Elizabeth Chiswell

Elizabeth Randolph

• Birth: about 1722 - Henrico County, Virginia
• Death: 8 March 1776 - Caroline County, Virginia
• Parents: William Randolph, II, of Chatsworth and Elizabeth Beverley
• Spouse: John Chiswell (1715-1766) married about 1745 (date also seen as 05/19/1736)

John Chiswell married Elizabeth Randolph, daughter of William Randolph of Turkey Island.

Children of John Chiswell (son of Charles Chiswell and Esther of Scotchtown) and Elizabeth Randolph:

• 1. Elizabeth Chiswell; b. 24 May 1737; m. Charles Carter, circa 1755/60; d. 1804 in Fredericksburg, Va.(?)
• 2. Susan Chiswell; b. 1738; m. John Robinson, son of the Hon. John Robinson and Catherine Beverley, 21 Dec 1759; 3rd wife.
• 3. Mary Chiswell, b. 22 Feb 1739; m. Capt. Warner Lewis Jr. of "Warner Hall", died Nov. 1, 1776.
• 4. Lucy Chiswell; b. 3 Aug 1752; m. Col. William Nelson, son of Thomas Nelson and Lucy Armistead, 24 Nov 1770; d. 4 Apr 1810 at age 57.

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Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_II

He [William Randolph II] married Elizabeth Beverley (the daughter of Peter Beverley, a Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer of Virginia) around 1705 and the couple had five children that reached adulthood:

Elizabeth "Betty" Randolph (born ~1725) married Colonel John Chiswell and had at least four daughters who reached adulthood, including Susan R. Chiswell, the wife of John Robinson, the 32nd Speaker of the House of Burgesses.[1]

Note: dates in portrait are c. 1722-1776

Colonial Williamsburg Hotels - Chiswell-Bucktrout House PDF

References

1. https://colonialvirginiaportraits.org/family/ ELIZABETH RANDOLPH CHISWELL (MRS. JOHN CHISWELL, 1715-1776) Artist: JOHN WOLLASTON Date: ca. 1755-1758 Elizabeth Randolph Chiswell was the daughter of William Randolph II of Turkey Island and Elizabeth Beverley Randolph and the sister of William Randolph III of Wilton. Her portrait was commissioned by her brother and hung at Wilton Plantation. Dimensions: 36 x 30 in. (91.44 x 76.2 cm.). The subject wears a gold wrap dress with silver lining and a blue drape around her right arm, which rests on a stone plinth. There is lace at her elbows.
   1. See: David Meschutt, “John Wollaston’s Portraits of the Randolph Family Owned by the Virginia Historical Society,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 16, 4 (October 1984): 449-4; Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South (2013), 231.
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16733831/elizabeth_beverley_chi...
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31364697/john_chiswell
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_II cites
   1. Page, Richard Channing Moore (1893). "Randolph Family". Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia (2 ed.). New York: Press of the Publishers Printing Co. pp. 254-255. < GoogleBooks > Col. John Chiswell and Elizabeth Randolph, his wife, had no surviving sons, so that the surname of Chiswell in Virginia has become extinct. It was pronounced "Chizzle" in those days, and is believed to have been originally written De Choiseul.
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chiswell
   1. 4. "Virginia Gazette. March 8, 1776, p. 3" ("Mrs. ELIZABETH CHISWELL, relict of the late col. John Chiswell, at William Nelson, esqr's, in Caroline. She died in her 54th year, and was a most amiable lady: From her door, the needy were never sent empty away.")
6. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=227977
7. Colonial Williamsburg Hotels PDF
8. Chiswell-Bucktrout House Historical Report, Block 2 Building 17 Lot 253-254. Mary A. Stephenson (1959) < link > CHISWELL-BUCKTROUT HOUSE, Block 2, LOCATION: The house known as the "Chiswell-Bucktrout House" is situated on Francis Street in Williamsburg. The lots are marked "Chiswell" on Tyler's adaptation of the College Map (1791?) and on the Bucktrout Map (1803) of Williamsburg. Because the lots lie in that part of Williamsburg which was in James City county it is difficult if not impossible to get clear titles as court records were largely destroyed by fire during the Civil War. The first known owner and occupant was Colonel John Chiswell who was on the location prior to 1766 at the time of his death. Following his decease, there was a sale of Chiswell's property though Mrs. Chiswell the widow may have continued to live at the property until the sale in 1770. Sometime prior to 1779 Benjamin Bucktrout, a carpenter and cabinet-maker, apparently had acquired the property.