Richard Lee II

Colonel Richard Lee II ( – ) was an American planter, politician and military officer from Northumberland County, Virginia who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and was captured during Bacon's Rebellion. Early life Born at "Paradise" plantation in Northumberland County, Virginia, to the former Anne Constable (ca. 1621–1666) and her merchant planter husband Col. Richard Lee I, "the Immigrant" (1618–1664). He was educated at Oxford in England and may have studied law at the London Inns of Court. He seemed destined for a career in the church, but he elected rather to return to the life of a Virginia gentleman, residing at "Paradise". In 1673, when his older brother John died unmarried, Richard inherited what had been his father's main estate, "Machodoc", and his two younger sons Thomas and Henry (who under primogeniture would receive little after his death, inherited specific property (some in Dorchester County, Maryland under the terms of Richard's will. Richard left "Paradise" to overseers and moved to his new estate.