Anne Cary Randolph Morris

Ann Cary Randolph Morris (September 16, 1774 – May 28, 1837) was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur Morris. Books have been written about the scandal in which she was embroiled in central Virginia as a young woman after the death of her fiancé. After she married Gouverneur Morris in New York, she regained much of her favorable social prominence until he died in 1816. She was devoted to their son, Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813–1888), whom she called her "richest treasure.” They lived at Morrisania (in what is now the Bronx). He had the St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Bronx built in her memory.

Early life Tuckahoe Plantation, the birthplace and childhood home of Ann Cary Randolph Morris. Ann Cary Randolph was born near Richmond, Virginia, on the Tuckahoe Plantation. Her parents were Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and Ann Cary Randolph, Richard and his brothers Theodorick Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke lost their father in 1775, and three years later their mother married St. George Tucker, a prominent lawyer and future law professor at the College of William and Mary as well as Virginia appellate judge. The eldest and therefore heir to most of their late father's estate had studied at Princeton as well as with noted Virginia jurist George Wythe (St. George Tucker's mentor and friend) before taking control of his late father's plantation. However, the tobacco economy was collapsing at the time. On October 1, 1792, Judith, Richard, and Ann traveled to the Glentivar Richard Randolph was acquitted. Jefferson stated that he only found one person guilty.