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Randolph was born on October 1, 1768, at Tuckahoe, the Goochland County estate of his parents Thomas Mann Randolph and his first wife, Anne Cary Randolph. His twelve siblings included Mary Randolph Randolph, author of
The Virginia House-Wife (1824); Judith Randolph Randolph, who as her husband‘s executor carried out the manumission and resettlement of more than seventy slaves; Ann Cary “Nancy” Randolph Morris, who became embroiled in a cause célèbre when accused of adultery with her brother-in-law and infanticide in 1792; and Virginia Randolph Cary, author of
Letters on Female Character, Addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of Her Mother (1828). Randolph was educated by a tutor during his childhood and attended the College of William and Mary in 1783. By October 1784 he was at the University of Edinburgh, where he was elected a member of the university’s Society for the Investigation of Natural History in December 1785. In November of that year Thomas Jefferson o