Australian Royalty: Genealogy of the colony of NSW

Esther Howard, 1758–1789 (aged 31 years)

Name
Esther /Howard/
Given names
Esther
Surname
Howard
Name
Esther /Randall/
Type of name
married name
Name
Esther /Raynolds/
Type of name
married name
Name
Esther /Harwood/
Given names
Esther
Surname
Harwood
Birth
about 1758
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In 1787 Bowes recorded Esther to be 29 years
Immigration
1787 (aged 29 years)
Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Esther Harwood was one of 262 convicts transported on the ship Lady Penrhyn, January 1787. Alias(es): Howard. She was convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years and departed England in January 1787.

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Her offence was pickpocketing, theft and receicing on 30 Aug 1786. The Old Bailey transcript:
ESTHER HARWOOD, otherwise HOWARD was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 14th day of August , one silver watch, value 20 s. two iron keys, value 1 s. one half guinea, and two shillings in monies numbered, the property of James Potter privily from his person:
And JAMES WETHERICK was indicted for feloniously receiving the said watch, knowing it to be stolen.
JAMES POTTER sworn.
On Wednesday, the 9th of August last, I lost a watch at the Wheatsheaf, in Tothill street, Westminster ; I was in company with the prisoner; I first met with her in the house, about ten in the morning; I cannot say that any body else was in company with me, other people were there; it was in the publick tap room; we had been there a considerable time; I staid there till night; she was not with me all the time, but we were five or six hours together in the tap room all the time; we sat in a box; I had no knowledge of her before; when she had left me sometime, I missed my watch; I might stay after her, half an hour or an hour; I lodge in the neighbourhood; the woman went out of the house; it was a silver watch; I had drank rather more than I should do; when I missed my watch; the next day I got a warrant for the woman, and she was taken; the pawnbroker has my watch; I had the watch out several times whilst I was in her company, to see the hour; I am sure I put it up again, but I did not know when I lost it.
How many times had you it out? - Three or four times.
Was you not so overcome in liquor, that you do not know what you did? - I recollect very well about the watch.
But after she was gone, did you see your watch? - No.
Did you see the prisoner Wetherick in company? - No.
JANE FERGUSON sworn.
Did you see the prisoner Esther Harwood, and James Potter together? - Yes, I lived in the publick house a servant girl.
How long did you see these prisoners and Potter together? - They came in about ten.
How long did they stay together? - Mr. Potter went away between nine and ten.
The woman did not stay there all the time? - No, she went away at a different time.
Did you see Potter pull out a watch at any time? - Yes, I saw him pull it out once to see what o'clock it was.
Did you see this woman do any thing? - Yes, my Lord, between five and six, James Potter went into the vault, and this Esther Harwood came after him about five or six minutes after; I was in the kitchen, and she came into the vault to him, and she bid him get up, and she felt about his breeches, and said that the watch fell into the vault, and she felt again, and said it did not; and I saw her take his watch out of his breeches pocket, and she said she would take care of it for him, and she wrapped it up in paper.
Was Potter in liquor at the time? - Yes, he was.
What time of day might this be? - Between five and six in the evening.
Did they come into the house again? - Yes, and she staid half an hour, and she held the watch in her hand, wrapped up in paper.
Did she offer to give the watch to Potter? - No.
Why did not you tell him of it? - He was so much in liquor, it was to no purpose to tell him of it.
Did you go to the vault? - No, I looked through the kitchen where a pane was broke, and the vault door open.
She had the watch in her hand publickly? - Yes.
Was there a good many people there? - No, not many, there was a few.
Did you see her take the watch from the breeches, or was the watch dropped down, and she took it up? - No, my Lord, she took it out of the breeches.
Did the people that were there, see any thing of it? - No, they did not.
Why did not you tell some of the people of it? - I told my mistress of it.
Prisoner to Jane Ferguson. Did not the man go to the vault and pull off the man that was on the vault, and say he would sh - t in his lap, saving your presence, and I told him not to use the man ill for he was very much in liquor? - Yes, Sir, there was a soldier.
What did he go in for? - I did not see what he went in for.
Was he in the vault when this woman went in? - Yes.
Did you know this woman before? - Yes.
Did she use to come to your house? - Yes.
What pretty often? - Yes, the soldier and her went in together.
What was the soldier's name? - I cannot rightly say his name.
FRANCIS FLEMING sworn.
On Thursday the 10th of August the woman prisoner brought a silver watch to our shop in Tothil-street, Westminster, and asked for three shillings on it; I told her that I had no objection to it, provided she would tell me whose it was, for I knew it was not her's; she stood confused for two or three minutes, and then said, she would go and fetch the person who sent her with it.
