Ariana Jenings Randolph
(1730–1801)
BIRTH
1730
PLACE
DEATH
1801
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FAMILY
MOTHER
Edmund Randolph
(1753-1813)
HUSBAND
John Randolph
(1727-1784)
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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Ariana Jenings Randolph, listed here as Arianna Vanderheyden Jennings, was the wife of Virginia attorney general John Randolph and mother of Edmund Randolph. In 1775 she went to England with her husband and two daughters, while Edmund supported the American Revolution and served Washington. Their separation reflected opposing loyalties within the household. Her death year remains uncertain: this record gives 1782, but William & Mary gives 1801.
EARLY LIFE
Arianna Vanderheyden Jennings was born on Jul 26, 1730. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Arianna Vanderheyden Jennings is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Arianna Vanderheyden Jennings died in 1782. Ariana Jenings Randolph, listed here as Arianna Vanderheyden Jennings, was the wife of Virginia attorney general John Randolph and mother of Edmund Randolph. In 1775 she went to England with her husband and two daughters, while Edmund supported the American Revolution and served Washington. Their separation reflected opposing loyalties within the household. Her death year remains uncertain: this record gives 1782, but William & Mary gives 1801. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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