LEE Family of Marblehead (Repr. Essex Institute Historical Colletions Vol LII) 1916By Thomas Amory Lee The Lee family of Marblehead begins with Henry Lee, the founder of the Lee family of Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he settled in 1650. He died at Manchester, in 1675, and was perhaps the nephew of Sir Harry Lee, Bart, and grandson of Sir Robert Lee, Knight, of Hulcote, Bucks, and descended from the Lees of Lea Hall, Cheshire. Col. Richard Lee, the founder of the Lee family of Virginia, had a brother, Judge and Dr. Henry Lee,