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 293 ALFRED LEE CHARLES LEE His acquirements, exclusive of his medical knowledge, seem to have been extensive. He has been justly styled "the scholar, the writer, the philosopher, and negotiator," and in all these capacities he labored faithfully for the public good. He never married. His " Life and Correspondence " was published by his grand- nephew, R. H. Lee (3 vols. 8vo, Boston, 1829). LEE, Alfred, an American clergyman, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in Dela- ware, born in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 1807. He graduated at Harvard college in 1827, stud- ied law, and practised for a time, but subse- quently studied for the ministry in the general theological seminary in New York. He be- came rector of the Episcopal church at Rock- dale, Del., in 1838. He was consecrated bishop of Delaware in October, 1841, and became rec- tor of St. Andrew's church, Wilmington, where he still resides. He is the author of a "Life of the Apostle Peter, in a Series of Practical Discourses" (12mo, New York, 1852; London, 1853); "Life of St. John" (1854); "Treatise on Baptism" (1854); "Memoir of Miss Susan Allibone" (1856); and "Harbinger of Christ" (1857). He has received the honorary degree of S. T. D. from Trinity college, Hartford. LEE, Ann, the founder of the sect of Shakers in America, born in Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736, died in Water vliet, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1784. Her parents were members of a distinct branch of the society of Friends, and too poor to af- ford their children even the rudiments of edu- cation. She was early married to Abraham Stanley, by whom she had four children who died in infancy. She became in 1758 a mem- ber of the Manchester society of Friends, and in 1770 she professed to have received a divine mission to deliver her " testimony against all lustful gratifications as the source and founda- tion of human corruption and misery." Her peculiarity of manner and the novelty of the doctrines she preached subjected her at first to abuse, and she was at length confined in prison by the authorities of Manchester for several weeks. During this imprisonment, Christ, she said, revealed to her in a vision the most aston- ishing views and divine manifestations of truth ; and after her release she was regarded by her sect as " a mother in spiritual things," and was always called by them " Mother Ann." In 1774 Ann Lee, with others of her sect, including her husband and a brother and niece, emigrated to New York, for the purpose of establishing there the "church of Christ's second appear- ing." The company separated for a time in order to seek employment and the means of subsistence; but about 1776 they were reuni- ted in the present town of Watervliet, near Albany, where Ann Lee, who had previously formally dissolved her connection with her husband, became their recognized head. In 1780, during a religious revival in New Leb- anon and several adjoining towns, the com- pany first brought itself into notice, and under the influence of Ann Lee many persons were converted to their doctrines. In this .move- ment originated the flourishing society at New Lebanon. They incurred, however, the sus- picion of the local authorities with regard to their friendliness to the patriotic cause, and Ann and others were imprisoned for several months for refusing to take the oath of alle- giance to the state of New York, it being con- trary to their faith. They were released with- out a trial by order of Gov. George Clinton in the latter part of 1780. In 1781-'3 Ann Lee and the elders of the society at Watervliet made a missionary journey through New Eng- land, in the course of which societies were founded in Harvard, Mass., and other places. She died about a year after her return. See "Ann Lee, or Shakers and Shakerism," by F. W. Evans. LEE, Charles, a major general in the Ameri- can revolutionary army, born at Dernhall, Cheshire, England, in 1731, died in Philadel- phia, Oct. 2, 1782. He was the youngest son of John Lee, colonel of the 44th regiment in the British service, and is said to have held a commission in the army when 11 years of age. He received a tolerable education, and early prepared himself for his profession by study- ing the science of war. At 20 years of age he became a lieutenant in the 44th regiment, and in 1754 accompanied the troops sent to America, where during the next six years he saw considerable service. The 44th was one of the two European regiments which fol- lowed Braddock in his expedition to Fort Du- quesne, and at the disastrous battle on the Mo- nongahela Lee received his first practical ex- perience of warfare. He found his way in safety to Philadelphia with the remnant of the British army, participated in the various indeci- sive movements of the campaigns of 1756 and 1757 as captain of a company of grenadiers, and in 1758 was present in the assault on Ticon- deroga, where he was severely wounded by a musket shot. He subsequently traversed a large portion of the western frontier, and after the reduction of Fort Niagara and Montreal in 1760 returned to England, where he was pro- moted to a majority in the 103d regiment of foot. This regiment was disbanded in 1763, and Lee continued a major on half pay till 1772, when he was made a lieutenant colonel on half pay, which was the highest rank he ever attained in the British service. In 1762 he accompanied the British army sent to Por- tugal to protect the frontiers of that country from the incursions of the Spaniards, and while in the brigade of Gen. Burgoyne distinguished himself by a brilliant night attack upon a Span- ish post near the old Moorish castle of Villa Velha, which the commander-in-chief, Count Lippe, described as "a very gallant action." But notwithstanding this testimonial to his bra- very, and others equally complimentary from the king of Portugal and influential friends, his promotion lagged. Various reasons have been assigned for this, the most probable being