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1. William Randolph, b. at Tuekahoe in 1712. Married (1735) Maria Judith Page, only daughter of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Judith Wormeley, his first wife.
2. Judith Randolph, b. at Tuckahoe 1724. Married (Feb. 1744) Rev. Wm. Stith, president of William and Mary College.
3. Mary Randolph, b. at Tuckahoe 1726. Married (1746) William Keith. These were ancestors of Chief Justice John Marshall.
III. William Randolph, of Tuekahoe on James River, eldest son of Thomas Randolph and Judith, nee Churchill, b. 1712; d.
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1745. Married (1735) Maria Judith Page, daughter of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, and Judith, née Wormeley, his first wife. Issue four children :
1. Mary Judith Randolph, b. 1736. Married (1756) Edmond Berkeley, Jr., of Barn Elms, Middlesex Co., Va. (was his first wife). Hc was the oldest son of Col. Edmond Berkelcy and Mary, née Nelson, daughter of Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va., known as Scotch Tom, and Margaret, née Reid, his first wife, who married Joseph Clayton. Edmond Berkeley, Jr., married, secondly, Mary Burwell. Issue : Norbourn, Carter, William, Betsey, who married Churchill; Lucy, who married Hepanon ; Alice, who married Fontaine; Sally, and Lewis.
2. Mary Randolph, b. 1738. Married (1758) Tarlton Flem- ing, of Rock Castle, Goochland Co., Va. This was the first connection between the Randolphs and Flemings.
3. Thomas Mann Randolph, b. at Tuckahoe on James River 1741, only son of William Randolph, of Tuckahoe. Hc married (1761) Anne Cary.
4. Priscilla Randolph, b. at Tuckahoe, unmarried.
IV. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe on James River, only son of William Randolph of Tuckahoe and Maria Judith, née Page, was b. 1741. Married, first (Nov. 18, 1761), Anne, eldest child of Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va., and Mary, née Randolph, of Curls Neck on James River, Henrico Co., Va. Issue, thirteen children :
1. Mary Randolph, b. Aug. 9, 1762. Married (1782) David Meade Randolph, of Presque Isle on James River, Va. She was known as "the Queen." Of their children, Beverly was a clerk in the United States Treasury, at Washington, D. C., and three of this sons, James, Maury and Richard, were in the employment of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co.
2. Henry Cary Randolph, b. 1763; d. in infancy.
3. Elizabeth Randolph, b. 1765. Married (1785) Robert Pleasants, of Filmer.
4. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Gov. of Va., b. at Tucka- hoc, Goochland Co., Va., 1767; removed to Edge Hill,
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Albemarle Co., Va. Married (1790) Martha Jefferson, daughter of Thomas Jefferson, President of U. S.
5. William Randolph, b. at Tuekahoe 1769. Married (1794) Luey Bolling Randolph, daughter of Beverly Randolph, of Cumberland Co., Va. Left two sons, viz. :
1. William Fitzhugh Randolph. Married Jane Cary Harri- son, of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. She became en- tirely blind. Her two sons, Beverly Randolph and William Easton Randolph, resided near her at Millwood, Clarke Co., Va. William married Susan Randolph, daughter of Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of Newmarket, Clarke Co., Va. Her only daughter married George Tabb, of Gloucester Co., Va.
2. Beverly Randolph married Miss Mayor, of Pennsylvania. They left one son, William Mayor Randolph, who re- moved to St. Louis, Mo.
6. Arehibald Cary Randolph, b. 1771; d. in infaney.
7. Judith Randolph, b. 1773. Married (1793) her cousin, Richard Randolplı, of Bigarre, who was a brother of John Randolph of Roanoke. They had one son, who was a deaf mute; who left a large property to be divided among his heirs-at-law. Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., received forty dollars from the executors.
8. Anne Cary Randolph, b. at Tuekahoe 1775. Married (1795) Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y., U. S. minister to Franee.
