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Research Notes:

The Great Migration reports [1]:

Philip Randall
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1633
First Residence: Dorchester
Removes: Windsor 1636

Occupation: Smith. His inventory included "all his smith's tools for his trade" valued at £6.
Church membership: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369].
Education: Signed will by mark. His inventory included "books" valued at £3.

Estate: Granted four acres in Dorchester, 5 August 1633 [DTR 2]. "Goodman Randel" was a boundary reference in a grant of land on 17 April 1635 [DTR 10].
In the Windsor land inventory on December 1640 "Philipp Randell the elder" held a houselot of five acres and five acres in meadow over the great river bordered by Abraham Randall north & Rodger Ludlow south [WiLR 20].
In his will, dated 8 March 166[1/]2, Philip Randall of Windsor "being aged & full of days" bequeathed all to "my wife" during her life, then to "my son Abram," he to pay following legacies: "Isack Phellps my grandchild" 50s.; "Abrahm Phellps" £5; "Joseph Phellps" 50s. Also Joseph at age 21 to have "a lot of my son Abraham which is over the Great River next above Mr. Davison's land, by virtue of a piece of land of mine which I gave my son in my lot over the Great River which he hath exchanged with Goodman Bissell" [Hartford PD Case #4419; Manwaring 1:145-46].

The inventory of the estate of Philip Randall, taken 28 May 1662 by William Gaylord and Humphrey Pinney, totalled £113, of which £72 was real estate: "house and orchard and so much of his ancient homelot as now pertains to it with four acres of meadow," £60; and "land on the east side of the Great River," £12 [Hartford PD Case #4419; Manwaring 1:145-46].
Birth: By about 1590 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Windsor 6 May 1662 [CTVR 21; Grant 83].

Marriage: By about 1615 _____ _____; "old widow Randall" died at Windsor 24 August 1665, aged 87 (undoubtedly an exaggeration) [CTVR 22; Grant 84]. (A "Phillippe Randole" married 10 April 1608 at Allington, Dorset, Joan Fush [Dorset Marr 2:94; TAG 17:176]; this seems too early for the immigrant.)

Children:
1) Abraham, born say 1615; m. (1) Windsor 8 December 1640 Mary Ware [Grant 63; Windsor Hist 1:11]; m. (2) Windsor 27 October 1681 Elizabeth (_____) Kirby [CTVR 51; Boardman Anc 269]. (Some sources have made Abraham's first wife a widow Ware, with maiden surname Phelps; this is based on a misinterpretation of Abraham's will, in which he makes a bequest to "my cousin Abraham Phelps" [Manwaring 1:501]; this was not the son of his first wife's brother, but the son of his sister Philura.)
2) Philura, born say 1617; m. by 1638 George Phelps (birth of first recorded child [Grant 56]).
3) Philip, born say 1619 (his father called "the elder" in 1640); bur. Windsor 26 September 1648 [Loomis Rec 1:50; Grant 81 (does not give day or month)]; apparently unmarried.

Comments: Stiles read the death of 1662 for a Philura rather than Philip, and assumed that the immigrant was the Philip who died in 1648 [Windsor Hist 2:632]. Stiles had not seen the will, which relieves his confusion on this point.


Footnotes:

[1] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1548, [AmericanAncestors].