Betty Randolph
(1723-1783)
BIRTH
1723
PLACE
DEATH
1783
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Harrison IV
(1693-1745)
BROTHER
Benjamin Harrison V
(1726-1791)
HUSBAND
Peyton Randolph
(1721-1775)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph (about 1723–1783), known as Betty, managed the Williamsburg household of Peyton Randolph, Virginia’s attorney general and Continental Congress president. The childless couple helped raise her orphaned siblings and entertained political leaders. Her work included directing enslaved domestic servants. After Peyton died in 1775, she executed his will and inherited much of his property. Estate records document her household after independence.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Harrison’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Elizabeth Harrison 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
Elizabeth Harrison died in 1783. Elizabeth Harrison Randolph, known as Betty, managed the Williamsburg household of Peyton Randolph, Virginia’s attorney general and Continental Congress president. The childless couple helped raise her orphaned siblings and entertained political leaders. Her work included directing enslaved domestic servants. After Peyton died in 1775, she executed his will and inherited much of his property. Estate records document her household after independence. The available account does not establish a detailed sequence of final symptoms, treatment, or bedside attendance.
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