Descendants of John Randoll, 1470

45. Elizabeth Randolph [13027] was born in 1680 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 22 Jan 1719 in Virginia at age 39.

Elizabeth married Richard Bland [13024] [MRIN: 4325], son of Theodorick Bland [15819] and Anne Bennett [13030], in 1701 in Henrico County, Virginia. Richard was born on 11 Aug 1665 in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, died on 6 Apr 1720 in Prince George, Virginia at age 54, and was buried in Westover, Charles City County, Virginia.

General Notes: Held residence at "Jordan's Point" in Prince George City County, Virginia. A member of the House of Burgesses in Virginia; resided at times in Williamsburg, Virginia. Left a will that was proved on April 12, 1720.

+ 55 F i. Mary Bland [13047] was born on 21 Aug 1704 in Prince George, Virginia and died in 1764 in Virginia at age 60.

+ 56 F ii. Elizabeth Bland [13048] was born on 29 May 1705 in Prince George City County, Virginia.

+ 57 M iii. Theodorick Bland [34307] was born on 2 Dec 1708 in Cawsons, Prince George City County, Virginia and died in May 1790 in Amelia County, Virginia at age 81.

46. Col. William Randolph Jr. [15915] was born on 1 Nov 1681 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia, died on 19 Oct 1742 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 60, and was buried in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia.

General Notes: Resided at Chatesworth, Henrico County, Virginia. Also resided at Turkey Island Plantation, Virginia. Was Clerk of the County from 1710 to 1720 in Henrico County, Virginia; a member of the House of Burgesses 1718, 1720-1726; was Treasurer of the Colony in 1737; Royal Councillar of State in 1737 Virginia.

William married Elizabeth Peyton Beverley [15916] [MRIN: 5303], daughter of Col. Peter Beverley [16348] and Elizabeth Peyton [16349], on 22 Jun 1709. Elizabeth was born in Jan 1691 in Virginia and died on 26 Dec 1723 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 32.

+ 60 M i. William Randolph [16035] was born in 1711 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died in 1761 at age 50.

61 M ii. Beverley Randolph [16333] was born in 1713 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died in Jan 1713.

General Notes: Justice of the Peace for Henrico County, Virginia; member of the House of Burgesses 1748-1751.

Beverley married Elizabeth Lightfoot [16334] [MRIN: 5430], daughter of Francis Lightfoot [16335] and Elizabeth Unknown [16336], in Dec 1737.

+ 63 M iv. Col. Peter Randolph [16034] was born in Oct 1717 and died in Jul 1767 in Chatesworth, Henrico County, Virginia at age 49.

Mary married John Price Jr. [16339] [MRIN: 5436], son of John Price [15954] and Jane Cannon [16055]. John was born in Wales.

47. Thomas Randolph [15950] was born on 3 Feb 1682 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 21 Oct 1729 in Tuckahoe Plantation, Goochland County, Virginia at age 47.

Thomas married Judith Fleming [15978] [MRIN: 5319], daughter of Charles Fleming [16343] and Susan Tarleton [16344], on 16 Oct 1712 in Henrico (Goochland) County, VA.

+ 65 M i. Col. William Randolph [15979] was born in 1713 in Tuckahoe Plantation, Goochland County, Virginia and died in Sep 1745 in Virginia at age 32.

Mary married Rev. James Keith [16345] [MRIN: 5439] in 1730. James was born in 1696 in Petershead, Scotland and died in 1753 in Fauquier County, Virginia at age 57.

48. Isham Randolph [15908] was born in Dec 1684 in Dungeness, Goochland County, Virginia and died on 2 Nov 1742 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 57.

General Notes: Adjutant General Isham Randolph. Member of the House of Burgesses 1740.

Isham married Jane Rogers [15909] [MRIN: 5280] on 25 Jul 1718 in White Chapel, Middlesex, London, England.

+ 68 F i. Jane Randolph [15910] was born in 1720 in London, England and died in 1776 at age 56.

50. Col. Richard Randolph [15906] was born in May 1690 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 17 Dec 1748 in Curles Neck Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 58.

General Notes: Treasurer of the Colony of Virginia and member of the House of Burgesses in 1740 Virginia.

