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Martha "Patsy" Randolph (née Jefferson; September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836) was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
Martha Jefferson Randolph (September 27, 1772 - October 10, 1836), known as "Patsy" in her youth, was the eldest child of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Educated in Philadelphia and Paris during the 1780s, [1] she married her third cousin, Thomas Mann Randolph , at Monticello on February 23, 1790. [2]
Martha Jefferson Randolph was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and the wife of Thomas Mann Randolph, who served as governor of Virginia from 1819 to 1822.
Martha Jefferson Randolph Thomas Jefferson’s wife, Martha, died many years before his presidency. As a result, their eldest daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph stepped into the role of first lady and hostess when he became president.
Of the first four First Ladies, the least is known about Martha Jefferson. Though she died about 18 and a half years before Thomas Jefferson became president, she is still considered a First Lady because she is the only spouse he had.
Randolph, Martha Jefferson (1775–1836) American hostess and close companion of her father Thomas Jefferson. Name variations: Patsy Randolph.
Martha Jefferson is best known for being the wife of Thomas Jefferson and the mother of their six children. Despite her early death, she left a significant legacy through her influence on Jefferson and her management of Monticello.
Thomas Jefferson had been a widower for almost two decades by the time he was inaugurated, allowing his daughter Martha “Patsy” Randolph to take on the role of ‘first lady.’.
When Thomas Sully painted this portrait of Randolph, she had outlived both her father and her husband. She appears in a black mourning dress; her serious face with its firm jaw is framed by jaunty curls and frills of imported lace.
Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, often managed the Monticello household after Jefferson's retirement. On Mulberry Row, she oversaw the wash house, dairy, smokehouses, and textile workshop.