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3 days ago · Who was Thomas Jefferson’s, First Lady? His wife had died twenty years prior to him becoming president. In fact, his eldest daughter, Martha, filled in the F...
4 days ago · The ghost seen by a former Tuckahoe employee, as related by Roan, is one of Jefferson’s orphaned second cousins, Mary Randolph, grandmother of John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the United...
5 days ago · When Thomas Jefferson died on a summer day in 1826, his death captivated Americans — not because of its cause, but because of the circumstances that surrounded it. The former president died on July 4, the 50th anniversary of American Independence. And Thomas Jefferson died just hours before John Adams, his fellow Founding Father.
4 days ago · Mason and Gerry seemed to suggest on September 12 that Randolph’s concerns could be resolved if the Convention added a Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Their motion was immediately rejected by all the state delegations present. On September 15, Randolph elaborated his concerns.
4 days ago · A former Virginia governor from the 1800s, Thomas Mann Randolph, also lived there with Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, Martha. “Even into the era of the American Civil War, this becomes a huge point on the river because, as you know, if you control the river, you can kind of control the war,” Charity said.
4 days ago · Martha Washington (born June 2, 1731, New Kent county, Virginia [U.S.]—died May 22, 1802, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) was the American first lady (1789–97), the wife of George Washington, first president of the United States and commander in chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolutionary War.
2 days ago · On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, when he was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
