Robert Rand, I

It should be noted that a substantial recognition of the great services of Mr. Thomas Goffe, the supposed owner of the May-Flower, as the warm friend and promoter of the settlement of New England, was made in 1734, when the General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay granted his grandnephew, Robert Rand, of Boston, -- the sole heir of Goffe's daughter, Mrs. Sarah Watts, --- one thousand acres of land, in response to his petition, setting forth Mr. Goffe's services and losses. Rand recites that Mr. Goffe died on a voyage to this country. (Drake's History of Boston, p. 588).

(p. 353). Source: The May-flower and her log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621: chiefly from original sources (Google eBook) Azel Ames Houghton, Mifflin, 1907

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27. ROBERT, son of Thomas (11); born June 18, 1684; married May 2, 1709, Elizabeth Welch; sailmaker; Boston.

Children.

I. Robert, born January 29, 17 10; died young.

II. Thomas, born May 28, 171 1; died September 8, 171 1.

III. Thomas, baptized November 9, 1712; buried February 4, 1 7 13.

IV. Elizabeth, baptized June 20, 17 14; married January II, 1732, Simmons Seccomb.

V. Rachel, baptized March 4, 17 16; married Henry White, published September i, 1743.

VI. Robert, baptized January 19, 1718.

VII. Joshua, baptized July 19, 1719; died December 31, 1719

VIII. William, baptized September 4, 1720; died September, 1 7 21.

IX. Sarah, baptized March 25, 1722.

X. William, born July 6, 1723.

XI. Mary, baptized March 7, 1725.

XII. Joshua, baptized February 12, 1727.

Source: Genealogy of Rand Family in the US (book)

   He was a sailmaker by trade and lived in Boston.

   Quite evidently Robert had lots of enterprise for we find in 1730 petitioning the General Cou rt of Massachusetts for a grant of land to compensate the family for his great uncle. The Gen eral courts granted, in 1734, 1000 acres of land on the east side of the Merrimack River in w hat is now Manchester, New Hamphire but what was then know as Harry's Town.

   Unfortunately for Robert and many other Massachusetts people New Hamphire was shortly separat ed from Massachusetts and all early land titles were abrogated.

   Robert died about 1740 and with him his son-in-law Simmons Secomb.

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