Tombstone Tuesday ~ Another Wilkinson Family Plot at Mount Auburn Cemetery

These tombstones were photographed at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts

ANDREW J. WILKINSON

1815 - 1881

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CORDELIA M. WILKINSON

1827 - 1864

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MARY MARCY WILKINSON

1824 -1892

[on the back]

CHILDREN OF

A.J. & C.M. WILKINSON

ANDREW K. 

1856 - 1863

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CORDELIA M.

1861 - 1861

unmarked stone, perhaps the infant Cordelia M. named on the obelisk?

ANDREW

[on the back]

Died

Aug. 23, 1865

Aged 5 yrs.

Cordelia Mary

wife of A. J. Wilkinson

[on the back]

Died

December 12th

1864

A. J. WILKINSON

MARY M. WILKINSON

Andrew Jackson Wilkinson, son of Simon Wilkinson and Betsy Poor, was born about 1815 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died 27 September 1881.  He was married 30 October 1855 to Cordelia Mary Kettelle, daughter of Daniel Gookin Kettelle and Susan Tyler.  She was born 2 July 1827 in Worcester, Massachusetts and died 12 December 1864 in Newton, Massachusetts.  They had four children:
     1.  William H. Wilkinson, born 28 July 1857 in Boston, married Delia E. Mack
     2.  Andrew Kettelle Wilkinson, born 13 July 1858, died 23 August 1863
     3.  Mary A. Wilkinson, born about 1859, married James F. Clifford
     4.  Cordelia Mary Wilkinson, born and died 22 October 1861

Andrew Jackson Wilkinson was a hardware merchant in Boston. He established a hardware store in 1842.  It was located in several places, including 2 Washington Street (in the 1861 Boston City Directory) and later on 184 Washington Street (see the 1875 catalog) and Devonshire Street (see the 1908 bill).   His son William carried on the business and had a manufacturing plant in West Medway.

Click here to see another Wilkinson (AJ Wilkinson's parents) family plot at Mount Auburn:
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Another Wilkinson Family Plot at Mount Auburn Cemetery", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 2, 2018,(https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/10/tombstone-tuesday-another-wilkinson.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts

This double tombstone was photographed at the Old North Beverly (Conant Street) Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Most of the burials here were parishioners of the Second Congregational Church (Second Parish).  

Here lyes Buried                     Here lyes Buried

the Body of Mr.                     the Body of Mrs

NATHANIEL RAYMOND        REBECKAH RAYMOND

Who Departed this                Wife to NATHANIEL

Life Janry ye 8 1749               RAYMOND  Who

Aged 78 Years                         Departed this life

& 10 Months                          Decr ye 2d 1760

                                                  Aged 80 Years

                                                  & 11 Months

Nathaniel Raymond was the son of John Rayment and Judith Glover, born on 15 March 1670/ 71 in Beverly, and died 8 January 1749/50 in Beverly.  He married Rebecca, daughter of Lot Conant and Elizabeth Walton, granddaughter of founding father Roger Conant.  Rebecca was born 31 January 1671 in Beverly and died 5 December 1760 in Beverly.  They had eight children.   One of their daughters, Mary Raymond (born 1710) married my 5^th great grand uncle, William Preston (1705 – 1766) and resided in Chester, New Hampshire.  Another son, George Raymond (1707 – 1807) married Abigail Kettle (1710 – 1786), my 6^th great aunt born in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nathaniel and Rebecca Raymond, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2016, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/tombstone-tuesday-nathaniel-and-hannah.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ CORNING of Beverly, Massachusetts

"BeverlyMA SamuelCorningHouse" by Magicpiano - Own work.
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

CORNING

Samuel Corning (1616 – 1693), my 9^th great grandfather,  is not found in newer books like Hollick’s New Englanders in the 1600s, nor is he in the Great Migration series.    He can be found in Frederick Adams Virkus’s The Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America, which was produced in 7 volumes between 1925 and 1942.  There are mentions of him in Beverly town records and in written histories of Beverly, Massachusetts.