Did she go away? - Yes, and in four or five minutes she returned with the prisoner; I knew the woman prisoner, and I had seen the man before; the man came and said it was his; I kept the watch; the man said, he had borrowed a shilling since, and did not want to pledge it, and I then delivered the watch to him; I thought he had a right to it; it was between ten and eleven; they both went away together.
ROBERT CLARKE sworn.
This is the watch the prosecutor swears to; I am a pawnbroker in Bridge-street, Westminster; that is about a quarter of a mile from Tothil-street; the man prisoner brought the watch to me and asked a half a guinea on it, on the 10th of August; I lent it him, and he left the watch.
Did he go away? - Yes, immediately; on the day after the constable came; this is the watch I received from the man prisoner.
Fleming. This is the same watch I received from the woman prisoner, and which I delivered to the man.
Prosecutor. This is my watch; I have had it about a year; there is a circle round the inside case; the chain has been broke, and the seal has the impression of the free mason's arms on one side, and a man's head on the other.
How long has the chain been broke? - I believe two or three months.
(The watch shewn to the Jury.)
PRISONER HARWOOD'S DEFENCE.
I had been at Billingsgate; I went into a public house where the gentleman was; he asked me to drink, and he gave me a shilling to go to get something to eat; he drank there a considerable time; I went round with my oysters, and he asked me to drink; he pulled out his money all round the place; he had a half a crown, and half a guinea, and he changed the half guinea; I went round again with my oysters; he had eight penny worth of oysters and never paid me for them; he asked me to drink again; he went to the vault and set upon the vault, and this soldier followed him out; he dragged him out; he said, he would do what he had in his lap; he gave that little girl some silver; she was aside the soldier washing her pots; I went round again with my oysters; when I came round again at ten he was gone; I went to the vault, and I put my hand to feel whether it was dirty, and there lay the watch in the corner and the key.
PRISONER WETHERWICK'S DEFENCE.
I am a servant to John Housely; on the 10th of August I went to the Wheatsheaf; the man credits me, and I pay him; this woman came after me; she said, she wanted to speak to me; I went to the corner of St. Giles's passage, and this woman came to me and told me she had found a watch, and the pawnbroker would not let have any thing without she had a man; I said, did you come b it honestly; she said, she pawned it, I gave her the half guinea.
The prisoner called one witness to his character.
ESTHER HARWOOD, GUILTY, But not privily .
To be transported for seven years .
JAMES WHETHERWICK , NOT GUILTY
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.

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She stated in her evidence that she sold oysters.
Marriage
John Randall — View this family
February 21, 1788 (aged 30 years)
Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Randall married Esther Howard/Harwood on 21 February 1788; she died on 11 October 1789.
Death
October 11, 1789 (aged 31 years)
Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Family with John Randall
husband
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Immigration: January 1788 — Botany Bay, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Property: Randal's Farm — November 29, 1792 — Northern Boundary, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
House Break in: October 1793
Charged with theft: June 1799
Property: November 10, 1800 — North Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Soldier — between November 17, 1800 and April 24, 1810
Census: 1814 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: before 1822
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Esther Howard Family with spouse Frances Randall Family with spouse Mary Butler Lydia Randall Mary Randall John Randall Family with spouse Fanny … Eliza Randall Ann Randall
John Randall
1764–1822
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1822
herself
Birth: about 1758
Immigration: 1787 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 11, 1789 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Esther Howard
1758–1789
Birth: about 1758
Death: October 11, 1789 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage — February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
John Randall + … …
husband
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Immigration: January 1788 — Botany Bay, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Property: Randal's Farm — November 29, 1792 — Northern Boundary, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
House Break in: October 1793
Charged with theft: June 1799
Property: November 10, 1800 — North Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Soldier — between November 17, 1800 and April 24, 1810
Census: 1814 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: before 1822
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Esther Howard Family with spouse Frances Randall Family with spouse Mary Butler Lydia Randall Mary Randall John Randall Family with spouse Fanny … Eliza Randall Ann Randall
John Randall
1764–1822
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1822
stepdaughter
Birth: before 1792 28 — New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: between 1810 and 1811
Notice in newspaper: April 26, 1824
Marriage: about 1825
Census: November 1828 — Field of Mars, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 26, 1870 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: Balmain, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse John Aiken Mary Ann Aiken Maria Aiken John Aiken James Aiken William Aiken Esther Aiken Frances Aiken Mary Ann Aiken Family with spouse William Brown
Frances Randall
1792–1870
Birth: before 1792 28 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 26, 1870 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
John Randall + Mary Butler
husband
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Immigration: January 1788 — Botany Bay, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Property: Randal's Farm — November 29, 1792 — Northern Boundary, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
House Break in: October 1793
Charged with theft: June 1799
Property: November 10, 1800 — North Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Soldier — between November 17, 1800 and April 24, 1810
Census: 1814 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: before 1822
