Thomas Fitzrandolph

Thomas FitzRandolph BIRTH 16 Aug 1659 Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA DEATH 25 Oct 1745 (aged 86) Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA BURIAL Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey

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Children Photo Elizabeth FitzRandolph 1689–1732

David FitzRandolph 1689–1773

Jonathon Fitzrandolph 1691–1783

Dinah FitzRandolph Dunham 1700–1749

• The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom 1630 - 1950
• http://randolpharchives.org/books/Desc%20of%20Edward%20FitzRandolph...
• 1. EDWARD1 FITZ RANDOLPH, baptised at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, July 5, 1607; emigrated in 1630 to Scituate, Mass.; died in Piscataway, N. J. about 1684-5. He married May 10 1637 [1,2], ELIZABETH BLOSSOM, born in Leyden, the Netherlands, in 1620. She married second June 30, 1685, Capt. JOHN PIKE, and died in Woodbridge or Piscataway in 1713.
• Children, born in Barnstable, Mass.:
  • i. NATHANIEL,2 bap. Aug. 9, 1640 [2,8,9]; died in Barnstable Dec. 10, 1640 and was buried in the Calf's Pasture there.
  • 2. ii. NATHANIEL, bap. May 15, 1642 [2,8,9].
  • 2. NATHANIEL2 FITZ RANDOLPH, bap. May 15, 1642 at Barnstable, Mass.; died in Woodbridge, N. J. Nov. 21, 1713 [14]. He married first, in Barnstable or Sandwich, Mass., in November, 1662 [2,10], MARY HOLLEY (Holloway, Holway), born in Sandwich, died in Woodbridge, N. J., July 12 1703, daughter of Joseph and Rose (Allen) Holley of Sandwich. Her mother Rose (Allen) Holley, married second May 19, 1648, William Newlands, a Quaker. Nathan Fitz Randolph married second, at the Haddonfield Meeting, Haddonfield, N. J., Apr. 12 1706, as her third husband, JANE (CURTIS-OGBORNE) HAMPTON, born at Bugbrooke, co. Northampton, England, 11th of 2nd month (April), 1661 [111], and died in Buckingham Township, Bucks Co., Pa. [13] in 1731. She was the daughter of Thomas and Jane Curtis, and widow of Samuel Ogborne and John Hampton, whose executrix she was Dec. 8, 1694. As the widow of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph she married as her fourth husband, John Sharp of Burlington, N. J. Her own will, as Jane Sharp, of Buckingham Township, Bucks Co., Pa., was dated 8th of 6 mo. (Aug.) 1729, and was proved Nov. 13, 1731, and mentions her sons Samuel Ogborne, Joseph Hampton, Benjamin Fitzrandall, and daughters Mary, wife of Jonas Kemble, and Sarah, wife of Edmond Kinsey. The executor was her son-in-law Edmond Kinsey.
  • 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 years 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 etablishment 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.
  • iii. MARY, bap. Oct. 6, 1644 [2,8,9,10]; died in infancy about 1649.
  • 3. iv. HANNAH, bap. Apr. 23, 1648 [2,8,9,10].
  • 3. HANNAH FITZ RANDOLPH (1), bap. Apr. 23, 1648 at Barnstable, Mass.; died Apr. 13, 1705 at Yarmouth, Mass.; mar. at Barnstable Nov. 6, 1668, JASPER TAYLOR.
  • 4. v. MARY, born June 2, 1650.
  • 4. MARY2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), born June 2, 1650 at Barnstable, Mass.; died Jan. 4, 1738 at West Barnstable; mar. Jan. 15, 1688/9 [10] to SAMUEL HINCKLEY, as his second wife. He was born at Barnstable July 24, 1642, and died at West Barstable Jan. 2, 1727. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Soule) Hinckley.
  • vi. JOHN, born Jan. 2, 1651-2 [2,8,9,10]; died in infancy.
  • 5. vii. JOHN, born Oct. 7, 1563 [2,8,9,10].
  • 5. JOHN FITZ RANDOLPH (1), bap. Oct. 7, 1653 at Barnstable, Mass.; died 1727 at Belvedere, N. J.; admr. granted June 9, 1727. He married at Piscataway, N. J., Oct. 1, 1681, SARAH BONHAM born Feb. 16, 1664/5 at Barnstable, died 1737/8 at Belvedere. She was a daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Ruller) Bonham, and a granddaughter of Samuel Fuller who came over on the Mayflower. Administration on her estate was granted Jan. 16, 1738.
  • John Fitz Randolph was on of the 17 original members of the "Old First Day Church," Seventh Day Baptists, in 1688/9.
