Randall Eldred

and

Anne Nunamaker (?)

Born:      1749, Newport RI

Died:      22 Aug 1795, South Carolina or Newport RI

Buried:   Common Burial Ground, Newport RI

Born:     

Died:     after April 1795 

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Married:     

Children:   Elizabeth (Elliott), Randall

    Ann’s last name is alleged to have been Nunamaker, but where she was from and where and when they were married is not known. Randall may have moved to South Carolina with his father; in 1790 he was living at 117 East Bay St, Charleston (at the corner of Bay and Broad St). In 1795 Randall and Ann deeded their plantation “Green Savannah”1 to their son Randall Jr. In this document Randall is described as “shopkeeper of St. Bartholomew’s Parish”, but at his death he is describes as a “mariner” and his tombstone calls him “Captain”, so he was probably also a ship’s captain like his father. Randall died in 1795, at which time his son Randall III who was 15, petitioned to have his brother-in-law, Thomas Elliott, husband of his sister Elizabeth, made his guardian. As he is buried in the Common Burial Ground in Newport, RI, he may have returned there to die, or his body may have been transported there after his death.

    Randall III married Susannah Robert, of a Charleston Huegenot family, and later moved to Louisiana. Either Randall III or his son, also named Randall, figures in the book “Twelve Years a Slave”

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 1 Green Savannah Plantation was originally “Green’s Savannah”, and was part of land given to General Nathaniel Greene after the Revolution. It was located on the Colleton County side of the Edisto River, between Parker’s Ferry and Jacksonboro.

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