Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe

Randolph was born in June 1683 on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia. He was the son of the English immigrant William Randolph who established Turkey Island along the James River, and Mary Royall Isham, the daughter of Henry Isham. They descend from Ishams of Northamptonshire in England. Children born to the Randolphs were William, Thomas, Isham, Richard, Henry of Longfield, Edward, Mary, John, and Elizabeth. William Randolph acquired land probably used as outlying quarter plantations during his lifetime. He died in 1711 and left property to each son, along with enslaved people to work the land. ==Career==

Planter William Byrd hired Randolph to oversee his Westover Plantation around March 6, 1712. He owned 3,256 acres of land on which Randolph likely built a modest wood-frame house so that he could focus his energy on establishing and operating the plantation. In 1727, he also bought Farrar's Island in the James River from Thomas Farrar (who already lived in St. James Parish that became Goochland County that year) and his nephew, William Farrar IV (who moved to Goochland County). That plantation, which had been founded by William Farrar Jr. nearly a century earlier, ultimately became part of Chesterfield County. Politician Randolph became one of the justices of the peace for Henrico county in 1713. Randolph and his brother William Randolph II were the two representatives from Henrico in the House of Burgesses for the 1720 to 1722 session. Goochland was set apart from Henrico County in 1727. A year later, he was the county lieutenant for Goochland. ==Personal life==

Thomas Randolph of Henrico County married Judith Fleming on October 16, 1712. (born 1712 or 1713) married Maria Judith, the daughter of Mann Page, Stith was the son of her Captain John Stith and Mary Randolph, her aunt. Their daughter Mary Randolph Keith was the mother of John Marshall, a United States Secretary of State and 4th Chief Justice of the United States. or 1730. Judith married Nicolas Davies, an immigrant from Wales, on December 24, 1733. Randolph was a great-uncle of United States President Thomas Jefferson. ==Ancestry==