 Susanna Beverly Randolph, daughter of John Randolph and Ariana Jenings.Born 1755 at Williamsburg, Henrico Co, VA, died Oct 16, 1791 at England, 35 or 36 years Susannah Beverley Randolph Born ca. 1755 in Williamsburg, Virginia Parents: John and Ariana Jenings Randolph Siblings: Edmund and Ariana Education: unknown but likely learned to read at a local Williamsburg school Accomplished on the harpsichord and guitar, suggesting typical education of a genteel young lady of colonial Virginia Spouse: John Randolph Grymes Resided in Williamsburg 1755 – 1775 Resided in England 1775 – 1791 Occupation: housewife Children: Ariana, Mary, and Charles Died October 16, 1791 in England Married/ Related to:  John Randolph GrymesDied UNKNOWN Children: 1. Ariana GrymesDied UNKNOWN 2. Mary GrymesDied UNKNOWN Historical and Genealogical Notes William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jul., 1897), pp. 57-70. GRYMES-MAURY. - Dr. Joseph Leidy send the following extracts from Walker Maury's Bible records: Mary Grymes, born Aug. 25, 1758; died Sept. 23, 1839; burined at Bellegrove. Walker Maury, born July 21, 1752; died October 11, 1788, of yellow fever, Norfolk. Married March 7, 1777, in Williamsburg. Children: Mary Stith Maury, born June 7, 1778; James Walker Maury, born March 18, 1779; Leonard Hill Maury, born December 4, 1780; Ann Tunstall Maury, born September 5, 1782; William Grymes Maury, born March 29, 1784; Penelope Johnstone Maury, born June 23, 1785; Matthew Fontaine Maury, born September 15, 1786; Catherine Ann Maury, born May 20, 1788. Wm. Grymes Maury's first daughter was named Mary Dawson Maury; first son, Ludwell Grymes Maury. The will of Mary Grymes, dated May 15, 1787, and proved June 23, 1788, and other records of Orange county, show that Mary Maury was daughter of Ludwell Grymes. The will mentions daughter Hannah Grymes, son John Grymes; legacies to Mary Maury, daughter of Rev. Walker Maury, and to Mary Moore, daughter of William Moore. Mary Grymes frees certain negroes at twenty-two years, and enjoins "each legatee to teach or cause to be taught each negro respectively to read," and the General Assembly to be petitioned, in case any difficulty exists as to their manumission "from my being a femme covert." Hon. James Madison, Esqr., Hardin Burnley, Thomas Barbour, Esqr., and Mr. Henry Fry, executors. In 1795, there is in the Orange records an account of John D. Grymes, as administrator of Ludwell Grymes, in which he charges for expenses incurred by "travelling to Williamsburg to attend suits in the high court of chancery," between Ludwell Grymes and Walker Maury, and by having "the graves of his father and mother paled in." Mary Grymes, the wife of Ludwell Grymes, was Mary Dawson. The following obituary, which appeared in the Nashville, Tenn., Republican Banner, April 15, 1852, is of interest: "Died -- On Wednesday, March 31st, 1852, at the residence of her son-in- law, W. C. Richmond, Esq., of Robertson County, Tenn., Elizabeth Johnson Moore, relict of the late Rev. William Moore, in the 87th year of her age. Mrs. Moore was born in Gloucester county, Va., and was the second daughter of Ludwell and Mary Grimes (or Grymes) and granddaughter of Rev. William Dawson, of William and Mary College. Her parents removed to Burlington, their country seat in Orange county, where she married the Rev. Wm. Moore, then an itinerant Methodist minister and settled in Fluvanna county, where they re- mained a few years, and afterwards moved to the vicinity of Milton, N.C., where they raised their family, and in 1820 removed to Robertson county, Tenn. She was descended from pure old Virginia blood, being connected with the Lees, Pages, Randolphs, Maurys, and Dawsons, and was a woman of Page 209. great vivacity of spirit in early life, of unbounded benevolence and charity, a great talker and fine reader, in a word the idol of her company, but in after life she became much afflicted and was subject to great melancholy, and a few years before her death lost her eyesight, which deprived her of her last earthly enjoyment, reading. She lived to see her fourth generation, and wore out the cord of life thread by thread until the last fibre parted and she died without a struggle. She was a member of the Baptist Church thirty years before her death." Mr. E. D. Richards, of Nashville, Tenn., under date January 8, 1895, writes that Mrs. Moore left three daughters, one of whom married W. C. Richmond, the writer of the above obituary, and had seven or eight children, all of whom died young. Another daughter married a Mr. Durrett, and they have quite a number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren living in Robertson county, Tenn. The third daughter married Mr. Richards' grandfather (Durrett Richards) at Milton, N.C., and died about 1820. 3. Charles GrymesDied UNKNOWN | |||