Peyton Randolph - Notable Relatives

Notable Relatives

  • His nephew, Edmund Randolph, became the first United States Attorney General.
  • His wife (m. March 8, 1745/1746) Elizabeth "Betty" Harrison (Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (?), Virginia, c. 1723 - Williamsburg, James County, Virginia, January 31, 1783) was the sister of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • His son Peyton Randolph, Jr. (Virginia, 1739 - Virginia, May 16, 1784) was a Major in the American Revolution and aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Lafayette and married (1763) his first cousin Lucy Harrison (Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (?), Virginia - Staunton, Virginia, September 1809).
  • His first cousin once removed was President Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson's son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. was a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.
  • His first cousin twice removed was Supreme Court Justice John Marshall.
  • His niece Lucy Grymes married Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson Jr. Her first cousin once removed, also named Lucy Grymes, married Henry Lee II (who was in fact Peyton Randolph's first cousin once removed), and was the mother of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, who was the father of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee.
  • He is also related to the Confederate Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Nelson Pendelton Lee, and Richard L. Page; and to US Admiral Samuel P. Lee.
  • Confederate General John Pegram married Hetty Cary, a paternal cousin to the Randolphs. She was also a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

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