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Whereas I have appointed by my will that my dear only son Thomas Mann
Randolph should have a private education given him in my house at Tuckahoe, my will is that my dear and loving friend Mr. Peter Jefferson do move down with his family to my Tuckahoe house and remain there till my son comes of age
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William's mother was Judith
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visited Judith and questioned the difficulties the eighteen-year-old might face for taking on significant responsibilities before getting a good education. In any event, Randolph became an able manager of the family's plantation and fit in well with the
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was built by his father in 1720 in exchange for 54,990 pounds of tobacco. Until 1728, the area was mostly wilderness with just a few homesteads. Thomas died in 1730. Judith married
Nicolas Davies, an immigrant from Wales, on December 24, 1733.
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Tuckahoe at that time) married Judith
Fleming on October 16, 1712. 2) She married Nicholas Davies in 1733, and she was the sister of John and Tarleton Fleming. 3) Two deeds showed that William Randolph's mother was Judith Fleming Davies.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate
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In 1859, there were 62 slaves that worked in the house, as cooks, a smith, or as field hands. From the records of that time, children began working in the fields by age 11.
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A 1936 view from the schoolhouse of boxwood maze, which was destroyed in the 1970s by blight. A path lined by boxwood plants was created along the former maze's perimeter.
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