  • 6. viii. JOSEPH, born Mar. 1, 1655/6 [2,8,9,10].
  • 6. JOSEPH2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), born Mar. 1, 1655/6 at Barnstable, Mass.; died about 1726 at Piscataway N. J.; will dated Mar. 1, 1719/20, and proved Jan. 18, 1726/7; mar. at Woodbridge, N. J., Jan. 16, 1687/8, JOANNA CONGER, born at Woodbridge in Aug., 1670, daughter of John and Mary (Kelley) Conger.
  • 7. ix. ELIZABETH, born in 1657.
  • 7. ELIZABETH2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), b. in 1657 at Barnstable, Mass.; mar. Aug. 26, 1676 [7], ANDREW WOODEN, born about 1662, died at Piscataway about 1702, sone of John Wooden.
  • Children, first child illegitimate, child of John Langstaff:
  • 8. x. THOMAS, born Aug. 16, 1659 [2,8,9,10].
  • 8. THOMAS2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), born Aug. 16, 1659 at Barnstable, Mass.; died in 1745 in Piscataway, N. J.; will dated July 24, 1745 and proved Oct. 25, 1745; mar. in Piscataway Nov. 23, 1686, ELIZABETH MANNING, born about 1669, died Mar. 1, 1731, aged 63, at Piscataway, int. St. James; dau. of Jeffrey and Hepzibah (Andrews) Manning. Thomas Fitz Randolph was a weaver.
  • Children, born in Piscataway:
    • 28. i. THOMAS,3, b. July 20, 1687 [10].
    • ii. ELIZABETH, B. 1689 [7]; died of smallpox Mar. 19, 1732 at Piscataway.
    • 29. iii. DAVID, b. Jan. 1, 1690/1 [7].
    • 30. iv. JONATHAN, b. Jan. 12, 1692/3 [7].
    • v. BATHSHEBA, b. Sept. 24, 1695 [7]; no further record.
    • 31. vi. DINAH, b. July 10, 1700 [7].
    • vii. LURANAH, b. Feb. 19, 1730/4 [7]; mar. ___ WHITEHEAD.
  • 9. xi. HOPE, born April 2, 1661 [2,8,9,10].
  • 9. HOPE2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), b. Apr. 2, 1661 at Barnstable, Mass.; mar. at Piscataway, N. J., Dec. 22, 1680, EZEKIEL BLOOMFIELD, b. at Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 1, 1653; d. at Woodbridge, N. J., Feb. 15, 1703, son of Thomas and Mary Bloomfield. His will was dated Jan. 12, 1703, and proved Feb. 25, 1703.
  • 10. xii. BENJAMIN, born in 1663.
  • 10. BENJAMIN2 FITZ RANDOLPH (1), born 1663 at Barnstable, Mass.; died Oct. 5, 1746 at Stoney Brook, N. J.; will dated July 13, 1793, proved Nov. 27, 1746; married first at Piscataway, N. J., July 1, 1689, SARAH DENNIS, born July 18, 1673 at Piscataway, died Nov. 22, 1732 at Stoney Brook, dau. of John and Sara (Bloomfield) Dennis; mar. second March 14, 1733, MARGARET ROBINSON. _________________
• This Old Monmouth of Ours By William S. Hornor
• http://books.google.com/books?id=Cy88CpankH8C&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq...
• Pg. 285
• This name is not of Norman-French origin, as might be inferred from the prefix, Fitz, meaning son of, but rather, is of Anglo-Saxon derivation. Under the form Randulf it is found, as an undertenent, in the Domesday Book. I do not find it in the Battle Abbey lists.
• Attempts have been made to connect the American line with the Lords of Middleham and the Dukes of Westmorland (FitzRandolph Traditions) and to find the origin of the line in a certain "Count Herald FitzRandolph, who is mentioned in the Domesday Book as among the nobles who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy to England." These may well be the facts, but I have not been able to find the slightest ground for their assertion. At any rate the name is an ancient and honorable one, both in England and America.
• EDWARD FITZRANDOLPH (1), born about 1615, came to New England about 1630, with his mother, a widow. There appears no other information concerning him until May 10, 1637, when, at Scituate, he was married, by the Reverend John Lothrop, to Elizabeth Blossom, joining the church four days later, a step that Elizabeth did not take until 1643. Elizabeth Blossom was a daughter of Deacon Thomas Blossom, from Schooby, England, and was born at Leyden about 1620. Edward removed from Scituate to Barnstable, and then, after many years, to Piscataway, New Jersey, in 1675, dying the following year. His widow subsequently became the second wife of Captain John Pike, of Woodbridge, and died, 1712, in her 93rd year. To Edward and Elizabeth FitzRandolph were born eleven children: Nathaniel (2); Hannah (3); Mary (4); John (5); Joseph (6); Elizabeth (7), who married Andrew Wooden; Thomas (8); Hope (9); and, Benjamin (10). There were two other children, who died in infancy. Some of the married daughters did not come to New Jersey.
