Search results
Martha " Patsy " Randolph ( née Jefferson; September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836) was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia . Randolph's mother died when she was nearly 10 years old, when only ...
Martha Jefferson Randolph (September 27, 1772 - October 10, 1836), known as "Patsy" in her youth, was the eldest child of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Educated in Philadelphia and Paris during the 1780s, [1] she married her third cousin, Thomas Mann Randolph , at Monticello on February 23, 1790. [2]
Dec 22, 2021 · Martha Jefferson Randolph was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and the wife of Thomas Mann Randolph, who served as governor of Virginia from 1819 to 1822. She grew up at Monticello and spent time in Williamsburg, Richmond, and Philadelphia before accompanying her widowed father to Paris, France, where she attended the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, a prestigious convent school.
Martha “Patsy” Jefferson was born on September 27, 1772. After receiving a private education and traveling with her father abroad, she married her distant relative Thomas Mann Randolph on February 23, 1790. 1 The couple had twelve children—eleven of whom reached adulthood— and lived at Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello.
The education of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson, in Philadelphia and Paris, was closely overseen by her father, Thomas Jefferson, who doted on his eldest child. After she married Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790, she continued to support her widowed father, both in Washington, D.C., and later at his home, Monticello, in Virginia. At Monticello, she kept house with the help of an extended family ...
Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (CREDIT: Thomas Sully/Library of Congress) Of the first four First Ladies, the least is known about Martha Jefferson. Though she died about 18 and a half years before Thomas Jefferson became president, she is still considered a First Lady because she is the only spouse he had.
People also ask
Who was Martha Jefferson Randolph?
Who was Martha 'Patsy' Jefferson?
Who is Martha Jefferson Randolph in America's first daughter?
How old was Martha Randolph when she married her husband?
Martha Jefferson Randolph by Thomas Sully, 1836. Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, often managed the Monticello household after Jefferson's retirement. On Mulberry Row, she oversaw the wash house , dairy , smokehouses, and textile workshop. She supervised the enslaved men and women on the mountaintop ...
