"ORIGIN: London"
"RETURN TRIPS: Travelled to England and returned 1635 on the Abigail [Hotten 93]"
"CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 'Edward Ransford' was admitted to Boston church as member #62, which would be in the winter of 1630-1 [BChR 13]. Deacon in the year 1666 and 1667 [BChR 347]. On 12 February 1668[/9] Edward Ransford and Jacob Eliot were dismissed as deacons 'for setting their hands with other brethren to desire their dismission from the church because the church had chosen Mr. Davenport for their pastor' (BChR 62]. Rainsford then became ruling elder of the Third Church of Boston at its formation in May of 1669 [ Worthley 63].
FREEMAN: 17 April 1637 (as "Edward Rainsfoard") [MBCR 1:373]."
"BIRTH: Baptized Staverton, Northamptonshire, 10 September 1609, son of Robert and Mary (Kirton) Rainsford [NEHGR 139:238, 296]. (On 29 December 1671 Edward Rainsford deposed that he was aged 'about sixty years' [SPR 7:177]; at his death he was seventy-one years old [King's Chapel 37].)
DEATH: Boston 16 August 1680 ('Here lies the body of Mr. Edward Raynsford Senior, aged 71 years, departed this life Anno Domini 1682 [sic]' [King's Chapel 37]; 16 August 1680: 'Elder Edward Rainsford died, being old and full of days' [Hull 247]; from the Hobart Journal we learn that on 17 August 1680 'Mr. Ransford ruling elder to the Third Church in Boston [was] buried' [NEHGR 121:206])."