• NATHANIEL FITZRANDOLPH (2), son of Edward (1), is said to have been three times married. The present writer has been able to find record of but two marriages, that of 1662, to Mary Holly, or Holloway, of Barnstable, who died 7-12-1703, and that to Mrs. Jane (Curtis) Hampton, of Shrewsbury. She had been married twice before, to Samuel Osborne and John Hampton, and took as a fourth husband, John Sharp. Nathaniel FitzRandolph was a Quaker. He was born in August of 1640 or 1642, at Barnstable, and died at Woodbridge 9-21, 1713. His children were: John Christopher (11); Isaac (12); Nathaniel (13); Samuel (14); Joseph (15); Edward (16); Martha (17); and Benjamin (18).
• JOHN FITZRANDOLPH (5), son of Edward (1), died in 1727. He had married, Octy. 1681, Sarah Bonham. Their children were: Sarah (19); Elizabeth (20); Temperance (21); John (22); and, Edward (23).
• JOSEPH FITZRANDOLPH (6), son of Edward (1), was born March 1, 1656, and died at Piscataway in 1726. He married, 1-16-1687, Hannah Conger, who was born 1670. Their children were: Joseph (24); Jonathan (25); Moses (26); Hannah (27), who married Captain Andrew Drake; Mary (28), who married John Morris; Bethia (29), who married John Clarkson; Ann (30); Prudence (31); Isaac (32); Lydia (33); Susannah (34); and, Ruth (35).
• THOMAS FITZRANDOLPH (8), son of Edward (1), was born August 16, 1659, and died in 1745. He was of Piscataway. He married, Nov. 23, 1686, Elizabeth Manning, died Mch. 1, 1732, one of whose brothers married, I believe, Grace (72), daughter of Joseph FitzRandolph (24). Their children were: David (36); Jonathan (37); Dinah (38), who married a Dunham; and, Lusanna (or Susanna) (39), who married a Whitehead.
• BENJAMIN FITZRANDOLPH (10), son of Edward (1), was born at Barnstable in 1663 and died near Princeton in 1731. He married, July 1689, Sarah Dennis, of New Brunswick. Their children were: Ruth (40), born 4-8-1695, died 9-24, 1780, who married, first, Edward Harrison, and, secondly, John Snowdon; Nathaniel (41); Sarah (42), and five others, whose names are not available.
• JOHN CHRISTOPHER FITZRANDOLPH (11), son of Nathaniel (2), was born 2-1-1663, and died, 6-19-1727. He married, first, 1682, Martha
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• __ __ __ __, and, secondly, 1702, Sarah Potter. His children were: Christopher (44); Martha (44 1/4), who married John Vail; John (44 1/2), born 4-25-1693; and Peter (44 3/4), born 4-20-1695, who is said to have been killed in one of the French wars, and to have left a family. There were five other children, whose names have not been recovered.
• DAVID FITZRANDOLPH (36), a son of Thomas (8), was born in 1690. He married, 1712, Sarah Molleson, Their children were: Nehemiah (90) and Molleson (91). Ther may have been others. ___________________
• An American Family History
• http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Bonham%20Family/BonhamSarahF...
• Sarah Bonham Fitz Randolph was born on February 16, 1664/65 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Nicholas Bonham and Hannah Fuller.
• She married John Fitz Randolph on October 1, 1681 in Piscataway. John was born on October 7, 1653 in West Barnstable. He was the son of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom. The Bonham and Fitz Randolph families were close neighbors in Barnstable and John was an early member of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway.
• John was a large landowner and in 1707 was one of the original members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