Richard married Jane Bolling [15907] [MRIN: 5279], daughter of Col. John Bolling [23613] and Mary Kennon [16332], about 1714. Jane was born in 1703 and died in 1766 at age 63.

+ 79 M iii. Richard Randolph [16002] was born about 1715 in Curles Neck Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 6 Jun 1786 about age 71.

+ 80 F iv. Mary Randolph [16004] was born on 21 Nov 1727 and died on 5 Nov 1781 at age 53.

+ 82 M vi. Brett Randolph [15945] was born about 1732 in England and died about 1759 in England about age 27.

+ 83 M vii. John Randolph [15960] was born about 1742 in Cawsons, Prince George City County, Virginia and died in Oct 1775 about age 33.

51. Mary Randolph [15953] was born in 1692 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia.

Mary married John Stith [15955] [MRIN: 5304], son of Lt. John Stith [34174] and Jane Unknown [34175], in 1712.

52. John Randolph [15904] was born in Apr 1693 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia and died on 2 Mar 1737 in Williamsburg, Virginia at age 43.

John married Susanna Beverley [15905] [MRIN: 5278], daughter of Col. Peter Beverley [16348] and Elizabeth Peyton [16349], about 1718. Susanna was born in 1690 and died in 1768 at age 78.

Beverley married Sarah Wormeley [34179] [MRIN: 11574], daughter of John Wormeley [34180] and Elizabeth Unknown [34181].

88 M ii. Peyton Randolph [15995] was born in 1721 in Williamsburg, Virginia, died on 22 Oct 1775 in Philadelphia at age 54, and was buried in William And Mary College, Virginia.

General Notes: born 1721, Williamsburg, Va. [U.S.]
died Oct. 22, 1775, Philadelphia, Pa.

First president of the U.S. Continental Congress.

Randolph was educated at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and became a member of the Virginia bar in 1744. Four years later, in recognition of his stature as a lawyer, he was appointed king's attorney for Virginia. The same year, he was elected to Virginia's House of Burgesses, where he served almost continuously until the time of his death. A member of the colonial aristocracy, he regarded himself as a spokesman for both thecrown and his fellow Virginians.

Randolph was opposed to the colonists' radical response to the Stamp Act. Looked to for leadership during the pre-Revolutionary disputes with England, he played a moderating and cautious role. But his patriotism was never in question, and he became more radical over time. By 1773 he was serving as chairman of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence.

In 1774 Randolph led the seven Virginia delegates to the first session of the Continental Congress. There he was elected president of the Congress, but in 1775 he suffered a stroke while in Philadelphia and died. John Hancock, whose views were far more radical, succeeded him as president.

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Born the second son of Sir John and Lady Susannah Randolph. His first name was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother. The surname Randolph identified him with the powerful 18th century Virginia clan. When he was three or four years old, the family moved into the imposing wooden structure on Market Square now known as the Peyton Randolph House. His father, among Virginia's most distinguished attorney's, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and a wealthy man, died when Peyton was 16, leaving the house and other property for him in trust with his mother. The will also gave him his father's extensive library in the hope he would "betake himself to the study of law."

He attended the College of William and Mary, then the law school at London's Inn of Court. He entered the Middle Temple on October 13, 1739 and took a place at the bar February 10, 1743. On returning to Williamsburg he was appointed the colony's attorney general by Governor William Gooch, May 7, 1744.

He married Betty Harrison March 8, 1746.

1747 - vestryman Bruton Parish Church
1748 - Representative to the House of Burgesses
1749 - Justice of the Peace
1755 - House of Burgesses
1757 - College of William and Mary Board Member
1766 - Elected Speaker of the House of Burgesses defeating Richard Henry Lee.

A result of the Stamp Act found Peyton Randolph joining the revolutionary movement. Supported, along with George Washington, a ban on the importation to Virginia of any British goods. Along with Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund Pendleton, formed a committee of delegates to Congress.

Peyton Randolph was chairman of the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond when Patrick Henry made his famous, "give me liberty or give me death" speech. The British sought to capture and hang him. On Sunday, October 23, 1775, after a session of the Third Virginia Convention, he choked and died in Philadelphia.
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Peyton Randolph
(Born 1721, died 1775)
When he returned to Williamsburg after presiding over the Continental Congress in 1775, Peyton Randolph was on the black list of patriots the redcoats proposed to arrest and hang. The city's volunteer company of militia offered him its protection in an address that concluded: "MAY HEAVEN GRANT YOU LONG TO LIVE THE FATHER OF YOUR COUNTRY, AND THE FRIEND TO FREEDOM AND HUMANITY!"

