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The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginiaby Phillip Hamilton From Amazon In mid-April 1814 Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke had reason to brood over his family's decline since the American Revolution. The once-sumptuous world of the Virginia gentry was vanishing, its kinship ties crumbling along with its mansions… |