Richard Evers Lee (ca. 1754–1814) represented Norfolk County and Norfolk Borough in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1790 and 1803–04, respectively, served as a borough alderman for many years, and was Norfolk’s mayor, 1807–08. During the last eight years of his life, he was president of the Branch Bank of Virginia in Norfolk (National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Patriot Index [2003], 2:1624; WMQ description begins William and Mary Quarterly, 1892–  description ends , 2d ser., 17 [1937]: 525–6; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 180, 232; New-York Gazette & General Advertiser, 1 July 1807; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 3239; Norfolk City Will Book, 3:149; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 22 June 1814).