[1] The site of the plantation was just south of Turkey Island, one of William Randolph's earliest land holdings.
Unfortunately, the couple did not live at Presquile for long, as the land surrounding it was extremely swampy and did not promote good health.
The next owner of Presquile was Abner Osborne of Nottoway County, who bought the property for £5,000 in 1801.
[2] It went through the 19th century and early 20th as a standard farm until 1952 when A. D. Williams, a Richmond tobacco magnate and philanthropist, died.
In his will he gave the Presquile tract to the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to be used as a wildlife preserve.