John RANDALL

                   HE also married Mary Cottrell, sister of Eleanor. I don't know who the mother ofNicholas was.
                  

                   Benjamin Randall and Descendants
1715-1811 , Connecticut
Per "Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666-1879", pg. 153
Very little is known of the life of Benjamin Randall. We find by the Records he was admitted a Freeman, of Colchester, Ct., 6th Dec., 1763, but probably he was several years before this date.
A grandson, (Mr. Joseph Randall,) (1778), now living in Janesville, Wis., is ourauthority for giving Stonington as the birthplace of all his children, the youngest of which was born 1758. his son Rufus was married in Colchester, 1757, and his daughter Mary in 1760. Sylvestor is mentioned in the Town Records of 1762. By these it may be presumed that his settlement in Colchester was not far from 1755-6.
We have found the tracing of his descendants exceedingly difficult and the results quite unsatisfactory in some cases, as will be seen by the records, in the omission of a number of families, and the want of dates in others.
During the later years of 1700 and the early part of 1800, A.D., the greater share of his descendants removed to Albany, Herkimer, Oswego, Otsego, Chenango and Monroe Counties, new York; and Benjamin, Jr., settled in Shelburne, Mass.
He is represented as possing great physical powers and endurance, and some of his dealings with the lawless and troublesome elements of the half-formed society in this new country are repeated at the present time, as "reminiscences of earlydays of Colchester."
He died 15th June, 1811, aged 96 years and 13 days. His descendants are more numerous than those of either of his elder brothers, John, 3rd, and Nathan, and areif possible more widely scattered.