{{short description|Colonial American politician (1691–1749)}} {{For|the member of the Alaska House of Representatives|Dick Randolph}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Randolph | image = RICHARD RANDOLPH, SR. (1690-1748).jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses | term_start = 1727 | term_end = 1749 | birth_date = {{circa|1691}} | birth_place = Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia | death_date = 17 December 1748 (aged c. 57) | death_place = Bath, Somerset, England | parents = William Randolph<br>Mary Isham | spouse = {{marriage|Jane Bolling|1724}} | children = 7 }}

'''Richard Randolph''' (c.1691 – 1749),{{#tag:ref|According to Page and Glenn, Richard Randolph was born on or "about May, 1686," but their sources are highly suspect. The best available records pinpoint his birth about 1691.<ref name="Page">{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=Richard Channing Moore |title=Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOBBAAAAMAAJ |edition=2 |year=1893 |publisher=Press of the Publishers Printing Co. |location=New York |pages=249–272 |chapter=Randolph Family |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOBBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA247 }}</ref><ref name="Glenn">{{cite book |editor1-first=Thomas Allen |editor1-last=Glenn |title=Some Colonial Mansions: And Those Who Lived In Them : With Genealogies Of The Various Families Mentioned |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQkpAAAAYAAJ |volume=1 |year=1898 |publisher=Henry T. Coates & Company |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |pages=430–459 |chapter=The Randolphs: Randolph Genealogy |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQkpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA433 }}</ref> According to Tyler, Randolph died in 1749.<ref name="Tyler">{{cite book |editor1-first=Lyon Gardiner |editor1-last=Tyler |editor1-link=Lyon Gardiner Tyler |title=Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TykSAAAAYAAJ |volume=II |year=1915 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location=New York |page=311 |chapter=Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCgSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA311 }}</ref> Robert Isham Randolph indicates that he lived from 1690&ndash;1742,<ref name="Robert Isham Randolph">{{cite book |last1=Randolph |first1=Robert Isham |title=The Randolphs of Virginia: A Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island and His Wife Mary Isham Of Bermuda Hundred |url=http://www.randolpharchives.org/books/Randolphs_of_Virginia_203-252.pdf |year=1936 }}</ref> however, this date of death contradicts the information provided by Tyler showing Randolph serving in the House of Burgesses after 1742.|group="nb"}} also known as '''Richard Randolph of Curles''', was a planter, merchant and politician in colonial Virginia. Richard served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1727 until his death.<ref name="Tyler"/> Randolph was the fifth son of William Randolph and Mary Isham, as well as the grandfather of John Randolph of Roanoke.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Glenn"/> He was also recommended for appointment to the Governor's Council of Virginia four times but never received an appointment and through his marriage to Jane Bolling, his children were lineal descendants of Pocahontas.<ref name="Tilton">{{cite book |last1=Tilton |first1=Robert S. |title=Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idPhpg0PxtAC |year=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521469593 |page=191 |chapter=Notes |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idPhpg0PxtAC&pg=PA191 }}</ref>

==Biography and family== thumb|Jane Bolling Randolph 175px|thumb|Coat of Arms of William Randolph Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia around 1691.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Glenn"/> He married Jane Bolling (1703–1766),<ref>"A memoir of a portion of the Bolling family in England and Virginia", by Bolling, Robert, p 4, https://archive.org/details/memoirofportiono00inboll/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater</ref> John Bolling's daughter, in 1724 and the couple had seven children who reached adulthood:<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Glenn"/><ref name="Pecquet du Bellet">{{cite book |last1=Pecquet du Bellet |first1=Louise |title=Some Prominent Virginia Families |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iQSAAAAYAAJ |volume=IV |publisher=J.P. Bell Company |location=Lynchburg, Virginia |pages=304–314 |chapter=Bolling Family |year=1907 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304 }}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Richard Randolph had at least two other children who died young; John Randolph was his sixth child.<ref name="Glenn"/>|group="nb"}}<!-- RIR's PDF notes "Richard" +4, "Brett (1732–1759)" +3, "John (1742)" +3, "Mary (1727–1781)" +4, "Jane" +1, "Elizabeth" m, "Ryland" +0. --> * Richard Randolph II (born c.1725), a slave trader and planter-merchant, married Anne Meade, the daughter of David Meade of Nansemond and had ten children. One child, Susanna, married Benjamin Harrison VI, son of Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the Declaration of Independence.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/> * Mary Randolph (born ~1727) married Archibald Cary on May 31, 1744.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/> * Jane Bolling Randolph (born ~1729) married Anthony Walke around 1750.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/> * Brett Randolph (born 1732) married Mary Scott.<ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/> * Ryland Randolph (1738–1784) * John Randolph of Mattoax (born ~1737) married Frances Bland around 1769 and had four children, including Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke.<ref name="Page"/><ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/> * Elizabeth Randolph married Richard Kidder Meade.<ref name="Pecquet du Bellet"/>

