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James Madison Randolph

James Madison Randolph

Male 1806 - 1834  (28 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  James Madison Randolph was born on 17 Jan 1806 in White House, Washington, DC (son of Jr. Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson); died on 23 Jan 1834.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Jr. Thomas Mann Randolph was born on 17 May 1768 (son of Thomas Mann Randolph and Anne Cary); died on 20 Jun 1828; was buried .

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: "Edgehill", Goochland Co., VA

    Notes:

    BIRTH: alternate date 5/17/1768

    Birth:
    "Tuckahoe", Goochland Co., VA

    Died:
    "Monticello", Albemarle Co., VA

    Thomas married Martha Jefferson on 23 Feb 1790. Martha (daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles) was born on 27 Sep 1772; died on 10 Oct 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Martha Jefferson was born on 27 Sep 1772 (daughter of President Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles); died on 10 Oct 1836.

    Notes:

    Birth:
    "Monticello", Albemarle Co., VA

    Died:
    "Edge Hill", King George Co., VA

    Notes:

    Married:
    "Monticello", Albemarle Co., VA

    Children:
    1. Anne Cary Randolph was born on 23 Jan 1791; died on 11 Feb 1826.
    2. Thomas Jefferson Randolph was born on 12 Sep 1792; died on 8 Oct 1875; was buried .
    3. Ellen Wayles Randolph was born on 30 Aug 1794; died on 26 Jul 1795.
    4. Ellen Wayles Randolph was born on 13 Oct 1796; died on 21 Apr 1876.
    5. Cornelia Jefferson Randolph was born on 26 Jul 1799; died on 24 Feb 1871.
    6. George Wythe Randolph was born on 10 Mar 1818; died on 3 Apr 1867.
    7. Virginia Jefferson Randolph was born on 22 Aug 1801; died on 26 Apr 1882.
    8. Mary Jefferson Randolph was born on 2 Nov 1803; died on 29 Mar 1876.
    9. 1. James Madison Randolph was born on 17 Jan 1806 in White House, Washington, DC; died on 23 Jan 1834.
    10. Benjamin Franklin Randolph was born on 14 Jul 1808; died on 18 Feb 1871.
    11. Meriwether Lewis Randolph was born on 31 Jan 1810; died on 24 Sep 1837 in Clarke County, AR; was buried in near Whelen Springs, Clarke County, AR.
    12. Septimia Anne Randolph was born on 3 Jan 1814; died on 14 Sep 1887.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Thomas Mann Randolph was born in 1741 (son of William Randolph and Maria Judith Page); died on 20 Nov 1794.

    Thomas married Anne Cary on 18 Nov 1761. Anne (daughter of Archibald Cary and Mary Isham Randolph) was born on 7 Feb 1744/45; died in 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Anne Cary was born on 7 Feb 1744/45 (daughter of Archibald Cary and Mary Isham Randolph); died in 1789.

    Notes:

    Birth:
    Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., VA

    Children:
    1. Virginia Randolph was born on 30 Jan 1786; died on 2 May 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
    2. 2. Jr. Thomas Mann Randolph was born on 17 May 1768; died on 20 Jun 1828; was buried .
    3. William Randolph was born on 16 Jan 1770; died on 5 May 1848.
    4. Archibald Cary Randolph was born on 24 Aug 1771; was christened on 6 Sep 1771 in St James Northam Par., Goochland County, VA; died on 3 Oct 1771.
    5. Judith Randolph was born on 24 Nov 1772.
    6. Ann Cary Randolph was born on 16 Sep 1774; died on 28 May 1837.
    7. Mary Jane Randolph was born on 9 Aug 1762; died on 23 Jan 1828 in Washington, DC; was buried in Arlington, Fairfax County, TX.
    8. Henry Cary Randolph was born on 8 Jan 1764; died on 13 Mar 1765.
    9. Elizabeth Randolph was born on 19 Jun 1765.
    10. Jane Cary Randolph was born on 17 Dec 1776; died on 2 Mar 1842.
    11. John Randolph was born on 11 Sep 1779; died on 19 Aug 1834 in Amelia County, Virginia, USA.
    12. George Washington Randolph was born on 19 Dec 1781; died on 7 Jul 1785.
    13. Harriet Randolph was born on 24 Nov 1783; died on 1 Dec 1839.

  3. 6.  President Thomas Jefferson was born on 2 Apr 1743 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA (son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph); died on 4 Jul 1826 in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    THOMAS JEFFERSON

    Religion: No formal affiliation
    Education: Graduated from College of William and Mary (1762)
    Occupation: Lawyer, planter
    Political Party: Democratic-Republican
    Other Government Positions:
    Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1769-74
    Member of Continental Congress, 1775-76
    Governor of Virginia, 1779-81 Member of Continental Congress, 1783-85
    Minister to France, 1785-89
    Secretary of State, 1790-93 (under Washington)
    Vice President, 1797-1801 (under J. Adams)
    CF
    Thomas Jefferson, Son of Virginia
    http://www.history.org/other/journal/jeffart.htm
    by Dennis Montgomery

    JEFFERSON ON HIS CHILDHOOD & YOUTH

    "When I consider that at fourteen years of age the whole care and direction of myself was thrown on myself entirely, without a relative or a friend qualified to advise or guide me, and recollect the various sorts of bad company with which I associated from time to time, I am astonished that I did not turn off with some of them, and become as worthless to society as they were. From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horseracers, cardplayers, foxhunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, "Well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer--that of a horsejockey, a foxhunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?"

