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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.
Because of their numerous progeny, William Randolph and his wife, Mary Isham Randolph, have been referred to as "the Adam and Eve of Virginia". The Randolph family was the wealthiest and most powerful family in 18th-century Virginia.
Isham Randolph was an American planter, merchant, public official, and shipmaster. He was the maternal grandfather of United States President Thomas Jefferson.
Isham Randolph married, 1768, Jane Cary, who was the daugh-ter of Col. Archibald Cary and Mary Randolph and there can be no doubt that my own grandfather knew that their son Archibald Cary Randolph was his own father. The suggestion has been made that the genealogists have lost a generation out
