Isham RANDOLPH

1685 - 1742  (57 years)

• Name	Isham RANDOLPH
  Born	24 Feb 1685	Turkey Island, Henrico, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Nov 1742	Dungeness, Goochland, Virginia
  Person ID	I15963	Main
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Col William RANDOLPH,   b. Abt 7 Nov 1650, Moreton-Morrell, Warwickshire, England ,   d. 21 Apr 1711, Turkey Island, Henrico, Virginia  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Mary ISHAM,   b. 10 Oct 1659, Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield, Virginia ,   d. 29 Dec 1735, Turkey Island, Henrico, Virginia  (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F16187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane ROGERS,   b. 29 Jan 1698, Shadwell, London, England ,   d. 21 Jul 1761, Dungeness, Goochland, Virginia  (Age 63 years)
  Children	1. Jane RANDOLPH,   b. 9 Feb 1720, Shadwell, London, England ,   d. 31 Mar 1776, Albemarle County, Virginia  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F16379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM THE VIRGINIA HIST. SOC. WEB PAGE: " As a young man, Isham Randolph (1686-1742), third son of dynasty founder William Randolph I, rejected Virginia plantation life for what neighbor William Byrd II called Randolph's "own element, the Sea." Byrd was instrumental in 1710 in winning for him command of the Henrietta, a merchant ship with a ten-man crew and four guns. In the same year Randolph sold his Virginia land and took a house in London. For the next decade he worked the tobacco trade on the James River that he had sailed as a child. In 1717 he married Londoner Jane Rogers. By 1720 he quit the sea and was listed as a London merchant. Around 1725, he resettled in Virginia his growing family of three, soon to be nine, children. Before leaving England, Randolph apparently sat for this portrait. Though its surface is now abraded, the painting displays a quality of conception and execution that suggests the hand of a London-trained artist of talent.