. Historic Virginia homes and churches . s Jane, a daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dunge-ness, who was great-uncle to the said Thomas Mann) cameto Tuckahoe, bringing with him his son Thomas, and tookthe estate and the family under his charge. It thus befellthat Thomas Jefferson, when a lad, went to school withhis cousins, the Randolph children, in the tiny school-housestill to be seen in the yard at Tuckahoe. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, was a memberof the House of Burgesses, and. after the Revolution, of Iri VIRCIXIA IIOMKS AND CHURCHES the Vir-riiiia Lc-islaturf. liy his first marriage
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . s Jane, a daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dunge-ness, who was great-uncle to the said Thomas Mann) cameto Tuckahoe, bringing with him his son Thomas, and tookthe estate and the family under his charge. It thus befellthat Thomas Jefferson, when a lad, went to school withhis cousins, the Randolph children, in the tiny school-housestill to be seen in the yard at Tuckahoe. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, was a memberof the House of Burgesses, and. after the Revolution, of Iri VIRCIXIA IIOMKS AND CHURCHES the Vir-riiiia Lc-islaturf. liy his first marriage with Anne,daughter of Archihahl Cary, of Aniptliill, he was thefatlier of (among several otlier children) Thomas MannRandolph, of Edge Hill. All)emarle County, governor of\irginia. and hv his second marriage, with Gabriellallarvie. of another Thomas Mann Randolph, who inheritedTuckahoe, hut who sold it in 1830 to Edwin Wight, ofRichmond. Mr. \Vight sold it twenty years later to JosephAllen, from whom it passed to Major Richard Allen and. SCHOOL-HOUSE AT TUCKAHOEWhere Thomas Jefferson went to school his wife, who was ]Miss Virginia ^Mitchell, a famous beautyand belle of Richmond. In 1898 the old place againchanged hands, this time becoming once more the prop-erty of those of Randolph blood—the Coolidge familyof Boston, descendants of Governor Thomas MannRandolph, who still own it. The social history of Tuckahoe has been William Byrd in his Progress to the Mines de-scribes a visit there in 1732 and from that time on manydistinguished men have been sheltered by this famous oldroof-tree. The house was divided in opinion during the RICHMOND AM) TIIH riMKlt JAMKS 17:5 Itcvoliitioii and hotli AVasliinnton and Coinwallis arc saidto have tiijovcd its hospitality. Of comse Tiickahoe has its ghosts. Creepy stories aretohl of the shade of a murdered pedler whieh haunts thesoutlieast elianil)er and a distressed hride, witli llou in^locks and wrinin^ hands, who paces the
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