My Genealogy Home Page:Information about William Lea III
Col. William Lea III (b. 1654, d. 14 Jul 1703)
Notes for William Lea III:He was called Col. William Lea.
Information obtained from Genforum via Wanda Ware De Gidio:
"Valentine Ware’s father-in-law, Col. William Leigh (Lea) was born in 1654 in York Co. and married Mary Green. He had been a King and Queen Co. Burgess and Militia Capt., Col. and Commander -in- Chief, and a member of the August VA Council, and the first Judge of the Admiralty Court of VA. In 1703, he was chairman of the VA House of Burgesses. He lived on a branch of the York River and had to cross the York to get to Williamsburg, the seat of VA government. Land patented by Lea from 1682-1699 was in St. Stephens Parish, in King and Queen, except for a large grant in Essex Co. In 1705, Lea's 6,200 acres, was inherited by his son John, who married Ann Taylor. Elizabeth, John’s daughter, married Zachary Taylor and was the president’s grandmother. His son, William, married Frances Major, and their daughter Sarah married George Penn, brother of John Penn, whose grandson, John Penn, signed the Declaration of Independence. After her husband’s death, Mary Leigh and her sons-in-law, Valentine Ware, and William Haines, obtained two patents in King and Queen Co. on 5/2/1705. One for 600 acres (land patent book 5, pg. 488, and book 9, pg. 657), the second 260 acres (deed K&Q 1731-1) next to Peter Ware, bought from Col. William Claybourne. On 12/4/1714, Col. William Lea’s son, William purchased 100 acres in King and Queen Co. from Thomas Ware, deceased, located next to John Madison’s Mill North of the Mattapony River in St. Stephens Parish (land patent book 10, pg. 214 VA State Library).
Valentine and Mary Leigh's son and daughter-in-law, Edward and Elizabeth Garrett, were the great great great grandparents of Lucy Ware Webb, wife of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes, and the great great grandparents of Elizabeth Ware whose husband, Dr. Crawford W. Long pioneered the use of ether in his medical practice. Their son Nicholas was the great great great grandfather of Thomas Lewis Ware about whom the book "35 Days to Gettysburg, The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies", by Mark Nesbitt was written. It was the daily diary entries of Thomas Ware a confederate soldier in the Northern VA army, Co. G, 15th GA Regiment of Infantry from Lincoln Co. GA (enlisted 7/14/1861), as well as the diary of a Federal soldier, written as they approached Gettysburg."
SOURCE:http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=anom&id=I08911&ti=5519
More About William Lea III and Mary Green:
Marriage: Abt. 1675, King and Queen Co, VA.
Children of William Lea III and Mary Green are:
- John Lea, b. 1677, Mattaponi River, New Kent Co, VA, d. 05 Oct 1731, New Kent Co, VA.
- Mary Lea, b. 1679, Stephens Parish, King and Queen Co, VA.
- Philadelphia Lea, b. 1680.
- +William Lea IV, b. 1682, New Kent Co, VA, d. 10 Mar 1784, King & Queen Co, VA or Caswell Co, NC.