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style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnson_(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Johnson (jurist)">Thomas Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Paca" title="William Paca">William Paca</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />April 5, 1792 – November 14, 1794</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Brice" title="James Brice">James Brice</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Hoskins_Stone" title="John Hoskins Stone">John H. Stone</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1745-10-29</span>)</span>October 29, 1745<br /><a href="/wiki/Upper_Marlboro,_Maryland" title="Upper Marlboro, Maryland">Upper Marlboro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Province of Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 9, 1819<span style="display:none">(1819-11-09)</span> (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/Frederick_County,_Maryland" title="Frederick County, Maryland">Frederick County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Digges_Lee" title="Mary Digges Lee">Mary Digges</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Lee_Sr." title="Philip Lee Sr.">Philip Corbin Lee</a>(grandfather)<br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Lee_(Maryland_Squire)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Lee (Maryland Squire) (page does not exist)">Richard Lee</a>(uncle)<br /><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Maryland)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Lee (Maryland)">John Lee</a>(son)<br /><a href="/wiki/Outerbridge_Horsey" title="Outerbridge Horsey">Outerbridge Horsey</a>(son-in-law)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">planter, politician</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Sim Lee</b> (October 29, 1745 – November 9, 1819) was an American planter, patriot and politician who served as Maryland Governor for five one-year terms (1779-1783 and 1792-1794), as well as in the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Confederation" title="Congress of the Confederation">Congress of the Confederation</a> (1783–84), Maryland Ratification Convention of 1788 and <a href="/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates">House of Delegates</a> in 1787. He also held local offices and owned many town lots in Georgetown (which became part of the new federal city, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, District of Columbia">Washington, District of Columbia</a>, and spent his final decades operating "Needwood" plantation in <a href="/wiki/Frederick_County,_Maryland" title="Frederick County, Maryland">Frederick County</a>, Maryland.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to working closely with many of the <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding fathers</a>, he played an important part in the birth of his state and the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png/220px-Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png/330px-Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png/440px-Lee_Family_of_Virginia_and_Maryland.png 2x" data-file-width="3007" data-file-height="3473" /></a><figcaption>"Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland"</figcaption></figure> <p>Lee was born in 1745 in <a href="/wiki/Upper_Marlboro,_Maryland" title="Upper Marlboro, Maryland">Upper Marlboro</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Province of Maryland</a>. He was the son of Thomas (died 1749) and Christiana (Sim) Lee, a grandson of <a href="/wiki/Philip_Lee_Sr." title="Philip Lee Sr.">Philip Lee</a>, and descended from the "<a href="/wiki/Blenheim_(Maryland)" title="Blenheim (Maryland)">Blenheim</a>" Line of the <a href="/wiki/Lee_family" title="Lee family">Lee family</a> of Virginia. British merchant and Virginia politician <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lee_I" title="Richard Lee I">Richard Lee I</a> was his great-great-grandfather. He received a private education as befit his class, and in 1769 and 1770 was educated in <a href="/wiki/Bath,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Bath, England">Bath, England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_life">Public life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Public life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee was a member of the provincial council by 1777. During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>, he backed the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Patriot_cause&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patriot cause (page does not exist)">patriot cause</a>, and organized a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Local_militia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Local militia (page does not exist)">local militia</a> in which he served as <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">colonel</a> </p><p>Governor Lee's wife, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Digges_Lee" title="Mary Digges Lee">Mary Digges Lee</a>, also rallied the women of Maryland to raise money in support of the war effort. She then established a correspondence with General <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, asking how these resources could be put to best use. General Washington responded suggesting that the money raised be put toward the purchase of much-needed shirts and black neck clothes for the troops in the Southern army. He expressed gratitude to Mrs. Lee for the <i>"patriotic exertions of the ladies of Maryland in favor of the army"</i>. <sup id="cite_ref-Wife_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wife-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_Revolutionary_war">American Revolutionary war</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: American Revolutionary war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas Sim Lee participated in the <a href="/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_(1774%E2%80%931776)" title="Annapolis Convention (1774–1776)">Annapolis Convention</a> in the mid-1770s, which produced a constitution for Maryland and transformed the colony into a state. On July 26, 1775, he was one of the signatories of the <a href="/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_(1774%E2%80%931776)" title="Annapolis Convention (1774–1776)">Declaration of the Association of the Freemen of Maryland</a>, an influential statement in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>. </p><p>Lee won his first state elective office in 1777, and served for two years in the Maryland Legislature. