
Any pursuit of genealogy that includes Colonial Virginia will inevitably include William and Mary (Isham) Randolph.
This project hopefully will provide assistance in understanding the life and times of ancestors who are connected to William & Mary Randolph.
The Randolph Family was wealthy and highly influential political family whereby their descendants served as Legislators in Congress, Chief Justice of the United States, Secretary of State, and President.
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The Randolph Family of Virginia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_family_of_Virginia]
William & Mary College [http://www.wm.edu/index.php] "is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Privately founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard University and the oldest in the American South. William & Mary is considered one of the original "Public Ivies," a term coined by Richard Moll in 1985 for publicly funded universities providing a quality of education claimed to be comparable to that available in the Ivy League" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary]
CDROM:: Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Genealogies%20of%20Virginia%20...]
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