Peter Beverley (1668 – 1728) was a Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer of Virginia.[1]
Beverley was the oldest of three sons born to Major Robert Beverley and his wife, Mary of Yorkshire, England.[1] He was the brother of Robert Beverley, Jr..[1] He married Elizabeth Peyton, the daughter of Major Robert Peyton, and had three daughters: Susannah, Elizabeth and Anne.[1] His daughter, Elizabeth, married William Randolph II around 1705 and had five children that lived to adulthood.[2][3] His daughter, Susannah, married Sir John Randolph. His daughter Anne married Henry Whiting. Peter was the grandfather of Peyton Randolph, a speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, chairman of the Virginia Conventions, and the first President of the Continental Congress; as well as the great-grandfather of Beverley Randolph, the eighth Governor of Virginia[2] and William Fitzhugh's wife, Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh.[4]
The Randolphs were Thomas Rolfe's lineal descendants. Thomas was Pocahontas and John Rolfe's son.
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