Thomas Mann Randolph Sr.

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. (1741–1793) was the only son of William Randolph III[1] (1712 - 1745) and Maria Judith Page (died 1744), the daughter of Mann Page,.[2] Since Thomas' parents died by the time he was five years old, Peter Jefferson and his wife Jane Randolph Jefferson[3] brought their young family (including a young Thomas Jefferson) to Tuckahoe Plantation to take care of him and his two sisters until he came of age.[4]

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776, and the Virginia state legislature.[5]

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. was the owner of the Salisbury house (a Randolph family hunting lodge) in Chesterfield County, Virginia (14 miles from Richmond) in 1784 when Patrick Henry lived there during his second term as Virginia governor (1784 to 1786).[6]

Children by Anne Cary Randolph

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. was married to Anne Cary Randolph (1745–1789). His children included Mary Randolph (1762–1828), author of The Virginia House-Wife (1824), Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (October 1, 1768 – June 20, 1828) an American planter, soldier, and politician; and Virginia Randolph Cary (1786–1852), author of Letters on Female Character (1828).

Children by Gabriella Harvie

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. was married to Gabriella Harvie and fathered a child named Thomas Mann Randolph II (1792-1848) known as "the impostor" as he inherited Tuckahoe from his father.[7]

Prominent Family

The Randolph family of Virginia were among the First Families of Virginia.[8] He was the grandson of Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe and descendant of William Randolph (c.1650–1711) and Richard Randolph.

References

  1. ↑ Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society (Vol 16 No 47 ed.). Frankfort, KY: Kentucky State Historical Society. May 1918. p. 64. Retrieved 28 February 2018. ... Thomas of Tuckahoe had three children, viz.: William Randolph III, Mary Isham Randolph, and Judith Randolph. William Randolph III married Maria Judith Page and inherited the Tuckahoe Estate, which is turn was inherited by his son Col. Thomas Mann Randolph.
  2. ↑ Page, Richard Channing Moore (1893). "Randolph Family". Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia (2 ed.). New York: Press of the Publishers Printing Co. pp. 249–272.
  3. ↑ Jane was the first cousin of William Randolph III
  4. ↑ Malone, Dumas, Jefferson the Virginian, St. Martin’s Press, 1948, Volume 1, p. 19
  5. ↑ "Mary Randolph at Feeding America". "Mary Randolph at Feeding America"
  6. ↑ Lancaster, Jr., Robert Alexander (1915). Historic Virginia Homes and Churches. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company. pp. 162–163. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Thomas Mann Randolph". geni . com. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed. (1898). "The Randolphs: Randolph Genealogy". Some Colonial Mansions: And Those Who Lived In Them : With Genealogies Of The Various Families Mentioned. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Henry T. Coates & Company. pp. 430–459.
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