    He caroused with the boys, flirted with the girls, studied late into the night, and fixed his eye on Rebecca Burwell, a beautiful orphan whom moony 19 year old Tom petnamed Belinda. For months his adolescent letters--embarrassing now to read--were full of Belinda. His selfconscious infatuation soon embarrassed him, too. When he gathered up his courage to approach her, Tom made a fool of himself. He wrote "in the most melancholy fit that ever any poor soul was":

    "Last night, as merry as agreeable company and dancing with Belinda in the Apollo could make me, I never could have thought the succeeding sun would have seen me so wretched as I now am. I was prepared to say a great deal. I had dressed up in my own mind such thoughts as occurred to me, in as moving language as I know how, and expected to have performed in a tolerably creditable manner. But, good God! when I had an opportunity of venting them, a few broken sentences, uttered in great disorder, and interrupted with pauses of uncommon length, were the too visible marks of my strange confusion."

    PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
    Six feet two and a half inches tall, thin, square shouldered, strong, Jefferson was straight as a gun barrel. He neglected fashion in clothes and hair, never lost a tooth, but seldom smiled or showed any expression. Stiff with strangers and acutely sensitive to personal slights, he found nothing so goading as to be contradicted in company by his wife. Under stress he was prone to migraines that lasted weeks. He liked to toss off bits of his learning, but when he spoke in public his voice was hoarse and guttural. He ate little meat, and then as a condiment for his vegetables. Peas were his favorite. He did not drink strong wines or spirits, rose by dawn, and left his room by eight after bathing his feet in cold water.

    1781/82 Francois Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, who found Jefferson at his best. Chastellux wrote:

    Let me describe to you a man not yet forty, tall, and with a mild pleasing countenance, but whose mind and understanding are ample substitutes for every exterior grace. An American who without ever quitting his country, is at once a musician, skilled in drawing, a geometrician, an astronomer, a natural philosopher, legislator, and statesman . . . and it seems as if from his youth he had placed his mind, as he had done his house, on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe. . . . We may safely aver that Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.

    A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARENTAGE OF SALLY'S CHILDREN
    by Richard E. Dixon - Attorney at Law
    IX. Conclusion
    Under Virginia law, unless there is an admission of paternity by the father, a claim must be pursued under the statutory procedure. Evidence to establish paternity means oral testimony or documents that pass the legal test of admissibility. The case against Thomas Jefferson is devoid of admissible evidence.

    There is no direct evidence from any source during JeffersonÃss%sss lifeeeee that he was the fatttheeer of any of the children born to Sally Hemings between 1790 and 1808. Although Jefferson was present at Monticello during each of SallyÃss%s conceptions, there is no proof thattt shhhee waaasss att Monticello during these periods. There is also not a scintilla of proof of any cohabitation or physical intimacy between Jefferson and Hemings during the approximate thirty years she resided at Monticello.

    The two prominent documents written after Jefferson's death and relied on as paternity evidence are hearsay and inadmissible. These are the Parton letter, which raised for the first time the resemblance claim against Jefferson, and the Madison Hemings memoirs which created the treaty legend.

    The 1998 DNA test results identify a chromosomal link between Eston Hemings and the male Jefferson line. Thomas Jefferson is included among the twenty-five possible fathers, but he is eliminated because of the lack of admissible evidence.

    It is surprising that the sources and the nature of the information that make up the Tom and Sally myth has put the academic community into such a quandary. It is a tale which should return to its status as no more than a footnote to the Jefferson legacy.

    The Report may be downloaded from
    http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemings_report.html. Special attention should be given to the Minority Report. See also, Research Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, A Critical Analysis, by Eyler Robert Coates at
    http://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth
    Richard E. Dixon
    Attorney at Law
    4122 Leonard Drive
    Fairfax, Virginia 22030
    703-691-0770
    redixonlaw@aol.com
    April 2000

    Poplar Forest Commentary

    "Thomas Jefferson and his wife, Martha, inherited the plantation known as Poplar Forest from her father in 1773. Theworking tobacco farm of 4,812 acres eventually provided Jefferson with a significant portion of his cash income. The plantation also offered the perfect site for his most personal architectural achievement -- a unique octagonal house set withinan elaborately designed landscape. In this meticulously planned retreat he had the seclusion to pursue his passion forreading, writing, studying, and gardening." In the early years of his ownership of Poplar Forest, Jefferson was increasingly active in public service. He practiced law, was a member of the House of Burgesses, Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, and President of the United States for two terms. Even with these responsibilities, he began managing the plantation operations at Poplar Forest and moved slave labor there. In 1781, Jefferson eluded capture by the British by retreating to his Bedford County plantation. During this extended visit Jefferson compiled much of the material for his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia. Little is known about the dwelling used by Jefferson during these early visits.

