[citation needed] [Tuckahoe plantation was] the scene of boisterous barbecues, fish fries, and fancy dress balls.

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.During her childhood, she and her cousin Martha Jefferson Randolph were close friends.

[citation needed] 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.

[citation needed] Richard and his brothers Theodorick Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke lost their father in 1775, and three years later their mother married St. George Tucker, a prominent lawyer and future law professor at the College of William and Mary as well as Virginia appellate judge, so he helped raise the boys, including bringing them on trips to visit his planter father in Bermuda in order to improve their often-problematic health.

[2][5] On October 1 of the same year, Judith, Richard, and Ann traveled to the Glentivar[2] (or Glenlyvar) estate 30 miles northeast of Farmville to visit their cousin Randolph Harrison and his wife, Mary.

[citation needed] The Harrisons were later told that the plantation's enslaved people found the corpse of a baby in a pile of old shingles.

Prominent lawyers John Marshall and Patrick Henry defended him before at a trial before the more than judges of the Prince Edward County Court.

[1] During the trial, Martha Jefferson Randolph stated that she had obtained gum guaicum, which she believed could be used to abort a baby, and had given it to Ann two weeks before the trip to Glentivar.

[2] Enslaved people were precluded from testifying by Virginia law, so no evidence could be presented about the body found in the stack of shingles.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend your hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

You are on firm ground: your kindnesses will help her and count in your own favor also.Martha responded that the "vile seducer" had both destroyed Ann’s reputation and corrupted her mind, and she was concerned that some people may be swayed from what a "person of sense" would deduce about the scandal.

[1] She had very limited means, at times receiving small sums of money from her brothers, and she may have taught school in Rhode Island.

[1][11] Morris was a senator for New York, a delegate to both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, and an ambassador to France under President Washington.

[1] As a surprise to Morrisania guests, they were married on Christmas Day in 1809, with Ann’s plain, worn housekeeping dress serving as her wedding gown.

[1][12] Kirschke states, "Her wedding dress was a statement that they both very much enjoyed, Nancy [Ann] because it showed her gratitude for his past kindness and Morris likely because of the element of surprise for the guests.

[11] In the hope that a change in climate would help him improve his health, Tudor traveled to England, but he died there in August 1815.

[11] Throughout the years, John Randolph attempted to keep the Bizarre Plantation scandal alive, and Ann heard unflattering rumors about herself throughout New York.

Founder of this Parish, to which he gave church and lands for the glory of God and in memory of his mother.Ann and Gouverneur Morris are buried in a family crypt at St.