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iii. Henry Randolph was baptized on 27 Nov 1623 at Houghton Parva, Northamptonshire, England. He married Elizabeth; 1st wife. He married Judith Soane; 2nd wife.
He immigrated circa 1642 to Virginia.
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Henry Randolph
half-brother to the poet Thomas Randolph, and uncle of William Randolph of Turkey Island, came to Virginia in 1642. He was clerk of Henrico county from about 1656 and of the house of burgesses from 1660 to his death in 1672. He married Judith, daughter of Henry Soane, speaker of the house of burgesses. She married (secondly) Major Peter Field, and had a son Captain Henry Randolph, of Swift's Creek, Henrico, now Chesterfield county.

Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part I
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(2) Hening. Statutes at Large of Virginia, Vol. II, p. 433.

William Randolph came to Virginia about 1673
(1) Henry Randolph (uncle of William Randolph) came to Virginia about
1650 and was for some years a prominent official in Henrico County. For
the descendants of Henry Randolph see WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, IV.,
p. 125.

Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part II
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By WILLIAM CLAYTON TORRENCE.
Page 206.

ancestry of only six is known: Isham, Pleasants, Randolph, Chamberlaine,
Batte and Byrd.

Mrs. Isham (of the list) was the widow of Henry Isham (first of his
family in Virginia) who was born about 1628, came to Virginia about 1656
and died about 1676. He was the son of William Isham (1588-1631) and
Mary, daughter of William Brett of Toddington, Bedford, and grandson of
Sir Euseby Isham of Pytchley, of an ancient Northamptonshire family(1).

John Pleasants, the immigrant, was born about 1644-5, in Norwich,
England, the son of John Pleasants (born 1618) of St. Savior's, Norwich,
worsted weaver; grandson of John Pleasants (1588-1640) of All Saints and
St. Saviour's, Norwich, worsted weaver, great grandson of Robert Pleasants
(ante 1558-1591) of Norwich; great great grandson of William Pleasants
(died 1583) of All Saints and St. Paul's Parishes, Norwich(2).

William Randolph (1651-1711) the first of the "Turkey Island Randolphs"
was the son of Richard Randolph (1621-1671) of Morton Hall, Warwickshire;
grandson of William Randolph (1572-1650) of Little Haughton, Northampton-
shire; great grandson of Richard Randolph, of Hams, Sussex, Gentleman.
Henry Randolph (1623-1673), an uncle of William Randolph, also settled in
Henrico County(3).

Thomas Chamberlaine (circa 1652-1719) was the son of Edmund Chamber-
laine of Maugersbury (who died 1676) and grandson of Edmund Chamberlaine
of Maugersbury, Esquire, sheriff of Gloucestershire (who died 1634) and
great grandson of Sir Thomas Chamberlaine, of Prestbury, Gloucestershire,
ambassador from Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth to several courts(4).
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(1) Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. IV, p. 123 and
Vol. XVIII, p. 85, et seq.

(2) Ibid., Vol. XVI, p. 218; XVII, pp. 84, 197, 319, 425.

(3) Ibid., Vol. III, p. 261 and WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, Vol. IV,
p. 125. Thomas Randolph (1605-1639), the poet, was a half-brother of
Henry Randolph (who came to Virginia) and of Richard Randolph (father of
William, of "Turkey Island").

(4) Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XXIII, p. 158.