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.
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
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. He was also the second vice president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A prolific wri
Martha Jefferson Randolph
…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. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia…
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, where Jefferson studied in 1761 and 1762
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
The Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson largely wrote in isolation between June 11 and 28, 1776, from a floor he was renting in a home at 700 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia, contain "the most potent and consequential words in American history," historian Joseph Ellis later wrote.