Richard Randolph
(c. 1691-1748)
BIRTH
c. 1691
PLACE
Henrico County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
December 17, 1748
PLACE
Bath, England
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CHILDREN
William Randolph
(1650-1711)
CHILDREN
Mary Isham Randolph
(1660-1735)
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Richard Randolph of Curles was a Virginia planter, merchant and Henrico County burgess elected in 1727. He was also a justice, militia officer, vestryman and Bermuda Hundred trustee. His wealth included land and enslaved people, and his will was proved in 1749. He traveled to Bath for his health and died there after arriving in December 1748. Memorial and published accounts disagree on birth and death dates, so the c. 1691–1748 lifespan should remain qualified.
EARLY LIFE
Richard Randolph was born about 1691 in Henrico County, Virginia, a son of William Randolph of Turkey Island and Mary Isham. He was educated in England and became master of the Curles plantation on the James River.
Randolph represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses from 1727 to 1748, one of the longest tenures among his generation of the Randolph family.
He died at Bath, England, on December 17, 1748.
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Richard Randolph of Curles was a Virginia planter, merchant and Henrico County burgess elected in 1727. Richard Randolph traveled to Bath for his health and died there after arriving in December 1748. Randolph represented Henrico County in the House of Burgesses from 1727 to 1748, one of the longest tenures among his generation of the Randolph family. He died at Bath, England, on December 17, 1748. 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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