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RANDOLPH, Martha (Patsy) Jefferson (1772-1836)
Daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles, she was well educated and her father's trusted confidante. In 1790 she married her second cousin, Thomas Mann Randolph, and they had twelve children. She was forced to sell Monticello after TJ's death in 1826.

RANDOLPH, Mary (Molly) Randolph (b. 1762)
Daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., sister of Thomas Mann Randolph, Ann Cary (Nancy) Randolph Morris, and Harriet Randolph Hackley, Mary Randolph married her cousin, David Mead Randolph. She had four children, Richard, William Beverly, David Meade, and Burwell Stark. Lived in Richmond where she opened a successful boarding house until she moved to DC in 1820. In 1824 she published the first widely circulated American cookbook. In 1808 she turned to DPM for help after her husband's finances collapsed.

RITCHIE, Thomas (1778-1854)
Editor, publisher, and political leader. A Virginia Republican, Ritchie purchased the Richmond Virginia newspaper, The Enquirer, in 1804 to support the Jeffersonian cause in Virginia. He was a strong supporter of the Madison administration, although the two men later clashed over their interpretation of the Constitution.

RIVES, Judith Page Walker (1802-1882)
Writer and wife of William Cabell Rives, daughter of .....she lived at "Castle Hill" plantation near Monticello. Author of poetry, fiction, travel.

RIVES, William Cabell (1793-1868)
Virginia planter, diplomat, and politician, William Cabell Rives wrote three volumes of a biography of James Madison. Rives, however, never finished the biography. The Madisons and Rives were Virginia allies. Rives corresponded with DPM over JM's papers after the president's death in 1836.

ROOSEVELT, Mrs. James I.
The wife of James I. Roosevelt (1795-1875), JR was a member of the United States House of Representative, 1841-1843.

RUSH, Catherine Elizabeth Murray (1783-1854)
From Baltimore, Maryland, she married Richard Rush (1780-1859), diplomat and statesman, in 1809. The couple had eleven children.