9. Jane Cary Randolph, b. at Tuekahoe 1777. Married (1797) Thomas Eston Randolph, of Bristol, Eng., and had six ehildren :
1. Mann Randolph, Capt. U. S. Navy.
2. Dr. James Randolph, of Tallahassee, Fla. Married Miss Heywood.
3. Lucy Randolph. Married Mr. Parkhill, of Jacksonville, Fla.
4. Harriet Randolph. Married Dr. Willis. No issue.
5. Elizabeth Randolph. Married Franeis Wayles Eppes.
6. Dr. Arthur Randolph, of Tallahassee, Fla. Married Miss Duval, and left ehildren.
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10. Dr. John Randolph, b. at Tuekahoe, Goochland Co., Va. 1779 ; removed to Middle Quarter, in the same county. He married (1804) Judith Lewis, of Amelia Co., Va. Their eldest son, William Lewis Randolph, married Mar- garet, daughter of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., and had issue :
a. William L. Randolph, Jr. Married (1866) Agnes Dillon, of Savannah, Ga. They reside near Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Va., and have five ehildren.
b. Margaret Randolph. Married Edward C. Randolph and left four children.
11. George Washington Randolph, b. 1781; d. an infant.
12. Harriet Randolph, b. 1783. Married (about 1803) H. Richard Harkley, of New York. Consul to Cadiz. He d. leaving two daughters-one of whom married Capt. Talcott and had several children. One son, Randolph Taleott, lived in Richmond.
13. Virginia Randolph, b. at Tuckahoe, Gooehland Co., Va., Jan. 31, 1786. She married at Monticello, Albemarle Co., Va. (Aug. 28, 1805), Wilson Jefferson Cary, of Carysbrooke, Fluvanna Co., Va. He was a great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, President of United States. They had five ehildren.
Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, married, secondly (1790), Gabriella Harvey, by whom he had another Thomas Mann Randolph, who was subsequently Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Edge Hill.
Thomas Mann Randolph, son of Gabriella, née Harvey, married, first, Harriet Wilson. Issue :
1. John Randolph. Married Margaret Timberlake, of Wash- ington, D. C.
2. Mary Randolph. Married John, son of Professor Chap- man, M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa.
3. Margaret Randolph. Married F. A. Donkins. 1
4. Harriet Randolph. Married Albert S. White.
Thomas Mann Randolph, son of Gabriella, nee Harvey, mar- ried, secondly, Miss Patterson. Issue :
Henry Randolph, of Washington, D. C., clerk in one of the departments.
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Daughter Randolph. Married Mr. Howard, of Baltimore, Md.
V. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., Governor of Virginia, was the fourth child and eldest surviving son of Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, Gooch- land Co., Va., and Ann Cary, his wife, and was born 1767 at Tuckahoe. He married Martha Jefferson, daughter of U. S. President Thomas Jefferson and Martha, née Wayles. Issue :
1. Ann Cary Randolph, b. 1791. Married (about 1810) Charles Bankhead. Issue :
a. Daughter Randolph Bankhead. Married John Carter.
b. Thomas M. L. Bankhead, d. in Arkansas.
c. John Bankhead, of Missouri; has a family.
d. William Bankhead, removed to Alabama.
2. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the eldest son, was born at Edge Hill, and inherited it. Married Miss Nicholas.
3. Ellen Wayles Randolph, b. 1796. Married (1824) Joseplı Coolidge, of Boston, Mass. Issue :
a. Joseph Coolidge. Married Julia Gardiner.
b. Ellen R. Coolidge. Married Edmond Dwight.
c. Lydney Coolidge, killed in U. S. army, at Chattanooga 1864.
d. Algernon Sidney Coolidge, twin brother of Lydney. Mar- ried Lucy Lowell.
e. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, minister to Frances, succeeding Whitelaw Reid, during the administration of President Benj. Harrison. Married Mehitabel (Hetty) Appleton.
4. Virginia Randolph, b. about 1801. Married (1821) N. P. Trist, who made the treaty of "Hidalgo Guadeloupe," after the Mexican War, 1848. Issue :
1. Thomas Jefferson Trist, deaf mute. Married Ellen Lyc- man, also a deaf mute. No issue.
2. Martha Jefferson Trist. Married John Burk, of Alexan- dria, Va. They had a number of children.
3. Dr. H. B. Trist. Married Ann Warren, of Savannah, Georgia, and has seven children.
5. Benj. Franklin Randolph, b. 1805. Married (1828) Sarah Carter. Issue :
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I. Merrywether Louis Randolph. Married Louisa Hubard and has five children.
II. Septemia Anne Randolph. Married Dr. David Meikle- ham, and had one son, William Morland Meikleham, who married in New York and lives in Fordham with three children : Aliee Seott, Randolph, and Ellen Wayles Meikleham.
