18th Century Virginia Newspapers
Randolph, Col Richard Esq., died at his seat at "Curles" (VJAA 15 Jun 86); e a w David Meade Randolph of Curles(VGAA 16 Aug 86) e a w his ex., Richard and D M Randolph of Curles(VGWeA 22 Mar 87); his ex., Richard Randolph, David Meade Randolph, Brett Randolph and Ryland Randolph are pltfs, in a HCC suit, 10 Mar 1789 (VIC 1 Apr 89)
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3> Richard Randolph [RA.5.1] (1715- 6 June 1786) of Curles married Ann Meade (1731- 9 Dec. 1814), daughter of David Meade and Susanna Everard. His will remembered wife Ann and named children Richard, Brett, Ryland, David Meade, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Mary (will dated 21 Mar. 1786, recorded 3 July 1786).
4 Richard Randolph [RA.5.1.1] (31 Mar. 1757 - 18 Mar. 1799 ) of Curles, a cavalryman during the Revolution, married Maria Beverley 1 December 1785. He was head of a household of one white and 22 blacks in Cumberland County in 1782.
4 Capt. David Meade Randolph [RA.5.1.2] (14 Mar. 1759 - 22 Sept. 1830 ), a militia captain during the Revolution, married Mary Randolph in Goochland County 9 December 1780. Prior to the marriage his father gave him all his lands in Bermuda Hundred and 1,000 acres in Cumberland County called Dry Creek and all its slaves and livestock. David was head of a household of four whites and 21 blacks in Cumberland County in 1782. Their children were the following. Capt. Randolph, who escorted Washington on his tour of Chesterfield in 1791, was considered the best farmer in the whole country.
5 Richard Randolph [RA.5.1.2.1] (30 Oct. 1782 -1859) married Elizabeth Gibbon.
5 Thomas Mann Randolph [RA.5.1.2.2] (16 July 1784 - 30 Mar. 1786
5 Lavinia Randolph [RA.5.1.2.3] (7 Oct. 1786 - 8 Feb. 1789).
5 William Beverley Randolph [RA.5.1.2.4] (11 June 1789 - 15 May 1868) married Sarah Lingan.
5 Thomas Nelson Randolph [RA.5.1.2.5] (5 Dec. 1791 - Sept. 1792
5 daughter Randolph [RA.5.1.2.6] (July 1794 - July 1794) died at 8 days.
5 David Meade Randolph [RA.5.1.2.7] (Dec. 1798 - 1 Oct. 18
5 Burwell Starke Randolph [RA.5.1.2.8] (Feb. 1800 - 2 Oct. 1854).
4 Brett Randolph [RA.5.1.3] (20 July 1766 - 26 Jan. 1828) married Lucy Beverley. Described as the second son of Richard and Ann Randolph of Curles, he died near Columbus, Mississippi.
4 Ryland Randolph [RA.5.1.4] married Elizabeth Frazier in July 179
4 Susanna Randolph [RA.5.1.5] (10 April 1753 - 3 Dec. 1781) married Benjamin Harrison 6 April 1776. The tombstone for Susanna and her infant son is at Curles.
4 Jane Randolph [RA.5.1.6] married as his second wife, Archibald Bolling in 1774.
5 Sarah Bolling [RA.5.1.6.1] married Joseph Cabell Megginson. See their family
5 Ann Everard Bolling [RA.5.1.6.2] (- 26 Jan. 1834) married first Samuel Shepherd DuVal and had two children by him.
Ann married second Joseph Cabell in Campbell County 15 October (bond) 1804. See their family
5 Elizabeth Meade Bolling [RA.5.1.6.3] (- 19 Nov. 1823 ) married 11 June 1801 Archibald Robertson, who was living in Washington County with his brother Wyndham in 1850. They had four children.
6 Elizabeth Jane Robertson [RA.5.1.6.3.1] (1802- 9 Aug. 1822).
6 Rebecca Murray Robertson [RA.5.1.6.3.2] (1803-1823).
6 Pocahontas Anne Robertson [RA.5.1.6.3.3] (1805- 15 Mar. 1838 ) married as his first wife William Smith Bolling 24 October 1832.
6 Virginia Bolling Robertson [RA.5.1.6.3.4] (1807-1836) married Ralph Graves.
5 John Bolling [RA.5.1.6.4] (1784-1851).
5 Blair Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5] (3 Mar. 1791 - 3 Aug. 1839) of Centre Hill married first Margaret A. Webster 15 April 1824. He married second 7 March 1827 Penelope Storrs (c.1806- 29 May 1849), a daughter of Gervas Storrs. Penelope died 29 May 1849 in her 43rd year at the residence on her mother in Henrico County.
6 Archibald Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.1] (1827-1897) married Eliza Truehart Armistead in February 1852. See their family
6 John R. Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.2] married Maria Page Armistead in October 1855. See their family
6 Mary Susan Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.3] married first Gervas Storrs Burton (1823-1855), who was clerking in Richmond in 1850, and second, Dr. J.C. Macon.
6 Paulina Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.4].
6 Blair Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.5] (1834- 2 July 1835), age 10 months, 10 days, died at the residence of his grandfather Gervas Storrs.
6 Blair Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.6] (1838- 16 Jan. 1840) died age 20 months.
6 Jane Rolf Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.7] (1830- 29 Aug. 1831), the youngest daughter, died age 14 months.
6 Martha Storrs Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.8] (1836- 3 Sept. 1837) died age 1 year, 3 days.
6 Powhatan Bolling [RA.5.1.6.5.9] (1831- 10 Sept. 1832) died age 11 months, 27 days.
4 Ann Meade Randolph [RA.5.1.7] married Brett Randolph in Henrico County 7 May (bond) 1782. See their family
4 Elizabeth Meade Randolph [RA.5.1.8] married David Meade Jr. in Henrico County 1 March 1789.
4 Mary Randolph [RA.5.1.9] married William Gay Bolling, a son of Thomas Bolling, in Henrico County 23 February (bond) 1798. See their family
4 Sarah Randolph [RA.5.1.10], a daughter of Richard Randolph, deceased, married William Mewburn in Powhatan County 20 January (bond) 181
4 Susan Randolph [RA.5.1.11] (14 Oct. 1751 - 11 June 1752).
4 Mary Randolph [RA.5.1.12] (9 Oct. 1760 - 18 Dec. 1772).
4 Ann Randolph [RA.5.1.13] (19 Aug. 1762 - July 1763).
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Richard Randolph
son of Richard Randolph of "Curls Neck," Henrico county, was justice of the peace, and burgess for Henrico in 1766-1769, 1770-1772, and signer of the associations of 1769 and 1772. He married Anne, daughter of David Meade, of Nansemond. He left issue. He was brother of John Randolph, father of John Randolph, of "Roanoke."
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