Robert Randall

Abt 1608 - 1691  (~ 83 years)

• Name	Robert Randall
  Birth	Abt 1608  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 May 1691	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I100	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family 1	Mary French
  Marriage	Aft 1640
  Family ID	F4073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Mary   d. Bef 3 Sep 1640, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Children	1. John Randall,   b. Abt 1635   d. 25 Feb 1718, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 83 years)
  Family ID	F4077	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated about 1635; admitted as freeman of Weymouth 26 May 1647. "He was admitted as freeman of the Colony May 26, 1647. In a deposition made by him and recorded in the Mass. Archives, Vol. C, xxiv, 16, he states under date of July 2, 1688. that he was eighty years of age, and that prior to coming to this country he was 'living for sometime in Wendover, Bucks Co., England.' This statement suggested Wendover as his native place. Accordingly the author of this genealogy employed a competent person to go to Wendover and ascertain the facts of the case. The examination revealed no trace of Robert Randall or of any of the Randall name. The oldest and best informed residents had never heard that any of the family resided there; no Randall tombstones were found, and the vicar of the Wendover parish did not discover the name on his church records, which, however, only dated from 1682. The conclusion necessitated by these facts was that Robert Randall was only temporarily resident at Wendover, and was not a native of the town. His English origin must therefore for the present remain an unsolved problem." [A Biographical History of Robert Randall and His Descendants, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923. [S578] A Biographical History of Robert Randall and His Descendants, 1608-1909 by William L. Chaffin. New York: The Grafton Press, 1909.