RANDALL, John, Sr-[6069] ¹

   Ancestral File Number: 4KQL-K0.

   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

John married Elizabeth MORTON-[5962] [MRIN:2383], daughter of MORTON-[15991], in 1684-1685 in Bath, Somerset, England. (Elizabeth MORTON-[5962] was born on 10 Sep 1631 in St. James Parish, Clerkenwell, London, England, died on an unknown date in Westerley, Washington, Rhode Island, USA and was buried in 1685.)