Edward Raynesford^{[1, 2, 3]}

Bef 1609 - 1680  (70 years)

• Name	Edward Raynesford
  Birth	Bef 10 Sep 1609	Staverton, England
  Christening	10 Sep 1609	Staverton, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Aug 1680  [1, 5]
  Burial	17 Aug 1680	Boston, Suffolk, Massachussetts   [6]
  Person ID	I79177	Shelton
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2002

  
  

  Father	Robert Raynsford,   b. Bef 7 Feb 1567, Epping, Co. Essex, , England d. 15 Apr 1629, Staverton, England (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Mary Kirton,   b. Abt 1567   d. After 1634 (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1602	Croydon, Surrey
  Family ID	F27203	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary,   b. 1608   d. Apr 1632, Suffolk, Boston, Massachusetts (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1631	, , , England
  Children	1. Jonathan Rainsford,   b. Aug 1630, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown 2. Mary Rainsford,   b. 17 Jun 1632, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 12 Apr 1694, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F27254	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2001

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Dilloe,   b. Abt 1607   d. 16 Nov 1688 (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1633	Boston, Suffolk, Massachussetts
  Children	1. John Rainsford,   b. 30 Apr 1634   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Jonathan Rainsford,   b. Aug 1636   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Mary Raynsford   d. Yes, date unknown 4. Ranis Rainsford,   b. 4 Apr 1638, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 2 Oct 1691, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 53 years)   5. Nathan Rainsford,   b. Jun 1641   d. Yes, date unknown   6. David Rainsford,   b. Jul 1644   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Solomon Rainsford,   b. Bef 25 Dec 1648   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Elizabeth Rainsford,   b. Bef 25 Dec 1648   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Hannah Rainsford,   b. 12 Nov 1650   d. Yes, date unknown   10. Anna Rainsford,   b. 1 Dec 1651   d. Yes, date unknown   11. Edward Rainsford,   b. Bef 15 Aug 1654   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F27255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2002

  
  

• Notes

  RFN: 2010 Owen Rowe, writing to John Winthrop during the winter of 1636, requested that "Mr. Rainsford may be accommodated wi th lande fro a farme." Thereupon the Puritan Government gave Elder Edward Rainsford a small island of eleven acres located between Peddock's and L ong Islands, about a seven miles' sail from Boston. This island has for many years been called one of the Harbor's prettiest, but in its present runinous s tate it is hardly attractive from the channel. West Head still contains many delightful nooks and coves, however, and the High Bluff on the eastern side is a well known landmark. This bluff slopes away on the inside to form a flat a rea large enough for a baseball diamond. Between this land and West Head there is a narrow strip of beach, formerly wide enoooough for a road but now barely passable at high tide. When seen from the air, the island remembles an elong ated animal. Edward Rainsford, or Raynsford as the name was sometimes spelled, was the brother of Sir Richard Rainsford, Lor d Chief Justice of the King's Bench. At the time of the Antinomian Controversy , the Puritans declared Rainsford a heretic and disarmed him. Elder Rains ford lived to a good old age and died on August 1680. His widow, who sur vived him by eight years, is buried in King's Chapel graveyard. By his second wife, Elizabeth, Edward Rainsford had ten children. Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts

  
  

• Sources

  [S2454] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry of Edward Rainsford (1609-1680) of Boston, Massachusetts V olume 154 - April 2000, (13 MAY 2000). [S3027] rita Sannar. [S8178] 1511710. [S2508] NEHGR, New England Historical and Genealogical Register xerox copies, (26 MAR 1995). vol 139 pg 396 [S3073] Ashley, Robert E., Ashley's of the Old Colony, Descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth (Percival) Ashl ey of Rochester, Mass . V ol. I, (21 MAY 1994). Vol1 pg xxiii [S2508] NEHGR, New England Historical and Genealogical Register xerox copies, (26 MAR 1995). vol 139 pg 296