Family Group Sheet for Edward FitzRandolph and Elizabeth Blossom
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Edward FitzRandolph
Born: 5 July 1607 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England
Parents: Edward FitzRandolph and Frances Howes
Died: June/July 1676 Middlesex County
Buried: By tradition in Saint James Churchyard in Edison, New Jersey with Elizabeth in northwest corner close to Woodbridge Ave.
Married: 10 May 1637 in Scituate, Massachusetts by John Lothrop. (off-site link to Wikipedia because there is so little information online about Lothrop.)
Occupation: yeoman (In that time period, this most likely referred to owning a small amount of property or being a successful farmer.)
Scroll down on Wikipedia's article on the family of President Barack Obama to see how he is related to Queen Elizabeth II through Edward FitzRandolph.
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Elizabeth Blossom
Born: Probably 1620, after the Mayflower departed for New England. (Her father's letter to Bradford says his only two surviving children were born after he departed from the Mayflower group.)
Died: 1713, according to FitzRandolph Traditions in Piscataway, New Jersey. Family tradition has her buried next to Edward, not her second husband.
Second marriage: John Pike on 30 June 1685. (link to Wikipedia article)
Parents: Thomas Blossom and Ann Elsdon
See a Timline of Elizabeth Blossom's life.
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Children:
Nathaniel FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Born: August 30, 1640
Died: 10 December, 1640 at age 4 months and buried "in the calf's pasture."
Nathaniel FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Baptized: 15 May 1642 (Source: 1)
Died: 21 November 1713 (source 1)
Spouse: Mary Holley (source 1)
Married: November 1662 (source 1)
Spouse: Jane Hampton (previously married twice before, and married a fourth time after Nathaniel died.) (Source 1)
Married: 12 April 1706/1707 at Haddonfield Meeting, Haddonfield, New Jersey (Source 1)
Religion: Converted to Quaker religion, probably as result of first marriage. (Source 1)
From Source 1: "Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was one of the four who first asked for religious tolerance for the Friends in New England. In 1677, 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 year afterwards, 1678-9, moved with his family to New Jersey. He served as associate justice of Middlesex Co., N.J. in 1688, 1692, and 1698; and in 1693-5, he represented Woodbridge in 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 establishment 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." (page 6)
Nathaniel was the most important reason Princeton University is in New Jersey. He did the bulk of the fundraising and also donated some of his own land. He is buried on campus.
Can Nathaniel FitzRandolph's descendents attend Princeton University for free? Sorry, it's just a legend!
Mary FitzRandolph:
Gender: Female
Baptized 6 October 1644
Died: 1649. About 5 years old.
Hannah FitzRandolph:
Gender: Female
Born: 23 April 1648
Died: 13 April 1705
Spouse: Jasper Taylor
Married: 6 November 1668
Mary FitzRandolph:
Gender: Female
Born: 2 June 1650
Died: 4 January 1738 in West Barnstable, MA and buried in West Barnstable Cemetery
Spouse: Samuel Hinckley (brother of Gov. Thomas Hinckley of Plymouth)
Married: 15 January 1668/1669 (She was his second wife.)
Tombstone Inscription (off-site)
John FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Baptized 7 October 1653 in Barnstable, MA
Died: 19 June 1727 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Spouse: Sarah Bonham
Married: 2 October 1681 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Joseph FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Born: 1 March 1656 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
Died: 1726 in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Spouse: Joannah Conger
Married: 16 January, 1686/1687
Elizabeth FitzRandolph:
Gender: Female
Born: about 1657
Died: 1702
Spouse: Andrew Wooden
Married: 22 August 1676
Thomas FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Baptized: 16 August 1659
Died: 1745
Spouse: Elizabeth Manning
Married 23 November 1686
Gender: Female
Born about 1661 in Barnstable, MA
Died 1706 in Woodbridge, New Jersey
Spouse: Ezekiel Bloomfield
Married: 22 December 1680 in Piscataway, New Jersey
Benjamin FitzRandolph:
Gender: Male
Born: about 1663 in Barnstable, MA
Died: 5 October 1746 in Stoney Brooke, Princeton Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Spouse: Sarah Dennis
Married 1 July 1689 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Spouse: Margaret Robertson
Married: 14 May 1733