Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe [SEP] father
Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe
Thomas Randolph (~1683 – 1729), also known as Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe, was the first settler at Tuckahoe, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and the second child of William Randolph and Mary Isham.
Biography.
Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia in 1681. Based on a New Kent County marriage record, Thomas Randolph married Judith Fleming (ca. 1689-ca. 1740) in 1712 and the same Judith Fleming
Dungeness, Richard Randolph and Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe.
Randolph briefly attended preparatory schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, DC, where his mother sent him to give him distance from family troubles. His father had incurred much debt. Randolph served as a midshipman in the United States Navy from 1831 to 1839 and began attending the University of Virginia while in the service.
Marriage and family.
On April 10, 1852, he married the young widow Mary Elizabeth (Adams) Pope (1830–1867). They had