6. Merrywether Louis Randolph, b. 1808. Married (1830) Eliza Wharton. No issue.
7. George Wythe Randolph, b. 1815. Married (1852) Mary E. Adams. No issue.
VI. Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., eldest son of Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., and Martha, née Jefferson, his wife-who was third child, and eldest son of Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., of Tuckahoe, Goochland Co., Va., and Anne Cary, his wife, eldest son and ehild of William Ran- dolphi and Maria Judith Page, his wife-who was eldest son and child of Thomas Randolph and Judith Churchill, his wife-who was second son and ehild of William Randolph, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, and Turkey Island, Henrieo Co., Va., progenitor of the Randolph family in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife.
Col. Thomas Mann Randolph, b. at Edge Hill 1792; d. there in 1875, aged 83 years. He was buried at Montieello, in the Jef- ferson graveyard. He was Presidential Elector in 1845, and was President of the National Demoeratie Convention, which met in Baltimore in 1873. He was also ehosen President of the Phila- delphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, but died a short time be- fore its opening. He married (1815) Jane, daughter of Gov. Wilson Cary Nicholas, of Warren, Albemarle Co., Va. Their children were :
1. Margaret Smith Randolph, b. 1816. Married (1836) William Lewis Randolph.
2. Patsey Jefferson Randolph, b. 1817. Married (1838) I.
C. Randolph Taylor, of Albemarle Co., Va. Issuc :
a. Bennet Taylor. Married (1863) Luey Colston and had six children.
b. Jane Randolph Taylor.
c. Susan Beverley Taylor. Married John Blackliam.
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d. Jefferson Randolph Taylor, lawyer, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co.
e. Margaret Randolph Taylor.
f. Cornelia Jefferson Taylor.
g. Stevens Mason Taylor.
h. Edmond Randolph Taylor.
i. Moncure Robinson Taylor.
3. Cary Ann Nicholas Randolph, b. 1820. Married (1840) Frank G. Ruffin, of Albemarle Co., Va. Issue :
1. Jefferson Randolph Ruffin.
2. William Roane Ruffin. Married (1868) Miss McIlvaine, of Petersburg, Dinwiddie Co., Va.
3. William Cary Nicholas Ruffin. Married (1870) Mary Harvie.
4. George Randolph Ruffin.
5. Frank Gilbert Ruffin, Jr.
6. Eliza McDonald Ruffin.
7. Cary Randolph Ruffin.
4. Mary Buchanan Randolph, b. 1821 or 1823; resides at Edge Hill, where she is Principal of a girl's school. She closely resembles the portraits of Thomas Jefferson, President of United States.
5. Ellen Wayles Randolph, b. 1825. Married (1860) William B. Harrison, of "Upper Brandon," on James River, Charles City Co., Va. She was his second wife. After her husband's death she removed to Edge Hill. Issue :
I. Jane Nicholas Harrison.
II. Jefferson Randolph Harrison.
6. Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph, b. 1827. Married (1848) Charles Mason. Issue :
I. Jefferson Randolph Mason, San Antonio, Texas.
II. Lucy Roy Mason.
III. John Enoeh Mason, Commonwealth's Attorney, King George Co., Va. (See Mason Family, Chapter XVII.)
7. Caroline Ramsay Randolph, b. 1828; resided, unmarried, at Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
8. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, eldest son, b. at Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., in 1830. He removed to Shadwell,
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same county, and married, first (1854) Mary Walker Merryweather, who d. July 1863, leaving issue :
I. Frank Merryweather Randolph. Married Charlotte Mason.
II. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jr.
III. George Geiger Randolph.
Mr. Randolph married, secondly (in 1865), Charlotte N. Merryweather, and had one ehild, Mary Walker Ran- dolph. In 1878 Mr. Randolph was accidentally killed by a blast on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Mrs. Randolph d. 1876.
9. Dr. Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, b. 1832, at Edge Hill, removed to Charlottesville, Albemarle Co. He mar- ried (1855) Mary Holliday, of that place. Issue :
I. Virginia Rawlings Randolph.
II. Wilson C. N. Randolph, Jr.
III. Mary Walker Randolph.
IV. Julia Minor Randolph.
10. Jane Nieholas Randolph, b. 1810. Married (1856) R.
Garliek H. Keen. Issue :
I. Launeelot Keen.
II. Patsey Cary Keen.
III. Jefferson Randolph Keen.
IV. Robert Garliek Hill Keen, Jr.
11. Merryweather Lewis Randolph, b. 1836, at Edge Hill; d. 1870. Married (1869) Anna Daniel.
12. Sarah Nicholas Randolph, b. 1838, at Edge Hill, Albe- marle Co .; removed to Baltimore, Md., and became an authoress, and principal of the Patapsco Institute; d. unmarried, 1892.