If his friend George Washington succeeded him to the title of America's patrimonial honors, Randolph nevertheless did as much as any Virginian to bring the new nation into the world. He presided over every important Virginia assembly in the years leading to the Revolution, was among the first of the colony's great men to oppose the Stamp Act, chaired the first meeting of the delegates of 13 colonies at Philadelphia in 1774, and chaired the second in 1775.

He had been born 54 years before--probably in Williamsburg--the second son of Sir John and Lady Susannah Randolph. His first name was his maternal grandmother's maiden name, just as his older brother Beverley's was their mother's. The surname Randolph identified him as a scion of 18th-century Virginia's most powerful clan.

When he was three or four years old, the family moved into the imposing wooden home on Market Square now known as the Peyton Randolph House. His father, among Virginia's most distinguished attorneys, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and a wealthy man, died when Peyton was 16, leaving the house and other property for him in trust with his mother. The will also gave Peyton his father's extensive library in the hope he would "betake himself to the study of law." By then, he had a brother John and a sister Mary.

Attentive to his father's wishes, he attended the College of William and Mary, then learned the law in London's Inns of Court. He entered the Middle Temple on October 13, 1739, and took a place at the bar February 10, 1743. Returning to Williamsburg, he was appointed the colony's attorney general by Governor William Gooch on May 7, 1744. His father had filled the office before him, and his brother would assume the role after.

When he turned 24, Randolph reached the age set for his inheritance. On March 8, 1746, he married Betty Harrison, and on July 21 (more than two years after his return), he qualified himself for the private practice of law in York County.

His cousin Thomas Jefferson may have shed some light on the delay in a character sketch he wrote of Randolph years later. "He was indeed a most excellent man," Jefferson said, but "heavy and inert in body, he was rather too indolent and careless for business."

He was, as well, occupied with myriad public duties. In 1747 he became a vestryman of Bruton Parish Church, in 1748 Williamsburg's representative in the house of Burgesses, and in 1749 a justice of the peace. He returned to the House in 1752 as the burgess for the college, and on December 15, 1753, the house hired him as its special agent for some ticklish business in London.

Soon after he arrived in Virginia in 1751, Governor Robert Dinwiddie had begun to exercise a right no governor had before: the imposition of a fee for certifying land patents. For his signature, Dinwiddie demanded a pistol, a Spanish coin worth about 20 shillings. Regarding the fee as an unauthorized tax, Virginians objected, though to no result.

Peyton Randolph was dispatched to England as the house's agent, with directions to go over the governor's head. But as attorney general, it was his duty to represent the interests of the Crown, of which Dinwiddie was the principal representative in Virginia. Randolph was attacking the right of the governor he was appointed to defend.

The governor refused to give Peyton Randolph permission to leave the colony, but he left anyway. In London, he had to answer for his action, and he was ousted from the attorney general's office. Dinwiddie had already named George Wythe as acting attorney general in Randolph's place.

Nevertheless, the London officials pointedly suggested that Dinwiddie reconsider his fee and said that they would have no objection to Peyton Randolph's reinstatement if he apologized. So he did, and subsequently resumed office soon after his return to Williamsburg.

Reelected burgess for the college in 1755, he involved himself the next year in a somewhat ludicrous, though harmless, attempt to promote morale during the French and Indian War. With other prominent men, he formed the Associators, a group to raise and pay bounties for private troops to join the regular force at Winchester. George Washington, in charge of the fort there, wasn't sure what he would do with the untrained men if they arrived. Not enough came, however, to cause any inconvenience.

In 1757, Randolph joined the college's board, and he served as a rector for one year. He was reelected burgess for Williamsburg in 1761, and thus entered the phase of his life that thrust him into a leadership role in the Revolution.

Word of Parliament's intended Stamp Act brought Virginians and their burgesses into conflict with the Crown itself in 1764. Peyton Randolph was appointed chairman of a committee to draft protests to the king, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons maintaining the colony's exclusive right of self-taxation.