• Their children were Sarah Fitz Randolph (1682), Francis Fitz Randolph (1682), Elizabeth Fitz Randolph (1683), Temperance Fitz Randolph (1685), Temperance Fitz Randolph (1687). John Fitz Randolph (1693), and Edward Fitz Randolph (1698).
• John died in 1685. Mayflower Families says that on June 26, 1685 the widow Elizabeth Fitz Randolph of Piscataway deeded land to her son John Fitz Randolph.
• Sarah died in 1737 in Belvedere, New Jersey. On January 16, 1738 administation of the estate of widow Sarah Fitz Randolph was granted to John Fitz Randolph.
• from History of the First Baptist Church of Piscataway
• Stelton, New Jersey, 1889, by Oliver B. Leonard, Esq.
• The Fitz Randolphs
• By far the most numerous representatives of any one family in the township were the Fitz Randolphs, who descended from a distinguished Norman line settling in England with William the Conqueror, A. D. 1066. They became owners of vast estates in Yorkshire and the adjacent county of Nottingham. From the last named shire came Edward Fitz Randolph, the ancestor of the American famity, who settled with his parents in Massachusetts about 1630, at the town of Scituate. In early manhood he married Elizabeth Blossom, of Puritan stock, and their children, born at Barnstable in the Plymouth colony, that lived to grow up and become heads of families, were Nathaniel, Hannah, Mary, John Joseph, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hope and Benjamin.
  • Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, the oldest, born in 1642, became a Quaker, and one of the most influential of the sect. He migrated to Woodbridge township in 1678-9, locating near the Blazing Star ferry. He was the father of eight children, and a man of remarkable usefulness and importance in the commonwealth, filling all the local and county offices and prominent in the colonial government.
  • His brothers, John, Joseph, Thomas and Benjamin, just mentioned, had moved to Piscataway ten years earlier- in 1668-9 and were all of the Baptist persuasion except Benjamin. The emigration of this family to New Jersey was prompted by the severe enactments of the court of the old colonies, prohibiting the free exercise of individual consciences, compelling every person to sustain by tax the established Church worship, and imposing banishment upon any who opposed infant baptism.
  • John Fitz Randolph , the oldest of the Piscataway branch, was born in 1653, and married Sarah Bonham in 1675. He is known as a constituent member of this Church and one of the largest landholders in the township.
  • Joseph Fitz Randolph, the next oldest, born in 1656, was father of twelve children by his wife, Hannah Conger, a member of one of the Woodbridge families. None of this familiar name attained to greater usefulness in the Church and colony than their immediate descendants. To verify the statement would only require the mention of the heirs of his son, Joseph, who married Rebecca Drake; and his daughter, Hannah, who married Andrew Drake; and his son, Jonathan, whose wife was Margaret Manning; and his daughter, Prudence, who married Nathaniel Manning.
  • Thomas Fitz Randolph, the third son of the old patriarch, was born in 1659, and married Eliza Manning, having only six children. He was Clerk of the township and one of the first group of Selectmen to manage the affairs of the town, and served as deputy in the General Assembly.
  • Benjamin Fitz Randolph, the youngest, born 1663 married Sarah Dennis, and was taken in as a townsman of Piscataway in 1684. but moved to Princeton in 1696-9 with a colony of Friends whom William Penn induced to settle on a fertile plantation watered by Stony Brook, a tributary of the Millstone River.
  • These five Fitz Randolph brothers were progenitors of a numerous and prominent family-lineage who have produced some of the best citizens' of colonial days and give to the State and country illustrious soldiers and statesmen, eminent legislators and jurists, leamed-professors, distinguished divines, successful merchants and valuable members of society in the more quiet walks of life. _________

