Thomas mann randolph biography of william hill
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I Thomas Mann Randolph the elder of the county of Albemarle in the state of Virginia upon mature reflection and in the most deliberate manner do publish and declare this writing to be my last Will and Testament: Having from the experience of twenty three years full confidence in the understanding, judgement, honour and impartial Maternal feeling of my beloved Wife Martha and considering that her time of life precludes all reasonable apprehension of her contracting another marriage which I might nevertheless1 have felt if I had not received from her frequently very solemn assurances to the contrary inom give and bequeath to her my said Wife my whole estate real and personal to distribute among her children and retain for her own use as she may think passform after paying all my just debts according to such principles of settlement as inom may have agreed to in my life time with the different parties as they will shew.
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Early Years
Randolph was born on October 1, , at Tuckahoe, the Goochland County estate of his parents Thomas Mann Randolph and his first wife, Anne Cary Randolph. His twelve siblings included Mary Randolph Randolph, author of The Virginia House-Wife (); Judith Randolph Randolph, who as her husband&#;s executor carried out the manumission and resettlement of more than seventy slaves; Ann Cary &#;Nancy&#; Randolph Morris, who became embroiled in a cause célèbre when accused of adultery with her brother-in-law and infanticide in ; and Virginia Randolph Cary, author of Letters on kvinnlig Character, Addressed to a ung Lady, on the Death of Her Mother (). Randolph was educated by a tutor during his childhood and attended the College of William and Mary in By October he was at the University of Edinburgh, where he was elected a member of the university&#;s Society for the Investigation of Natural History in December In November of that year Thomas Jefferson opened a corresponden
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Thomas Mann Randolph () shared close ties with the Jefferson family. Randolph's father, also named Thomas Mann Randolph (), was Thomas Jefferson's second cousin, and Jefferson and the elder Thomas Mann Randolph spent a significant part of their childhoods together at Tuckahoe after the latter's father died in
Thomas Mann Randolph
The Randolph-Jefferson family ties were strengthened when the younger Thomas Mann Randolph married Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha in and built a home at Edgehill near Monticello. Randolph often looked after Jefferson's concerns when Jefferson was absent.
Randolph shared many interests with his father-in-law, including the classics and science. He had been educated at home as a boy and then had attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Edinburgh. Though he did not graduate, Randolph applied his studies to experiment with scientific agriculture and to become a respected bot