According to Virkus’s book,  Samuel Corning arrived in Salem by 1638 and he settled with his family in Beverly where he was a freeman on 2 June 1641.  He held many town offices, such as selectman, collector of rate, and was a founder of the Beverly church in 1656.  There are many references to “Ensign Samuel Corning” in the records.  According to the Corning Family Association website, he lived in Wramplingham before immigrating to Massachusetts, and he served in the militia there.  However, I’ve found no proof of Samuel’s origins or parentage or any other information on his ancestry.

In 1685 Samuel Corning was granted the administration of John Kettell’s will.  Later, when Samuel’s first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1688, he remarried to John Kettell’s widow, also named Elizabeth.  This second wife, Elizabeth Allen, is the daughter of my 9^th great grandfather, William Allen (1602 – 1678) and his second wife, another Elizabeth.  I descend from William Allen’s son Samuel Allen, from his first wife, Alice Norman.

Samuel’s daughter, Remember Corning (1640 – 1715) married Nathaniel Stone sometime  before 1659 when their first child was born.  There is a house built by her brother, Samuel Corning, about 1700 still standing on Hull Street in Beverly, Massachusetts.   This house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

For the truly curious:

Corning Family Association  http://www.prospectlearning.com/Corning/corning.html 

2008 Corning Family Reunion, Beverly, Massachusetts

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9cljzI4TnE

Wikipedia, Samuel Corning House   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Corning_House

My CORNING genealogy:

Generation 1:  Samuel Corning, born about 1616 in England, died 11 March 1693 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married first about 1638 to Elizabeth Unknown – three children; married second on 13 November 1688 in Beverly to Elizabeth Allen, widow of John Kettell.  She outlived him and remarried a third time to William Raymond.

Generation 2:  Remember Corning, born 3 May 1640 in Beverly, died in 1715; married before 1659 to Nathaniel Stone, son of John Stone and Elinor Cooke.  He was born about 1632, and died 8 March 1718 in Salem.  Eleven children, and I descend from two.

Lineage A

Generation 3:   John Stone, born 20 February 1661 in Salem, died 28 July 1736 in Beverly; married first to Hester Gaines – three children; married second to Sarah Gale – ten children; married third to Jane Stacy Stanley.   Sarah Gale is my 7^th great grandmother, the daughter of Edmund Gale and Sarah Dixey, born 5 February 1666 in Salem, died before 1726.

Generation 4:  Susanna Stone m. Randall Preston

Generation 5:  William Presson m.  Abigail Sargent

Generation 6:  Lucy Presson m. James Andrews

Generation 7:  Orpha Andrews m. Joseph Allen (a descendant of William Allen above)

Generation 8:  Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maud Batchelder

Generation 10. Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B

Generation 3:  Nathaniel Stone, born 15 September 1663 in Salem, died 23 February 1741 in Beverly; married 26 March 1689 in Beverly to Mary Balch, daughter of Benjamin Balch and Sarah Gardner.  She was born about 1667 and died 12 March 1737 in Beverly.  Nine children.

Generation 4: Josiah Stone m. Dorithy Fuller

Generation 5: Josiah Stone m. Martha Ashby

Generation 6:  Josiah Stone m. Susanna Hix

Generation 7:  Eunice Stone m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 8: Peter Hoogerzeil m. Mary Etta Healey

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ BELL of Charlestown, Massachusetts

BELL

Abraham Bell, a Charlestown "waterman",

was reported to have drowned in 1662 in at least one source I found.

Abraham Bell is an ancestor with a fleetingly short story.  There are only small clues to his life in the early New England records.  In James Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England there is this fleeting entry:

“BELL, ABRAHAM, New Haven 1639, rem a. 1647 to Charlestown, d. early in 1663. Admin. Of his est.  £154.. 1. 1. was giv. to his w. Catharine, who. D. 29 Aug. 1692, aged 68.  I see no ch. But Isaac, bapt. At C. 12 Oct. 1662.”

I found a reference on page 9 of of The Bell Family in America by William M. Clemons, New York, 1913 available online at archive.org:

Abraham Bell, waterman, was in New Haven

in 1643 and came to Charlestown in 1647. He

married Katharine Waffe, widow, who died

August 29, 1692, aged sixty-nine. It appears

by the town records that he was cast away

31 Dec, found 4th [Jan.], buried 7th [1662-3].''

His children were: Hannah married Samuel

Bignall, 1669; Mary, born about December 25,

1653, married John Hands; Abraham, died Janu-

ary 16, 1656-7 ; Abraham, born November 17, 1657 ;

Dorothy married Samuel Cutler, 1681 ; Isaac, born

October 10, 1661, or 1662.

