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Captain George (2) Lee, son of George (1) Lee, was born at Taunton or Berkley, Massachusetts, May 6, 1768, and died at East Bloomfield, New York, June 28, 1853. He came to Bloomfield, among the early settlers in 1801. He owned about a thousand acres of land, a grist mill and saw mill at Bloomfield, and was a successful wool grower. He was true to his country, just to his neighbors and a friend to man. For forty-five years a member of the Baptist church, he was a devoted and exemplary Christian, a liberal, benevolent, hospitable and good man. Leaving the earth with all its charms. cost not a single sigh: that source from wherever he learned to live right, he learned the way to die.