On the Trail of Grant and Lee

that ill-fated monarch ascended the throne he began quarreling with Parliament; and when he decided to dismiss

the Cavaliers, who supported the King, against the Roundheads, who upheld Parliament, and

is no positive proof that Mathew Grant (whose people probably came from Scotland) was a Roundhead, but he was a man of humble origin who would naturally have favored the Parliamentary or popular party, while Richard Lee, whose ancestors had fought at Hastings and in the Crusades, is known to have been an ardent Cavalier, devoted to the King. But whether their opinions on politics differed or agreed, it

is a strangely significant fact, but it might be regarded merely as a curious coincidence were it not for oth

ial surveyor of the whole colony-a position which he held for many years. Meanwhile Richard Lee became the Colonial Secretary and a membe

nd Indian war of 1756. In that very year, however, a military genius was born to the Virginia family in the person of Harry Lee, whose brilliant cavalry exploits were to make him known to history as "Light Horse Harry." But before his great career began, the house of Grant was represented in the Revolu

, merge for an historic moment and then cross; that of the Grants turning t

nry Lee delivered the memorial address upon the death of Washington, coining the imm

ndson of Captain Grant, who served with "Light Horse Harry" Lee during the Rev

ies, a civil conflict between men of the English-