There was also a reference to Abraham Bell in The Cutler Memorial and Genealogical History by Nahum Cutler, Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1889, pages 512 and 513, in the sections about the Samuel Cutler who married Abraham’s daughter, Dorothy Bell.  Using all these clues I was able to find vital records, land records, and the inventory of his estate in documents from New Haven, Connecticut and Charlestown, Massachusetts. From this I could piece together a story about my 9^th great grandfather, Abraham Bell.  There is no evidence he was related to Francis Bell, the early settler at New Haven, who died on 8 January 1690 in Stamford, Connecticut.  I never found the town records that told the story of his drowning in 1662/3 mentioned in the Bell compiled genealogy.

Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Abraham Bell, died about 31 December 1662 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, married to Katherine Bullfinch, widow of John Waffe.  She was born about 1624 and died in 1692 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Six children.

Generation 2: Mary Bell, born 25 December 1653 in Charlestown, married about 1677 to John Hands, son of Mark Hands and Mary Shattuck.

Generation 3: Katherine Hands m. Jonathan Kettell

Generation 4: Katherine Kettell m. Caleb Rand

Generation 5: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew

Generation 6: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 7: Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

For more information on Abraham Bell:

The Bell Family in America by William M. Clemons, New York, 1913 available online at archive.org

Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage

The Cutler Memorial and Genealogical History by Nahum Cutler, Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1889, pages 512 and 513

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Surname Saturday ~ Hands of Boston

HANDS/HAMES/HUMES

Mark Hands was a nailer, who according to Savage came to America in the ship Jonathan in 1639, aged 20.  He is found in early Boston records buying land, and witnessing documents.   In the inventory of the estate of John Hanniford, his wife Abigail names Mark Hands as her brother.  John Hanniford’s estate listed sugar and wine debts from the Barbados.  

The deposition Mark Hands signed in 1652 which stated he arrived in the Jonathan in 1639 was stolen because it contained the signature of Richard Bellingham, who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  [The Historical Magazine, Volume 8, page 334] Here is a transcription:

“Mark Hume of Boston aged 33 years or thereabouts deposeth and Sayth:

That about thirteen years since this depont Came into New England
in a Shipp called the Jonathan, wth Thomas Blanchard and his wyfe and
two children, and his wives mother (as the depont was informed) an old
Sickly Wooman and very weak. And this depont Sayth that he well
remembers that the sayd Thomas Blanchard took very much paynes wth the
said old woman, and was very carefull of her, and Kept a candle
burning by her (for the most part) all the night long, in so much that
this depont, (having a Cabbin over against her in the said Shipp) did
marvaile that he was able to endure the paynes & charges he
continually had about her and the two children.

Sworne 5.-2.-1652. before me, R. BELLINGHAM.”

Mark Hands went to Barbados in 1661 and never returned, probably dying at sea since his will was proved on 17 June 1664.   However, he had written out his will before his voyage, and named his two children and some other family members.  The will of Mark Hands, written in 1661, can be read at Google Book search,  Suffolk County Wills, by New England Historic Genealogical Society, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005, page 234.  See below.

It is thought that Mary, wife of Mark Hands, was the daughter of Damaris (Sibley) Shattuck, the last wife of Thomas Gardner of Salem.  If this is true, I am twice descended of William Sibley, the father of Damaris, because I already have a line of descent from her brother Richard Sibley (1630 – 1676) of Salem.  I am descended from Thomas Gardner, Damaris’s second husband, through his daughter, Sarah Gardner (abt 1627 0 5 April 1686) and her husband, Benjamin Balch of Beverly, Massachusetts.  A very tangled family tree indeed!

There are few sources for this family.  I found court records, and a few mentions in Boston histories.  You can read the short sketch about Mark Hands in James Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of the first settlers of New England.  

Genealogy:

Generation 1: Mark Hands, born about 1619 in England, died about 17 June 1664 at sea; married to Mary Shattuck?.  Two children: John and Mehitable.

