About: William Lee (valet)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/RqdbH3WV12ooyjpyuINlYw==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

William "Billy" Lee (17501828), also known as Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by Washington in his will. Because he served by Washington's side throughout the American Revolutionary War and was sometimes depicted next to Washington in paintings, Lee was one of the most publicized African Americans of his time.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • William Lee (valet)
rdfs:comment
  • William "Billy" Lee (17501828), also known as Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by Washington in his will. Because he served by Washington's side throughout the American Revolutionary War and was sometimes depicted next to Washington in paintings, Lee was one of the most publicized African Americans of his time.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Birth Date
  • 1750(xsd:integer)
Name
  • William Lee
Caption
  • Lee in a 1780 John Trumbull painting.
Other Names
  • Will Lee, Billy Lee
Alt
  • Lee in a 1780 John Trumbull painting.
Occupation
  • Servant
Known For
  • Being George Washington's personal manservant.
abstract
  • William "Billy" Lee (17501828), also known as Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by Washington in his will. Because he served by Washington's side throughout the American Revolutionary War and was sometimes depicted next to Washington in paintings, Lee was one of the most publicized African Americans of his time.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software