Lee Family Network
Several members of the Lee family petitioned for their freedom in fear that their present owner—Augustus Preuss, son-in-law of the late Peter Savary—would not adhere to the deed of emancipation that freed their mother and stipulated they be manumitted upon reaching specific ages.
- Joanna/Joan Lee - enslaved by Anthony and Walter Addison; traded to Peter Savary; set free October 8, 1809
+ Peter Lee - enslaved by Peter Savary - John Baptist Lee - b. abt 1800; petitioned against Augustus Preuss in 1827; to be freed May 1830
- Peter Lee - b. abt 1801; petitioned for freedom from D. T. Cureton and Augustus Preuss; outcome unknown1
- Lizette Lee - b. abt 1802; petitioned against Augustus Preuss in 1827; to be freed Christmas 1827
- Nancy Lee - b. abt 1825; freedom status unknown
- Lewis Lee - b. abt 1803; petitioned for freedom from D. T. Cureton and Augustus Preuss; outcome unknown1
- Janette/Jeane Lee - b. abt 1809; petitioned against Augustus Preuss in 1827; to be freed May 19, 1834
Footnotes
1. Peter and his brother Lewis passed from the possession of Peter Savary to his son-in-law, Augustus Preuss, who later sold them to D. T. Cureton, to be taken to South Carolina. They petitioned for freedom against Cureton and Preuss in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia sitting in Alexandria. [back]
