Isham Randolph

Isham Randolph (February 24, 1687 – November 2, 1742) was an American planter, shipmaster, merchant, military officer and politician who served a partial term in the House of Burgesses representing Goochland County. He may today be best known as the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson. His father was a colonist, landowner, planter, and merchant who served as the 26th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Randolph graduated from the College of William & Mary. In 1730, Randolph built "Dungeness," an English manor styled house on what became a large tobacco plantations, near Goochland, Virginia just west of Fine Creek (near the Fine Creek Mills Historic District). but Dungeness became a house of "refinement and elegant hospitality" with a hundred or more servants.

Randolph was also a prominent merchant and shipmaster, traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to London many times. Randolph became agent for the colony of Virginia, but returned by October 1725 when his second daughter, Mary, was born.

Marriage and children In 1717, Isham Randolph married Jane Rogers in London at St. Paul's Church in the Shadwell parish (today east London). Isham Randolph (born August 18, 1724), married Sarah Hargreaves in 1749, in Philadelphia. Elizabeth Randolph (born 1727) Thomas Randolph (1732-173?), died young. Ann Randolph (born February 5, 1735), She was the great-grandmother of Carter Henry Harrison III, a five-time mayor of Chicago.

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