Peyton Randolph House

Williamsburg
VA
Peyton Randolph House

The Peyton Randolph House in
Colonial Williamsburg

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Originally built in 1715, it was purchased in 1721 by Randolph’s father — who built a second structure — and willed it to his son. Peyton Randolph built a middle structure to unify the whole. Part of Colonial Williamsburg.
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Randolph, Peyton

But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.

— Gordon S. Wood
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)