Elizabeth

Randolph built a mansion on the Turkey Island plantation on high ground overlooking the island and the river. It featured a Martha

ribbed dome and was known as the “Bird’s Cage”.

Peter (died in infancy; 1748)

William Randolph had at least nine children and was familially connected to many other prominent individuals:

Peter (died in infancy; 1750)

• (born November 1681) married Elizabeth Beverley (the daughter of , a and Treasurer of Virginia) around 1705 and had Anna

five children who lived to adulthood. He was the grandfather of , the . and .

• (born ~June 1683) married Judith Churchill and/or Judith Fleming between 1705 and 1712. He was the great-grandfather Jane Randolph Jefferson, née Jane Randolph (February 9, 1721– March 31, 1776) was the wife of and the mother of

of , as well as the great-great-grandfather of Ann Cary (Nancy) Randolph, who married , and her brother , who married president . Born February 9, 1721 in Parish, Tower Hamlets, London, she was the daughter of and Jane Rogers, and a Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, .

cousin of .

• (born December 1684) married Jane Rogers in 1717 and had nine children, including (who married and was the

Randolph was born in one of the , , a poor maritime neighborhood of . It is most likely that she emigrated to Virginia as a child mother of ), Mary Randolph (who was the mother of and grandmother of ), Ann Randolph (who was the mother of , the with her family and that her education was received entirely at home. Little is known of her, for Jefferson rarely mentioned his 22nd Governor of Virginia), and Susannah Randolph (who married and was the great-grandmother of and great-great-mother in his extensive writings. According to the 20th-century biographer , she represented “zero quantity” in her son Thomas’s grandmother of ) – both five-time .

life, although more recent scholarship questions Peterson’s conclusions.

• (born ~May 1686) married Jane Bolling, a descendant of , around 1714. He was the grandfather of the colorful

Randolph married Peter Jefferson in Virginia in 1739. Together, they had the following children:

Congressman .

• Jane Jefferson (1740–1765) - close to her brother Thomas, she died unmarried at age 25.

• (born ~October 1687) did not marry.

• Mary Jefferson Bolling (1741–1811) - her husband John Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

• (born ~April 1689) married Susanna Beverley around 1718. He studied at the Inns of Court, practiced law in Williamsburg.

• (1743–1826), third President of the United States

John was the only native of Colonial America to receive a knighthood. He was the father of , President of the First

• Elizabeth Jefferson (1744–1774) - mentally handicapped

Continental Congress, and , a Loyalist. The latter’s son, , served as a Virginia delegate to the and became the first U.S.

• Martha Jefferson Carr (1746–1811) - her husband , Thomas Jefferson’s best friend, helped launch the intercolonial in Attorney General.

Virginia in March 1773, the first step to coordinated colonial action against Great Britain.

• (born ~October 1690) married Miss (Elizabeth?) Grosvenor around 1715.

• Peter Field Jefferson (1748)

• Peter Thomas(1750)

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