Mary Lewis

Mary Randolph, nicknamed Polly, seen as “Mary Isham Randolph,” was born 15 October 1725 at Dungeness, Goochland County, Virginia, and died at Albemarle County on 13 October 1803. She was the daughter of Isham Randolph and his wife Jane Rodgers.

She married Col. Charles Lewis (1730-1780) in 1741. He was the son of Col Charles Lewis I and Mary (Howell) Lewis, and the brother of James, Elizabeth, John and Ann (Taylor) Lewis. They had eight children (perhaps more who didn’t survive infancy).

Children

1. Charles Lilburn Lewis, d. bef. 1802. Married Lucy Jefferson.
2. Isham Lewis, d. 1789-1790.
3. Elizabeth Lewis, b.1752, d. 1829. Married Bennett Henderson.
4. Mary Randolph Lewis, b. Abt 1753, d. 1807. Married 1) Charles Lewis (son of John Lewis & Frances Fielding) 2) Charles Wingfield.
5. Jane Lewis. Married Charles Hudson.
6. Anne Lewis. Married Randolph Jefferson.
7. Frances Lewis, b. 24 Jan, 1759, d. 28 Dec. 1834. Married John Thomas.
8. Mildred Lewis. Married Edward Moore.
9. John Lewis.

Unsourced children

1. John D Lewis
2. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
3. Susanna Lewis
4. Nancy Ann Lewis

Will of Charles Lewis

• Written April 27, 1782, the will of "Charles Lewis of the Parish of Frederickville and County of Albemarle" named[2]
• wife Mary Lewis
• son Charles Lilburn Lewis
• son John Lewis
• daughter Mary Lewis
• daughter Jane Hudson
• daughter Elizabeth Henderson
• daughter Anne Jefferson
• daughter Frances Thomas, son-in-law John Thomas, grandson Charles Lewis Thomas
• daughter Mildred Lewis
• grandson Howell Lewis and
• granddaughter Sally Elizabeth Willis Lewis [Howell and Sally shown in same entry but no mention of who their parents were]
• grandsons John Henderson, Randolph Lewis, and Charles Lewis Thomas [John presumed son of Elizabeth (Lewis) Henderson; Charles Lewis Thomas already mentioned in same entry as John and Frances (Lewis) Thomas; Randolph Lewis's parents not identified]
• granddaughters Jane Lewis, Mary Lewis Hudson, Sally Henderson, and Mary Howell Thomas [parent can be assumed by surname, except for Jane Lewis]
• Executors: "my friend Thomas Jefferson and my sons-in-law Charles Hudson and Bennett Henderson and my sons Charles Lilburn, and Isham"

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Notes

Mary Randolph, younger sister of Jefferson’s mother, married Charles Lewis, Jr., who settled at Buck Island, Albemarle county; she was about sixty-seven at this time (R. I. Randolph, The Randolphs of Virginia, Chicago, 1936, p. 126; Edgar Woods, Albemarle County, Charlottesville, Va., 1901, p. 251). Her offer of the bed and TJ’s order of bedding from Richmond provide a commentary on the state of housekeeping at Monticello after an absence of six years. (See TJ to Brown, 3 Jan. 1790.) [1]

Origins

Jane Ro(d)gers and Isham Randolph married 26 July 1717 in St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, City of London, London, England. They were the parents of Jane (Randolph) Jefferson (President Thomas Jefferson's mother), Mary Isham (Randolph) Lewis, William Randolph, Thomas Isham Randolph, Elizabeth Bettie (Randolph) Railey, Dorothea (Randolph) Woodson, Ann (Randolph) Pleasants and Susannah (Randolph) Harrison.

The Randolphs of Virginia by Robert Isham Randolph, page 126.

References

1. From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Randolph Lewis, 10 January 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-16-02-0055. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 16, 30 November 1789–4 July 1790, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 93–94.]
2. Mary Randolph & Charles Lewis Jun. Marriage: July 15 1746 Goochland County, Virginia Wife: Mary Randolph Husband: Charles Lewis Jun. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M86875-2 System Origin: Virginia-EASy GS Film number: 31650 Reference ID: 3
3. * Albemarle County was formed in 1744.
4. Stanard, William G. "The Randolph Family", in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, no. 2 (Oct 1899), p. 122. < Archive.Org > calls her Mary Randolph.
5. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families. “Col. Charles Lewis of Buck Island and his descendants.” Page 347-382< GoogleBooks >
6. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14905607 (portrait posted as of 25 May 2023 is not her, it’s Mary Randolph Keith Marshall (see https://marshallcemeteryatfederalhill.com/supporting-material-for-c...)
7. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I3378... cites
   1. Genealogies of Virginia Families Vol. V, from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
8. https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm... as “Mary Randolph”
9. https://www.texasdar.org/chapters/MaryIshamKeith/about-mik.html Mary Isham Randolph Keith was a daughter of Thomas and Judith Fleming Randolph of Tuckahoe, Goochland County, Virginia, and granddaughter to Colonel William and Mary Isham Randolph of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia.
10. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lewis-682
11. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Randolph-90
12. If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Mary Randolph" (accessed May 25, 2023) | http://www.palmspringsbum.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I251.... cites
    1. [S212] The Randolphs of Virginia by Robert Isham Randolph, page 126. (Chicago, Illinois: unknown, 1936, 402 pages). (Reliability: 4). < GoogleBooks >
    2. [S306] R. Bolling Batte Papers 1918-1992 by R. Bolling Batte, Lewis, A - Card 71 of 137 (Richmond, Virginia: The Library of Virginia, 1992). (Reliability: 4).
    3. [S306] R. Bolling Batte Papers 1918-1992 by R. Bolling Batte, Lewis, A - Card 72 of 137 (Richmond, Virginia: The Library of Virginia, 1992). (Reliability: 4).
    4. [S306] R. Bolling Batte Papers 1918-1992 by R. Bolling Batte, Lewis, A - Card 81 of 137 (Richmond, Virginia: The Library of Virginia, 1992). (Reliability: 4).
    5. [S306] R. Bolling Batte Papers 1918-1992 by R. Bolling Batte, Lewis, K - Card 80 of 113 (Richmond, Virginia: The Library of Virginia, 1992). (Reliability: 4).
    6. [S309] Records of Lewis, Meriwether and kindred families by Lottie Wright Davis, page 18 (Columbia, Missouri: Artcraft Press, 1951, 182 pages). (Reliability: 3).
    7. [S309] Records of Lewis, Meriwether and kindred families by Lottie Wright Davis, page 19 (Columbia, Missouri: Artcraft Press, 1951, 182 pages). (Reliability: 3).
    8. [S446] Henderson chronicles by John N. McCue, page 16 (39) (unknown: unknown, 1915). (Reliability: 4).

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• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Mary Randolph Wingfield (born Lewis) by SmartCopy: Sep 11 2015, 15:50:44 UTC