Capt. Daniel Rand

Ancestor #: A093911 Service: NEW HAMPSHIRE Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN

HAMMOND, ROLLS OF THE SOLS IN THE REV WAR, NH STATE PAPERS, VOL 14, PP 35, 332, VOL 15, PP 348-349; BATCHELLOR, MISC REV DOCS OF NH, STATE PAPERS, VOL 30, PP 124-125; STEARNS, HIST OF TOWN OF RINDGE, PP 163, 165 Service Description: 1) UNDER COL DANIEL MOORE. ALSO ENS, CAPT NATHAN HALE, LEXINGTON ALARM; ALSO LT, CAPT JOSEPH PARKER, COL ENOCH HALES; 2) SIGNED ASSOCATION TEST IN RINDGE, 1776; MEMBER OF RINDGE COMM OF SAFETY, INSPECTION & CORRESPONDENCE, 1778; SELECTMAN FOR RINDGE, 1779

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Minuteman, Revolutionary Soldier

Col Daniel Rand, son of Solomon, grandson of Daniel married, May 21 1767, Susannah Hemmenway of Shrewsbury. They settled in Rindge NH and there resided until their deaths. In the Revolution he was an ensign in Capt. Hale's Lexington company, he was a signatory of the "Association Test" in Rindge and a lieutenant in Col Isaac Wyman's regiment in 1776, a Capt. in Col Moore's regiment in 1777. Col. Rand led a company that included 24 Rindge men at the Battle of Saratoga. He was several years a member of the committee of safety. In the militia he was a Major in 1782 and a Col in 1785.

Col. Rand represented the town of Rindge in the NH Legislature for ten years. He was elected to the board of selectmen in Rindge seven times.

Daniel and Susannah were the parents of twelve children. They raised their children on the family farm in the south part of Rindge where, upon their deaths, they were interred together. This small family cemetery is located on private property now as then.

Children:

Ruth, b. May 20, 1768

Warham, b. Jan. 30 1770

Asenath, b. Oct. 22, 1771

Resinah, b. Oct. 2, 1773

Liberty, b. Jun. 3, 1775

Anna, b. Nov. 7, 1777

Gates, b. Sept. 17, 1779

Susannah, b. Aug. 27, 1781

Asa, b. Aug. 6, 1783

Candice, b. Aug. 1, 1785

Grata, b. May 10, 1787

Matilda, b. Dec. 20, 1794