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acres by purchase; 2,200 acres in Virginia through
marriage; two tracts of unspecified acreage in
Prince George's County and tracts in Gloucester
County, Virginia, inherited from his father). SIG-
NIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: purchased 951 acres in Prince
George's and Charles counties, and one lot in
Annapolis, between 1753 and 1774; paid quit rents
on 544 additional acres, plus two lots in Not-
tingham, all in Prince George's County, between
1753 and 1772; probably inherited 150 acres from
his brother Arthur Lee (?-1760); assessed for 900
acres in Montgomery County, 1783; sold 449 acres
in Prince George's County in 1756 and 1770, and
13 acres in Charles County by 1783. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: on January 26, 1787, at "Blen-
heim," Charles County. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
TEV, at least £2,366.10.6 current money (includ-
ing 76 slaves, 141 oz. plate, and books); FB, at
least £618.4.6. LAND: 900 acres in Montgomery
County; ca. 3,300 acres in Prince George's and
Charles counties; a lot in Annapolis and probably
two lots in Nottingham; at least 2,200 acres in
Virginia.
LEE, THOMAS SIM (1745-1819). BORN: on Oc-
tober 29, 1745, either in Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, where his father had a home,
or at "Blenheim," his grandfather's estate in
Charles County, which Thomas's father had re-
cently inherited. NATIVE, third generation. RE-
SIDED: probably spent his childhood in Upper
Marlboro; except for two years in Bath, England,
in 1769 and 1770, he spent his early adult years
in Upper Marlboro or at "Melwood Park," Prince
George's County, until he became governor in
1779; lived in Frederick County from 1784 until
his second term as governor from 1792 until 1794;
moved to Georgetown, D.C., in 1795, and finally
back to Frederick County in 1811, where he lived
until his death. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Col.
Thomas Lee (?-1749), son of Philip Lee (ca. 1681-
1744) and wife Sarah Brooke, who was the widow
of William Dent (ca. 1660-1704). STEPFATHER:
Walter Smith of Calvert County. MOTHER. Chris-
tian (Christiana, Catherine) Sim (?-1762),
daughter of Dr. Patrick Sim and wife Mary Brooke.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Thomas's parents were
first cousins. UNCLES: Arthur Lee (?-1760); Rich-
ard Lee (ca. 1707-1787); and Francis Lee (?-
1749). HALF UNCLES: Corbin Lee (?-1774); George
Lee (1736-1807). STEPUNCLE: Nicholas Lewis Sewell
(ca. 1721-1800). HALF AUNT: Hannah Lee (ca.
1736-by 1781), who married second, Joseph
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Sprigg (1736-1800). SISTER: Sarah Brooke (?-
1811), who married first, Archibald Buchanan
(1768-?), son of George Buchanan (ca. 1697-
1750), and second, (first name unknown) Turn-
bull. HALF SISTER: Eleanor Addison Smith, who
married by 1779 John Robert Hollyday, half
brother of Charles Ridgely (1755-1824). FIRST
COUSINS: Patrick Sim Smith (1749-ca. 1793);
Richard Potts (1753-1808); Sarah Eleanor Potts,
who married Thomas Gantt, Jr. (?-1808); Re-
becca Potts, who married Benjamin Mackall IV
(1745-by 1810); Philip Thomas Lee (1738-1778);
Sarah Lettice Lee (?-1 761) , who married her first
cousin Philip Richard Fendall (?-?); Hannah Lee
(?- ca. 1763), who married George Plater (1735-
1792); Alice Lee (?-1789), who married John
Weems (1737-1813); and Sarah Fendall (ca. 1732-
1793), who married ca. 1755 Thomas Contee (ca.
1729-1811). OTHER KINSHIP: great-grandfather,
Thomas Brooke (ca. 1659-1730/31); great uncle,
Thomas Brooke (1683-1744); great aunt, Priscilla
Brooke, who married Thomas Gantt (?-1765).
MARRIED on October 27, 1771, at "Melwood Park,"
Prince George's County, Mary (1745-1805), only
child of Ignatius Digges (?-1785), a well-to-do
landowner in Prince George's County, and wife
Elizabeth Parnham Craycroft. Mary was the step-
daughter of Mary Carroll (1733-?); granddaugh-
ter of William Digges and wife Elinor Brooke;
and stepgranddaughter of Daniel Carroll (?-1734),
of Duddington Manor, Prince George's County.
OTHER KINSHIP: great-grandfathers, William Digges
(ca. 1650-1697); Thomas Brooke (1632-1676).
CHILDREN. SONS: Ignatius (Nacy) Digges (?-
ca.1789), never married, who was educated in
Liege, Flanders, and died before he could return
to Maryland; Archibald (1778-1781); Archibald
(Archey) (1781-1839), of Montgomery County,
never married, who was the godson of John Car-
roll, first archbishop of Baltimore; Thomas, of
Anne Arundel County, who married Eleanor,
daughter of Richard Cromwell, and whose grand-
son was John Lee Carroll, governor of Maryland
from 1876 to 1880; William, of Cecil County, who
married Mary Holliday; and John (1788-1871),
who was educated at Harvard College, and who
was elected as a Democrat to the 18th U.S. Con-
gress, 1823-1825. DAUGHTERS: Mary (Molly)
Christian, who married Tench Ringgold of Lou-
isiana; Elizabeth Digges (1783-1862), who mar-
ried Outerbridge Horsey, a U.S. Senator from
Delaware. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: com-
pleted preparatory studies, and may have been
educated in Europe. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: an
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