Maria Ward Randolph
(1784-1826)
BIRTH
1784
PLACE
NAME
Maria Ward
DEATH
1826
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Peyton Randolph
(1779-1828)
CHILDREN
Charlotte Foushee Randolph
(1822–1843)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Maria Ward Randolph (1784–1826) was the wife of Peyton Randolph, son of Edmund Randolph and briefly acting governor of Virginia. Their correspondence at Colonial Williamsburg records family life and the Virginia mineral-springs circuit in 1804–1813. Letters discuss her health and her husband’s military and legal pursuits. In 1813 Peyton acknowledged her report that she and their children were well, while describing his own treatment at Warm Springs.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maria Ward Randolph’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 Maria Ward Randolph 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. Maria Ward Randolph died on Mar 19, 1825. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Ward Randolph died in 1826. Maria Ward Randolph was the wife of Peyton Randolph, son of Edmund Randolph and briefly acting governor of Virginia. Their correspondence at Colonial Williamsburg records family life and the Virginia mineral-springs circuit in 1804–1813. Letters discuss her health and her husband’s military and legal pursuits. In 1813 Peyton acknowledged her report that she and their children were well, while describing his own treatment at Warm Springs. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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