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	Peyton Randolph
		Peyton Randolph was appointed chairman of a committee to draft protests to the king, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons maintaining the colony's exclusive right of self-taxation.
		Peyton Randolph was elected Speaker on November 6, 1766, succeeding the deceased Robinson and defeating Richard Henry Lee.
		Peyton Randolph was in the chair again at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond on March 23 when Patrick Henry rose and made his "Liberty or Death" speech in favor of the formation of a statewide militia.
	www.history.org /Almanack/people/bios/biorapey.cfm (2062 words)

	Edmund Randolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Randolph was born at Tazewell Hall to the prominent colonial Randolph family in Williamsburg, Virginia, and he was educated in law at the College of William and Mary.
		Upon the death of his uncle Peyton Randolph he went to Virginia to act as executor of the estate, and while there was elected as a representative to the state constitutional convention.
		Randolph, however, refused to sign the final document, believing the form of government it would engender had insufficient checks and balances, and published an account of his objections in October 1787.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Randolph (589 words)

	Peyton Randolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peyton Randolph (September, 1721 – October 21, 1775) was the first President of the Continental Congress.
		Randolph was born in Virginia, at Tazewell Hall in Williamsburg.
		Randolph was selected to chair in both the First and Second Continental Congresses, in large part due to his reputation for leadership while in the House of Burgesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peyton_Randolph (662 words)

	Peyton Randolph
		Peyton Randolph was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1721 and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 October 1775.
		In 1754 Randolph was commissioned by the Virginia House of the Burgesses to appeal the unconstitutionality of the "Pistole Fee" exaction by Governor Dinwiddie to the English ministry in London.
		Peyton Randolph presided over the Virginia convention of August 1, 1774 and was the first of seven deputies appointed by it to the proposed congress at Philadelphia.
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	peyton randolph
		Peyton Randolph was born in Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1721; died October 22, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		R.andolph's promised compensation for the London mission, £2,500, caused a long struggle between the governor and the burgesses, who made the sum a rider to one of £20,000 voted for the Indian war.
		Randolph resumed his duties as speaker of the burgesses in May, 1775, and after their adjournment he returned to the congress at Philadelphia, where he died of apoplexy.
	www.davidstuff.com /historical/randolph.htm (1053 words)

	Chapter Autobiography of Autobiography by Thomas Jefferson
		Peyton Randolph informed the convention he had received such a paper from a member prevented by sickness from offering it in his place, and he laid it on the table for perusal.
		Randolph was according to expectation obliged to leave the chair of Congress to attend the Gen. Assembly summoned by Ld.
		Randolph accordingly attended, and the tenor of these propositions being generally known, as having been addressed to all the governors, he was anxious that the answer of our assembly, likely to be the first, should harmonize with what he knew to be the sentiments and wishes of the body he had recently left.
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	Peyton Randolph
		Peyton Randolph was occupied with a revision of the laws, being chairman of a committee for that purpose.
		Peyton Randolph led the community to Bruton Parish Church on June 1st to pray for Boston, and soon he was organizing a Williamsburg drive to send provisions and cash for its relief.
		Peyton Randolph led the Virginia delegation to the Second Continental Congress in May 1775, and he again took the chair.
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	Descendants of John Randoll, 1470 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Randolph Jr.-[15915] was born on 11-1-1681 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia, died on 10-19-1742 in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia at age 60, and was buried in Turkey Island Plantation, Henrico County, Virginia.
		Peyton Randolph-[15995] was born in 1721 in Williamsburg, Virginia, died on 10-22-1775 in Philadelphia at age 54, and was buried in William And Mary College, Virginia.
		Randolph was educated at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and became a member of the Virginia bar in 1744.
	www.livelyroots.com /randoll/d1.htm (10451 words)

	Peyton Randolph House at Colonial Williamsburg
		Peyton Randolph, Speaker of Virginia's House of Burgesses in the years leading to the Revolution, brought his wife, Betty Harrison Randolph, to the home by 1751.
		Peyton and Betty Randolph had no children and, after her death and according to directions in Betty Randolphâs will, the house was sold at auction on February 19, 1783.
		By 1824, the house was in the possession of Mary Monroe Peachy.
	www.history.org /Almanack/places/hb/hbran.cfm (912 words)

