Richard Randolph (c.1691 – 1749), also known as Richard Randolph of Curles, was a planter, merchant and politician in

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. Richard served as a member of the Virginia

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from 1727 until his death. Randolph was the fifth son of

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and Mary Isham, as well as the grandfather of

John Randolph of Roanoke John Randolph (June 2, 1773May 24, 1833), commonly known as John Randolph of Roanoke,''Roanoke'' refers to Roanoke Plantation in Charlotte County, Virginia, not to the city of the same name. was an American planter, and a politician from Virg ...

. He was also recommended for appointment to the Governor's Council of Virginia four times but never received an appointment. Through his marriage to Jane Bolling, his children were lineal descendants of

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Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia around 1691. He married Jane Bolling (1703–1766), "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

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's daughter, in 1724 and the couple had seven children who reached adulthood: *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

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, son of

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, signer of the

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. *Mary Randolph (born ~1727) married Archibald Cary on May 31, 1744. *Jane Bolling Randolph (born ~1729) married Anthony Walke around 1750. *Brett Randolph (born 1732) married Mary Scott. *Ryland Randolph (1738-1784) *John Randolph of Mattoax (born ~1737) married Frances Bland around 1769 and had four children, including Congressman

. *Elizabeth Randolph married

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. Randolph inherited the

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that adjoined the Turkey Island Plantation. He was a great-uncle of

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. 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

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on December 1, 1785. Her parents were Robert Beverley and Maria Carter (

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's daughter). Robert was Colonel

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(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,

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. 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

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. 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

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. 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

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Her parents were Peter Randolph Beverley and Lovely St Martin (1790–1867).

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Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stro ...

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