Thomas Mann Randolph Sr..

About Thomas Mann Randolph Sr.

Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. was a Virginia planter and politician who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776, and both houses of the Virginia state legislature following the American Revolutionary War. Orphaned as a young boy, Randolph became the ward of Peter Jefferson before he inherited Tuckahoe plantation when he came of age. He was raised alongside future President Thomas Jefferson and later purchased Salisbury house, which Randolph used as a hunting lodge. He married twice and had 15 children, 13 with his first wife and cousin, Anne Cary.