Judith Randolph News Today

Judith Randolph takes each of the 14 steps to the front door of her Somerville condo carefully. Come winter, they will be covered in snow, and someone will need to shovel them.

List of Martha Jeffersons Schoolmates at the Abbaye Royale de PanthemontOn July 5, 1784, Patsy and her father finally left for Europe, accompanied by James Hemings, a Monticello slave and likely the mixed-race son of Patsy’s maternal grandfather. Arriving in Paris in August, Patsy soon entered the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, a prestigious convent boarding school that educated mainly daughters of Catholic aristocrats. Largely because of her schooldays at the Panthemont, Martha considered the...

HALIFAX COUNTY Who can resist a switchblade enameled with images of the 1845 democratic presidential candidates? Or rare books signed by Judith Randolph, a descendant of one of Virginia's "first" families? John Thrift is hoping not many.