Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wa i whanau ai a Richard II i te Mei 6, 1710, i te Jordan's Point, i te "Bland House" ranei i Williamsburg, ko ia te rangatira o te kainga, a i noho ia ki reira i tona oranga katoa. I riro wawe i a ia, i te mea i mate ona matua e rua i mua noa o tana tekau tau i te tau 1720. I mate tona whaea i te 22 o Hanuere me tana papa i te Paenga-whawha 6. Ko ona matua keke, ko William raua ko Richard Randolph, i tiaki i tana pāmu me tana maatauranga wawe, a i whakaarahia, hei kaitiaki, a Richard me ona tuakana me ona teina. Ko reira pea i roto i ona tau taitamariki e whakawhanakehia e ia tona hononga tata ki tona whanaunga tuatahi, Peyton Randolph, e e mau tonu puta noa i to ratou oraraa, maha noho taha ki te taha i roto i o ratou tau o te mahi i roto i te Whare o Burgesses, te Komiti o te Haumaru, me te Tuatahi me te
Ko ngā Rōpū Rōpū Tuarua. Ko tetahi atu o nga whanaunga matua o Richard raua ko Peyton, ko Jane Randolph Jefferson, he tama a Thomas Jefferson i whai i ona whanaunga me nga kaiwhakaako ki te Whare o Burgesses me nga Continental Congress. I haere a Richard ki te Whare Wananga o William & Mary, a, pera i te nuinga o tana waa, i whakaoti i tana maatauranga i Scotland i te Whare Wananga o Edinburgh. I whakaakona ia ki te ture, a, i whakaaetia ia ki te paari i te tau 1746, engari kaore i tukuna e ia ana ratonga ture ki te iwi. I puritia e ia he whare pukapuka nui mo tona wa, ko te nuinga i tiakina e te hoko i muri i tona matenga e Jefferson me tana mokopuna-in-law St. George Tucker a ka tae ki te Whare Pukapuka o te Kaunihera hei waahanga o te koha a te whare pukapuka a Jefferson i te tau 1815.