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_gubernatorial_term">First gubernatorial term</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: First gubernatorial term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fellow Maryland legislators elected Lee governor in 1779. He was reelected in 1780 and 1781. During his first tenure, issues regarding the war effort were dealt with. He won wide praise for his logistical abilities as governor. Lee consistently procured fresh troops and supplies for the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>. <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> was Lee's friend, and learning of the plan to pin down <a href="/wiki/General_Cornwallis" class="mw-redirect" title="General Cornwallis">Cornwallis</a>, Lee exerted all his energies to support the American troops. After completing his term, Lee was forbidden to stand for re-election, and so left office on November 22, 1782. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles_of_Confederation_and_Continental_Congressman">Articles of Confederation and Continental Congressman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Articles of Confederation and Continental Congressman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG/235px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG" decoding="async" width="235" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG/353px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG/470px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_Signature.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1025" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>Signature of Governor Thomas Sim Lee on Act of Maryland legislature to ratify the Articles</figcaption></figure> <p>As Governor of Maryland, Thomas Sim Lee signed the Act on February 2, 1781, whereby the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_State_House" title="Maryland State House">Maryland Legislature</a> ratified the <a href="/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation_and_Perpetual_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union">Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union</a>. As Maryland was the 13th and final state to ratify the Articles, the act established the <i>requisite unanimous consent</i> for the formation of a <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">Perpetual Union</a> of the states. Maryland had previously held out and refused to ratify the Articles until every state had ceded its <a href="/wiki/Western_land_claims" class="mw-redirect" title="Western land claims">western land claims</a>. After Governor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> signed the Act of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> legislature on January 2, 1781, to grant these concessions the way forward for Maryland was cleared. On this second day of February, a Friday, as the last piece of business during the afternoon Session, "among engrossed Bills" was "signed and sealed by the Governor, in the Senate Chamber, in the presence of the members of both Houses...an Act to empower the delegates of this state in Congress to subscribe and ratify the articles of confederation." The Senate then adjourned "to the first Monday in August next". The formal signing of the Articles by the Maryland delegates took place in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> at noon time on March 1, 1781. With these events, the Articles entered into force and the United States came into being as a united and <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign</a> nation. </p><p>After his first gubernatorial term, Thomas Sim Lee represented <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> as a delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress">Continental Congress</a> in 1783 and 1784. He returned to the Maryland house of delegates in 1787. He declined the opportunity to serve in the convention that drafted the <a href="/wiki/US_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="US Constitution">Constitution of the United States</a>, but served in the state convention that ratified the Constitution in 1788. Lee voted for Washington's second term as a Federalist presidential elector. Lee was a delegate to the <a href="/wiki/List_of_delegates_to_the_Maryland_State_Convention_(1788)" title="List of delegates to the Maryland State Convention (1788)">Maryland State Convention of 1788</a>, to vote whether Maryland should ratify the proposed <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution of the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-manual_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manual-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_gubernatorial_term">Second gubernatorial term</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Second gubernatorial term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1792, Lee was again elected governor of Maryland. He was reelected to a second term in 1793, and to a third term in 1794. During this final tenure, the state militia was established, and the <a href="/wiki/Whiskey_rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Whiskey rebellion">Whiskey rebellion</a> suppressed. Lee left office on November 14, 1794. Later that same year, he declined a seat in the U.S. Senate. He also declined a third tenure as governor in 1798. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Planter">Planter</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Planter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas Sim Lee's became a planter in Frederick County, Maryland, some time between 1775 and 1790.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1775, Thomas Sim Lee was a resident of Prince George's County, and not in the Frederick County, Maryland census until 1790. Complicating matters, in the 1798 census his home was in Montgomery County, and in 1802 in the new District of Columbia, specifically in the Georgetown section in 1804-1807. After retiring from political life in 1794, Governor Lee focused his attention on his estate, Needwood, in <a href="/wiki/Frederick_County,_Maryland" title="Frederick County, Maryland">Frederick County, Maryland</a>. He bought some property in Frederick County in 1775 and an interest in Needwood from pioneer educator Rev. <a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Booth" title="Bartholomew Booth">Bartholomew Booth</a> in 1783, but the transaction took decades, possibly because Booth's son and executor sold the land to one of two wealthy women who had emigrated to the colonies with pioneer educator Rev. <a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Booth" title="Bartholomew Booth">Bartholomew Booth</a>, Mary Valiens, who married Gen Horatio Gates and whose interest was relinquished in 1816. (Her sister Anna Bardsley purchased land in Washington County, Maryland).