II. Isham Randolph, of Dungenness, on James River, Gooeh- land County, Va .- third son of William Randolph, Yorkshire, England, and Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va., progenitor of the Randolph family in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife-was born at Turkey Island, 1690. He married (1717) Jane Rogers (or Rodgers), of Shadwell Street, London, England. Issue :
1. Jane Randolph, b. 1720, in London, England. Married (1738) Peter Jefferson, of Shadwell, near Rivanna
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River, Albemarle Co. (This is named from Shadwell Street, London, Eng.) Issue :
I. Thomas Jefferson, b. 1743; d. July 4, 1826. President of the U. S. of America. Married (1772) Martha Wayles, daughter of John Wayles, of "The Forest," Charles City Co., Va. Issue-two surviving children : I. Martha Jefferson. Married (1790) Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., father of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph of the same place.
II. Maria Jefferson. Married (1796) John Wayles Eppes, of Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield Co., Va. Issue- one child, Francis Eppes, of "Poplar Forest," Bedford Co., Va., who married, first (1822) Elizabeth Ran- dolph, daughter of Thomas Eston Randolph, of Ashton, Albemarle Co., Va. Issue:
a. Jane Eppes.
b. John Eppes.
c. Jefferson Eppes.
d. Rev. William Eppes.
e. Elizabeth Eppes.
Francis Eppes married a second time the widow Crouch, by whom he had ehildren.
III. Randolph. Jefferson.
IV. Martha Jefferson. Married John Bolling.
V. Daughter Jefferson. Married Dabney Carr.
VI. Daughter Jefferson. Married Mr. Lewis.
VII. Daughter Jefferson. Married Mr. Marks.
2. Susanna Randolph, b. 1743. Married (1764) Carter Henry Harrison, of Clifton, a grandson of Robert (King) Carter. Issue :
1. Robert Harrison; removed to Kentucky and married Anne Cabell. He was the grandfather of Carter H. Harri- son, Mayor of Chicago.
2. Anne Harrison. Married Thomas Drew.
3. Peyton Harrison. Married Elizabeth Barelay.
4. Elizabeth Harrison. Married Mr. Bradley.
5. Randolph Harrison, of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. Married (March 20, 1790) at Dungenness, his first cousin, Mary Randolph. He was b. at Clifton, Feb. 11, 1769.
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6. Carter Henry Harrison, Jr., graduated at William and Mary College; commenced the practice of law, and d. 1800.
3. Thomas Isham Randolph, eldest son, b. at Dungenness, Goochland Co., Va., 1745, and resided there. He married (1768) Jane, third ehild of Archibald Cary.
4. William Randolph, b. 1747; removed to Bristol and mar- ried Miss Little.
5. Mary Randolph. Married (1770) Charles Lewis.
6. Elizabeth Randolph. Married (1771) John Bailcy.
7. Dorothy Randolph. Married (1773) John Woodson, of Goochland Co., Va.
8. Anne Randolph, b. 1755. Married, first (1775) Daniel Seott; no children. She married, secondly, Jonathan Pleasants. Issue : Samuel Pleasants and Jane Pleasants. She married, thirdly, James Pleasants, of Goochland Co., Va. Issue: James Pleasants, Gov. of Virginia, and Susan Pleasants, married Webster.
III. Thomas Isham Randolph, of Dungenness on James River, Gooehland Co., Va., eldest son of Isham Randolph of the same place and Jane Rogers, his wife, was b. there in 1745. He married (1768) Jane, third ehild of Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va., and Mary, née Randolph, of Curls. Issuc :
1. Archibald (ealled Arehie) Cary Randolph, b. 1769 at Dungenness. He married (1794) Luey Burwell, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co., Va. Issue :
1. Isham Randolph; killed by lightning at Benlomond, near Dungenness, unmarried.
2. Dr. Philip Grymes Randolph, U. S. A., b. 1769. Married (1784) Mary O'Neal, of Washington, D. C., and d. leaving two daughters :
a. Mary Conway Randolph. Married Beverley Randolph, U. S. Navy, and had-Mary Harrison Randolph, who mar- ried (June 26, 1877) Perry W. Charington, of Eng- land ; Grymes Randolph. Married Ruth, daughter of Benj. O'Fallon, of St. Louis, Mo .; William Fitzhugh Randolph; Eston Randolph; Julian Randolph. One of these brothers married Rebecca Rosalie O'Fallon, a sister of Ruth.
