Peter Randolph
(1717-1767)
BIRTH
October 20, 1717
PLACE
Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia
DEATH
July 8, 1767
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FAMILY
FATHER
William Randolph II
(1681-1741)
WIFE
Lucy Bolling
(1719-1767)
CHILDREN
Anne Randolph Fitzhugh
(1747-1805)
CHILDREN
Beverley Randolph
(1754-1797)
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Peter Randolph (1717–1767) was a Virginia legislator and councillor from the Turkey Island family. Educated at William and Mary, he became clerk of the House of Burgesses in 1740 and held that post until 1749. He represented Henrico County in 1748–49, then served on the governor’s council until his death. He also worked as a Henrico justice of the peace. In 1738 he married Lucy Bolling; their children included Beverley Randolph, later governor of Virginia.
EARLY LIFE
Peter Randolph was a son of William Randolph II and Elizabeth Beverley. Sources differ between 1712 and 1717 for his birth year.
Randolph held colonial public offices. His family included his wife Lucy Bolling and son Beverley Randolph.
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DEATH
Peter Randolph was a Virginia legislator and councillor from the Turkey Island family. Educated at William and Mary, he became clerk of the House of Burgesses in 1740 and held that post until 1749. Randolph held colonial public offices. Peter Randolph died on Jul 8, 1767. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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