	Peyton Randolph
		The American politician Peyton Randolph was born at Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1721, a son of Sir John Randolph (1693-1737), the king's attorney for Virginia.
		Randolph wrote the address of remonstrance to the king in behalf of the Burgesses against the suggested stamp duties in 1764.
		Randolph died of apoplexy in Philadelphia on the 22nd of October 1775.
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	Randolph
		Peyton Randolph, born at Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, Va. in September 1721, graduated from William and Mary College and studied law in England at Inner Temple, London.
		Randolph was reclassified CVS-15 on 31 March 1959, and conducted ASW operations off the east coast throughout that year and the next, receiving her fourth Battle Efficiency "E" in a row in September 1960.
		Randolph was placed out of commission, in reserve, berthed at Philadelphia, 13 February 1969, where she remained until 1 June 1973 when she was stricken from the Navy list.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/r2/randolph-ii.htm (1297 words)

	Peyton Randolph Biography / Biography of Peyton Randolph Biography
		Randolph was an early patriot who pushed for independence and his contributions to the movement for American independence and democracy were significant and long-lasting.
		Peyton Randolph was born in the Tazewell Hall section of Williamsburg, Virginia, sometime during September of 1721 to Sir John and Susanna (Beverly) Randolph.
		Randolph's father was very prominent in Virginia politics as the King's attorney for the colony of Virginia.
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	Peyton Randolph
		Randolph dropped all claim to the money and turned to from his duties as Attorney General further scaling back his compensation forming an association to deal with the disastrous defeat.
		Peyton Randolph traveled to Pennsylvania with the Virginia delegation in late August of 1774.
		Peyton Randolph's Congress first consideration to address their grievances with Great Britain was a placed on the table by Pennsylvania Delegate Joseph Galloway.
	www.peytonrandolph.com (4469 words)

	Asheboro / Randolph Chamber of Commerce - Discover Randolph County
		Randolph County is in the central section of the state and is bounded by Chatham, Moore, Montgomery, Davidson, Guilford and Alamance Counties.
		Randolph County is a part of the Piedmont Triad region, a six-county area whose central location puts it within 90 miles of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west and within 200 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
		Although Randolph County is a part of the largest metropolitan area located entirely within North Carolina, it is still small-town living at its best - close enough to larger cities to have access to the amenities, but small enough to escape such urban problems as traffic congestion, higher unemployment, and an increasing crime rate.
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	Presidents of the United States
		Peyton Randolph traveled to Pennsylvania and Continental Congress was officially formed on September 5, 1774 in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall to petition King George III after England passed the Intolerable Acts.
		The debates at this tavern meeting were significant as the decision was made to hold the First Continental Congress in a private, rather than public hall.
		Although Middleton's tenure as President was only four days and Peyton Randolph was re-elected in 1775, the following Petition of Congress to King George III passed during his Presidency and was unanimously approved and sent to Great Britain
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	EDMUNDRANDOLPH
		Contact US Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813) Governor of Virginia: Randolph attended the College of William and Mary, then studied law under his father, John Randolph.
		He served as a delegate to the Virginia Convention in 1776, Attorney-General of Virginia from 1776 to 1786, a member of Congress in 1779, and Governor of Virginia from 1781 to 1782.
		Randolph was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention of 1786, and attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where he presented the Virginia Plan.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/RANDOLPHEdmund.html (197 words)