    In 1806, Jefferson supervised the laying of the foundation for the octagonal house he had designed. After his second term as President ended in 1809, Jefferson made regular visits to his Bedford retreat. He usually took three to four trips per year and stayed from two weeks to two months. His visits often coincided with the seasonal responsibilities of the working plantation and he also oversaw the embellishment of the house, the planting of his vegetable garden and the adornment of the grounds. Family members, usually his grandchildren, joined Jefferson on many of his visits. At Poplar Forest he could escape the almost perpetual round of visitors at Monticello and enjoy what he called "the solitude of a hermit."

    Jefferson made his last trip to Poplar Forest in 1823 when he settled his grandson, Francis Eppes, on the property. Ill health prevented future visits to his retreat. In 1828, two years after Jefferson's death, Eppes sold Poplar Forest to a neighbor.
    http://www.poplarforest.org/history.html

    Famous Folks, Anc Thos. Jefferson http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Jefferson/i0000001.htm
    rhondam@magicnet.net

    Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
    Famous Folks http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html
    Biography.com http://www.biography.com/
    Apart from Jefferson's philosophical stance on slavery, there was the paradox inherent in his own life. Though he undoubtedly believed that slavery violated the principles of natural law he had included in the Declaration of Independence, he was a wealthy slave owner whose lifestyle depended upon the institution. Jefferson viewed himself and his slaves as victims of mankind's failure to rid itself of this terrible institution, and he contented himself with the idea that he would be a benevolent master to those he owned, until the "peculiar institution" met with its rightful end.

    In hindsight, Jefferson's stance on slavery is inescapably hypocritical. History's view of him has been complicated even more by the increasingly unavoidable conclusion that he was sexually involved with one of his house servants, Sally Hemings, and that he fathered at least one, if not several, of her children. Allegations that he was sexually involved with Hemings surfaced as early as 1802, when the disgruntled journalist James Callendar (allegedly the same man Jefferson had hired to libel Adams during the 1796 presidential election) published the accusation, which had been circling as gossip in Virginia for several years. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, contradictory evidence surfaced: Madison Hemings, born in 1805, claimed to be Jefferson's child; just a year later, an account was published claiming that Jefferson's nephew, Peter Carr, had confessed to Jefferson's daughter Martha that he had been the father of all or most of Sally's children. Jefferson's direct descendants, Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Ellen Randolph Coolidge, stood by the conclusion that either Peter or Samuel Carr (both Jefferson's nephews) had fathered Hemings' children.

    The question of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison remained a bone of contention among branches of the Jefferson, Randolph, and Hemings familiesÃssaassssss welllll as Jefferson scholars throughouuuut tthee nineteenth and twentieth centuries... In November 1998, dramatic new scientific evidence became available through the analysis of the DNA of male descendants of both Hemings and Jefferson. After comparing the Y-chromosome component of the DNA of a descendant of Jefferson's paternal uncle, Field Jefferson, with that of a descendant of another of Hemings' sons, Eston (born 1808), Dr. Eugene Foster of the University of Virginia found an exact match of certain portions of the DNA (the odds of a perfect match in a random sample are less than one in a thousand). In January 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation accepted the conclusion, supported by Foster's DNA evidence, that Jefferson and Hemings were sexual partners, and that they had between one and six children between 1790 and 1808.

    Thomas married Martha Wayles on 1 Jan 1772 in The Forest, Charles City County, Virginia, USA. Martha (daughter of John Wayles and Martha Eppes) was born on 30 Oct 1748 in Charles City County, VA; died on 6 Sep 1782 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Martha Wayles was born on 30 Oct 1748 in Charles City County, VA (daughter of John Wayles and Martha Eppes); died on 6 Sep 1782 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.

    Notes:

    MARTHA WAYLES
    Martha Wayles, d/o John Wayles
    REF: Rev. Philip Slaughter, "The True Thomas Jefferson", E.E. Curtis, 1908. Much of what Rev. Slaughter says, needs verification; the material on the Skipwiths is drawn primarily from his work. He was not a genealogist and
    concerned by accuracy, using rumor and gossip and some records.
    Martha m2. Nov 20 1766 Virginia Bathurst Skelton [d. Sep 30 1768] had 1 son, John Skelton [Nov 7 1767-Jun 10 1771]

    Michael Ragan, MWRagan@aol.com:
    Martha m. Jan 1 1771/72 Thomas Jefferson [Apr 2 1743, Shadwell VA-Jul 4 1826, Alemarle Co VA]

    SJG NOTE: Well, if it is the same MARTHA WAYLES in all 3 marriages, she had to have mar. THOMAS JEFFERSON last, 3rd and would be buried under WAYLES or JEFFERSON.

    Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:10:57 -0700
    From: Katherine Snow
    To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com
    Message-ID:
    Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] EPES/WAYLES/JEFFERSON

    On Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:34:48 -0700 Katherine Snow writes:
    who are descended from EPES/WAYLES/JEFFERSON might be interested in
    this lineage:

    Re: Martha (Patty) Wayles (Jefferson): her lineage was:

    Francis I Eppes of England, settled in VA @ Isle of Wight
    ... Francis Eppes II
    ...... Francis Eppes III
    ......... Francis Eppes IV m. Sarah Hamlin Hett
    ............ Child: Martha Eppes m. (1)Llewellin Eppes (2)John Wayles
    ............... Child of Martha & John Wayles:
    .................. Martha (Patty) Wayles born 19 Oct 1748 d. 6 Sep 1782
    .................. m. (1)Bathurst Skelton
    ..................... Child by Skelton: John born 7 Nov 1767
    .................. m. (2?)Thomas Jefferson 1 Jan 1772
    .................. OR DID SHE MARRY HENRY SKIPWITH 2ND, AND JEFFERSON 3RD??
    .................. Children by Thomas Jefferson:
    ..................... Martha (Patsy) Jefferson born 27 Sep 1772;
    ..................... Jane Randolph Jefferson born 3 Apr 1774;
    ..................... Son Jefferson born 28 May 1777;
    ..................... Mary (Maria (Polly) Jefferson born 1 Aug 1778;
    ..................... Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson born 30 Nov 1780 d.bfr May 1782
    ..................... Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson born 8 May 1782

    Lila of VA email: Genealogy98@juno.com

    Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
    1748-1782
    http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/mj3.html Biography:

    When Thomas Jefferson came courting, Martha Wayles Skelton at 22 was already a widow, an heiress, and a mother whose firstborn son would die in early childhood. Family tradition says that she was accomplished and beautiful--with slender figure, hazel eyes, and auburn hair--and wooed by many. Perhaps a mutual love of music cemented the romance; Jefferson played the violin, and one of the furnishings he ordered for the home he was building at Monticello was a "forte-piano" for his bride.

    They were married on New Year's Day, 1772, at the bride's plantation home "The Forest," near Williamsburg. When they finally reached Monticello in a late January snowstorm to find no fire, no food, and the servants asleep, they toasted their new home with a leftover half-bottle of wine and "song and merriment and laughter." That night, on their own mountaintop, the love of Thomas Jefferson and his bride seemed strong enough to endure any adversity.

    The birth of their daughter Martha in September increased their happiness. Within ten years the family gained five more children. Of them all, only two lived to grow up: Martha, called Patsy, and Mary, called Maria or Polly.

    The physical strain of frequent pregnancies weakened Martha Jefferson so gravely that her husband curtailed his political activities to stay near her. He served in Virginia's House of Delegates and as governor, but he refused an appointment by the Continental Congress as a commissioner to France. Just after New Year's Day, 1781, a British invasion forced Martha to flee the capital in Richmond with a baby girl a few weeks old--who died in April. In June the family barely escaped an enemy raid on Monticello. She bore another daughter the following May, and never regained a fair measure of strength. Jefferson wrote on May 20 that her condition was dangerous. After months of tending her devotedly, he noted in his account book for September 6, "My dear wife died this day at 11:45 A.M."

    Apparently he never brought himself to record their life together; in a memoir he referred to ten years "in unchequered happiness." Half a century later his daughter Martha remembered his sorrow: "the violence of his emotion...to this day I not describe to myself." For three weeks he had shut himself in his room, pacing back and forth until exhausted. Slowly that first anguish spent itself. In November he agreed to serve as commissioner to France, eventually taking "Patsy" with him in 1784 and send for "Polly" later.

    Famous Folks http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html
    Biography.com http://www.biography.com/
    Jefferson, Martha (b. Wayles Skelton) 1748 -- 1782
    http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=16222
    Wife of Thomas Jefferson; born near Richmond, Virginia Daughter of a well-known lawyer, she was a young widow when she married Thomas Jefferson in 1772 and settled at Monticello. Her premature death left Jefferson devastated; it was said he promised her he would never marry again, and he did not. Two of their children, Martha and Mary, survived to maturity and assisted their father as hostesses in the White House.

    Children:
    1. Jefferson was born on 28 May 1777.
    2. Jefferson was born on 3 Nov 1780.
    3. Mary Jefferson was born on 1 Aug 1778.
    4. Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson was born on 8 May 1782.
    5. 3. Martha Jefferson was born on 27 Sep 1772; died on 10 Oct 1836.
    6. Jane Randolph Jefferson was born on 3 Apr 1774.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William Randolph was born in 1713 (son of Thomas Randolph and Judith Fleming); died in 1745.

