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Born at Monticello, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (1799-1871) was the fifth child and third surviving daughter of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph.
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (July 26, 1799 – February 24, 1871) was a granddaughter of United States President Thomas Jefferson. She also was the daughter of Acting First Lady Martha Jefferson Randolph and Governor of Virginia Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (1799-1871) was born at Monticello, the fifth child of Thomas Mann Randolph and TJ’s daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph. Like her siblings, Randolph spent much of her time at Monticello and accompanied her grandfather at least once to Poplar Forest, where she occupied herself with her studies.
In a subsequent letter of 30 August also available in the Digital Archive, Cornelia eloquently condemned the filthy accommodations they endured at Greenlee's Tavern, described the beauties of the Natural Bridge, and wrote of Jefferson's plans for improving his property there.
3 de mar. de 2002 · Cornelia Jefferson Randolph (1799–1871) was born at Monticello, the fifth child of Thomas Mann Randolph and TJ’s daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph. Like her siblings, Randolph spent much of her time at Monticello and accompanied her grandfather at least once to Poplar Forest, where she occupied herself with her studies.
17 de mar. de 2002 · Shortly after arriving again at Poplar Forest later in the year, Cornelia J. Randolph alluded a second time to the frequency of murder in buckingham County, advising her sister Virginia around 6 Oct. 1821 that, “wonderful to say, we heard of no murder in Buckingham” (NcU: NPT).
11 de mar. de 2002 · Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) and Mary Elizabeth Randolph (Eppes), 24 September 1817, document 5 in a group of documents on Jefferson’s Trip to Natural Bridge [ca. 13–17 August 1817] Author. Randolph, Cornelia Jefferson.
