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Title: Manors of Virginia in colonial times
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sale, Edith Dabney Tunis, d. 1932
Subjects: Manors
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^ N the midst of thisprosiac age, when itis only in day-dreamsand reveries that thefamous figure of theColonial Cavalier canbe conjured up, weturn with gratefulnesstowards the old homesteads where he enjoyed hiswealth, and something yet better, the peace ofa quite mind. It is with just such a feeling of appreciationthat Tuckahoe is first seen, the oldest Randolphestate in the country, and though the years havedepleted the acres, the mansion still shelters thedescendants of the splendid family of him whobuilt it in the long ago. The Randolph name has been second to none inpoint of brilliancy throughout the history ofAmerica, the progenitor being William Ran-dolph, who came from Yorkshire, England, toVirginia about 1660, and is said to have beendescended from Mary, Queen of Scots. Accord-ing to the best authority, the Robert Randolph 114
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TUCKAHOE of Sussex who married Rose, the daughter ofThomas Roberts of Kent, was the great-grand-father of the Immigrant. William, the son ofRobert, was born in 1572, and married firstElizabeth Smith, by whom he had a son, ThomasRandolph, born at Newnham in 1605 and knownalways as the poet. Another son was Henry,who in 1643 cam.e to Virginia, Avhere he wasClerk of Henrico. The second wife of WilliamRandolph was Dorothy, the Widow West, daugh-ter of Richard Lane of Courtenall, she beingthe mother of Richard, born in 1621, whomarried Elizabeth Ryland and lived in Warwick-shire. These were the i^arents of William Ran-dolph, the Immigrant, who was born in 1651 andon coming to Virginia in 1666 succeeded to theoffice of his uncle. Having bought, it is said, the whole of SirThomas Dales settlement on the James, andother lands amounting to 10,000 acres, WilliamRandolph settled on the plantation known asTurkey Island, so called from an island whichwas then but a short distance from the mouth of

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