Generation 2: John Hands, born 10 September 1654 in Boston, Massachusetts, married about 1677 to Mary Bell, daughter of Abraham Bell and Katherine Bullfinch. 

Generation 3:  Katherine Hands, born about 1681 in Charlestown, died 8 March 1748; married first on 30 May 1705 to Jacob Waters, son of Jacob Waters and Sarah Hutson (no children); married second on 8 May 1707 in Boston to Jonathan Kettell, son of Jonathan Kettell and Abigail Converse.  Ten children.

Generation 4: Katherine Kettell m. Caleb Rand

Generation 5: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew

Generation 6: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 7: Rev. Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ Kettell of Charlestown

 

Charlestown, Massachusetts
From Britannica.com

KETTELL/KETTLE

Richard Kettell’s origins are unknown, but he was probably from England.  The first record of him was when he and his wife were admitted to the church in Charlestown, Massachusetts on 30 July 1633.  He was made a freeman on 4 March 1634/5.  He was a cooper and a sergeant in the militia. His wife was “Atherton Haulghe’s maid servant”. 

Richard Kettell owned about 33 acres, which was a lot of land in Charlestown.  In his will he mentions his children, grandchildren, and the division of this land. In his will he lists land near the mill pond, which you can see in the map above.  His son, John Kettell, removed to Gloucester, and lived for a time in Lancaster where his wife was carried off by the Indians in 1676 during one of the raids, and she spend some time with the captive Mary Rowlandson.   There is a Kettell's Cove in nearby Gloucester in the town of Manchester-by-Sea, very close to the house where my Uncle Robert Wilkinson lived for many years. 

I am descended from two of Richard Kettell’s children, Hannah and Jonathan.

Some sources for Kettell information:

The Great Migration Begins, by Richard Charles Anderson, Boston: NEHGS, 2000, Volume II, pages 1124 – 1128. You can also see Charlestown Genealogies by Thomas Bellows Wyman, 1879, Volume 2, page 574, and the Thayer Genealogy by Ruther Thayer Ravenscroft, Colorado Springs, 1943.

Genealogy:

Generation 1: Richard Kettell, born about 1609 in England, died 20 June 1680 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married about 1636 to Hester Ward, born about 1612 in England, died 5 July 1679 in Charlestown.  Six children.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Hannah Kettell, born 27 October 1637 in Charlestown, died 27 August 1708 in Charlestown; married on 26 June 1656 in Charlestown to John Call, born 6 March 1636 in Faversham, Kent, England, died 19 April 1697 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Mehitable Call m. John Rand

Generation 4: Caleb Rand m. Katherine Kettell ( his second cousin)
Generation 5: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew
Generation 6: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill
Generation 7: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons
Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman
Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson
Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2:  Jonathan Kettell, born 1646 in Charlestown, died 18 December 1720 in Charlestown; married on 30 March 1676 in Charlestown to Abigail Converse, daughter of James Converse and Anna Long.  She was born 13 October 1658 in Woburn, and died 25 January 1691 in Charlestown.  Five children.

Generation 3.  Jonathan Kettell, born 23 August 1681 in Charlestown, died 21 January 1764 in Charlestown; married first on 8 May 1707 in Boston to Katherine Hands, daughter of John Hands and Mary Bell.  She was born about 1681 and died on 8 March 1748.  He married second to Eunice Treadway on 24 October 1748.  He had ten children with his first wife.

Generation 4: Katherine Kettell and Caleb Rand (see above)

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Surname Saturday ~ Call of Charlestown, Massachusetts

Charlestown, Massachusetts

CALL / CAULE

Thomas Call, my 9^th great grandfather, was born in Faversham, Kent England in 1597.  He arrived in Massachusetts with his wife, Bennett, and three children on the ship Hercules in 1637.  He went on to have six more children.  He built his home on beside the Mystic River in Charlestown, about two and half miles from Bunker Hill.    His second wife, Joanna, was the widow of Daniel Shepardson.  Thomas Call was a baker, and so was his son, John, who married Hannah Kettell.    One of his sons, Thomas, Jr , married his step-sister Lydia Shepardson.

