Individual Details

Immigration

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.'

William Randall ( Unknown ), of Scituate, MA, as a prisoner from ye port of London, in the ship Expectacon, ye 24th of April, AD 1635, to the Island of Providence.

Event

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 maintain his rights; hence he developed a 'litigious' reputation, spending some time in court as a defendant (P R). 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 Colony 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. 1 9,p. 99).

Event

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, twenty rods north of the brook on the west side of the way, where stands [1831] the mansion of Elisha Foster, Sen. late deceased.
lands on both sides of the North River

Event

'1654 William Randall's wife fined for abusing the Constable, Walter Hatch.

Event

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

Event

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 in 1664, 'for breaking the King's peace by poakeing Jeremiah Hatch with a ho-pole, was fined 3s. 4d.'

Death

At various times William was Constable, Surveyor-of-Highways, a freeman and on lists of those 'able to bear arms'.