[10] He and his wife, Maria Judith Page, had three children (two girls and Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. born 1741).

[12] Randolph had added a codicil to his will asking that Peter Jefferson come to Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his three orphaned children.

[15] Thomas Jefferson, who spent seven years of his childhood at Tuckahoe, came to formulate his moral viewpoint of slavery there: The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.

Shortly afterward, Thomas Mann Randolph Sr. remarried to Gabriella Harvie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a Richmond attorney.

Gabriella made significant changes to Tuckahoe, including painting the wooden paneling in the so-called "White Parlor", and insisted on naming her son (b.

In the 20th century, Tuckahoe featured prominently in an early test of the National Historic Preservation Act when the owners challenged Virginia's plan to route Virginia State Route 288 through the property (see Thompson v. Fugate, 347 F. Supp 120, E.D.

William Randolph III constructed the current dwelling, now a National Historic Landmark, beginning in the mid-1730s.

The north wing features pine and black walnut paneling with exquisite carvings and moldings.

William Randolph then added a center hall and south wing, creating a unique "H" shape which was completed by 1740.

Food management and processing were performed in a storehouse, a smokehouse, and a brick kitchen,[17] which had a swinging crane and a dutch oven.

[19] There were around 100 domestic workers, field hands, and skilled craftsmen who worked at Tuckahoe in the late 1740s.

A niche for a bed was constructed so that a black boy could sleep there through the night and ensure the health and comfort of the horse.

[20] Household and farm work was performed by indentured servants and enslaved men, women, and children.

[10] Indentured servants, generally brought from England, served as unpaid workers for a specific period of time.

[20] Tuckahoe had a weaving room,[19] which meant that it was possible that workers on the plantation created fabric for clothing.

He purchased 49 acres in Goochland County, Virginia that he farmed with his wife Martha Jane Ellis.

[28][f] Bondspeople traveled among other plantations owned by the Jeffersons, Randolphs, and the Lewises, who were family members.

Kemp of Gloucester County sold Wallace Smith to Joseph Allen of Tuckahoe.

There were laws enacted and other practices that limited African Americans rights and opportunities after the Emancipation Proclamation.

[10] Some of the people who were emancipated following the American Civil War lived on Tuckahoe into the turn of the 20th century.

[10] Others, like Levi Ellis, settled into a community of black people, like New Town in the Three Square area, and, in the eastern part of the county, Ellisville and Gordonstown.

[40] In February 2019, three women painted the message "we profit off slavery" in red on a sign and pillar at Tuckahoe.

"[41] It happened during the same period that protestors met at the Virginia State Capitol and outside the Executive Mansion and called on Gov.