[2]: 35, 37 William Byrd of Westover visited Judith and questioned the difficulties the eighteen-year-old might face for taking on significant responsibilities before getting a good education.

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

[5] Tuckahoe, located along the James River in Goochland County, Virginia, was near the properties of his uncle, Isham Randolph of Dungeness, and Peter and Jane Jefferson.

[2]: 43  He was elected to the House of Burgesses representing Goochland County in 1742; he died before the February 20, 1746 session.

Although Peter Jefferson had intended to establish a plantation off the Rivanna River, he instead moved his family to Tuckahoe in 1746 and raised William and Maria Judith's children there until 1752,[11][d] when Thomas Randolph was 21 years of age.

[7] [e] During that time Jefferson managed the plantation, was executor of William Randolph’s estate, and was guardian of the children.

It was considered unusual that he did not chose a Randolph family member to be guardian of his children or executor of his estate.

[10] 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.