    William married Maria Judith Page. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Maria Judith Page (daughter of Mann Page and Judith Wormeley).
    Children:
    1. 4. Thomas Mann Randolph was born in 1741; died on 20 Nov 1794.
    2. Judith Randolph
    3. Mary Randolph

  3. 10.  Archibald Cary was born on 24 Jan 1720/21 (son of Jr. Henry Cary and Anne Edwards); died in Sep 1786.

    Notes:

    Cary-Estes Genealogy

    Page 53

    Archibald Cary of "Ampthill," in the County of Chesterfield, has a will recorded in Will Book 4, page 420, Chesterfield County.

    It is dated Feb. 12, 1787, and has two or more codicils dated Feb. 19 and 21, 1787. An inventory and appraisement of his estate was filed April 17, 1787.

    ARCHIBALD8 CARY (Henry7, Henry6, Miles5, John4, William3, Richard2, William1), b. 1721, d. 1787; of "Ampthill" in Chesterfield County. He was a brother of Judith Cary (who married David Bell through whom we trace our lineage). Archibald Cary, collateral to our line, was a most prominent citizen

    Page 54

    of his day, and his marriage to Mary Randolph, a descendant of Pocahontas, may be interesting to many readers. We give a brief history of him. The complete history is recorded in "The Virginia Carys," pages 91-95, and in "Archibald Cary of 'Ampthill,' Wheelhorse of the Revolution," by Robert K. Brock (8 vo. Richmond, Va. 1937; a biography).

    "Born in Williamsburg, he was probably named for his father's friend and physician, Dr. Archibald Blair, though not of kin. He was educated at William and Mary College. When he came of age in 1742 his father vested him with the property known as Buckingham, 4, 132 acres of land on Willis Creek, then in Goochland (Deed Book, IV, 95, and Hening, VII, 440), and there he entered public life. He was Justice of Peace 1747 and sat as a Burgess for Goochland 1748-49. On the organization of Cumberland County in 1749 to include his lands, he was in the first Commission of the Peace and a vestryman of St. James, Southam parish. Later, in 1750, he became of Ampthill on his father's death and removed to Chesterfield. He extended his father's manufacturing interests, maintained the flouring mills at Warwick, established a ropery, developed the deposits of limonite iron ore on his lands in Buckingham, and set up a furnace and foundry at Falling Creek, where in 1622 the first such venture had been made in the colony. (Brock, Va. His. Soc. Collections, VII, 51, says that in 1876 he identified the sites of both furnaces, that of 1622 as well as that of 1760, by remnants of slag in the soil.)

    In local community affairs he was progressive; as Justice of Peace (long Presiding Magistrate and County Lieutenant) he advocated the construction of roads and bridges; privately he imported pure-bred cattle, which found their way into the valley of Virginia and in time into Kentucky, carrying with them the name 'Cary's stock' (W. M. Quar., XXVI, 167). An uncompromising member of the Established Church, as a magistrate he prosecuted the Baptists ('Va. Mag., ' XI, 416); and after disestablishment was with his kinsmen, Colonel Wilson-Miles Cary and Judge Richard Cary, a delegate to the convention of 1785 which organized the incorporated Episcopal Church of Virginia. In 1756 he succeeded to the seat in the Assembly for Chesterfield, and at once took active part in the organization of the colony against the French invasion then expected. Thenceforth, until his death, he represented Chesterfield continuously.

    Page 55

    By 1762 he had taken the place in the Assembly of his great-uncle, Miles Cary, being Chairman of the Committee of Public Claims, a post he held during the remainder of the colonial period. In 1764 he was one of the committee of nine which prepared the memorials to the King and Lords and Commons against Grenville's determination to impose stamp taxes, but, in 1765 he voted with the conservatives against Patrick Henry's fiery resolutions.

    He took a leading role in the Revolution of Virginia; he signed the
    Associations of 1769, 1770 and 1774; in 1773 he became a member of the Committee of Correspondence and was in all the Conventions of 1775. In the Convention of 1776 he was Chairman of the Committees, so that 'it was from his lips that the words of the resolution of independence, of the declaration of rights, and of the first constitution of Virginia first fell upon the public ear.' At home he was Chairman also of the county Committee of Safety for Chesterfield ('W. & M. Quar.,' V, 102). On the organization of the State government he became Speaker of the Senate and died holding that office. He had subscribed liberally to the Revolution in money as well as in influence. Thus in January 1781 he calls the Governor's attention ('Col. Va. State Papers,' I, 4, 710) to the fact that there is due him by government lbs. 40,000 on one account and lbs. 18,000 'for my propositions towards raising the 3,000 men.' While these figures were in Virginia depreciated currency, not sterling, they represented large values. In this situation, on April 30 of the year, his mills at 'Warwick' and 'Falling Creek' were destroyed by Benedict Arnold. (See Arnold's report of May 12, 1781, to Sir Henry Clinton, in 'Tarleton Campaigns in North America, 1781, ' 337.) Although a large landholder (according to the land and tax books, he died seized of 2, 180 acres in Chesterfield, with 36 slaves; 4, 992 acres in Cumberland with 189 slaves and 7,000 acres in Buckingham with 41 slaves), yet, as a consequence of his sacrifices, he found himself in straitened circumstances at the end of his life.

