William Beverly Randolph

Seen as the son of John of ‘Mattoax’ Randolph. Is there evidence?

Paschal Beverly Randolph was born October 8, 1825 in New York City, New York.[1] He was a illegitimate son of William Beverly Randolph and Flora Myers. His mother was black and his father was white man who abandoned him following his mother’s early death from smallpox in 1932.

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

Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875) was an American medical doctor, occultist, spiritualist, trance medium, and writer. He is notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of erotic alchemy to North America, and, according to A. E. Waite, establishing the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States.[1] Born in New York City,[2] Randolph grew up in New York City and was baptized at the Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal (Manhattan).[3] He was a free black man, a descendant of William Randolph. His father was a nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke and his mother was Flora Beverly, whom he later described as being of mixed English, French, German, Native American and African ancestry.[4] His mother died when he was young, leaving him homeless and penniless; he ran away to sea in order to support himself. From his adolescence through to the age of twenty, he worked as a sailor.[2]

References

• 1. United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [online database] FamilySearch. Pascal Beverly Randolph, 07 Apr 1855; citing Passport Application, , source certificate #, Passport Applications, 1795-1905., 50
• New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:249V-HFW : 19 August 2022), William Beverly Randolph in entry for Paschal Randolph and Augusta Shore Thomson, 1872.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschal_Beverly_Randolph
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Randolph-2731