Factual information of William Randall, son of Simon and Jane Randall
Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831.
"William Randall came into Scituate before 1640. His farm was on the brook that falls into Till's or Dwelley's creek:
His house was in the valley, twoenty rods north of the brook on the west side of the way, where stands [1831] the
mansion of Elisha Foster, sen. late deceased. There is no record of his marriage here: he probably married at
Rhode Island, where we find some traces of him as early as 1636; or in Marshfield, where he seems to have
been 1637. He was an enterprising and useful man in many respects; but unfortunately for himself, appears to
have been litigious. There are several disputes on the Colony records, which he prosecuted with his neighbors
about bounds of lands, and when the causes were decided against him, he seems not to have submitted very
quietly. He was fined 1660, 'for striking Edward Wanton,' in one of these disputes: and in 1664, 'for breaking the
King's peace by poakeing Jeremiah Hatch with a ho-pole, was fined 3s. 4d.' Colony Records. He, with his wife
were of the party that gained much strength from 1650 to 1670, which held it unlawful to pay religious teachers.
His goods were occasionally taken by the constable. On one of these occasions, '1654 William Randall's wife
fined for abusing the Constable, Walter Hatch.' Colony Records. After these troubles, they both settled down
to quiet members of Mr Witherell's church."
Frank A. Randall's Randall and Allied Families:
"William Randall, the founder. Born Eng., 1609, died Scituate (now Norwell), Mass., Oct. 13, 1693.
Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England,
'William Randall of Scituate, Mass., came fvrom 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 payments made to William Randall, Sr., 'for shooes' in the settlement of the 'Estate of John James' in 1679/80 (MD, Vol. 19,p. 99).
Randall and Allied Families states that William Randall's wife was Elizabeth Barstow, sister of Michael, George and William Barstow and daughter of of Matthew Barstow, this was Elizabeth Carver.
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.
"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." Elizabeth Carver was Richard Carver's daughter by his first marriage to Margaret Skurrie. Matthew Barstow married as his third wife Grace (Walker) Carver, Richard Carver's third wife.