Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-05
From the National GGze'ie.
LETTER FROM JOHN RANDOLPH.

M deur or: TOUT letttr OF me Gzu has 'd'h
on my table several days, during which time
actually have not had as much leisure as would
suffice to thank you for il; for to write in the
House now End impossible-of,en catching my
sell in the act Of committing to paper the words
that are floating around me, instead Ut those which
should convey my meaning.
perceive that Dr.. Smiths Essay on the va
riety of Complexion in the Human Species mas
been treated in the American Review wish
the Reviewer could have been acquainted with a
circumstance which proves how much greater
was the reverend authors anxiety Tor his HyPo'
thesis (no uncommon CASEY than Tor ms facts
Nv brother (Theodorick) and myself are "the
two young gentlemen referred 10 10 page ~ OF
the "Strictures on Lord kaius' III 'he hrs'
edition: Philad. 1887. DIR. 5. there states, cor
rectIy enough, "there is at present in the Col
lese of New Jersey.'' SC ; We came to Prince
ton about the last Of that year, entered college,
after some months past in the grammar school,
and finally left il in December OF the same year.
10 the late edltinn (p $751; he says "there re-
sided 10 the college of New jersey. in the years
seventeen hundred and eighty .fre, sic and Sc
ven.'' Sc. Why this variety in the complexion
Of the essau | am at loss to tell. But this is
not all. He called US into his library and inter.
rogated US about our Indian descrnt-we kne"
ao,h,ns more than that we derived il through our
grand mother, whom it suited him to make the
daughter Of Pocahon,as, 10 order that We might
be IN defiance Of time aud fact in the fourth de
scent from her. file gave Us, about that tine,
copy of his essays, which now lies before me.
with NV marginal notes. cannot think oil
Princeton (~kere my ardor for learning was hrss
damped) with any sort OF patience.
limo l6IS-Pocahontas alias " Matoahs. or
Matoaha." bapt,sed IN the Christian faith by the
IN tha ~
Prince Powhatsn, Emperor Of Acknowledgements
alias virginia" became the "wife Of the wor-
sh,pful Mr. John Rolfe. - Grange,'s Biog /:
History OF Eug vol. 81, p. 57.-st,h, Bever-
ley. SC.
She died at Gravesend, in 1917. leaving an on
~ son Thomas, whose only daughter
Jane married in 1875 Robert Boiling. of the
family of Boiling, Of Boiling Hall. near Bradford,
in the West Riding OF York. MSS in my pos
session: old family record, This Robert Boil
ing emigrated to Virginia in 1860. (married Jane
Rolfe as above IN 1875 lived at k'ppax. ~ the
county OF Pence George. aud is there inferred.
lie died in 1909. July 18th. BY this marriage
he had one son John, whose eldest son john, d
great Merchant and Indian Trader, settled at
Cobb's, in the county Of Chesterfield, IN the APP
pomatox. He married Mary, daughter Of Rich
ard KennoD, ESQ. Of Conjurer's neck. by whom
he had john. born Jan. 90, 1900, died at Cubb's,
April 90, 1899.
Jane, (my srandmOthcr) born l70S, married
to Richard Randolph Of Carrie, fourth son OF VIII
ham RandoIp pm of Turkey Island "a gentleman of
Yorksbire,) whose youngest son John, born in
| 1742, married in l769 Frances, daughter Of
Thentorick Bland. OF Cawscns toi the family of
and Of kppax Park, near Ferry bridge in the
west riding of York; John Z. died at Matoax
in l775 Theodorick Bland and John RandoI pb,
sons Of this marriage, are the "t~o young gen
tlemen" referred to in Mr.. Smiths Essay.
l. Ppcahontas; Q. Thomas Rote; 5. Jane Boil
ling: 4. John Boiling the elder; 5. John Boiling
the younger; 6. Jane Randolph; 7, John Ran
dol ph Of Roanoke the elder; 8, John Randolph
of Roanoke the younger: making Just seren de.
scents from Pscahon,as, instead of " four
The other children Of John Boiling aud Mary
! kennOr, his wife, were
! Elizabeth, born l709. married DR.. VIM. Gay;
| Mary. married John Fleming, 'Gurn in III;
Anne, married James Murray. born III l7l8.
Burke also fal,ifies the account Of the descen
dants OF Pocahonias He makes Jane Boiling
(my grandmo,her) marry Boiling. The mis-
take was intentional with Burke, for he had the
Boiling MSS. before him.
William Randolph Of Yorkshire settled at Tur-
key Island in Virginia, and married Mary. daugh-
ter Of Henry and Cathafine lsham. Their sons
were-4. William Of Turkey Island, from whom
descended Beverley (d,ed without issue -Pefer
OF Chaisworth, father Of the late Beverley aud of
Mrs. Fiizhush Of Chatham. who. thereupon, sold
Turkey Island to my uncle Ryland land va
ham Of Neutrality-suspicious. of the present
! Witon)-Mrs. ChisueH and Mrs. Price. 9.
Thomas Of Tuckahoe (great grandfather of Tho
mas Mann. MIR. Jefierson's son In.law) 8. Ish.
/ # n,.~ L.. Al 4 n
Thomas Of Duueeness-Jdne. married Peter
] fersnn, and bore him Thomas, the late Prcsi.
dent, &c.-.a,ne married James Peasants ia.
Their Of my colleague)-Sukey married Carter
Harrison OF Clifton. 4, Richard of Carries, mar
ried Jane Boiling. and had Mary (Cary)-Rich
ard. married Anne Meade-Jane (UaMer)
Bren-Ryhand Of Turkey Island-EisaLefh.
married Richard Kidder Meade-John of Roam.
oke. S, Sir John, (Kn'D father of Peyton, Pre-
sident Of Congress, and of John (Edmund's ia
ther) Attorney General of the Colony. +, Hen
~. Z, Edward, who married Miss Grover, a
Ken,ish beiress Their daughters werc-s, Ma.
nv, married William Stth by whom she had