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b. Henrietta Randolph. Married Mr. Pendleton. Dr. Philip Grymes Randolph was at one time chief elerk in the U. S. War Department and bearer of dispatches to Spain, under Gen. Jackson's administration.
3. Susan Grymes Randolph, Married (1839) Dr. Powell Page, of ""T'he Briars," Clarke Co., Va., and was his second wife. Issue: Elizabeth Byrd Page, b. 1838; d. unmarried, 1863; Mary Franees Page, b. 1840. Married (1867) John Esten Cooke, author, Clarke Co., Va. She d. 1878, leaving three children: I. Susie Randolplı, b. July 11, 1868; II. Edmond Pendleton Randolph, b. May 18, 1870; III. Robert Powell Page, b. Oet. 12, 1874. Their father, John Esten Cooke, d. Sept. 27, 1886, at "The Briars." Luey B. Page, b. 1842. Mar- ried (1862) Capt. William P. Carter, of Clarke Co., Va .; Robert Powell Page, Jr., of Saratoga, Clarke Co., Va., b. 1846. Married (1870) Agnes, daughter of George H. Burwell, of Carter Hall, and Agnes, née Atkinson. Issue: (1) Agnes Page, (2) Mary Page, (3) Robert P. Page, (4) George Page, (5) Nathaniel B. Page.
5. Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of Newmarket, Clarke Co., Va., d. 1886. Married (1830) Luey Nelson, only ehild of William Wellford and Susan R. Nelson, his wife. Issue as follows :
a, Betty Burwell Randolph. Married Warren C. Smith, of Clarke Co., Va. They left two sons and three daughters. .
b. Dr. Arehie Cary Randolph. Married (Sept. 29, 1881) Mrs. Susan Henry, née Burwell. No children.
. Col. William Wellford Randolph. Married (1863) Ada Stewart, of King George Co., Va. He was killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, and left one ehild, William Wellford Randolph, Jr.
d. Philip Burwell Randolph, d. 1857, while at the Virginia University.
e. Thomas Hugh Burwell Randolph. Married Eliza Page Burwell, daughter of George H. Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co., Va. They had one ehild, Robert Carter Randolph.
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f. Susan Wellford Randolph. Married William Eston Ran- dolph, of Halifax Co., Va. and has two daughters and one son, called Isham Randolph. Their three children traee their lineage baek to six of the seven sons of Col. William Randolph, of Turkey Island, progenitor of all the Randolphs of Virginia.
g .. Isham Randolph, of Chicago, chief engincer of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad. Married Mary, daughter of George Taylor, formerly of Richmond, Va. They have one son, Robert Isham Randolph.
h. Polly Cary Randolph. All of Dr. Robert C. Randolph's children are descended from five of the seven sons of Col. William Randolph, of Turkey Island, and their daughter Susan's children from six. The seventh son of Col. William Randolph lived in Bristol, England, so there was but little intercourse.
6. Lucy Burwell Randolph. Married Rev. Eleazor Hutehin- son. Issue :
I. Robert Randolph Hutchinson, St. Louis, Mo.
II. Louis Burwell Hutchinson, of Mississippi.
III. Mary Talcott Hutchinson, who married Robert Anderson, of Scotland.
2. Isham Randolph, b. at Dungenness, Goochiland Co., Va., 1770; removed to Richmond, Va., and married (1795) Nancy Coupland, of that city. Issue :
(1) Julia Randolph, b. 1805. Married (Feb. 1, 1827) Thomas Nelson Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va., and they had one surviving child, Maj. Mann Page, of Lower Brandon on James River, Prince George Co., Va. He was b. at Shelly, April 21, 1835, only a few months before his father's death. IIe was the cldest ehild, of the eldest son, etc., etc., so was the head of the Page family in Virginia. Maj. Page when a middle aged man married, but died without ehildren.
(2) Jane Randolph.
(3) Fanny P. Randolph, b. 1808. Married (1827) William N. Page, of Ca Ira, Cumberland Co., Va.
(4) D. Coupland Randolph, b. 1810. Married (1857) Harriet R. Page, of Union Hill, Cumberland Co., Va.,
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b. April 15, 1827; d. 1884. They had: I. Mary A. Randolph; II. D. Coupland Randolph, Jr .; III. B. Heath Randolph.