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the first federal census, in 1790, Lee owned 119 <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">enslaved people</a> in Frederick County.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same year, Lee also owned 16 slaves in Montgomery County, Maryland, which included Georgetown before creation of the federal city, as discussed below.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1800, Lee owned 109 slaves in Frederick County,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 13 in Georgetown in the newly established District of Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee sold four slaves to his daughter Elizabeth Digges Lee in 1806, who were manumitted in 1812, about seven months after her marriage to <a href="/wiki/Outerbridge_Horsey" title="Outerbridge Horsey">Outerbridge Horsey</a>, a federalist from Delaware who served in the U.S. Senate, then spent his final years near Needwood. His grandson (also Thomas Sim Lee), continued to operate Needwood using enslvaed labor, but paid taxes only for 13 slaves in 1850. also Thomas Sim Lee. </p><p>This Thomas Sim Lee also maintained a winter home in <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, Washington, D.C.">Georgetown</a>, near the nation's capital. <a href="/wiki/Federalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Federalists">Federalists</a> frequented the home. </p><p>Thomas Sim Lee was on the Board of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Patowmack_Canal" title="Patowmack Canal">Patowmack Canal</a>, which George Washington and other members intended to connect the <a href="/wiki/Tidewater_region_of_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tidewater region of Virginia">Tidewater</a> near <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, Washington, D.C.">Georgetown</a> with <a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Maryland" title="Cumberland, Maryland">Cumberland</a>. The project, which started in 1785, was completed in 1802, but closed in 1828. Nonetheless, sections were deepened and incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Canal" title="Chesapeake and Ohio Canal">Chesapeake and Ohio Canal</a>, now a national park. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 27, 1771, Thomas Sim Lee married <a href="/wiki/Mary_Digges_Lee" title="Mary Digges Lee">Mary Digges</a> (1745–1805), whose father was a prominent Maryland landowner. In addition to their patriotic activities during the Revolutionary War described below, they were also very committed to their religion and community and founded the <a href="/w/index.php?title=St._Mary%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Petersville,_Maryland)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Petersville, Maryland) (page does not exist)">St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Petersville,_Maryland" title="Petersville, Maryland">Petersville, Maryland</a>. They had eight children: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png/220px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png/330px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png/440px-Thomas_Sim_Lee_expanded.png 2x" data-file-width="3866" data-file-height="2833" /></a><figcaption>Thomas Sim Lee branch of "Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland" by Mrs. H. A. Marshall, circa 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Ignatius Lee (born 1772)</li> <li>Thomas Lee (1774–1826)</li> <li>William Lee (1775–1845)</li> <li>Eliza Lee (born c. 1777)</li> <li>Archibald Lee (1778–1781)</li> <li>Archibald Lee (1781–1839)</li> <li>Mary Christian Lee (born c. 1783)</li> <li>Elizabeth Digges Lee (1783–1862) – married <a href="/wiki/Outerbridge_Horsey_(senator)" class="mw-redirect" title="Outerbridge Horsey (senator)">Outerbridge Horsey</a> in 1812.<sup id="cite_ref-msa_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msa-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_(Maryland)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Lee (Maryland)">John Lee</a> (1788–1871)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mary Digges Lee died on January 25, 1805, at the age of 60. The widower never remarried, but lived at Needwood until his death on November 9, 1819, aged 74 years. A year before his death, he manumitted an enslaved woman named Nelly.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomas Sim Lee was first buried at <a href="/wiki/Melwood_Park" title="Melwood Park">Melwood Park</a>, his wife's family home. In 1888 his and the Melwood Diggeses' graves were moved to a common grave in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mt._Carmel_Roman_Catholic_Cemetery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mt. Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery (page does not exist)">Mt. Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery</a> near <a href="/wiki/Upper_Marlboro,_MD" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Marlboro, MD">Upper Marlboro, Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-msa1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msa1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of his papers are held by the Maryland Historical Society, which in cooperation with the Maryland State Archive, makes them available digitally.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The special collections division of the Georgetown University also has five of his letters.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A bronze plaque commemorating Thomas Sim Lee is affixed to a house he built in 1790 on 3001–3009 M Street (on the corner of <a href="/wiki/M_Street_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="M Street (Washington, D.C.)">M Street</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=30th_Street_(Washington_D.C.)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="30th Street (Washington D.C.) (page does not exist)">30th Street</a>) in the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, Washington, D.C.">Georgetown</a> section of Washington D.C.. The site is now referred to as the Thomas Sim Lee Corner. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberty Ship">Liberty Ship</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Thomas_Sim_Lee" title="SS Thomas Sim Lee">SS <i>Thomas Sim Lee</i></a> was named in his honor. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg/220px-TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg/330px-TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg/440px-TSL_house_30th-M_Sts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption>The Thomas Sim Lee Corner</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPapenfuseDayJordanStiverson1979" class="citation book cs1">Papenfuse, Edward C.; Day, Alan F.; Jordan, David W.; Stiverson, Gregory A. (1979). <i>A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789</i>. Vol. 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 529. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8018-1995-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8018-1995-4"><bdi>0-8018-1995-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Biographical+Dictionary+of+the+Maryland+Legislature+1635-1789&rft.place=Baltimore&rft.pages=529&rft.pub=The+Johns+Hopkins+University+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-8018-1995-4&rft.aulast=Papenfuse&rft.aufirst=Edward+C.&rft.au=Day%2C+Alan+F.&rft.au=Jordan%2C+David+W.&rft.au=Stiverson%2C+Gregory+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUnited_States_CongressM000645" class="citation web cs1">United States Congress. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000645">"Thomas Sim Lee (id: M000645)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Biographical+Directory+of+the+United+States+Congress&rft.atitle=Thomas+Sim+Lee+%28id%3A+M000645%29&rft.au=United+States+Congress&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3DM000645&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUnited_States_CongressL000206" class="citation web cs1">United States Congress. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000206">"Thomas Sim Lee (id: L000206)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Biographical+Directory+of+the+United+States+Congress&rft.atitle=Thomas+Sim+Lee+%28id%3A+L000206%29&rft.au=United+States+Congress&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3DL000206&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dictionary of American Biography." Vol. 11, New York: Scribner's, 1933, p. 132.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Papenfuse</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wife-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Wife_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004152646/http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/mlee.html">"Mary Digges Lee, Marylandomen's Hall of Fame"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/mlee.html">the original</a> on October 4, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Marshall), which is available on Familysearch.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-msa-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-msa_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014900/014927/html/14927bio.html">"Elizabeth Digges Horsey, MSA SC 3520-14927"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Thomas+Sim+Lee%2C+MSA+SC+3520-0800&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmsa.maryland.gov%2Fmegafile%2Fmsa%2Fspeccol%2Fsc3500%2Fsc3520%2F000800%2F000800%2Fhtml%2F800bio.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mdhistory.msa.maryland.gov/msaref14/msa_sc1848/html/index.html">"Horsey Collection of Lee, Horsey, and Carroll Family Papers, MSA SC 1848, index.HTML"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Horsey+Collection+of+Lee%2C+Horsey%2C+and+Carroll+Family+Papers%2C+MSA+SC+1848%2C+index.HTML&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmdhistory.msa.maryland.gov%2Fmsaref14%2Fmsa_sc1848%2Fhtml%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/10194">"Collection: Thomas Sim Lee Papers | Georgetown University Archival Resources"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Collection%3A+Thomas+Sim+Lee+Papers+%26%23124%3B+Georgetown+University+Archival+Resources&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffindingaids.library.georgetown.edu%2Frepositories%2F15%2Fresources%2F10194&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Sim+Lee" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Sim_Lee&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. "Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978, Vol. 2," Westport, Conn.; Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols. </p> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnson_(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Johnson (jurist)">Thomas Johnson</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Maryland" title="Governor of Maryland">Governor of Maryland</a> </b><br />1779–1782 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Paca" title="William Paca">William Paca</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" 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alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/45px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/68px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg/90px-Red_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_%281707%E2%80%931800%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Calvert" title="Leonard Calvert">L. Calvert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Greene_(governor)" title="Thomas Greene (governor)">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Stone_(Maryland_governor)" title="William Stone (Maryland governor)">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josias_Fendall" title="Josias Fendall">Fendall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Calvert_(governor)" title="Phillip Calvert (governor)">P. Calvert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_3rd_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore">C. Calvert, 3rd Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Wharton_(Maryland_governor)" title="Jesse Wharton (Maryland governor)">Wharton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Notley" title="Thomas Notley">Notley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_3rd_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore">C. Calvert, 3rd Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Calvert,_4th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore">B. Calvert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Joseph_(governor)" title="William Joseph (governor)">Joseph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Coode_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="John Coode (Governor of Maryland)">Coode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehemiah_Blakiston" title="Nehemiah Blakiston">Neh. Blakiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Copley" title="Lionel Copley">Copley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Greenberry" title="Nicholas Greenberry">Greenberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Nicholson" title="Francis Nicholson">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Blakiston" title="Nathaniel Blakiston">Nat. Blakiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tench" title="Thomas Tench">Tench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Seymour_(Maryland_governor)" title="John Seymour (Maryland governor)">Seymour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lloyd_(Colonial_Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland)">Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hart_(Governor_of_Maryland)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Hart (Governor of Maryland)">Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brooke_Jr." title="Thomas Brooke Jr.">Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_5th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore">C. Calvert, 5th Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedict_Leonard_Calvert" title="Benedict Leonard Calvert">B. L. Calvert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ogle" title="Samuel Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Calvert,_5th_Baron_Baltimore" title="Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore">C. Calvert, 5th Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ogle" title="Samuel Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen" title="Thomas Bladen">Bladen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ogle" title="Samuel Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Tasker_Sr." title="Benjamin Tasker Sr.">Tasker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horatio_Sharpe" title="Horatio Sharpe">Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Eden,_1st_Baronet,_of_Maryland" title="Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland">Eden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Maryland" title="List of governors of Maryland">State <span class="nobold">(since 1776)</span></a><br /> <figure class="mw-halign-center mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/45px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/68px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/90px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnson_(jurist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Johnson (jurist)">Johnson</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Paca" title="William Paca">Paca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Smallwood" title="William Smallwood">Smallwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Eager_Howard" title="John Eager Howard">J. Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Plater" title="George Plater">Plater</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/James_Brice" title="James Brice">Brice</a></i></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">T. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hoskins_Stone" title="John Hoskins Stone">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_(Maryland_politician)" title="John Henry (Maryland politician)">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Ogle" title="Benjamin Ogle">Ogle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Francis_Mercer" title="John Francis Mercer">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bowie" title="Robert Bowie">R. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wright_(Maryland_politician)" title="Robert Wright (Maryland politician)">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lloyd_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland)">E. Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bowie" title="Robert Bowie">R. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levin_Winder" title="Levin Winder">Winder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Carnan_Ridgely" title="Charles Carnan Ridgely">Ridgely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Goldsborough" title="Charles Goldsborough">C. Goldsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sprigg" title="Samuel Sprigg">Sprigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Stevens_Jr." title="Samuel Stevens Jr.">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kent" title="Joseph Kent">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Martin_(politician)" title="Daniel Martin (politician)">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_King_Carroll" title="Thomas King Carroll">T. Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Martin_(politician)" title="Daniel Martin (politician)">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Howard_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="George Howard (Governor of Maryland)">G. Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_(Governor_of_Maryland)" title="James Thomas (Governor of Maryland)">J. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Veazey" title="Thomas Veazey">Veazey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grason" title="William Grason">Grason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Thomas" title="Francis Thomas">F. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pratt_(Maryland_politician)" title="Thomas Pratt (Maryland politician)">Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Francis_Thomas" title="Philip Francis Thomas">P. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Louis_Lowe" title="Enoch Louis Lowe">Lowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Watkins_Ligon" title="Thomas Watkins Ligon">Ligon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Holliday_Hicks" title="Thomas Holliday Hicks">Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Bradford" title="Augustus Bradford">Bradford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Swann" title="Thomas Swann">Swann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oden_Bowie" title="Oden Bowie">O. Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pinkney_Whyte" title="William Pinkney Whyte">Whyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Black_Groome" title="James Black Groome">Groome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Carroll" title="John Lee Carroll">J. 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