Colonel Isham Randolph

Isham Randolph (February 24, 1687 – November 2, 1742) was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster.[1] He was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson.

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“Portrait of Isham Randolph” (VMHC 1970.26) c. 1724 Unidentified artist Oil on canvas Gift of Lucius Ashton Harrison, 1970.26. Virginia Museum of History & Culture < link >

As a young man, Isham Randolph (1685–1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent.

The impression generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London."

Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was their son.

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Isham Randolph

In 1710 he took command of the merchant ship Henrietta. He quit the sea in 1720 & became a London merchant-returning to Virginia in 1725. He was a Burgess for Goochland Co. & in 1738 he was appointed Adjutant-General & also an agent for the Virginia Colony. He removed to "Dungeness" in Goochland Co.

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As a young man, Isham Randolph (1685–1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent.

The impression generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London."

Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was their son.

Isham Randolph

In 1710 he took command of the merchant ship Henrietta. He quit the sea in 1720 & became a London merchant-returning to Virginia in 1725. He was a Burgess for Goochland Co. & in 1738 he was appointed Adjutant-General & also an agent for the Virginia Colony. He removed to "Dungeness" in Goochland Co.

Isham Randolph (December 1684[1] – November 1742[2] ), sometimes referred to as Isham Randolph of Dungeness[3], was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson. Randolph was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster.[4]

The third son of William Randolph and Mary Isham[5], he was born on the Turkey Island plantation in Henrico County, Virginia.[6] In 1717, Randolph married Jane Lilburne Susan Rogers in London[2] at St. Paul's Church in the Shadwell parish (today east London). Isham and Jane Randolph moved to Virginia.

Contents [hide] 1 Descendants 2 Ancestry 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] DescendantsIsham Randolph had nine children[nb 1] and was familially connected to many other prominent individuals:

Jane Randolph (born ~1720)[2] married Peter Jefferson and had nine children, including Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.[7] Mary Randolph (born ~1723)[2] married Colonel Charles Lewis of Buck Island and had eight children, including Charles Lilburn Lewis, one of the founders of Milton, Virginia.[3][8] Isham Randolph (born ~1725)[2] William Randolph (born ~1727)[2] Thomas Randolph (born ~1728)[2] married Jane Cary, the daughter of Archibald Cary, in 1768.[2] Elizabeth Randolph (born ~1730)[2] Dorothea Randolph (born ~1732)[2] Ann Randolph (born ~1735)[2] had four children in three marriages.[7] She was the mother of James Pleasants, Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia, via her last marriage to James Pleasants, Sr.[7] Susannah Randolph (born September 25, 1738)[2] married Carter Henry Harrison I (the brother of Benjamin Harrison V, the son of Benjamin Harrison IV, and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison III and Robert "King" Carter) and had six children.[7][9] She was the great-grandmother of Carter Henry Harrison III, a five-time mayor of Chicago.[7][9]

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As a young man, Isham Randolph (1685–1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent.

The impression generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London."

Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was their son.

Isham Randolph (December 1684[1] – November 1742[2] ), sometimes referred to as Isham Randolph of Dungeness, was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson. Randolph was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster.

The third son of William Randolph and Mary Isham, he was born on the Turkey Island plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. In 1717, Randolph married Jane Lilburne Susan Rogers in London at St. Paul's Church in the Shadwell parish (today east London). Isham and Jane Randolph moved to Virginia.

Isham Randolph had nine children and was connected to many other prominent individuals:

Jane Randolph (born ~1720) married Peter Jefferson and had nine children, including Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.

Mary Randolph (born ~1723) married Colonel Charles Lewis of Buck Island and had eight children, including Charles Lilburn Lewis, one of the founders of Milton, Virginia.

Isham Randolph (born ~1725)

William Randolph (born ~1727)

Thomas Randolph (born ~1728) married Jane Cary, the daughter of Archibald Cary, in 1768.

Elizabeth Randolph (born ~1730)

Dorothea Randolph (born ~1732)

Ann Randolph (born ~1735) had four children in three marriages. She was the mother of James Pleasants, Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia, via her last marriage to James Pleasants, Sr.

Susannah Randolph (born September 25, 1738) married Carter Henry Harrison I (the brother of Benjamin Harrison V, the son of Benjamin Harrison IV, and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison III and Robert "King" Carter) and had six children. She was the great-grandmother of Carter Henry Harrison III, a five-time mayor of Chicago.

As a young man, Isham Randolph (1685–1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent.

The impression generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London."

Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was their son.

In 1710 he took command of the merchant ship Henrietta. He quit the sea in 1720 & became a London merchant-returning to Virginia in 1725. He was a Burgess for Goochland Co. & in 1738 he was appointed Adjutant-General & also an agent for the Virginia Colony. He removed to "Dungeness" in Goochland Co.

