Jane Bolling, great granddaughter of Pocahontas, married Richard Randolph, of Curles. John Randolph, Sr., the seventh child of that marriage, married Frances Bland, and John Randolph, of Roanoke, the orator, was one of the children of this union.
The members of the numerous family of the Randolphs in several instances adopted the names of their seats for the purpose of distinction, as Thomas of Tuckahoe, Isham of Dungeness, Richard of Curles, John of Roanoke. The following were seats of the Randolphs on the James River: Tuckahoe, Chatsworth, Wilton, Varina, Curles, Bremo, and Turkey Island.
FOOTNOTES:
[625:A] Foote's Sketches of Va., second series, 575; Grigsby's Convention of '76.
[626:A] Foote's Sketches, second series, 573; Grigsby's Convention of '76.
[627:A] Va. Hist. Reg., iii. 44 and 107; Grigsby's Convention of '76.
[629:A] Grigsby's Convention of Va. of '76.
[630:A] A small work on gardening, printed at Petersburg, in 1807, is attributed to him.