Re: James Lee and Elizabeth Betsy (Phillips) Lee
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Re: James Lee and Elizabeth Betsy (Phillips) Lee
Robert Lee 4/27/12
Lets just for a second believe Betsy Phillips was related to Rachael Phillips buried at Monticello.If that's the case, there are a whole group of families Betsy Phillips would be related to including the Jewish families of Myers, de Leon, Gratz, Levy and so on and all of them are listed in the book Americans of Jewish Descent. One is Jewish Doctor Dr David de Leon who was General Robert E Lee's personal doctor and writer Thomas de Leon who was the good doctors twin brother.
I call them families of the Whiskey Rebellion which includes Whiskey Maker CSA Major Lewis Redmond of TN.If you read the book Americans of Jewish Descent, not all the people in the book are Jewish.Many are Catholic and/or Methodist and at least connected to the TN families of Felix Grundy or Davy Crockett.
Anyway, the wedding book of Mary Anna Randolph Custis more or less points to all the Lee cousins of Robert E Lee at the wedding including cousin Lt John P Kennedy.
This little passage gets Historians nerves on edge and is really a window that goes back to the 1550's and the Lee family.