The responsibility put him at odds with Patrick Henry, the Virginian most noted for opposition to the tax. At the end of the legislative session in 1765, Henry, a freshman, introduced seven resolutions against the act. Peyton Randolph, George Wythe, and others thought that Henry's resolutions added nothing to the colony's case and that their consideration was improper until the colony had a reply to its earlier protests.

In the final days of the session, after many opponents had left the city, Patrick Henry introduced his measures and made his "Caesar-Brutus" speech. Peyton Randolph, though not yet Speaker, was presiding. When Speaker John Robinson resumed the chair the following day (May 30), Henry carried five of his resolves by a single ballot. A tie would have allowed Robinson to cast the deciding "nay." Jefferson, standing at the chamber door, said Peyton Randolph emerged saying, "By God, I would have given one hundred guineas for a single vote."

Patrick Henry left town, and the next day his fifth (and most radical) resolution was expunged by the burgesses who remained. Nevertheless, it was reprinted with the others in newspapers across the colonies as if it stood.

Peyton Randolph was elected Speaker on November 6, 1766, succeeding the deceased Robinson and defeating Richard Henry Lee. Peyton's brother John succeeded him as attorney general the following June. By now the brothers had begun to disagree politically; John's conservatism would take him to England in 1775 while Peyton joined the rebellion.

Another set of Patrick Henry's resolves, against the Townshend Duties, came before the House in May 1769. This time Peyton Randolph approved their passage, but Governor Botetourt did not. He dissolved the assembly. The "former representatives of the people," as they called themselves, met the next day at the Raleigh Tavern with Speaker Peyton Randolph in the chair. They adopted a compact drafted by George Mason and introduced by George Washington against the importation of British goods. Speaker Randolph was the first to sign.

When the new legislature met in the winter, the governor was pleased to announce the repeal of all of the Townshend Duties, except the small one on tea. Legislative attention turned to other, calmer affairs. The next summer Peyton Randolph became chairman of the building committee for the Public Hospital.

Tempers flared again in 1773, when Great Britain proposed to transport a band of Rhode Island smugglers to England for trial. The implications for Virginia were troublesome, and the burgesses appointed a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry with Speaker Peyton Randolph as chairman. The following May brought word of the closing of the port of Boston in retaliation for its Tea Party.

On May 24, 1774, Robert Carter Nicholas introduced a resolution drafted by Thomas Jefferson that read:

"This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension of the great dangers, to be derived to British America, from the hostile Invasion of the City of Boston, in our Sister Colony of Massachusetts bay, whose commerce and harbor are, on the first Day of June next, to be stopped by an Armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart, by the Members of this House, as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine interposition for averting the heavy Calamity which threatens destruction to our Civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War; to give us one heart and one Mind to firmly oppose, by all just and proper means, every injury to American Rights; and that the Minds of his Majesty and his parliament, may be inspired from above with Wisdom, Moderation, and Justice, to remove from the loyal People of America, all cause of danger, from a continued pursuit of Measure, pregnant with their ruin."

It was adopted.

Governor Dunmore summoned the house on May 26 and told Peyton Randolph: "Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses, I have in my hand a paper published by order of your House, conceived in such terms as reflect highly upon His Majesty and the Parliament of Great Britain, which makes it necessary for me to dissolve you; and you are accordingly dissolved."

On May 27, 1775, 89 burgesses gathered again at the Raleigh Tavern to form another non importation association, and the following day the Committee of Correspondence proposed a Continental Congress. Twenty-five burgesses met at Peyton Randolph's house on May 30 and scheduled a state convention to be held on August 1 to consider a proposal from Boston for a ban on exports to England.

Peyton Randolph led the community to Bruton Parish Church on June 1 to pray for Boston, and soon he was organizing a Williamsburg drive to send provisions and cash for its relief. The First Virginia Convention approved the export ban and elected as delegates to the Congress Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton.

On August 18, 1774, before he left Williamsburg, Peyton Randolph wrote his will, leaving his property to the use of his wife for life. They had no children. The property was to be auctioned after her death and the proceeds divided among Randolph's heirs.

