Excerpt from Biographical History of Robert Randall and His Descendants: 1608 1909
The compiler of this Genealogical History has sometimes been asked why he undertook this laborious task, - a work which, if faithfully done, involves great labor and is of very uncertain financial issue. His answer is that in writing the History of Easton, Mass., he became interested in this kind of work, not as a vocation, but as an avocation, and he selected the Randall family because it was the largest and one of the most important families of the town in its earlier days.
Robert Randall, the immigrant ancestor of the Easton Randalls, settled in Weymouth, Mass., about 1635, a man of comparatively large means. His grandsons, Thomas, Samuel, Israel, and Ephraim, in 1694, settled in Taunton North Purchase, the eastern part of which became the town of Easton in 1725. They were a prolific race and for nearly a century their descendants, in point of numbers, were the leading family in town. One of the several Randall coats of arms bears for its motto the legend, "Nil extra numerum," which may be translated, "Nothing except numbers," a legend which, instead of the boastful assertion of invincible valor, extraordinary services to king and country, royal origin or exceptional antiquity, only makes the modest claim of being a numerous family, a claim fully justified by the Robert line. The coat of arms here alluded to consists of a shield surmounted by the head of an antelope holding in its mouth a floral spray and a scroll below the shield, but the writer emphatically disclaims the pretension that it belongs distinctly to this family; at present it is only known to be one of the Randall coats of arms.
Very few Randalls left the town of Easton for nearly a hundred years. After the Revolutionary war there was, however, quite a migration, many settling in the State of Maine and in western Massachusetts, some of them receiving grants of land for military services.
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