Jane Randolph Jefferson

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)

He said much less about Jane Randolph Jefferson, however, than about his father. He Various entries in his financial records after he became a man reveal his solicitude for her welfare, and his almost complete failure to mention her name elsewhere may be attributed to his characteristic reticence about the women of his family. Nevertheless, the only remark he is known to have made about her influence was negative, and he probably did not value her counsel very highly.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 37 (Easton Press, 1993)

He must have inherited some of his diverse talent from his mother, but there is no positive testimony about her personality, and she remains a shadowy figure.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 38 (Easton Press, 1993)

The family tradition was that she was affectionate, cheerful, humorous, and a ready writer.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 38 (Easton Press, 1993)

...almost the only thing about her that we can be sure of is that she had physical endurance beyond the average. She suffered inevitable hardships in connection with successive moves; she bore ten children altogether and brought up eight of them; and she survived her husband.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 38 (Easton Press, 1993)