When Congress convened in Philadelphia on September 5, Thomas Lynch of South Carolina nominated Peyton Randolph to be chairman. He was elected by unanimous vote. Delegate Silas Deane wrote Mrs. Deane: "Designed by nature for the business, of an affable, open and majestic deportment, large in size, though not out of proportion, he commands respect and esteem by his very aspect, independent of the high character he sustains."

In October 1774, Peyton Randolph returned to Williamsburg to preside at an impending meeting of the house. Repeatedly postponed, it did not meet until the following June. Nonetheless, on November 9 Peyton Randolph accepted a copy of the Continental Association banning trade with England signed by nearly 500 merchants gathered in Williamsburg.

Peyton Randolph was in the chair again at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond on March 23 when Patrick Henry rose and made his "Liberty or Death" speech in favor of the formation of a statewide militia. In reaction Governor Dunmore removed the gunpowder from Williamsburg's Magazine on April 21. Alerted to the theft, a mob gathered at the Courthouse. Peyton Randolph was one of the leaders who persuaded the crowd to disperse and averted violence.

Peyton Randolph led the Virginia delegation to the Second Continental Congress in May 1775, and he again took the chair. General Thomas Gage, commander of British forces in America, had been issued blank warrants for the execution of rebel leaders and a list of names with which to fill them. Peyton Randolph's name was on the list. He returned to Williamsburg under guard, and the town bells pealed to announce his safe arrival. The militia escorted him to his house and pledged to guarantee his safety.

The Third Virginia Convention reelected its speaker to Congress in July 1775, and Randolph left for Philadelphia in late August or early September. By this time, John Hancock had succeeded him to its chair.

About 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, Peyton Randolph began to choke, a side of his face contorted, and he died of an "apoplectic stroke." He was buried that Tuesday at Christ's Church in Philadelphia. His nephew, Edmund Randolph, brought his remains to Williamsburg in 1776, and he was interred in the family crypt in the Chapel at the College of William and Mary on November 26.

Peyton Randolph's estate was auctioned on February 19, 1783, after Betty Randolph's death. Thomas Jefferson bought his books. Among them were bound records dating to Virginia's earliest days that still are consulted by historians. Added to the collection at Monticello that Jefferson sold to the federal government years later, they became part of the core of the Library of Congress.

Courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Peyton married Elizabeth "Betty" Harrison [19118] [MRIN: 6572] on 8 Mar 1746. Elizabeth died about 1783.

+ 89 M iii. John Randolph [15996] was born in 1727 in Virginia and died on 30 Jun 1784 in London, England at age 57.

General Notes: Edward Randolph.

Elizabeth Graves may have been Elizabeth Graves-Grosvener of Bristol, England. She married Edward Randolph in 1717 or 1718. Edward was born 1697 in Turkey Island, Henrico Co., VA, and lived in Bremo, VA. His parents were Col. William Randolph, born Oct. 1651 in Yorkshire, England, and Mary Isham, born 1660 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico Co., VA. William Randolph emigrated from England in 1669. William Randolph's parents were Richard and Elizabeth Ryland Randolph and his grandfather was William Randolph of Sussex, England.

"Edward lived in England and was Captain of a ship captivated at a launch at Gravesend. Miss Graves, and heiress of 10,000 whom he married. Older member of family, contemporary with his grandmother who was a granddaughter of Mrs. Randolph said Grosvener Square (in London) was associated with Mrs. Randolph's name, and an old aunt, a childless widow and the repository of all family tradition and heirlooms, and an almost daily companion for 50 years, urged the giving of this name Grosvener to the writer's (Bishop Meade) youngest brother to preserve it in family history. She always spoke of Mrs. Randolph as an heiress, and either a Quakeress or of Quaker sympathies and so much opposed to negro slaves that she never came to Virginia."

Edward married Elizabeth Graves [15972] [MRIN: 5318] about 1715. Elizabeth was born in Briston, England.

54. Henry Randolph [16069] was born in Jan 1689 and died in Aug 1726 in Henrico County, Virginia at age 37.

Henry married Elizabeth Eppes [16070] [MRIN: 5331] on 29 Mar 1714 in Virginia.

+ 99 M iii. Henry Randolph [16073] was born in Feb 1721 in Henrico County, Virginia and died in Apr 1771 at age 50.

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