Mary LEE

     Mary LEE was born on 19 January 1663/64 in England, daughter of Rev. Joseph LEE and Anne _____.
     Mary married Dannett ABNEY Sr., son of George ABNEY and Bathshua STRATTON, in 1692 in England. Dannett had became engaged to Mary, his mother's stepdaugher, before sailing to America. He evidently returned to England to marry her and returned to Virginia along with her step-brother, John Lee, who had received a patent for transporting settlers to Virginia, dated 1694, wherein Dannett is listed.¹
     Mary LEE was named executrix and an heir in the will of Dannett ABNEY Sr. dated on 5 February 1732 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. She was to have his whole estate, and if the plantation was not sold by the time of her death she was to leave it to their sons Paul and Abney Abney.²
     Mary Lee Abney and her son, Dannett Abney, Jr., sold a tract of land to Humphrey Hill on 2 October 1733 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. According to the deed abstract, Dannit Abney, the elder, of Spotsylvania Co., planter, and Mary, his wife, and Dannitt Abney, the younger, of Hanover County, planter, and Mary, his wife, to Humphrey Hill of King William Co., Gentleman. Whereas John Wilkins was granted 400 acres in King Willliam Co., now Spotsylvania Co., by patent dated June 2, 1722, and by deed dated July 7, 1724, said Wilkins conveyed to Dannit Abney, the Elder, and Dannit Abney, the Younger, the said parcel or tract of land, for consideration therein named. For 80 pounds currency, the Abneys convey this land to said Humphrey Hill, etc. Witnesses: Roderick Gordon, Thomas Hill, Thomas Todd, Joseph Woolfolk, Anthony Rhodes, Junr. October 2, 1733.³
     Mary ABNEY, of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, sold a tract of land to Edwin Hickman on 4 November 1735, conveying 209 acres, half a tract granted to Thomas Hill and Dannett Abney in 1728.³
     Mary LEE died after 1736.