Thomas Rand

Married Agnes Clarke (b abt 1534), dau of James (sic: John) & Margaret

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Birth: Feb. 1, 1657 Charlestown Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Death: Oct. 3, 1695 Charlestown Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA

Thomas was the son of Thomas Rand born in England and Sarah Rdenden. Thomas, 1 Feb 1657, married, 17 June 1679, Sarah Longley at Charlestown. He drowned in the Mystic river in a canoe accident along with his wife, Sarah, on October 3, 1695. The river flows from the Lower Mystic Lake and travels through the Boston-area communities of Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown, Chelsea, and East Boston.

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Parents:

 Thomas Rand (1627 - 1683)

 Sarah Edenden Rand (1636 - 1699)

Spouse:

 Sarah Longley Rand (1660 - 1695)

Children:

 Sarah Rand (1694 - 1695)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Phipps Street Burying Ground Charlestown Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Plot: 2J68

Maintained by: Charlene Patton Originally Created by: BobBoston Record added: Apr 15, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 51164129

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The children of William and Joanna (Goffe) Longley were:..... 3. Sarah, born October 15, 1660; married June 17, 1679, Thomas Rand, father of Robert Rand, to who a grant of a thousand acres of land was given by the general court in what is now New Hampshire, on account of the losses suffered by Governor Goffe, his great-uncle...

Source: p 536 Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 1 (Google eBook) Ellery Bicknell Crane The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 http://books.google.com/books?id=nfhSZxL8bTEC&dq=%2B%22robert+rand%...

11. THOMAS, son of Thomas (4), born February 1, 1657; was drowned by a canoe sinking in Mystic River, October 31, 1695; cordwainer, Charlestown; admitted to Church January 29, 1682; married June 17, 167 — , Sarah, daughter of William Longley, of Groton, who was admitted to Church March 9, 1684, and married (2) Benjamin Watts, 1701.

Children

I. Sarah, born January 27, died February 11, 1680. II. Thomas, born December 26, 1681; baptised February 5, 1682; was a mariner; Gaily "Augustus." III. Edmund, who died August, 1683. IV. Robert, born June 18, 1684. . . .27 V. Edmund, born August 22, 1686. . . 28 VI. William, born May 4, 1689. . . .29 VII. Joshua, born March 2, 1692; died prior to 1711. VIII. Sarah, born September i, 1694; died September 3 1695.

Source: Genealogy of the Rand Family in the United States (BOOK)