Harry Lee’s second marriage in 1793 to Ann Carter, the daughter of a wealthy tidewater family that owned Shirley Plantation on the James River, brought five children who survived infancy—Robert the second-to-last child, and the last son, born in 1807—and no relief from financial woe; sponging on his new wife’s relations to the limit, he still could not pay off his previous debts and ended with a stint in debtor’s prison.
