Andrew Lee and Margaret "Peggy"
Daniel family

(Last updated 18 June 2023)

History of Bell County, Kentucky
by H. H. Fuson

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The pioneer of the Lee family, mentioned above, was Andrew Lee, who settled on the head waters of Martins Fork of Cumberland River, near the present Harlan-Bell county line. He settled here in 1818, coming from Rogersville, Tennessee. Prior to this he had come from Virginia and had settled in Rogersville. He had fifty acres of land surveyed here, April 21, 1819, and patented May 24, 1821. (Patent No. 4292, recorded at Frankfort, KY, "G" K.L.W., p. 370). He patented one hundred acres (Patent No. 7448) December 17, 1823, from a survey made May 15, 1823. He sold all of this land in 1830.

Andrew Lee married Peggy Daniels, and there were born to this union (1) Henry Lee, (2) Dave Lee, (3) Bill Lee, (4) John Lee, (5) Philip Lee (grandfather of the author), (6) Bowl Lee, who married Betsy Barnett, of Indian descent, in 1812, (7) Pierce Lee, (8) Jim Lee, (9) Stephen Lee, (10) Dicey Lee, who also married Ardell Webb, (11) Peggy Lee, who who also married a Webb, (12) Polly Lee, who married Abe Miracle, and (13) Sallie Lee, who married James E. Cox.

The descendants of Andrew Lee, who came from Virginia to Rogersville or Morristown, Tennessee, lived principally on Pucketts Creek and Browney's Creek. Many of them live there today. Joe Lee, a son of John Lee and grandson of Andrew Lee, died on Browney's Creek at a ripe old age, January, 1937.

Page 118
Joe Parsons tells an interesting story of how Browney's Creek and Cubage Creek got their names. Brown Buffalo, probably mixed with some native cattle, roamed Browney's Creek in the early days and in speaking of a Buffalo, they called it a "Browney," and the Creek took the name Browney's Creek from this incident. Cubage was named from a cub bear that was fought and killed on Cubage Creek by Andy Lee (great grandfather of the author). From cub they got Cubage for the name for the creek.

Page 127
"The father of Jesse Bull lived at Morristown, Tennessee, and it was said that he owned most of the land around that town. The Bulls came originally from England. John C. Buell's grandmother was Jennie Daniels, a sister of Pierce Daniels. Pierce Daniels was thought to be a brother of Polly Daniel who married Andy Lee.
 
Page 135
"Andy Lee, father of John Lee, married Peggy Daniel (for list of children of this family see Yellow Creek Valley). John Lee said that his father, Andy Lee, brought the family from Ireland, and that some of the children were born in Ireland and the others in America. He settled in Buncomb County, Northern Carolina, and came from there to the head of Martins Fork of Cumberland River, near the boundary line of Harlan and Bell counties. It is said that Bowl Lee, a brother of Andy Lee, married Betsey Barnett, who was said to be part Indian, and that he married her in 1832."

Page 151-152
Philip Lee, son of Andrew Lee, moved to Bell County from the head waters of Martins Fork of Cumberland River in Harlan County in 1840 and settled on Big Clear Creek (See record of Andrew Lee, Old Yellow Creek Valley). When he came to Big Clear Creek there were no roads that a wagon could get over and he helped to build the roads in that part of the county.

Philip Lee was born December 10, 1817, in Tennessee, probably at Rogersville, and died May 9, 1899, and was buried on his home farm on Big Clear Creek. He was a farmer and cattle raiser, owning around two thousand acres of land on Pine Mountain, Big Clear Creek and Fork Ridge. He married Mary Bray in 1839, and moved to Big Clear Creek that year, or the year after. Mary Bray was born January 1, 1817, and died September 11, 1862, and was buried at the Mason Graveyard on Big Clear Creek about one mile down the Creek from the Lee farm. Their children were (1) Rebecca Lee, born March 13, 1840, who married Gabriel Lee, her cousin; (2) James Henry Lee, born October 10, 1842, who never married; (3) Louisa Jane Lee, born March 25, 1844, who married John Pleasant Fuson; (4) Margaret Lee, born February 17, 1846, who married Andrew J. Lawson (she was the mother of R. E. Lawson, Harlan, Kentucky); (5) Angeline Lee, born December 6, 1847, who married a Mannon and went to Missouri; (6) Mary Ann Lee, born November 2, 1849, who married James Robinson Fuson; (7) Elizabeth Lee, born October 5, 1851, who married William Lafayette Fuson; (8) Obedience (Biddy) Lee, born October 6, 1853, who married Matthew Fuson; (9) Philip Lee, Jr., born October 1, 1855, who never married; (10) Sarah Jane Lee (the author's mother), born September 12, 1857, who married John Thomas Fuson; (11) William Lee, born October 1, 1859, who never married.

Knox, Bell, Harlan, Claiborne and Lee counties.

Court Records:

Botetourt County, Virginia Court Order Book, Vol. 10, 1797-1800, p. 432-433 [LDS]

"Wednesday the 10th of July 1799

Present:  Thomas Rowland, Martin McFaran, James Masson and Robert Harvey} Gentlemen.

John McCrery, Buckam D*** & Wilson Hunt } Plt
assignees of William Brittain

                         against

Andrew Lee & Zachariah Lee }Defts

Upon the petition of the Plaintiffs against the Defendants for a Debt due by note.

This day came the Plaintiff by his attorney and the Defendants not appearing was solemnly called but came not Therefore it is considered by the Court that the Plaintiff recover against the Defendant Zachariah Lee four pounds sixteen shillings and 7½ with interest for the same to be computed at the rate of six percentum per annum from the 21st day of April 1798 till paid their costs by them in this behalf Expended this suit ------- as to ---------. 

Dee Barton 2016 "Zachariah, Zephaniah, Wm, Willm Jr and Boler Lee all appear on the 1775 Augusta Co., Va Tax List (before Rockingham Co was formed). He wouldn't have appeared on the tax list if he was born in 1765 being just 10 yrs old. There might be more than one Zachariah Lee."