Occupation: Shoemaker
[Source: Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860]
'William Randall of Scituate, Mass., came from the port of London in the ship Expectacon the 24th of April, 1635, to the Island of Providence (R.I.) He was twenty-six years of age and took the oath of Supremacy and Allegiance as then required of every person leaving England.' He removed to Marshfield, Mass., 1637, where he tarried three years, then removed to Scituate, which adjoins Marshfield to north, the North River separating them. At Scituate he occupied a respectable position; a man of strong opinions and always ready to maintanin his rights; hence he developed a 'litigious' reputation, spending some time in courst as a defendant (PR). Many of the plaintiffs were related to him by marriage, or to some member of his family. In some of the causes that he lost, William Randall paid the damages in 'shooes', notable in the case of Joanna Kemton (PR, 1657, pp. 82,83) from which circumstance we are led to believe that William followed the occupation of 'cordwainer' or shoemaker. This opinion is strengthened by reference in Plymouth Colonty Probate Court records to paymetns made to William Randall, Sr., 'for shooes' in the settlement of the 'Estate of John James' in 1679/80 (MD, Vol. 19,p. 99). At various times William was Constable, Surveyor-of-Highways, a freeman and on lists of those 'able to bear arms'. See Old Scitaute and Its Pioneer Families for details."
William was first mentioned in Public Records of Scituate, on the sixth day of September 1641, where he was sued for trespass in the Courts of Plymouth Colony. In Scituate in 1643 he was listed there as able to bear arms, being between 16 and 60 years of age. He was elected by the freemen of Scituate to small town offices such as Surveyor of Highways, Constable. On the twenty-third day of November 1645, he was a member of the Second Church in Scituate.
On the thirtieth-first day of October 1666, a suit was brought by Joseph Tilden against William for slander and later forgiven. He appears many times in the Plymouth Colony Records, there are three mentions of him in the Superior Court of Judicature and many times in the Plymouth Colony Deeds.
March 1660 Plymouth Colony Records 7:95-6
John Morton served as a juror on the case of William Randall against John Bryant. Randall accused Bryant of selling lumber belonging to him. The jury found for Bryant.William at the age of eighty-four died on the thirteenth day of, October 1693, at Scituate. He drew his will exactly a year before his death, the inventory of his estate being filed on the second day of November 1693 and the will proved on the third day of November 1693. He bequeath to his son William his Slave named Peter.
[Source: The Randall Line by Mrs. J. M. Morrison.]
Although in "Randall and Allied Families" it is stated that William Randall's wife was Elizabeth Barstow, sister of Michael, George and William Barstow and daughter of of Matthew Barstow, it is more likely that this was Elizabeth Carver.
[Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "The wifes of Michael Barstow and Richard Carver of Watertown, Massachusetts and the identity of the wives of William Randall of Scituate and William Perry of Marshfield," N.E.H.G.R., 146, (1992), 230-234.]
Joseph lived in a house thirty rods north-east of Hanover corners in Scituate. It was a garrison house in Philip's war. The house of Daniel Sherman stood on the site in 1937. [Source: Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831. AND L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes]
Innkeeper in Scituate in 1670 [Source: Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 262-263.]
...came to New England in the ship "Truelove" in 1635; settled first in Dedham, where several of his children were born. He was a Freeman in Scituate in 1649, in that part that became Hanover in 1727, and built a house about 40 rods back of the site of the Second Congregational Church on Oakland Avenue. Its cellar hole can still be seen (1937). William was the pioneer shipbuilder in Hanover, near Barstow's Bridge, the first bridge over the North River, built by him in 1656. He received from the colony twelve pounds for its erection.
[Source: L. Vernon Briggs, "History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937" 1938, Three Volumes]William's lineage has been traced to de Barstowe, thirteenth century, in French Normandy. The Lordship of Barstow was held by Stephen Fit Haman in the reign of Richard I, a cadet of the ancient family of Fit Haman and of great distinction, and by and thru which he and his descendants obtained the designation of de Barstove.
William and his family came from Naburn Hall, East Riding, England sailing on the twentieth day of September 1635, in the "Truelove." He first settled at Dedham, Massachusetts, later he went to Scituate, Massachusetts, in that part set off in 1727, and became Hanover, Massachusetts, before 1649. In the year 1649, he agreed to take the Oath of Freeman or Citizenship. He built the first bridge over the North River at Stoney Beach, where he also kept a tavern. He was also active in town affairs being elected by the freemen of Scituate to be their Selectman, and Surveyor of Highways, later member of the commission to perambulate the patent line,1666.
About 1629, when Mary was 19, she married Robert Bartlett, perhaps the son of Robert and Alice ( Barker ) Bartlett, in Plymouth, MA., born about 1603 in England. Robert died about Oct 1676; at age 73. His occupation was wine cooper. Robert came in the "Ann" in July, 1623, with Mary and her family. He shared in the division of cattle at Plymouth on May 22, 1627 [Plym. Col. Rec., ]; and was a freeman at the time of the incorporation of Plymouth in 1633 [Plym. Col. Rec.]. Mary's "marriage portion" was confirmed to him 7 Mar [Plym. Col. Rec.].
The young couple built their home south of the Warren estate between Eel River and the Pine Hills. There they raised their family of eight children.
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