    By tradition he is called 'Old Iron,' but whether with reference to his furnace or his character does not appear. He had indeed developed a peremptory disposition, as witness his celebrated message to Patrick Henry in 1776 [Wirt, 'Life of Patrick Henry (1836),' 223], and the subsequent description of him as the 'Old Bruiser' [Rowland, 'George Mason,' I, 334; Greene, 'Nathaniel Greene (1871),'

    Page 56

    III, 506]; but, on the other hand, General Washington, though eleven
    years his junior, maintained an affectionate relation with him, calling him 'Archy' (Ford, 'Writings of Washington,' II, 428). His courtesy and genial hospitality were a part of him.

    His reputation being confined to Virginia, the immediate memorial of his fame was his name, given to a street in Richmond. No stone marks his grave; indeed, the place of burial is not known. Tradition has it that he was buried in the cellar of 'Ampthill' House, where his 'hant' is still seen by the negroes. (See the eloquent appreciation in 'Grigsby's Virginia Convention of 1776,' 90, and a brief notice in 'Appleton's Cyclo. Am. Biog.,' I, 548.) His correspondence and personal papers were destroyed, so that material is lacking for a 'Life.' There is in existence a pleasant portrait of him by the elder Peale (pages 91-92, 'Va. Carys'). Married 1744, Mary Randolph, b. 1727; d. 1781, dau. of Col. Richard Randolph of 'Curles.'"

    Children:
    1 Anne9, b. 1745; d. 1789; md. Col. Thomas Mann Randolph,
    b. 1741; d. 1794, "Tuckahoe."
    2 Mary9, b. 1747; d. infant.
    3 Jane9, b. 1751; d. 1774; md. 1767 to Thomas Isham Randolph of "Ben Lomond" in Goochland, son of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness."

    (From this marriage descended the Harrisons of "Clifton" and the Hutchinsons of St. Louis, MO. It was the older sister of this Thomas Isham Randolph who was the mother of Thomas Jefferson. (See "W. & M. Quar.," VIII, 122, 263.)

    4 Sarah9, 1753-1773; md. Archibald Bolling of Goochland, a younger son of the second John Bolling of Cobbs, and a grandson of Archibald Blair. Sally Cary was the first of his four wives. (See the notice of him in Robertson's "Pocahontas and Her Descendants".)
    5 ELIZA9, d. (???). Infans.
    6 Henry9, b. 1757; d. 1758.
    7 Mary9, b. 1766-1797; md. 1782 to Major Carter Page of "The Fork," Cumberland County. (For the descendants of this marriage and Dr. Mann Pages's correspondence about the "Cary fortune" see "Page Genealogy of the Page Family, 1893," pages 108 and 120. Most of the "Ampthill" heirlooms passed to the Pages.)

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    8 Elizabeth9, 1770(?); md. 1787 to Robert Kincaid of Manchester. (This Elizabeth, or Betsy, was not entered in the Ampthill Bible. After her mother's death and the marriage of her next older sister she assumed, though still a child, the management of her father's household and thereby won his warm affection, as appears by his will. The codicils disclose, however, that her father strongly disapproved of her intended marriage to Robert Kincaid and sought to prevent it. A notice in the "Virginia Gazette" shows that the marriage took place a few weeks after Colonel Archibald Cary's death. There were Kincaid and Irving descendants.)
    Sources: (1) The "Ampthill" family Bible; (2) The Will of Archibald Cary, 1787.

    NOTE: At the death of Colonel Archibald Cary of Ampthill, the male line of the second son of the immigrant became extinct, but the descendants of the marriage of his granddaughter, Virginia Randolph, dau. of Thomas Mann Randolph of Tuckahoe, with Wilson Jefferson Cary of Carysbrook, carries on the blood of this line in the Cary name (pages 91, 95 "The Va. Carys)."

    Birth:
    Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., VA

    Archibald married Mary Isham Randolph on 31 May 1744. Mary (daughter of Richard Randolph and Jane Bolling) was born on 21 Nov 1727 in Curles, Henrico County, VA; died in 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Mary Isham Randolph was born on 21 Nov 1727 in Curles, Henrico County, VA (daughter of Richard Randolph and Jane Bolling); died in 1781.
    Children:
    1. Sarah Cary was born on 23 Feb 1753; died in 1773.
    2. Jane Cary was born on 12 Feb 1751; died in 1774.
    3. 5. Anne Cary was born on 7 Feb 1744/45; died in 1789.

  5. 12.  Peter Jefferson was born on 29 Feb 1707/08 in Osborne's, Chesterfield County, VA (son of Jr. Thomas Jefferson and Mary Field); died on 17 Aug 1757 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.

