Mary Randolph

Historical marker location:

Chester, Virginia

( Marker is on East Hundred Road (Virginia Route 10) 0.1 miles west of Allied Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1999

(9 Aug. 1762 - 23 Jan. 1828).

The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.