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Peyton Randolph House
2008
50.8 x 152.4 cms | 20 x 60 ins
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Peyton Randolph House, Williamsburg, Virginia
Oil painting by Gulay Berryman
Peyton Randolph House, located on Nicholson Street, is one of the most historic and beautiful of Colonial Wiliamsburg’s 18th century homes. Peyton Randolph (1721-1773), a cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Speaker of the House of Burgesses for nine years, and President of the First and Second Continental Congresses, lived in this house from 1745 until he died in 1773. Other historic figures who took shelter there include General Rochambeau and the Marquis de Lafayette. Randolph brought his wife, Betty Harrison Randolph, to the house around 1751. It became a hub of political activity, when Randolph was elected the Presiding Officer of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. After her husband's death, widow Betty Randolph opened her home to French General Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, and General George Washington in their preparation for the siege of Yorktown in 1781. The house served as the French headquarters until they moved to the field.
Peyton Randolph House, Williamsburg, Virginia
Oil painting by Gulay Berryman, 20 x 60 in.
Peyton Randolph House, located on Nicholson Street, is one of the most historic and beautiful of Colonial Williamsburg’s 18th century homes. Peyton Randolph (1721-1773), a cousin of Thomas Jefferson, was Speaker of the House of Burgesses for nine years, President of the First and Second Continental Congresses, and lived in this house from 1745 until he died in 1773. Other historic figures who took shelter here included General Rochambeau and the Marquis de Lafayette. Randolph brought his wife, Betty Harrison Randolph, to the house around 1751. It became a hub of political activity when Randolph was elected the Presiding Officer of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. After her husband's death, widow Betty Randolph opened her home to French General Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, and General George Washington in their preparations for the siege of Yorktown in 1781. The house served as the French headquarters until they moved to the field.
