In 1840, Lee owned three enslaved people, two women younger than 23 and one man, but appears absent from the slave schedules associates with the 1850 and 1860 federal censuses.
In 1840, Lee had custody of three slaves—two women under 23 years old and one man—but his name was not included in the slave schedules for the 1850 and 1860 U.S. censuses.