3. Thomas Randolph, twin brother of Isham Randolph. Married, first, Miss Skipwith ; secondly, Miss Laurence, granddaughter of Gov. Findlay, of Kentucky. Issue- Mary Randolph, who married William Sheets. They removed to Indianapolis, Ind., and had several child- ren. He was killed at the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana, Nov. 5, 1811. In this battle Gen. William Henry Harrison gained a complete victory over the Indians, led by the famous chief Tecumseh, who was killed. This victory gave to Gen. Harrison the sobri- quet of Tippecanoe and hence the political campaign phrase, when he and John Tyler were respectively elected president and vice-president of U. S., of "Tippe- canoe and Tyler too." Thomas Randolph and Joe Deviers, two friends and gallant spirits, were buried together under an oak tree, on which their initials were cut. Some beautiful lines were afterwards published by Mrs. Mary Sheets, entitled, "The Lost Initials."
4. Mary Randolph, b. Feb. 1, 1773, at Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va. Married (March 21, 1790) her first cousin Randolph Harrison, of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. Had issue.
II. Sir John Randolph, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., fourth son and child of Col. William Randolph, of Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va., and Mary, née Isham, progenitors of all the Randolphs in Virginia, was b. 1693; d. March 15, 1737. Upon a mural tablet palced to his memory in William and Mary College, which was destroyed by fire in 1859, he was called "Johannes Ran- dolph, Esques." He was Esques or Knight, not Armiger or Es- quire, nor Genevosus, which signifies, Gent or Gentleman. It is quite proper, therefore, to speak of him as Sir John Randolph.
He married (1718) Susanna Beverly, daughter of Peter Bev- erly, of Gloucester Co., Va., and sister of Elizabeth, the wife of William Randolph, his eldest brother, known as Councillor Ran- dolph. The mural tablet, above mentioned, to Sir John Randolph and Susanna, née Beverly, gave also a list of their four children, as follows :
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I. John Randolph, son of Sir John Randolph, b. at Williams- burg 1727. Married (1752) Airanna Jennings, daughter of Edmond Jennings.
II. Peyton Randolph, son of Sir John Randolph, b. at Williamsburg, d. in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 22, 1775, aged 53 years. He was Attorney General for Virginia, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses and Presi- dent of the first American Congress. Married Eliza- beth Harrison. No children.
III. Beverley Randolph. Married Miss Wormeley.
IV. Mary Randolph, daughter of Sir John Randolph, b. at Williamsburg, Va. Married (1743) Philip Grymes, of Brandon, Middlesex Co., Va. Issue four children :
(1) Philip Grymes, Jr. Married (1762) Elizabeth, daughter of William Randolph, of Wilton, and Anne Harrison, his wife.
(2) Lucy Grymes. Married (1761) Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va.
(3) Susan Grymes. Married Nathaniel Burwell, of "The Grove," York Co., Va., and later of Carter Hall, Clarke Co., Va.
. (4) Mary Grymes. Married (1777) Robert Nelson, of "Mal- vern Hill," Charles City Co., Va., younger brother of Gov. Thomas Nelson, and was his first wife.
III. John Randolph, of Williamsburg, son of Sir John Ran- dolph and Susanna, née Beverly, was b. 1727, and was Attorney General for the Colony of Virginia. He married (1752) Airanna Jennings, daughter of Edmund Jennings, of Annapolis, Md., who was at one time Attorney General for both Maryland and Virginia. They had two children :
1. Edmund Randolph, b. Aug. 10, 1753; d. in Frederick Co., Va., Sept. 12, 1813. When the American Revolution broke out John Randolph, of Williamsburg, went to England, but his son Edmund remained and cast his lot with the colonists. He was adopted by his uncle Peyton Randolph, who was President of the first Ameri- can Congress. Edmund Randolph, b. 1753, was the first Attorney General of the U. S. of America, 1790; having been Gov. of the State 1786-88. He married
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Gov. THOMAS NELSON Yorktown, York County, Virginia
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, July 14th, 1776 (From the Original Portrait by Chamberlin, London, 1754.)
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(Aug. 29, 1796) Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Carter Nicholas, Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treas- urer of Virginia. They had issue :
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., signer of the Declaration of American Independence, Governor of the State of Virginia and Major General in the American army, was born at Yorktown, Virginia, December 26, 1738. He was the oldest son and child of President William Nelson, of the same place, and Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell, his wife; and President William Nelson was the eldest son and child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotchi Tom, of England, and Margaret Reid, his wife.
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