    Notes:

    History of Albemarle County, Virginia

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    Peter Jefferson, the father of the President, was a native of
    Chesterfield, and removed to the present limits of Albemarle in 1737. He
    entered the wilderness literally, as when he first came there were but
    three or four persons living in the neighborhood. His first entry was
    that of a thousand

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    acres on the south side of the Rivanna, between Monticello Mountain and
    the Henderson land above Milton. Wishing a more eligible site for his
    house, he bought from his friend William Randolph, of Tuckahoe, the
    Shadwell tract of four hundred acres, where his distinguished son was
    born. He had been a magistrate and Sheriff in Goochland, and when
    Albemarle was formed, was one of its original magistrates, and its
    Lieutenant Colonel. He also represented the county in the House of
    Burgesses. He was employed with Colonel Joshua Fry to run the boundary
    line between Virginia and North Carolina, and to make the first map of
    Virginia ever drafted. When William Randolph died in 1747, leaving a son
    of tender age, he committed him to Mr. Jefferson's care, and more
    efficiently to discharge this trust Mr. Jefferson removed to Tuckahoe,
    where he resided seven years. This circumstance explains the difficulty
    in Mr. Waddell's mind, when in his Annals of Augusta County, he wondered
    how Thomas Lewis and his friends, who had gone to Mr. Jefferson's to make
    a map of the survey of the Northern Neck line, could ride from his house
    to Richmond to hear preaching on Sunday. He returned to Albemarle in
    1755, and died in 1757. His wife was Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph, of
    Dungeness, and his children Jane, who died unmarried, Thomas, Randolph,
    Mary, the wife of Thomas Bolling, Martha, the wife of Dabney Carr, Lucy,
    the wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and Ann, the wife of Hastings Marks.

    Thomas was born in 1743, married in 1771 Martha, daughter of John Wayles,
    of Charles City, and widow of Bathurst Skelton, and died July 4, 1826. He
    had two daughters, Martha, the wife of Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, and
    Mary, the wife of John W. Eppes. He was one of the largest landholders in
    the county, being assessed in 1820 with four thousand eight hundred and
    ninety-nine acres. Soon after attaining his majority, he was appointed a
    magistrate of the county, and at the first session of the County Court
    after his decease, the following memorial was entered upon its records:

    "As a testimonial of respect for the memory of Thomas Jefferson, who
    devoted a long life to the service of his country,

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    the principles of liberty, and the happiness of mankind; who aided
    conspicuously in the cause of the American Revolution; who drafted the
    Declaration of the principles, on which the Independence of these States
    was declared; who uniformly exerted his great talents to aid both the
    civil and religious liberties of his countrymen, and by whose practical
    administration of the principles he had promulgated in many stations,
    legislative, diplomatic and executive, in which he had acted as a public
    functionary, the equal rights of his countrymen were promoted, and
    secured at home and abroad; who, uniting to a native benevolence a
    cultivated philanthropy, was peculiarly endeared to his countrymen and
    neighbors, who were witnesses of his virtue:

    Resolved therefore that this testimonial be recorded as a perpetual
    memorial of respect and affection of his countrymen, and of the Court of
    Albemarle, of which he was once a member; and

    Resolved that this Court and its officers, as a testimony of public
    respect, will wear crape on the left arm for thirty days, and will now
    adjourn."

    Randolph Jefferson in 1781 married Ann, daughter of Charles Lewis Jr., of
    Buck Island. He had his residence in Fluvanna County. He had two sons,
    Thomas and Isham R. Thomas was twice married, first to his cousin Mary
    R., daughter of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and secondly in 1858 to Mrs.
    Elizabeth Barker, daughter of Henry Siegfried. His children were Peter
    Field and Robert L. Peter Field lived in Scottsville, and by his
    shrewdness and frugality amassed a large fortune. He died in 1861,
    leaving a son bearing his own name, and a daughter, the wife of Peter
    Foland. Peter Field Jr., died in 1867. Robert L. married Elizabeth,
    daughter of Robert Moorman, lived near Porter's Precinct, and died in
    1858. His children were Eldridge, who lived in the same section of the
    county till after the war, and Mary, the wife of Albert W. Gantt.

    A story is told of Randolph, that one day he came to his brother to
    unburden his mind of a weighty idea that had struck him, and announced
    himself thus: "Tom, I'll tell you

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    how to keep the squirrels from pillaging the corn. You see they always
    get on the outside row. Well then, don't plant any outside row"--which,
    if true, well illustrates a reflection of Miss Sarah Randolph, "It is
    curious to remark the unequal distribution of talent in this family, each
    gifted member seeming to have been made so at the expense of one of the
    others."

    A Thomas Jefferson, who in the first days of the county was one of its
    deputy Surveyors, was no doubt a brother of Peter, the President's
    father.

