Edward Randolph (bef. 1632 - 1703)

Born before 9 Jul 1632 in Kent, England

Ancestors

Died Apr 1703 after age 70 in Accomack, Virginia

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Biography

Edward Randolph is Notable.

Birth

Edward Randolph was born about 1632 in Kent, England. ^[1]

He was baptized 9 Jul 1632 in St. Margaret's, Canterbury, Kent, England ^[2], the son of Dr. Edmund Randolph and Deborah Master, who were married on 12 Aug 1628 in Canterbury, Kent, England.^[3]

Career Timeline

Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629–1686)

• 1676: In Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, having been sent by the King “with copies of the complaints of Mason and Gorges. He kept a continual watch on the colony and went to England at divers times with complaints. For many years he was the evil genius of the colony.” ^[4]

New England Colonies

• July 1678: Collector and Surveyor of Customs ^[2]

Province of New Hampshire (1679–1686)

• 1683 - 25 May 1686: Councilor

Dominion of New England (1686-1689)

• 25 May 1686: Secretary and Sole Register of New England

‘’arrived in Boston harbor, the Rose Frigate, bringing Edward Randolph, the bearer of a Commission, to Joseph Dudley as President, and 16 others as Councillors of New England until a Governor in Chief shall be appointed by the King. Randolph also had with him the King’s Commission to himself, bearing date, 21 September 1685, as “Secretary and sole Register” of New England, including the Colonies of Massachusetts and New Plymouth, the Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine, the Narraganset Country, commonly called the King’s Province, and islands appertaining…”^[5]

• 18 Apr 1689: Prisoner - Arrested and jailed along with Sir Edmund Andros during the 1689 Boston revolt; returned to England in February 1680. ^[2]

New England Colonies

• 1691: Surveyor General of Customs ^[2]
• 1692: Deputy Auditor of Maryland

Marriages & Children

• Jane Gibbon (1640-1679), m. West Cliff, Kent, England; 4 daughters:^[2]

1. Unknown Randolph, m. Unknown Williams ^[6]
2. Deborah Randolph ^[6]
3. Unknown Randolph
4. Unknown Randolph

• Grace Grenville ( -1682), m. 16 Aug 1681; London, England^[7][2]

• Sarah (Backhouse) Platt ( - bef. 1702), m. 24 Dec 1684; London, England^[8], one daughter:^[2]

1. Sarah Randolph ^[6]

Death

He made his will on 1 Jun 1702, “about to make my seventeenth voyage to America…”^[6]

“He died in April 1703 in Virginia, in poverty, according to Cotton Mather’s Parentator (1724).”^[2][1]

7 Dec 1703, “Administration to Sarah, wife of John Howard, Guardian assigned to Sarah Randolph, a minor, daut, and Executrix named in the Will of Edward Randolph, late of Acquamat (probably Accomack) in Virginia, deceased.” ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Randolph_%28colonial_administrator%29
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. Volumes 1–22. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1921–1922. Online at Ancestry.com
3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNCF-MZ5 : 13 March 2020), Edmond Randolphe, 1628.
4. ↑ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection). Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB530/i/14226/15169/260131067
5. ↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21067/207/1425816016
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} “Capt. Francis Champernowne, the Dutch Conquest of Acadie, and Other Historical Papers [Microform] : Tuttle, Charles Wesley, 1829-1881 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. [Boston? : s.n.], January 1, 1889. https://archive.org/details/cihm_25056/page/n335/mode/1up.
7. ↑ England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB544/rd/320015460
8. ↑ England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB544/rd/320015486

See also:

• Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., 1899) 2nd Series, Vol. 12, Page 234-40.
• Wikipedia: Edward Randolph (colonial administrator)
• Wikidata: Item Q5344984