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Author: Jonathan Daniels Publisher: ISBN: Category : Virginia Languages : en Pages : 400
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William Randolph was born in about 1651 in England. His father was Thomas Randolph. He immigrated to America in 1671 and settled in Virginia. He married Mary Isham in about 1680. They had nine children. He was active in Virginia politics. He died in 1711. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia and elsewhere.
Author: Jonathan Daniels Publisher: ISBN: Category : Virginia Languages : en Pages : 400
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William Randolph was born in about 1651 in England. His father was Thomas Randolph. He immigrated to America in 1671 and settled in Virginia. He married Mary Isham in about 1680. They had nine children. He was active in Virginia politics. He died in 1711. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia and elsewhere.
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813926162 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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In the early 1790s Richard Randolph was accused of fathering a child by his sister-in-law, Nancy, and murdering the baby shortly after its birth. Rumors about the incident, which occurred during a visit to the plantation of close family friends, spread like wildfire. Randolph found himself on trial for the crime largely because of the public outrage fueled by these rumors. The rest of the household suffered too, and only Nancy, who later married the esteemed New York statesman Gouverneur Morris, would find any degree of happiness. A tale of family passion, betrayal, and deception, Scandal at Bizarre is a fascinating historical portrait of the social and political realities of a world long vanished.
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 080788250X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 371
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As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity. Yet, as mistress of a large household, she was not spared the tedium, frustration, and great sorrow that most women of her time faced. Though Patsy's name is familiar because of her famous father, Cynthia Kierner is the first historian to place Patsy at the center of her own story, taking readers into the largely ignored private spaces of the founding era. Randolph's life story reveals the privileges and limits of celebrity and shows that women were able to venture beyond their domestic roles in surprising ways. Following her mother's death, Patsy lived in Paris with her father and later served as hostess at the President's House and at Monticello. Her marriage to Thomas Mann Randolph, a member of Congress and governor of Virginia, was often troubled. She and her eleven children lived mostly at Monticello, greeting famous guests and debating issues ranging from a woman's place to slavery, religion, and democracy. And later, after her family's financial ruin, Patsy became a fixture in Washington society during Andrew Jackson's presidency. In this extraordinary biography, Kierner offers a unique look at American history from the perspective of this intelligent, tactfully assertive woman.
Author: Mary Randolph Publisher: Tredition Classics ISBN: 9783849181550 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Author: Alan Pell Crawford Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 068483474X Category : Infanticide Languages : en Pages : 344
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This true story of sex, murder, and corruption in 18th century Virginia centers on Nancy Randolph, an attractive woman from a wealthy and socially prominent family, who lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Richard Randolph. After rumors that Nancy bore Richard's child, and that he killed the child, a trial ensued with Patrick Henry defending Richard. Maps and illustrations.
Author: Charlene C. Giannetti Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493024809 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.
Author: Melvin Patrick Ely Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307773426 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 658
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South.
Author: Jonathan Daniels
Author: Jonathan Daniels
Author: Robert Isham Randolph
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Author: Mary Randolph
Author: Virginia Cary
Author: Alan Pell Crawford
Author: Charlene C. Giannetti
Author: Melvin Patrick Ely
Author: Peter Randolph