Person:Nathaniel Fitz Randolph (4)

  • HNathaniel Fitz Randolph1642 - 1713
  • WMary HolleyAbt 1641 - 1703
m. 1 Nov 1662
  1. John Fitz Randolph1662 -
  2. Isaac Fitz Randolph1664 -
  3. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph1666 -
  4. Samuel Fitz Randolph1668 - 1754
  5. Joseph Fitz RandolphAbt 1670 -
  6. Edward Fitz Randolph1672 - 1760
  7. Martha Fitz Randolph1674 -
  8. Samuel Fitz Randolph1688 -
m. 12 Apr 1705
  1. Benjamin Fitz Randolph1707 -
m. 12 Apr 1706
Facts and Events
Name[1] Nathaniel Fitz Randolph
Gender Male
Christening[2] 15 May 1642 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 1 Nov 1662 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Holley
Marriage 12 Apr 1705 Haddonton Meeting, Haddonton, NJto Jane "Jean" Curtis
Marriage 12 Apr 1706 to Jane Hampton
Death[1][2] 21 Nov 1713 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States

Nathaniel, a Quaker, 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 suffered much persecution from the Plymouth government, exchanged his house in Barnstable for land in Woodbridge, N.J.; moved family 1678 to N.J.

He was associate justice of Middlesex Co. N.J. in 1688, 1692, 1698 and in 1693 to 1705 he represented Woodbridge in the Provisional Assembly.

On the establishment of the Woodbridge Monthly meeting of Friends in 1706, he became a prominent member of the Society, and for 7 years the meetings were held in his house, until the completion of the meeting house in 1713, two months before his death.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Reitwiesner, William Addams. William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services: Royal, Noble, and Political Genealogies.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Christian, Louise Aymar, and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. The descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950. (1950)
    pg 6.