Martha Skelton Jefferson was the wife of Thomas Jefferson from 1772 until her death in 1782. She served as First Lady of Virginia during Jefferson's term as governor from 1779 to 1781. She died in 178
Mather Brown, Thomas Jefferson, 1786, oil painting, National Portrait Gallery
Original front elevation drawing of Monticello, 1771
Governor's Palace, Governor Jefferson's residence in Williamsburg
Monticello Family Graveyard, including Thomas Jefferson's gravesite
Martha "Patsy" Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Martha Jefferson
…1779 to 1781. She died in 1782, 19 years before he became president. Of the six children born to Thomas and Martha, only two survived to adulthood, Martha and Mary. Martha died four months after the birth of her last child. The couple's letters to one another were burned, though by whom is unknown, and…
1836 portrait by Thomas Sully
John Rogers, after portrait by Thomas Sully, Mrs. Thomas M. Randolph (Martha Jefferson), 1880, three-quarter-length engraving. Martha Jefferson Randolph was tall and slim with angular features and red hair, and was said to have closely resembled her father, to whom she was devoted.
Pentemont Abbey (French: Abbaye de Penthemont), was an exclusive convent school in Paris, France that Randolph attended when her father was U.S. Minister to France
Edmund P. Archer, after an unsigned and undated portrait, Thomas Mann Randolph, ca. 1928, oil, Commonwealth of Virginia's art collection, Library of Virginia