Collections for the Ancestry of Colonel Richard Lee, Virginia Emigrant, is the result of twenty years research with the original contemporary records. Through the past few hundred years it was understood that Lee had descended from the family of Coton Hall, Alveley, in the county of Shropshire, England. But this line was challenged in 1987 with a claim that Lee was the son of a Worcester clothier. The research goes into considerable detail looking at both hypotheses and all the players in this mystery to unlock the truth from the archives.