Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was Thomas and Martha Jefferson's oldest daughter. When her father was appointed U.S. minister to France, she travelled with him to Paris, where she attended a convent school. She and William Short became close friends during that time. Patsy married Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790. During Jefferson's presidency, she acted as de facto first lady. She spent most of her life at Monticello, until her father's and her husband's debt forced her to sell the property and spent the last years of her life in Boston and Washington, D.C.
