Lemuel  Lee  came  to  New  Lyme,  Ashtabula  Co.,  O.,  in  1811,
when  but  seventeen  years  old,  being  the  first  of  his  father's  family
to  settle  there.  Lemuel  settled  on  the  farm  at  New  Lyme,  where
he  passed  his  life.  He  was  a  school  teacher  in  his  young  manhood,
and  also  a  surveyor.  He  was  for  many  years  a  justice  of  the
peace  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  from  his  district.
He  d.  at  New  Lyme,  Sept.  24,  1854.
Children :

1218  Calvin  Church  Lee,  b.  Feb.  12,  1817;    d.  Feb.  17,  1817.
1219  tEusebius  Lee,  b.  Aug.  6,  1819;  m.  Sarah  J.  Vernon.
1219a    Mary  Frances  Lee,  b.  Jan.  22,  1822;    m.  Oliver  Brown

of  New  Lyme ;   d.  without  issue.
470  SAMUEL  STERLING  LEE  (brother  of  the  above),  b.  in
Lyme,  Sept.  5, 1797  ;  m.  in  1823,  Esther  Tinan,  b.  in  Chapley,  Me.,
June  5,  1805,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Moody)  Tinan.  About
1811  Samuel  Tinan  with  his  wife  and  family  of  nine  children  started
from  Maine  for  Ohio.  He  d.  when  they  reached  Palmyra,  Wayne
Co.,  N.  Y.,  of  fever  and  the  widow  and  children  pushed  on  to
Rome,  O.
Samuel  Lee  came  to  New  Lyme,  O.,  in  1817,  in  company  with
his  father  and  his  brother  George.  He  settled  on  the  farm  adjoin-
ing his  brother  Lemuel.  Here  he  lived  and  died.  He  taught  school
in  Connecticut  and  in  Ohio,  but  was  by  profession  a  surveyor.     He


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clerked  for  his  brother  Martin  in  N.  Y.  City  before  his  marriage ;
was  for  some  time  postmaster  at  New  Lyme.  He  d.  there  Feb.  16,
1851.     Esther  d.  June  7,  1857.