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Esther Howard Family with spouse Frances Randall Family with spouse Mary Butler Lydia Randall Mary Randall John Randall Family with spouse Fanny … Eliza Randall Ann Randall
John Randall
1764–1822
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1822
husband’s wife
Birth: about 1750 — Ireland
Immigration: June 28, 1790 — Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: July 1802 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: July 29, 1802 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse John Randall Lydia Randall Mary Randall John Randall
Mary Butler
1750–1802
Birth: about 1750 — Ireland
Death: July 1802 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage — September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 months
stepdaughter
Birth: 1791 27 41 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: February 1793 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: February 13, 1793 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Lydia Randall
1791–1793
Birth: 1791 27 41 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: February 1793 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
stepdaughter
Birth: December 4, 1793 29 43 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: July 20, 1812 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1857 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Burial: September 30, 1857 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Mary Randall
1793–1857
Birth: December 4, 1793 29 43 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1857 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
4 years
stepson
Birth: May 28, 1797 33 47 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Baptism: June 20, 1797 33 47 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Notice of quitting colony: March 1810 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
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John Randall
1797–
Birth: May 28, 1797 33 47 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death:
John Randall + Fanny …
husband
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Immigration: January 1788 — Botany Bay, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: February 21, 1788 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage: September 5, 1790 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Property: Randal's Farm — November 29, 1792 — Northern Boundary, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
House Break in: October 1793
Charged with theft: June 1799
Property: November 10, 1800 — North Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage: after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Soldier — between November 17, 1800 and April 24, 1810
Census: 1814 — New South Wales, Australia
Death: before 1822
Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Esther Howard Family with spouse Frances Randall Family with spouse Mary Butler Lydia Randall Mary Randall John Randall Family with spouse Fanny … Eliza Randall Ann Randall
John Randall
1764–1822
Birth: about 1764 — New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1822
husband’s wife
Birth:
Marriage: after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
Death:
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Fanny …
–
Birth:
Death:
Marriage — after 1802 — New South Wales, Australia
12 years
stepdaughter
Birth: about 1813 49 — New South Wales, Australia
Petition: 1822 — New South Wales, Australia
Death:
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Eliza Randall
1813–
Birth: about 1813 49 — New South Wales, Australia
Death:
4 years
stepdaughter
Birth: about 1816 52 — New South Wales, Australia
Petition: 1822 — New South Wales, Australia
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Ann Randall
1816–
Birth: about 1816 52 — New South Wales, Australia
Birth
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In 1787 Bowes recorded Esther to be 29 years
Immigration
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Esther Harwood was one of 262 convicts transported on the ship Lady Penrhyn, January 1787. Alias(es): Howard. She was convicted at Middlesex Gaol Delivery for a term of 7 years and departed England in January 1787.

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Her offence was pickpocketing, theft and receicing on 30 Aug 1786. The Old Bailey transcript:
ESTHER HARWOOD, otherwise HOWARD was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 14th day of August , one silver watch, value 20 s. two iron keys, value 1 s. one half guinea, and two shillings in monies numbered, the property of James Potter privily from his person:
And JAMES WETHERICK was indicted for feloniously receiving the said watch, knowing it to be stolen.
JAMES POTTER sworn.
On Wednesday, the 9th of August last, I lost a watch at the Wheatsheaf, in Tothill street, Westminster ; I was in company with the prisoner; I first met with her in the house, about ten in the morning; I cannot say that any body else was in company with me, other people were there; it was in the publick tap room; we had been there a considerable time; I staid there till night; she was not with me all the time, but we were five or six hours together in the tap room all the time; we sat in a box; I had no knowledge of her before; when she had left me sometime, I missed my watch; I might stay after her, half an hour or an hour; I lodge in the neighbourhood; the woman went out of the house; it was a silver watch; I had drank rather more than I should do; when I missed my watch; the next day I got a warrant for the woman, and she was taken; the pawnbroker has my watch; I had the watch out several times whilst I was in her company, to see the hour; I am sure I put it up again, but I did not know when I lost it.
How many times had you it out? - Three or four times.
Was you not so overcome in liquor, that you do not know what you did? - I recollect very well about the watch.
But after she was gone, did you see your watch? - No.
Did you see the prisoner Wetherick in company? - No.
JANE FERGUSON sworn.
Did you see the prisoner Esther Harwood, and James Potter together? - Yes, I lived in the publick house a servant girl.
How long did you see these prisoners and Potter together? - They came in about ten.
How long did they stay together? - Mr. Potter went away between nine and ten.
The woman did not stay there all the time? - No, she went away at a different time.
Did you see Potter pull out a watch at any time? - Yes, I saw him pull it out once to see what o'clock it was.
