Lee, Richard

23.3.1792 Susannah Lee of St Anns Court buried Soho age 69 (of old age)
1792 Soho ratebooks Richard Lee St Anns Court value £14
13.2.1794 letter from Thelwall "letter from Allum brought this morning by Citizen Lee" (source?)
28.2.1794 handbill printed by Richard Lee including his poem "Ye tyrants bend to Molloch's shrine" (Thale p119n)
3.3.1794 Morning Chronicle "Flowers from Sharon" written between ages 15 and 19. William Belcher of 9 Thornhaugh St, Bedford Sq disavows criticism published under his name in January English Review. Rev C G de Coetlegon also recommended it
(1794) Richard Lee bookseller 7 Orange St, Leicester Fields
25.4.1795 Richard Lee bookseller 47 Haymarket
28.6.1795 Morning Chronicle J Lee bookseller 47 Haymarket
(1795) Richard Lee "British Tree of Liberty" 98 Berwick St Soho
Nat Arch SP 9/250/131 pamphlet printed for Citizen Lee at the Tree of Liberty 98 Berwick St Soho
14.9.1795 Westminster Coroner's jury Richard Lee Berwick St
26.10.1795 Richard Lee "British Tree of Liberty" 444 Strand opposite Buckingham St
allegedly expelled from LCS for Methodism or for refusing to sell Paine's "Age of Reason" (Wm Hamilton Read)
Nat Arch TS 11/837/2832 Rex v Richard Lee for publishing a libel
30.11.1795 Richard Lee taken into custody. Derby Mercury 17.12.1795 "Citizen Lee effected his escape, in the following manner, from the lock-up house in Carey-street, where he had been for several days confined upon a Judge's warrant, grounded on a certificate of his standing indicted, at Westminster, for publishing a seditious pamphlet: on Tuesday preceding the escape he was to have been bailed, but an obstacle arising, he requested, as a favour, to be permitted to return to Carey-street, and not be committed to Newgate. On the Wednesday afternoon several ladies visited him, and, it is said, they conveyed to him women's apparel, and that he escaped disguised as a lady." Kentish Gazette 22.12.1795 reward of £100 for apprehending Richard Lee. He took ship Pandora to Hamburg (allegedly with spy James Powell's wife) and 6 months later to Philadelphia.
Gazette of the United States 5.5.1796 Philadelphia "For sale by RICHARD LEE, No. 145 North Second street, between Sassafras and Vine street, Flowers from Sharon; Or, Original Poems on Divine Subjects, in imitation of Dr. WATTS, REcommended by the following eminent London ministers; rev. Mr. De Coetlogon, rev. Mr. T. Joss, rev. Mr. G. Williams, and the rev. Mr. J. Swain." Price 3-4ths of a dollar. also Songs from the Rock.
Gazette of the United States 18.12.1796 "Citizen Lee, the bookseller, who made his escape"..."has begun business in Philadelphia, and is succeeding very well. He writes, that population increases fast, and that his own wife has lately aded a female citizen to the republic."
Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia 20.8.1801 "Citizen Lee afterwards removed to this city and here arranged and bound" (a large collection of pamphlets) "under the general title of an Account of the State of Political Affairs in Europe published in Philadelphia 1796."
St James Chronicle 11.6.1799 (quoting a Philadelphia paper) Citizen Lee (Tree of Liberty) is in New York Gaol.
Thomas Evans (QV) in a letter to his son 18.9.1814 (Nat Arch HO 42/168) thought a former comrade named Lee might be in Paris, but Richard Lee is more often supposed to have died in the US around 1800.