Individual Details

Nathaniel FITZRANDOLPH

(1642 - 21 Nov 1713)

Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was one of the four who first asked for religious tolerance for the Friends in New England. In 1677 he, having joined the Quakers years before, and had in consequence suffered much persecution from the Plymouth Government, exchanged his house in Barnstable for land in Woodbridge, N. J. and in the year afterwards, 1678-9, moved with his family to New Jersey. He served as associate justice of Middlesex County, N. J., in 1688, 1692, and 1698; and in 1693-5 he represented Woodbridge in the Provisional Assembly. In 1683, on the death of James Bollen, first Secretary of the Province, he was one of the two guardians of his children, and, on the establishment of the Woodbridge Monthly Meeting of Friends in 1706, he became a prominent member of the Society, and for seven years the Meeting was held in his house, until the completion of the Meeting House in 1713, two months before his death.

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Events

Birth1642Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
MarriageNov 1662Barnstable Or Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States - Mary HOLLEY
Marriage12 Apr 1706Haddonfield Meeting, Haddonfield, Camden, New Jersey, United States - Jane CURTIS
Death21 Nov 1713Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States

Families

SpouseMary HOLLEY ( - 1703)
ChildJohn FITZRANDOLPH (1663 - 1727)
ChildIsaac FITZRANDOLPH (1664 - 1694)
ChildNathaniel FITZRANDOLPH (1666 - 1703)
ChildSamuel FITZRANDOLPH (1668 - 1754)
ChildJoseph FITZRANDOLPH (1670 - 1718)
ChildEdward FITZRANDOLPH (1672 - 1760)
ChildMartha FITZRANDOLPH (1674 - )
SpouseJane CURTIS (1661 - 1731)
ChildBenjamin FITZRANDOLPH (1707 - 1731)