	American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by
		Peyton's father, Sir John Randolph (1693-1736), was an avid collector of Virginia documents and had hoped to write a history of the colony.
		Sir John Randolph (1693-1736) of Henrico was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and the King's Attorney in Virginia.
		His son Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) also held those offices and was Thomas Jefferson's mentor in the House of Burgesses in the 1760s and '70s.
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	JOHN RANDOLPH - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN RANDOLPH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was a member of an influential and wealthy Virginian family, and was the third and youngest son of John Randolph of Cawsons, Chesterfield county, where he was born on the 2nd of June 1773.
		After the accession of Jefferson to the presidency in 1801, Randolph was appointed chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and as such was naturally the leader of the Republican majority in the House.
		He took an active part in agitating for the reform of the judiciary, and in 1804 moved the impeachment of Judge Samuel Chase (q.v.), acting as the leader of prosecution in the trial before the Senate.
	85.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RANDOLPH_JOHN.htm (486 words)

	Williamsburg, VA, A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 60
		Peyton, on the other hand, was so supportive of the American cause, he was elected speaker of the Continental Congress.
		For more than fifty years this was the home of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), who served the Colony of Virginia in many of its highest governmental offices and became the first president of the Continental Congress.
		Peyton Randolph House — Peyton Randolph, as mentioned earlier, was the son of Sir John Randolph, and was a patriot for the American cause.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute60/williamsburg (2643 words)

	prhdewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Randolph family owned four acres of land in Williamsburg (while most men were lucky to have ½ an acre) and numerous plantations throughout the colony.
		Even though the Randolph’s did not have children of their own, the house was perpetually aflutter with the activity of numerous nieces and nephews, cousins and friends staying with them.
		Randolph also took care of her orphaned niece, Betsy Harrison, teaching her the finer points of womanhood- from dance and musical instrumentation to cooking and slave supervising.
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	Facts about peyton randolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Randolph left for London, over the objections of Governor Dinwiddie, and was replaced for a short time as attorney general, but was reinstated on his return at the behest of officials in London, who recommended the Governor drop the new fee, as well.
		In 1765 Randolph found himself at odds with a freshman burgess, Patrick Henry, over the matter of how to respond to the Stamp Act.
		Randolph had been appointed by the House to draft objections to the act, but his more conservative plan was trumped when Henry obtained passage of five of his seven Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions.
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	Search Results for "Randolph" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Randolph, John, 1773-1833, American legislator, known as John Randolph of Roanoke, b.
		Randolph, Asa Philip, 1889-1979, U.S. labor leader, b.
		Randolph, Peyton, c.1721-1775, American political leader, first president of the Continental Congress, b.
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	USS Randolph
		Nicholas Biddle was appointed commander of the Randolph on 11 July, and he took charge of the frigate in mid-October.
		On the 7th of March, in the afternoon, the Randolph, in company with her consorts and prize, sighted a large man-of-war to windward, which turned out to be the British sixty-four-gun ship Yarmouth.
		The General Moultrie took part in the action, but being to leeward and near the Randolph, fired into her by mistake, and it was thought possible that Biddle was wounded by one of her shot.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Edmund Randolph
		In 1779 he was elected to the Continental Congress, and in November 1786 Randolph became Governor of Virginia.
		Randolph was a strong advocate of the process of amendment.
		After retiring from politics in 1795, Randolph resumed his law practice and was regarded as a leading figure in the legal community.
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	Randolph, Edmund articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Randolph, Edmund RANDOLPH, EDMUND [Randolph, Edmund] 1753-1813, American statesman, b.
		He studied law under his father, John Randolph, a Loyalist who went to England at the outbreak of the American Revolution.
		Randolph, John RANDOLPH, JOHN [Randolph, John] 1773-1833, American legislator, known as John Randolph of Roanoke, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/10781.html (355 words)

	The Committee of Correspondence: Moving Towards Independence
		The assembly also ordered Speaker Randolph to send copies of the resolutions to the legislatures of the other colonies asking that they appoint "some person or persons, of their respective bodies, to communicate, from time to time, with the said committee."14 Dabney Carr's legislative debut was hugely successful.
		Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas and Dudley Digges were so chosen but the selection of these three men is somewhat puzzling.
		It is for this reason that Thomas Lynch of South Carolina, whom Peyton Randolph had never met prior to Philadelphia, stood and nominated the Speaker from Virginia to serve as President of the First Continental Congress.
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