 Nominated for appointment as Governor of Virginia by King George II, he died before it took place.Lee was appointed commissioner, along with William Beverley, to negotiate with the Six Nations of the Iroquois at the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744.At the treaty, an agreement was made with the Six Nations for 400 pounds (equal to £ today) in return for the right for Virginians to travel through and settle in the Shenandoah Valley.