    Ref: from Issue #3 of The Fields Cousins Online Justice of Goochland Co Court 1735; High Sheriff 1737-39; JP Albemarle Co 1744 Lt. Col. 1745, Col. & County Lieut. 1754, and Burgess 1755 M. Ragan According to The Collected Papers of the Monticello Association I have that Jane Rogers married Isham Randolph on July 25, 1717 dau Jane Rogers and Isham Randolph: Jane Randolph was born 2/9,1720 in Shadwell Parish, England. On October 3,1739 Jane Randolph married Peter Jefferson born ( according to entry in his Prayer-Book made by his son, Thomas) on 2/29/1707 or 08 and Peter died 8/17/1757. Peter and Jane Randolph had ten children: Jane 1740-1765 died single; Mary 1741-? married (Col.) John Bolling in 1760; Thomas 1743-1826 married Martha Wayles Skelton in 1772; Elizabeth 1744-1774 died single; Martha 1746-1811 married Dabney Carr in 1765; Peter Field Oct 16-Nov. 29,1748; A male 3/9/1750-3/9/1750; Lucy 1752-? married Charles Lewis in 1769; Anna Scott 1755-1828 married Hastings Marks in 1788; and twin to Anna, Randolph 1755-1815 married Anna Lewis in 1781.

    Susan L. Burgess suelburg@aol.com http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin JEFFERSON-L, 2000 S.L. Burgess

    GENEALOGY OF WOODROW WILSON http://www.usgenealogy.com/wilson/index.htm *Peter JEFFERSON was born on 29 Feb 1708 in Albemarle County Virginia He died on 17 Aug 1757. Parents: Thomas JEFFERSON II and Mary FIELD. He was married to Jane RANDOLPH in 1739 in Goochland County VA (later Albenarle Co.). Children were: Mary JEFFERSON.

    Famous Folks, Anc Thos. Jefferson http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Jefferson/i0000001.htm rhondam@magicnet.net

    Peter2 Jefferson (Thomas3, Thomas4) was born in Osborne's, Chesterfield, VA 29 Feb 1707/8. Peter died 17 Aug 1757 in Shadwell Estate, Goochland, VA, at 49 years of age. He married in Goochland County VA, 3 Oct 1739 Jane2 Randolph (Isham3, William4, Richard5) was born bef 20 Feb 1720, baptized in Shadwell, London, Eng, 20 Feb 1720. Religion: religion unknown Jane died 31 Mar 1776 in Monticello, Albemarle, VA Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph had the following child: 1 Thomas1 Jefferson was born 2 Apr 1742/3.

    Peter married Jane Randolph on 30 Oct 1739 in Dungeness, Goochland County, VA. Jane (daughter of Isham Randolph and Jane Rogers) was born on 5 Feb 1719/20 in Shadwell, London, England; was christened on 20 Feb 1719/20 in St Paul's Church, Shakespeare's Walk, London, England; died on 31 Mar 1776 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Jane Randolph was born on 5 Feb 1719/20 in Shadwell, London, England; was christened on 20 Feb 1719/20 in St Paul's Church, Shakespeare's Walk, London, England (daughter of Isham Randolph and Jane Rogers); died on 31 Mar 1776 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.

    Notes:

    GENEALOGY OF WOODROW WILSON http://www.usgenealogy.com/wilson/ *Jane RANDOLPH was born in 1720 in London, England. She died on 31 Mar 1776. Parents: Isham RANDOLPH. She was married to Peter JEFFERSON in 1739 in Goochland County VA (later Albenarle Co.). Children were: Mary JEFFERSON.

    According to The Collected Papers of the Monticello Association I have that Jane Rogers married Isham Randolph on July 25, 1717 and dau Jane Rogers and Isham Randolph: Jane Randolph was born 2/9,1720 in Shadwell Parish, England. On October 3,1739 Jane Randolph married Peter Jefferson born ( according to entry in his Prayer-Book made by his son, Thomas) on 2/29/1707 or 08 and Peter died 8/17/1757. S.L. Burgess

    Children:
    1. Martha Jefferson was born on 29 May 1746 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 3 Sep 1811 in Charlottesville, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.
    2. 6. President Thomas Jefferson was born on 2 Apr 1743 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Jul 1826 in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.
    3. Jefferson was born on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA.
    4. Peter Field Jefferson was born on 16 Oct 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 29 Nov 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.
    5. Randolph Jefferson was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 15 Aug 1815 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.
    6. Elizabeth Jefferson was born on 4 Nov 1744 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 24 Feb 1774 in Monticello, Albemarle, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle, VA.
    7. Anna Scott Jefferson was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1805.
    8. Jane Jefferson was born on 27 Jun 1740 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 1 Oct 1765 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.
    9. Mary Jefferson was born on 1 Oct 1741 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1817 in Virginia, USA.
    10. Lucy Jefferson was born on 10 Oct 1752 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1784.

  7. 14.  John Wayles

    John married Martha Eppes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Martha Eppes
    Children:
    1. 7. Martha Wayles was born on 30 Oct 1748 in Charles City County, VA; died on 6 Sep 1782 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.