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1754; owned a 572-acre tract by 1753, which he
may have inherited from his father. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: on July 13, 1760, in Charles County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £869.1.2 current
money (including 1 servant, 14 slaves, 53 oz. plate,
and silver jewelry); FB, £689.11.5. LAND: ca. 1,600
acres in Charles and Prince George's counties.
LEE, CORBIN (?-1774). BORN: in Prince George's
County; of age in 1755. NATIVE: second genera-
tion. RESIDED, in Baltimore County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: Philip Lee (ca. 1681-1744).
MOTHER: Elizabeth Lawson, widow of Henry Se-
wall (?-1722). ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Philip's first
wife was Sarah (?-1724), widow of William Dent
(ca. 1660-1704), daughter of Thomas Brooke (ca.
1659-1730/31). BROTHERS: George Lee (1736-
1807); Hancock (?-1759); and John. HALF
BROTHERS: Richard Le e (ca. 1707-1787); Arthur
Lee (?-1760); Francis Lee (?-1749); Philip (?-
1739); Thomas (?-1749); Henry Sewall (?-1780);
and Nicholas Lewis Sewell (ca. 1721-1800). SIS-
TERS: Hannah (ca. 1736-by 1781), who married
second, Joseph Sprigg (1736-1800); Letitia (Let-
tice) (?-1776), who married third, Joseph Sim (?-
1793); Elizabeth; Alice; and Margaret (Peggy).
HALF SISTERS: Ann (ca. 1711-1800); Sarah; and
Eleanor (1710-1759). HALF NEPHEWS: Philip
Thomas Lee (1738-1778); Thomas Sim Lee (1745-
1819); Richard Potts (1753-1808); and Philip
Richard Fendall (?-?). NIECES: Margaret Lee Clark
(?-1795), who married John Rogers (?-1789);
Barbara Bowie (1756-1805), who married sec-
ond, Ignatius Taylor (?-1807). HALF NIECES: Sarah
Lattice Lee (?-1761), who married Philip Richard
Fendall (?-?); Hannah Lee (?-ca. 1763), who
married George Plater (1735-1792); Alice Lee (?-
1789), who married John Weems (1737-1813);
Sarah Eleanor Potts, who married Thomas Gantt,
Jr. (?-1808); Rebecca Potts, who married Ben-
jamin Mackall IV (1745-by 1810); and Sarah Fen-
dall (ca. 1732-1793), who married ca. 1755 Thomas
Contee (ca. 1729-1811). MARRIED on January 31,
1754, at St. John's Parish Church, Baltimore
County, Eleanor (1705-?), widow of first, Ben-
net Lowe, son of Henry Lowe (?-1717), second,
Richard Smith, son of Walter Smith (?-1711), and
third, Capt. Posthumus Thornton (?-1738), of
Charles County. Eleanor was the daughter of
Thomas Addison (1679-1727) and wife Elizabeth
Tasker (1686-1706/7); stepdaughter of Eleanor
Smith (1688-1761); granddaughter of both Thomas
Tasker (?-1700) and John Addison (?-ca. 1705/
6) and wife Rebecca Dent; stepgranddaughter of
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Walter Smith (?-1711); niece of Benjamin Tasker
(1690-1768); half niece of William Dent (ca. 1660-
1704), Peter Dent (ca. 1665-1710/11), and Bar-
bara Dent (1676-1764), who married Thomas
Brooke (ca. 1659-1730/31); stepniece of Lucy Smith
(1688-1770), who married in 1706 Thomas Brooke
(1683-1744), Anne Smith (1694-1759), widow
of Francis Wilkinson, who married second, Thomas
Trueman Greenfield (1682-1733), and Rebecca
Smith (1696-1737), who married Daniel Dulany
(1685-1753). Her half brother was John Addison
(1713-1764). Her sister was Rebecca (1703-?),
who married first, James Bowles (?-ca. 1727/28),
and second, George Plater (1695-1755). Her half
sister was Ann (1711/12-1753), who married Wil-
liam Murdock (ca. 1710-1769). Her first cousins
were Benjamin Tasker, Jr. (1720/21-1760); Anne
Tasker, who married Samuel Ogle (ca. 1694-1752);
Rebecca Tasker (1724-?), who married Daniel
Dulany (1722-1797); Thomas Dent (1685-1725);
George Dent (1690-1754), Thomas Brooke (1683-
1744); Richard Brooke (1716-1783); Eleanor
Brooke (1718-?), who married Samuel Beall (ca.
1713-ca.l778); and Walter Dulany (?-1773).
CHILDREN. STEPSONS: Walter Smith (?-1755);
Richard Smith; and John Addison Smith (?-1776),
who resided in Baltimore Town. STEPDAUGH-
TERS: Rebecca Smith; Rachel Smith. PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican; St. John's Parish, Baltimore
County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent.,
by 1758; Esq., by 1763. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE.
possible planter; ironmaster. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Baltimore
County, 1762-1763, 1765-1766. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,367 acres
in Baltimore, Frederick, and Dorchester counties
(200 acres inherited from his father, 354 acres
inherited jointly with his sister Lettice from their
brother Hancock, and 818 acres by purchase).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH, between 1763 and ca. 1770,
Lee purchased 2,484 acres in Baltimore County,
as well as 2 lots on Fells Point, 1 lot in Baltimore
Town, and 2 lots in Joppa Town (one of them
being a water lot with a warehouse on it). In 1769
he sold his inherited property in Frederick County,
354 acres which he had owned jointly with his
sister Lettice. Two years later he gave to the wid-
owed Lettice the 200 acres in Dorchester County
that he had inherited from his father. He sold a
total of 480 acres in Baltimore County between
1771 and 1773, plus the water lot in Joppa Town.
In 1772 Lee mortgaged ail of his land, except the
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