In the next generation John Call, my 8^th great grandfather, John Call was less than one year old when his family arrived in Massachusetts from England.  He fought in King Phillip’s War.  He was admitted to the church on 29 April 1662 and became a deacon of the First Church in Charlestown.  His wife was the daughter of Richard Kettell, an ancestor of Henry David Thoreau.

To read about the early generations of Calls in Massachusetts you can check the Bicentennial Book of Malden by A. W. McClure, 1850, page 240 has a short sketch of Thomas Call.  There is also a short sketch of Thomas Call in A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, by James Savage, 1969, Volume 1, pages 329 - 330.

My Call genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Call, son of Richard Call and Edith Bennet, born 15 June 1597 in Hernhill, Faversham, Kent, England, died 17 May 1676 in Malden, Massachusetts; married on 25 June 1619 In Hernhill to Bennett Harrison? Who died about 1644 in Malden.  Thomas married second after 26 July 1644 in Malden to Joane, widow of Daniel Shepardson.  Nine children.

Generation 2: John Call, baptized on 6 March 1636 in Faversham, died 19 April 1697 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married on 26 June 1656 in Charlestown to Hannah Kettell, daughter of Richard Kettell and Hester Ward.  She was born on 27 October 1637 in Charlestown, and died 27 August 1708 in Charlestown.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Mehitable Call, baptized on 30 June 1668 in Charlestown, died on 25 November 1727 in Charlestown; married on 2 December 1685 in Charlestown to John Rand, son of Thomas Rand and Sarah Edenden.  He was born 6 February 1662 in Charlestown and died 4 September 1737 in Charlestown. 

Generation 4:  Caleb Rand m. Katherine Kettell ( his second cousin)

Generation 5: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew

Generation 6: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 7:  Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ Edenden of Cranbrook, England and Massachusetts

EDENDEN

There is an account of the Edenden family in an old issue of the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, that starts with the lineage in about the year 1500 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.  William Iddenden, the son of Stephen, married a woman named Joane, and had eight children.  Several of these children died of the plague in 1597.

In the next generation, William’s son, James died of the plague in 1597, too, but left a detailed will naming most of the family members.  His brother, George, my ancestor, married first to a cousin, Sara Iddenden, and their three daughters also died of the plague in 1597.  It is unknown how Sara died, but she was probably a plague victim, too.  He remarried and had nine more children, one of which is my 9^th great grandfather, Edmond Edenden.

Edmond Edenden was baptized in Cranbrook in 1599.  He came to Massachusetts around 1637, when he was a proprietor at Scituate.  He became a Freeman in 1641.  In 1642 he was a representative to the General Court.  At some point he removed to Boston.  He had two children by his first wife, Elizabeth Wller, and six children by his second wife, Elizabeth Wightman/Whiteman/Whitman.  It is not known when or where Edmond Edenden died in Massachusetts.

My 8^th great grandmother is Edmond’s daughter, Sarah, who married Thomas Rand in 1656 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  This Edenden line daughters out very quickly in Massachusetts, but seems to have had an interesting history in Cranbrook, England.  Except for the plague!

Much of this information was taken from the article “Genealogical Research in England”,  NEHGS Register, January 1913, Volume 67, page 43 and from the book History of Scituate, Massachusetts by Samuel Deane, 1831.  

My Edenden lineage:

Generation 1: Stephen Iddenden, born about 1500 in Cranbrook, Kent England, died before 1578

Generation 2: William Iddenden, born about 1530, died between 24 December 1578 and 23 January 1681/82 in Cranbrook; married to Joane.  Seven children.

Generation 3: George Iddenden, baptized 18 July 1564 in Cranbrook, Kent, England and was buried on 24 April 1632 in Tenterden, Kent, England; married to his cousin, Sara Iddenden, daughter of John Iddenden and Christian Glover.  She was baptized on 27 January 1571/72 in Cranbrook and died about 1597.  The name of George’s second wife is unknown.  He had three children with Sarah, and nine with his second wife.

Generation 4: Edmund Edenden, baptized 21 October 1599 in Cranbrook, died in Massachusetts; married first on 12 July 1625 in Cranbrook to Elizabeth Weller.  She was baptized at Cranbrook on 24 December 1500 and buried at Tenterden on 2 August 1631.  He married second on 1 February 1631/2 at Maidstone to Elizabeth Wightman. Eight children, two with his first wife, and six with his second wife.

