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Isham Randolph (February 24, 1687 – November 2, 1742) was an American planter, merchant, public official, and shipmaster. He was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson.
Isham Randolph (March 25, 1848 in Clarke County, Virginia – August 5, 1920) was an American civil engineer who is best known as the chief engineer of the Sanitary District of Chicago during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
25 de may. de 2023 · Isham Randolph (December 1684[1] – November 1742[2] ), sometimes referred to as Isham Randolph of Dungeness[3], was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson. Randolph was a planter, a merchant, a public official, and a shipmaster.[4]
Brief Life History of Isham. When Col. Isham Randolph was born on 24 February 1685, in Chesterfield, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Randolph I, was 34 and his mother, Mary Anne Isham, was 25. He married Jane Rogers on 25 July 1717, in Bishopsgate, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom.
Henry Randolph I (1623-1673), born in Little Houghton, Northamptonshire, England, [2] [3] immigrated to the colony of Virginia in 1642, [4] protege of Sir William Berkeley. [5] Randolph became clerk of the county court, and when Charles Norwood left the colony, Speaker Francis Moryson put forth Randoph's name for the position and the House of ...
Portrait of Isham Randolph (VMHC 1970.26) No family in colonial Virginia was more prominent or more powerful than the Randolphs.
16 de dic. de 2013 · Written in 1972 and called The Randolphs of Virginia, its book jacket, with similar largesse, pronounced the Randolphs “America’s Foremost Family.”. Its paintings of various Randolphs throughout history fascinated me. People had names like Isham or John Randolph of Roanoke or Somebody Or Other of Dungeness.
