Isham Randolph
born in 1687 AD; died in 1742 AD (age ~55)
maternal grandfather of Thomas Jefferson; ship captain
Quotes (About)
He died at the age of fifty-seven, in November, 1742 — three years after the marriage of his daughter to Peter Jefferson, and only a few months before the birth of their first son.
- Jefferson the Virginian
- p. 17 (Easton Press, 1993)
[Peter Jefferson]'s wife had been promsed a dowry of two hundred pounds sterling, but Isham had not paid it by the time he made his will. Jane Randolph probably took a body servant or so with her but she seems to have brought her husband no land.
- Jefferson the Virginian
- p. 17 (Easton Press, 1993)
...to each of his daughters [Peter Jefferson left] a carefully safeguarded portion of two hundred pounds to be paid within a year of her marriage or twenty-first birthday. He fully maintained the standard of Isham Randolph and he was determined that future husbands should not be kept waiting.
- Jefferson the Virginian
- p. 31 (Easton Press, 1993)