Did you see this woman do any thing? - Yes, my Lord, between five and six, James Potter went into the vault, and this Esther Harwood came after him about five or six minutes after; I was in the kitchen, and she came into the vault to him, and she bid him get up, and she felt about his breeches, and said that the watch fell into the vault, and she felt again, and said it did not; and I saw her take his watch out of his breeches pocket, and she said she would take care of it for him, and she wrapped it up in paper.
Was Potter in liquor at the time? - Yes, he was.
What time of day might this be? - Between five and six in the evening.
Did they come into the house again? - Yes, and she staid half an hour, and she held the watch in her hand, wrapped up in paper.
Did she offer to give the watch to Potter? - No.
Why did not you tell him of it? - He was so much in liquor, it was to no purpose to tell him of it.
Did you go to the vault? - No, I looked through the kitchen where a pane was broke, and the vault door open.
She had the watch in her hand publickly? - Yes.
Was there a good many people there? - No, not many, there was a few.
Did you see her take the watch from the breeches, or was the watch dropped down, and she took it up? - No, my Lord, she took it out of the breeches.
Did the people that were there, see any thing of it? - No, they did not.
Why did not you tell some of the people of it? - I told my mistress of it.
Prisoner to Jane Ferguson. Did not the man go to the vault and pull off the man that was on the vault, and say he would sh - t in his lap, saving your presence, and I told him not to use the man ill for he was very much in liquor? - Yes, Sir, there was a soldier.
What did he go in for? - I did not see what he went in for.
Was he in the vault when this woman went in? - Yes.
Did you know this woman before? - Yes.
Did she use to come to your house? - Yes.
What pretty often? - Yes, the soldier and her went in together.
What was the soldier's name? - I cannot rightly say his name.
FRANCIS FLEMING sworn.
On Thursday the 10th of August the woman prisoner brought a silver watch to our shop in Tothil-street, Westminster, and asked for three shillings on it; I told her that I had no objection to it, provided she would tell me whose it was, for I knew it was not her's; she stood confused for two or three minutes, and then said, she would go and fetch the person who sent her with it.
Did she go away? - Yes, and in four or five minutes she returned with the prisoner; I knew the woman prisoner, and I had seen the man before; the man came and said it was his; I kept the watch; the man said, he had borrowed a shilling since, and did not want to pledge it, and I then delivered the watch to him; I thought he had a right to it; it was between ten and eleven; they both went away together.
ROBERT CLARKE sworn.
This is the watch the prosecutor swears to; I am a pawnbroker in Bridge-street, Westminster; that is about a quarter of a mile from Tothil-street; the man prisoner brought the watch to me and asked a half a guinea on it, on the 10th of August; I lent it him, and he left the watch.
Did he go away? - Yes, immediately; on the day after the constable came; this is the watch I received from the man prisoner.
Fleming. This is the same watch I received from the woman prisoner, and which I delivered to the man.
Prosecutor. This is my watch; I have had it about a year; there is a circle round the inside case; the chain has been broke, and the seal has the impression of the free mason's arms on one side, and a man's head on the other.
How long has the chain been broke? - I believe two or three months.
(The watch shewn to the Jury.)
PRISONER HARWOOD'S DEFENCE.
I had been at Billingsgate; I went into a public house where the gentleman was; he asked me to drink, and he gave me a shilling to go to get something to eat; he drank there a considerable time; I went round with my oysters, and he asked me to drink; he pulled out his money all round the place; he had a half a crown, and half a guinea, and he changed the half guinea; I went round again with my oysters; he had eight penny worth of oysters and never paid me for them; he asked me to drink again; he went to the vault and set upon the vault, and this soldier followed him out; he dragged him out; he said, he would do what he had in his lap; he gave that little girl some silver; she was aside the soldier washing her pots; I went round again with my oysters; when I came round again at ten he was gone; I went to the vault, and I put my hand to feel whether it was dirty, and there lay the watch in the corner and the key.
PRISONER WETHERWICK'S DEFENCE.
I am a servant to John Housely; on the 10th of August I went to the Wheatsheaf; the man credits me, and I pay him; this woman came after me; she said, she wanted to speak to me; I went to the corner of St. Giles's passage, and this woman came to me and told me she had found a watch, and the pawnbroker would not let have any thing without she had a man; I said, did you come b it honestly; she said, she pawned it, I gave her the half guinea.
The prisoner called one witness to his character.
ESTHER HARWOOD, GUILTY, But not privily .
To be transported for seven years .
JAMES WHETHERWICK , NOT GUILTY
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice GOULD.

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She stated in her evidence that she sold oysters.
Marriage
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Randall married Esther Howard/Harwood on 21 February 1788; she died on 11 October 1789.
Death