Generation 5: Sarah Edenden, born about 1636 in England and died 26 June 1699 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married on 25 March 1757 in Charlestown to Thomas Rand, son of Robert Rand and Alice Sharpe.  He was born in April 1627 and died 4 August 1683 in Charlestown.  Twelve Children.

Generation 6: John Rand m. Mehitable Call

Generation 7: Caleb Rand m. Katherine Kettell

Generation 8: Caleb Rand m. Mary Mayhew

Generation 9: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill

Generation 10: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 11: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 12: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 13: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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Surname Saturday ~ Rand of Charlestown, Massachusetts

Colonial Charlestown, Massachusetts
from Britannica.com

The first known record of Robert Rand, my 9^th great grandfather, was of his wife Alice being admitted to the church in Charlestown in 1635. I don’t know when they arrived in Massachusetts from England.  They had seven children born in England and Charlestown.  Robert Rand owned a house on the west side of “Windmill Hill” (now Town Hill) in Charlestown, along with sixty-six acres and three commons. When Alice Rand died in 1691 her will mentions sons Nathaniel and Thomas, and grandchildren.

I descend from their son, Thomas, born about 1627.  He was a cordwainer (shoemaker) and was made a freeman in 1660.  He was elected sergeant and cowherdman in Charlestown.  He married Sarah Edenden and had twelve children, seven of whom married and left descendants.  

In my lineage, the first four generations of Rands were born and lived in Charlestown until my 6^th great grandfather, Caleb Rand, removed to Nantucket.  His son, Caleb Rand my 5^th great grandfather, removed to Cornwallis, King’s County, Nova Scotia and raised eleven children there.  His daughter, Mary Rand my 4^th great grandmother, was the end of my Rand line.  Her grandson, Caleb Rand Bill (1833 – 1902) my great great grandfather, removed back to Massachusetts.  

Some Rand sources:

A Genealogy of the Rand Family in the United States, by Florence Osgood Rand, 1898 (available at Google Booksearch).

“The Lynn Descendants of Robert Rand of Charlestown”, The Essex Genealogist, Volume 21, 2001, pages 28 to 35.

There is a sketch of Robert Rand in The Great Migration, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2009, Volume VI, pages 1 to 5.

My Rand lineage:

Generation 1: Robert Rand, born about 1594 in England, died in Charlestown, Massachusetts sometime before 1691 when his wife died a widow; married in England to Alice Sharpe, who died 5 August 1691 in Charlestown.  Seven children.

Generation 2:  Thomas Rand, born in April 1627 in Charlestown, died 4 August 1683 in Charlestown; married on 25 March 1656 in Charlestown to Sarah Edenden, daughter of Edmund Edenden and Elizabeth Whitman.  She died 26 June 1699 in Charlestown.  Twelve children.

Generation 3: John Rand, born on 6 February 1662 in Charlestown, died 4 September 1737 in Charlestown; married on 2 December 1685 in Charlestown to Mehitable Call, daughter of John Call and Hannah Kettell.  She was born about 30 June 1668 in Charlestown, and died 25 November 1727 in Charlestown. Fourteen children.  John Rand married second to Mary Randall.

Generation 4: Caleb Rand, born 6 December 1703 in Charlestown, died 3 January 1766 on Nantucket; married on 4 August 1726 in Charlestown to Katherine Kettle (his second cousin), daughter of Jonathan Kettle and Katherine Hands. She was born 14 February 1708 in Charlestown and died 10 May 1756 on Nantucket.  Eight children.

Generation 5: Caleb Rand, born 10 January 1730 in Charlestown, died 25 September 1776 in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; married to Mary Mayhew, daughter of John Mayhew and Ruth Davis.  She was born 22 May 1734 and died in Nova Scotia.  Eleven children.

Generation 6: Mary Rand, born 1758 and died 19 February 1845; married on 18 June 1778 in Cornwallis to Asahel Bill, son of Ebenezer Bill and Patience Ingraham.  Eleven children.

Generation 7: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Isabella Lyons

Generation 8: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman

Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson

Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

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