JOHN RANDALL

• Death Notes
  • (John RANDALL, Sr-[6069] was born on 28 May 1629 in Bath, Somerset, England, christened on 11 Nov 1632 in Bath Abbey, Bath, Somerset, England, died between 1684 and 1685 in Westerley, Washington, Rhode Island, USA and was buried in 1865.)

• General Notes
  • John came to America in 1666. See Crowell's Scrapbook at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia: "John Randall first appears at Newport, Rhode Island, but removed to Westerly, the same State as early as 1667, where the remainder of his life was spent.
    
    Mr. Randall was born in Bath, England, May 28, 1629, the son of Matthew Randall, who was mayor of Bath in 1627. John was a silk manufacturer in England--of Seventh Day Baptist faith, and married there Elizabeth Morton, sister of Sir William Morton,
    who settled in New London, Conn. (see Hurd's History of New London.)" In
    fact, it was his grandfather who was the mayor of
    Bath, not his father. Brian E. Randall, of Sudbury, Ontario, indicates in
    his notes that both this grandfather, Mathew Randall,
    and John's uncle, John Randall, were involved in the textile industry.
    Elaine Dinan, of Washington State, is following leads
    regarding this, and is presently involved in research with original sources
    back in England.
    The following are notes from two other researchers, each drawing from a
    number of sources:
    1) From "Just Rooting Around the Randall Family Tree," by G. Einarson
    "John Randall.... was in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1667. In 1670 he
    purchased land on the Pawcatuck River from Thomas Bell
    and on Nov. 30, 1670 he was admitted as an inhabitant of Stonington,
    Conneticut. In 1678 John and Elizabeth subscribed the
    letter of Westerly Baptist (accepted in Church). John took the oath of
    fidelity to Rhode Island in 1679 and in 1682 was a
    deputy to the Rhode Island Assembly. In 1685 Elizabeth, widow of John
    Randall petitioned for privilege to improve her
    deceased
    husband's land."
    2) From "Ancestral (Maternal) Lines of Herbert Harris Olding, Jr." by
    Herbert Olding
    "John Randall, the progenitor of the Randall family of Westerly, Rhode
    Island and Stonington (Pawcatuck) City first appeared
    at Newport, R.I., from which place he came to Westerly as early as 1667,
    remaining in that area the rest of his life.... In
    1684 John Randall died in Westerly, and his widow died there in 1685. Their
    son, John, born 1666 in England removed from
    Westerly, on the Rhode Island-Connecticut border, in a section known as
    Pawcatuck. At the time John Randall, Sr. settled
    there,
    Pawcatuck belonged to Rhode Island, but in 1663 the court declared that the
    Pawcatuck River separated the two colonies,
    with the result that the Randall property eventually came under the
    jurisdiction of the Town of Stonington."
    I notice that Olding lists in his reference list, among others, "History of
    Stonington" by Richard Anson Wheeler and "Public
    Records of Colony of Connecticut (1665-1678) by J.H. Trumbull.
    Both of the above researchers list an early genealogy of Randall's
    "Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to
    1879," by Paul K. Randall of Corland, N. Y., printed Norwich, N.Y.:1879.
    Books: "Just Rooting around the Randall Tree", by G. Einarson
    
    Alt Ancestral Ref#: 130Q-MNN
    
    
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    Father: Mayor of Bath Matthew Randall
    Mother: Elizabeth Moorford
    Other Spouses: Abigail Claxton