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Thomas Fitz Randolph

Thomas Fitz Randolph was born August 16, 1659 in Barnstable, Massachussets and died in 1745 in Piscataway, New Jersey. On Nov 23, 1686 he married Elizabeth Manning who was born ~ 1669 to Jeffrey and Hepzibah (Andrews) Manning and died March 1, 1732 in Piscataway and was buried at St James.

Thomas was a weaver, deputy to the General Assembly 1693-94, member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and was patented 90 acres of land in Piscataway, NJ.

Thomas and Elizabeth had seven children:

1. Thomas Fitz Randolph, born July 20, 1687, married woman named Margaret, no further information

2. Elizabeth Fitz Randolph, born 1689, died 1732 of smallpox

3. David Fitz Randolph, born Jan 1, 1690, married in 1712 to Sarah Molleson

4. Jonathan Fitz Randolph, born Jan 12 1692/3, married Mary Bonham in 1715

5. Bathseba Fitz Randolph, born Sept 24, 1695, no further information

6. Dinah Fitz Randolph, born July 10, 1700, married Edmund Dunham in 1717

7. Luranah Fitz Randolph, born Feb 19, 1703/4, married a Whitehead, no further information

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Thomas was a weaver by trade.

One of the first group of Selectmen.

1693 -94 He was Deputy to the General Assembly.

18 December 1666 - Daniel Pierce of Woodbridge NJ sold the land (Pisataway) for for 30 pounds Sterling to John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dunn and Hopewell Hull.

14 September 1677, Townsmen agreed to re-buy the land from the Lenape Indians. Deed of Sale to Governor Carteret acknowledged by three Indians: CONACKAMACK, CAPATAMIN and THINGORAWIS

The name "piscataway", comes from the Lenape Indian language "piscataqua" or Pisgatatanwi", which means "dark". In Maryland, the name originated with the Piscatoway Indians. There is no connection between the Maryland and New Jersey Piscatoways, except in both areas Indians spoke Algonkian languages.

Feeeholders who assumed leadership: Edward Slater, Isaac Smalley, BENJAMIN CLARKE, George Drake, THOMAS FITZ RANDOLOPH, Jediah and Thomas Higgins, John Langstaff, John Martin Jr. and Nicholas Munday.

1707 - Rev. Edmond Dunham organized a Seventh Day Baptist Church, which was erected four miles north of the Common on the road to Quibbletown.

1850 - The SDB Church relocated at Stelton and Old New Brunswich Roads, on the south side of New Market.

Thomas and Elizabeth were members of the Piscataway NJ Seventh Day Baptist Church.

Patentee 90 acres of land - Piscataway TWP, Middlesex Co. NJ (B3 Car-Del-Scribe).

Some stones of Thomas' family are partly buried, some are readable, some are so chipped off by frost that the lettering is all gone.

March and April of 1732 - three died of Small Pox.

His Will was dated 24 July 1745 and proved 25 October 1745.

Information Sources:

1. "Fitz Randolph Traditions" by Lewis V. Fitz Randolph - 1907, Sect 1, LL Ch. 2-3.

2. "The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph & Elizabeth Blossom 1630-1950 and Supplement 1955" by L.A. Christian & Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, pp 2 & 8.

3. Records of Ruth Joy Fitz Randolph Smith, Texarkana AR.

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Thomas was a Weaver. Author: Christian, Louise Aymar, and Howard StelleFitz Randolph Title: Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950 Publication: Privately Printed, c. 1950 Note: Standard Historyof Fitz Randolph descent, excellent to abt. 1830

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Married November 23, 1686 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

He and his wife had a total of seven children.

He was a weaver.

Parents were Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom) FitzRandolph.

Said to be buried in the Old Piscatawaytown Graveyard, but no legible stone marks his burial place in the family plot. So a metal marker was placed beside his wife's gravestone in memory of him.

Added to memorial by Duane Dipert (49630382), on Dec 31, 2021: : Additional children of Thomas Fitz Randolph: Thomas Fitz Randolph (20 jul 1687-) (father of Thomas (2 Aug 1714-21 Mar 1732) who died of smallpox. Bathsheba Fitz Randolph (24 Sept 1695-Jul 1745). Luranah Fitz Randolph (19 Feb 1703-Jul 1745).

Source: The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950 by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph