while a student at the Inner Temple in about 1750, and his brother Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), who had it on his seal ring. The Lee crest consisted of: �On a staff raguly lying fesseways a squirrel sejant proper, cracking a nut (or acorn); from the dexter end of the staff a hazel (or oak) branch vert, fructed or�. (On a horizontal staff or branch, a squirrel sitting, depicted in its natural color, cracking a nut or acorn. From the right end of the staff hazel or oak branch, bearing golden fruit). The motto �Ne Incautus Futuri� which translates into �Be not unmindful of the future� Downloader is a descendant of the Lees of Virginia, and
member of the Society of the Lees of Virginia." |
Lee's Trees
