Velma: If you want to chase down the famous Randolph genealogy, read this old book: http://books.google.com/books?id=x8VFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=randolph+family+of+virginia&source=web&ots=__9hP13bdX&sig=KqhJlL7_8sTbn52rMZEk2m9gEc4 But always take these old books with a grain of salt. Most of them are usually flawed. If you "Google" the Randolph family, or the "Tuckahoe Plantation," you will find much about them, including the sordid affair of Richard Randolph with his sister in law and the death of the child. It was sensational at the time, and was in all the newspapers in America and Britain. The Randolphs intermarried into all the "first families" of Virginia and their many heirs are legion. Presidents, Generals, Supreme Court Justices. I have read elsewhere that Richard owned 50,000 acres in Bedford alone. I'm not sure if it was Sr. or Jr. or both. I have also read that Richard Jr. died broke. I doubt seriously if they ever actually lived in Bedford. Their estates were near Richmond. The Stith family is very old in Virginia, also. I have seen them way back, like in the 1660's? Edwin