On the trail of Pocahontas Ancestry

Mary Anna Randolph Custis who married Robert E. Lee is the granddaughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph of Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg, Va. It was built by William Fitzhugh and played an important part in the Civil War. Visitors included Washington, Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Lincoln, Walt Whitman and Clara Barton served there when it was Union hospital during the Civil War. Fitzhugh descends from Robert King Carter and Judith Armistead-and his wife, of course, was a Randolph-daughter of Peter Randolph and his wife Lucy Bolling. Her line descends from Pocahontas