Randolph inherited the Curles Neck Plantation that adjoined the Turkey Island Plantation.<ref name="Glenn"/>

He was a great-uncle of United States President Thomas Jefferson.

John Bolling Jr.'s grandson, Colonel William Bolling married Richard Randolph II's daughter, Mary (1775–1863) on February 24, 1798. Richard II and Anne/Nancy Meade's son, Richard III married Maria Beverley (1764–1824) of Blandfield on December 1, 1785. Her parents were Robert Beverley and Maria Carter (Landon Carter's daughter). Robert was Colonel William Beverley (1696–1756) and Elizabeth Bland's son.

Richard III's brother, Brett (1766–1828) married Maria's sister, Lucy (1771–1854) on November 21, 1789. They had eleven children, one son died as an infant. All of them moved to Oakleigh, Greensboro, Alabama. One of their children, Edward Brett Randolph (1792–1848) married Carter Beverley and Jane (née Wormeley) Beverley's daughter Elizabeth Bland Beverley (1804–1880). Edward Brett died at The Cedars in Columbus, Mississippi. They had an only child, a daughter, Virginia Beverley Randolph (1827–1865). Virginia married in 1850 George Wisner Sherman (1817–1865) from Burnt Hills, New York. They had Edward Randolph, Hugh Sutherland, George Wormeley, Beverley, and Virginia Randolph.

Brett and Lucy's son, Robert Carter Randolph married his cousin, Anne Tayloe Beverley (1808–1889) on June 12, 1826, in Mississippi. She was Robert Beverley and Maria Carter's granddaughter. Her interment was at Oakwood Cemetery in Sheffield, Alabama.

Brett's sister, Jane Randolph married John Bolling III's son, Archibald in 1774. They had a few children.

Richard Randolph III and Maria Beverley's son, Robert Beverley Randolph (1790–1869) married Eglantine Maria Beverley (1808–1886) on March 23, 1834. They resided in Washington, D.C. Her parents were Peter Randolph Beverley and Lovely St Martin (1790–1867).

==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Richard Randolph''' |2= 2. William Randolph |3= 3. Mary Isham |4= 4. Richard Randolph |5= 5. Elizabeth Ryland |6= 6. Henry Isham |7= 7. Catherine Banks |8= 8. William Randolph |9= 9. Dorothy Lane |10= 10. Richard Ryland |11= 11. Elizabeth Harward |12= 12. William Isham |13= 13. Mary Brett |14= 14. Christopher Banks |15= 15. Janet Royall |16= 16. Robert Randolph |17= 17. Rosa Roberts |18= 18. Richard Lane |19= 19. Elizabeth Vincent |20= 20. John Rilande |21= 21. Maria Canning |22= |23= |24= 24. Sir Euseby Isham |25= 25. Anne Borlase |26= 26. William Brett |27= 27. Mary Toddington |28= 28. Christopher Banks |29= 29. Alice Foxe |30= 30. John Royall |31= 31. Angeline }}

==See also== *First Families of Virginia *Randolph family of Virginia

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