Excerpt from Private History and Confession of Pamela Lee: Who Was Convicted at Pittsburgh, Pa;, December 19th, 1851, for the Wilful Murder of Her Husband, and Sentenced to Be Hanged on the 30th Day of January, A. D. 1852 Sir Frederick Lee, father of the subject of these pages, was descended of an illustrious family but on more minute investi gation Sprung into notoriety from comparative obscurity about the period of the reign of James the First of England in whose time so much of the land of Ireland was confiscated by the Crown. And the family in question, as compensation for some sacrifice of principle or milit ary services, received the royal favor in the shape of a large estate in that country - to which services might also be traced the rise and fall of many affluent families of the present day, commonly known as people of distinction and blood, which lit erally rose from pillage of the most aggravating nature. It is therefore not at all surprising to find the sins of the parents visit their descendants to the third and fourth generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.