page_title: Ann Cary Randolph Morris
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Ann Cary Randolph Morris / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tuckahoe Plantation - view of the Whole House.
context_page_description: Ann Cary Randolph Morris, whose nickname was Nancy, was the daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and the wife of Gouverneur Morris. Two books have been written about her and the scandal she was embroiled in—Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman - and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America and Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America—with Richard Randolph, her brother-in-law and distant cousin.
  After a difficult young adulthood, she had a life of some stability and social prominence after she married Gouverneur Morris, who died in 1816. She was devoted to her son, Gouverneur Morris Jr., who she called her "richest treasure". They lived at Morrisania. He had the St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Bronx built in her memory.
context_section_description: Ann Cary Randolph was born near Richmond, Virginia on the Tuckahoe Plantation. Her parents were Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. and Ann Cary Randolph and she had 12 siblings. They were among the aristocratic, plantation-owning Randolph family of Virginia, descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island, Virginia.
  [Tuckahoe plantation was] the scene of boisterous barbecues, fish fries, and fancy dress balls. The clapboard mansion was known throughout the colonies for its fine walnut paneling and fragrant boxwood gardens. Done up in velvet and gold, the colonel’s bedroom was the stuff of legend; the stables housed some of the fastest horses in the South.
  — Alan Pell Crawford
  During her childhood, she and her cousin Martha Jefferson Randolph were close friends. Her mother died in March 1789. The following year, in September 1790, her father married a woman about Ann's age named Gabriela. By the age of 16, Ann had a number of suitors. She was described as "by every indication a fetching girl with a 'little upturned nose,' a gift for self-dramatization, remarkably little in the way of discretion, and oodles of sex appeal." Ann and her stepmother fought and Ann was asked to leave the house.
caption: Tuckahoe Plantation, the birthplace and childhood home of Ann Cary Randolph Morris.
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