Lucy Ludwell Paradise

John Blair, mayor of Williamsburg and former member of the House of Burgesses,[1] recorded in his diary that Lucy was baptized on November 8, 1752.

Their father Philip died in London in 1767, leaving his friend Peter Paradise as guardian of his daughters.

[3] In 1787, John and Lucy came to the United States of America, where they visited their brother-in-law William Lee (by then a widower with a son and two daughters) who was living at the Ludwell family's Green Spring Plantation near Williamsburg.

[4] Lucy corresponded with many eminent Americans of the time, including Thomas Jefferson, for whom she purchased books in Europe.

[5] In 1805 she returned to the United States and lived in her father's townhouse on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg (now called the Ludwell–Paradise House).