Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-09-24
Obituary Notice and Memoir.

Died, at his seat of Eastern View, in the
county of Fauquier, Colonel ROBERT RAN.
DoLPH, in the 65th year of his age.
Col. Randolph entered the Army of the Re-
volLtion at the age of sixteen, and with Will
liam Washington and Others of the Virginia
youth, joined the Sd Regiment of the line,
commanded by the gallant and lamented Gen.
eral Mercer, in the ever memorable campaign
of 1776. Soon after the close Of this eveRtful
campaign, the young Vrgini:sns were both
transferred TO the cavaiy regiment of Baylor
In 177S, the regiment was surprised by par
ty of British light infantry, led by Major Gen
eral Grey-the party, ploted by tories, ap-
preached their victims, who were naked and
asleep in barn. The guards being slam,
they rushed upon the defenceless dragons,
and Showed only the mercy of the bayonet
Baylor received many wounds, of which he
languished and finally died, after some wears
Of suffering. Maj p Glow, gallant and most
deserving officer, was literally pinned to the
ground. When tired of their work of slaugh-
ter, few prisoners were made, among the
number young Randolph. Fortunately Wash
ington was absent from the corps on this night
of horrors, and thus happily reserved to re-
venge his murdered comrades, not in kind, for
an arm like his disdained to strike an unresst.
ing foe, but to take large interest of blood,
i'll the brave and manly combats of Guilford
and the Cowpens.
After long Imprisonment, Randolph was
exchanged and rejoned the army, to act as
aid-de-camp to Major General Wayne, at the
battle Of Green Spring, in the campaign of
1871.
AT the close of the war of independence,
the young soldier laid down his arms, and set
tied as most Jealous and successful agricul-
turalst, in the county of Fauquier. After
life Of early devotion to his country's cause,
and of active and honourable pursuits, the
mind of the subject of this memoir becarn.
turned toward better things, and many years
Of seriousness, no doubt, has prepared him for
''another and better world" He died with
the resignation Off christian and the frmness
of a soldier, in the midst of a large and affiec
tomato family, and was buried with military
honours.
Thus has another revolutionary worthy been
stricken from the muster roll of mortality
may the few surviving heroes and fathers Of
the republic enjoy all that ''peace on earth"
which belongs to life well spent, and which
the devotion and gratitude of ten millions OF
freemen Can give them, and when called to
the general muster above, may that 'peace
which passeth all understanding" be their
divine reward in the realms of eternal LIFE"
1t was truly fortunate and happy for the ve-
teran, that the last act of his public life,
should have been fraught with such peculiar
interest and feeling. He presided at the fes-
tival ofwelcome given by the citizens of Fau-
quier, to the good La Fayette, and was asso-
ciated IN this Ceremony with Marshall, with
Long, with Johnson, and other worthless of
the old Revolutionary day. Randolph, like
La Fayette, had taken up arms in the cause
of Liberty, while the down of manhood was
yet wanting ON his chin. They had both sur
vived very many of their compatriots, and
witnessed the perfection of their work, in the
establishment, prosperity. and happiness, of a
great empire, and were both grandparents to
third generation-they embraced, it was for
the last time, for on earth they will meet no
more.