Peyton Randolph House

Home of Peyton Randolph, Speaker of the House of Burgesses and first President of the Continental Congress. One of the finest colonial houses in Williamsburg and a hub of Virginia political life in the 1760s and 1770s. Washington and Rochambeau used the house as a headquarters during the staging of allied forces at Williamsburg before the Yorktown siege in September 1781. The house is one of Colonial Williamsburg's most historically significant structures, featuring interpretation of both the Randolph family and the enslaved people who lived and worked there.