. Historic Virginia homes and churches . .*». - ?• V .,-*.;• ^j^ W-t^. BELMEAD. POWHATAN COUNTY RICHMOND AND THE IITER JAMES 171 floor to ceiling with black walnut. ^V fine stairway of thesame wood, with haiul-carved halustraile. adds to the beautyof the hall. This hall was furnished with four .sofas, twoon each side, besides chairs, and served the double pur-pose of a cool retreat in summer and an occasionalball-room. Upon .several of the tiny panes of glass in the windowsmay be seen the names of .some of the Randolphs andtheir friends, scratched with diamonds liefore the Revo-lution. Tuckaho
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . .*». - ?• V .,-*.;• ^j^ W-t^. BELMEAD. POWHATAN COUNTY RICHMOND AND THE IITER JAMES 171 floor to ceiling with black walnut. ^V fine stairway of thesame wood, with haiul-carved halustraile. adds to the beautyof the hall. This hall was furnished with four .sofas, twoon each side, besides chairs, and served the double pur-pose of a cool retreat in summer and an occasionalball-room. Upon .several of the tiny panes of glass in the windowsmay be seen the names of .some of the Randolphs andtheir friends, scratched with diamonds liefore the Revo-lution. Tuckahoe was built by Thomas Randolph (1689-1730),of Turkey Island, who was a burgess for Henrico andcommander-in-chief of (ioochland at the time that countywas formed. He married Judith Fleming and was thefather of Judith Randolph, who married Reverend WilliamStith (), president of William and Mary Col-lege and historian of Virginia, and of Mary Randolph,who liecame the wife of Reverend James Keith (and wasthe grandmother of Chief Justice Marshall). ThomasRandol
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