William Randolph II of Wilton, also known as William Randolph, Junior. or Councillor Randolph, was the Treasurer of Virginia and the oldest child of William Randolph and Mary Isham.
Background
Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia in 1681 and resided there his entire life. He 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:.
Career
Beverley Randolph (born ~1706) married Elizabeth Lightfoot and had no children. Peter Randolph (born ~1708) married Robert Bolling Junior."s daughter, Lucille Bolling. They had four children, including Beverley Randolph, the eighth Governor of Virginia and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh, William Fitzhugh"s wife.
William Randolph III (born ~1710) married Anne Harrison, the daughter of Benjamin Harrison IV, and had five children.
Mary Randolph (1704-1777) married Joseph Rentfro
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. Randolph was a great-uncle of United States President Thomas Jefferson.
They had six children. The town of was established on land that had been owned by Randolph.
Jefferson was one of a number of important Virginians, including Carter Braxton, Joshua Fry, John Hunter, Robert Rose, and William Stith. who purchased lots in the new town.