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The third son, lsham Randolph, born 24 February 1687; died 2 November, 1742, resided in London in early life, where he married in 1717. On his return to Virginia he built himself a grand mansion at Dungeness, where a baronial hospitality was dispensed. He was a member of the house of burgesses for Goochland (now Albemarle) county in 1740, and adjutant-general of the colony. He was a man of scientific culture, and is honorably mentioned in the memoirs of Bartram the naturalist.--

Isham Randolph, c. 1724 Unidentified artist Oil on canvas Gift of Lucius Ashton Harrison, 1970.26 As a young man, Isham Randolph (1685–1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent. The impression generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London." Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was their son.

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Isham Randolph of Dungeness

Isham Randolph Born December 1684 Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia Died November 1742 (aged 57) Spouse(s) Jane Lilburne Susan Rogers (m. 1717; his death 1742) Children 9, including Jane Parent(s) William Randolph Mary Isham Relatives Thomas Jefferson (grandson) Charles Lilburn Lewis (grandson) James Pleasants (grandson)

Isham Randolph (December 1684[1] – November 1742),[2] sometimes referred to as Isham Randolph of Dungeness,[3] was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson. Randolph was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster.[4] Contents

   1 Early life and career

   2 Personal life

   3 Ancestry

   4 See also

   5 Notes

   6 References

Early life and career

Randolph was born on the Turkey Island plantation in Henrico County, Virginia in December 1684.[5] He was the third son of William Randolph (1650–1711) and Mary Isham (ca. 1659–1735).[6] His father was a colonist, landowner, planter, and merchant who served as the 26th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Following his father, he was a prominent planter, merchant, public official, and also was a shipmaster.[4] Personal life

In 1717, Randolph married Jane Lilburne Susan Rogers in London[2] at St. Paul's Church in the Shadwell parish (today east London). Isham and Jane Randolph moved to Virginia. Together, they had nine children[nb 1] and was familially connected to many other prominent individuals:

   Jane Randolph (born ~1720),[2] who married Peter Jefferson and had nine children, including Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.[7]

   Mary Randolph (born ~1723),[2] who married Colonel Charles Lewis of Buck Island and had eight children, including Charles Lilburn Lewis, one of the founders of Milton, Virginia.[3][8]

   Isham Randolph (born ~1725)[2]

   William Randolph (born ~1727)[2]

   Thomas Randolph (born ~1728),[2] who married Jane Cary, the daughter of Archibald Cary, in 1768.[2]

   Elizabeth Randolph (born ~1730)[2]

   Dorothea Randolph (born ~1732)[2]

   Ann Randolph (born ~1735),[2] who had four children in three marriages.[7] She was the mother of James Pleasants Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia, via her last marriage to James Pleasants Sr.[7]

   Susannah Randolph (born September 25, 1738),[2] who married Carter Henry Harrison I (the brother of Benjamin Harrison V, the son of Benjamin Harrison IV, and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison III and Robert "King" Carter) and had six children.[7][9] She was the great-grandmother of Carter Henry Harrison III, a five-time mayor of Chicago.[7][9]

Randolph died in November 1742.[2] Ancestry Ancestors of Isham Randolph of Dungeness See also

   Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson

Notes

   Robert Isham Randolph, whose grandfather's grandfather was Thomas Randolph, wrote that various sources erroneously treat sons Thomas and Isham as one child named "Thomas Isham". He also noted that some sources list birthdates for the children well after Isham Randolph of Dungeness had died in 1742.[2]

References

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. p. 456. Randolph, Robert Isham (October 1937). "The Sons of Isham Randolph of Dungeness". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society. 45 (4): 383–386. JSTOR 4244820. McAllister, John Meriwether; Tandy, Lura Boulton, eds. (1906). "Charles Lewis". Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families. Columbia, Missouri: E.W. Stephens Publishing Co. p. 101. Custis, John (2005). Zuppan, Josephine Little, ed. The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717-1742. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. p. 47. ISBN 9780945612803. Glenn, p. 450. Glenn, p. 458. 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. 263–264. Sorley, Merrow Egerton (2000) [1935]. "Chapter 13: Col Charles Lewis of Buck Island". Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. ISBN 9780806308319.

   Abbot, Willis John (1895). "The Harrison Family". Carter Henry Harrison: A Memoir. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. pp. 1–23.

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   Peter Jefferson (father) Jane Randolph Jefferson (mother) Lucy Jefferson Lewis (sister) Randolph Jefferson (brother) Isham Randolph (grandfather) William Randolph (great-grandfather) Martha Jefferson (wife) Martha Jefferson Randolph (daughter) Mary Jefferson Eppes (daughter) Harriet Hemings (daughter) Madison Hemings (son) Eston Hemings (son) Thomas J. Randolph (grandson) Francis Eppes (grandson) George W. Randolph (grandson) John Wayles Jefferson (grandson) Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (son-in-law) John Wayles Eppes (son-in-law) John Wayles (father-in-law) Dabney Carr (brother-in-law) Dabney Carr (nephew)

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Isham Randolph, sometimes referred to as Isham Randolph of Dungeness, was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson.

Randolph was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster. Isham Randolph Wikipedia

Born: December 1684, Henrico County, Virginia, United States

Died: November 1742, Goochland County, Virginia, United States

Parents: William Randolph

Children: Jane Randolph Jefferson, *Susannah Randolph (*Direct ancestor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Great grandchildren: Martha Jefferson Randolph, Eston Hemings

Grandchildren: Thomas Jefferson, Randolph Jefferson

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Grandfather of Thomas Jefferson 3rd US President THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM THE VIRGINIA HIST. SOC. WEB PAGE: " As a young man, Isham Randolph (1686-1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent. The impression (protrait at Virg. Hist. Soc. web site) generated by this image is a sense of the sitter's sophistication, proper rearing, and confidence. This portrait and Randolph's biography give credence to the statements of 1724 by historian Hugh Jones that at least some prominent Virginians by then had markedly "improved in wealth and polite living" and "live[d] in the same neat manner, dress[ed] after the same modes, and behave[d] themselves as the gentry in London... Randolph's daughter Jane would marry Peter Jefferson; [President] Thomas Jefferson was their son." THE LILBURNE FAMILY The following is taken from "Genealogies of Virginia Families", as found in "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography", in an article entitled "Lilburne-Randolph-Jefferson", pp. 53-61.[1] The will of Isham Randolph of "Dungeness", Goochland County, Virginia, dated 6 April 1741 contains a reference to a leasehold interest in some property which came to his wife, Jane, through the estate of William Lilburn, Esq., deceased of Durham, together with a sum of money as a legacy from Elizabeth Lilburn both payable when the estate "Kenton" is sold. Evidently Jane Rogers was the daughter of Charles Rogers and his wife, Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Nicholson) Lilburn(e). The famous radical "Freeman" John Lilburn was a native of Durham, and it was remarked when Isham's will was first published, that it would be an interesting fact in heredity if a kinship between John Lilburne and Thomas Jefferson (grandson of Isham and Jane Randolph) existed. John was born about 1614 at Greenwich and was apprenticed to a London merchant between 1630-36. In 1638 he was find £500, placed in stocks, whipped, and imprisoned until made to confess. The charge was contumacy (contempt of orders or authority) to the Star Chamber. The provocation had been that he had circulated Puritan books. When the English Civil War broke out he entered the Parliamentary Army as a caption, fought at Edgehill, was captured at Brentford, exchanged in 1643, became major and then lieutenant colonel, but retired in April 1645 because he would not take the Covenant. He opposed alike the claims of Parliament and Cromwell to supreme power and suffered a long imprisonment for attacking what he regarded as an unjust decision against his uncle George Lilburne in a case involving coal lands. He died a prisoner at Eltham on 29 August 1657. The "Dictionary of National Biography" says: "Lilburne's political importance is easy to explain. In a revolution where others argued about the respective rights of king and parliament, he spoke always for the rights of the people. His dauntless courage and his powers of speech made him the idol of the mob. With Coke's Institutes in his hand he was ready to tackle any tribunal. He was ready to assail any abuse at any cost to himself". There was a John Lilburne of Thickley Punchardon, County Durham, who married Isabelle Wortley and they had at least two sons: i. Richard, of Thickley Punchardon, m Margaret, daughter of Thomas Hixon, yeoman of Wardrobe to Queen Elizabeth; d 1657; had 3 sons: Robert, John (became known as "Freeman" John), and Henry * ii. GEORGE LILBURN, of Sunderland-by-the-Sea; (source says b 1585; but seems questionable); m Jane Chamber of Cleydon, Durham; had: 11 children, two sons were: i. John, m Isabelle Quiney, niece of Thomas Quiney [whom Judith, d/o Shakespeare - look up again] * ii. WILLIAM LILBURNE, b 1636 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; d 17 Jun 1681 (or '82) was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Born on the Turkey Island plantation in Henrico County, Virginia, he was the son of William Randolph and Mary Isham. He married Jane Lilburne Susan Rogers at St. Paul's Church in the Shadwell parish of England (today East London). Parents: William Randolph (1651 - 1711) Mary Isham Randolph (1659 - 1735) Spouse: Jane Liburne Rogers Randolph (1692 - 1760)* Children: Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720 - 1776)* Mary Randoph Lewis (1725 - 1788)* Susannah Randolph Harrison (1738 - ____)* He died in 1742, leaving a will.[2] Burial: Randolph Family Cemetery, Presque Isle, Henrico County, Virginia, USA Monument in Randolph Cemetery inscribed: “This was erected to the memory of Isham Randolph (illegible word) in Goochland County, Adjutant General of this colony. He was the third son of William Randolph and Mary his wife. The distinguishing qualities of eminence, he possessed in the most eminent degree, to justice, proprity and honour so firmly attached that no views of secular interest of worldly advantage, no discouraging frowns of fortune, could alter his steady purpose of heart. By an easy compliance and obliging deportment he knew no enemies but gained many friends. Thus in his life meriting an universal esteem. He died as universally lamented. Nov. 1742. Age 57 years. Gentle Reader: Go and do thou likewise.”[3][2] Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175884600822label=@S1990@

References

1. Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. II. Section: Chapter V, The Randolph Family. Page 141-143. < AncestryImage >; Page 143 < AncestrySharing >
2. https://virginiahistory.org/randolph-family

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