Notes for Lazarus RAND

Descendants of Several Maine Families
(John COX and Hannah KEEN, William COTTON and Margaret GREEN, David STEVENS and Mary Ann COBB, Philemon and Sarah RAND, and John LUNT and Lydia RAND)

Notes for Lazarus RAND

Some information from Pension application file of Lazarus Rand,
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application
Files, 1800-1900, series M804, roll 1997. Lazarus appears on a
muster roll of Captain Abraham Tyler's Company, Colonel Edmund
Phinney's Regiment, dated at Fort George Dec. 8 1776, Lazarus
enlisted Feb. 28, 1776 as a private. He also appears as a
private on a pay roll of Captain Alexander McLellan's Company,
Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment for service on the
expedition to Penobscot, from July 7 to Sept. 25, 1779.

Family info from: History of Woodstock, ME, with family
sketches, by William B. Lapham, Stephen Berry Printer, Portland,
ME, 1882, p. 249-250.

Miscellaneous information from History of Woodstock, ME, with
family sketches, by William B. Lapham, Stephen Berry Printer,
Portland, ME, 1882:
Lazarus Rand and David Rand settled in Woodstock about 1804; p.
19. They also appear on the first tax list for the town in
1812; History of Woodstock, p. 30.
Elected one of the surveyors of roads at first Woodstock town
meeting on March 20, 1815; p. 34.
Was in the second eastern school district at the first division
of the town into districts in 1814. Two years later redistricted
into the 5th district; p. 104.
David and Betsey Rand were loaned a lot of land by the town of
Woodstock for $1 per year; p. 50.

Death from: Woodstock, ME, Town and Vital Records (1814-1908),
LDS Film 0864977, item 1, p. 80.
Revolutionary War pension application file says he died in
Minot, ME.

A Lazarus Rand appears on the 1790 US Census, Maine, Cumberland
Co., Falmouth Town. His household consists of: 1 male over 16, 3
males under 16, and 4 females.

A Lazarus Rand appears on the 1800 U.S. census, series M32, roll
6, ME, Cumberland Co., Poland, p. 207. Household consists of: 1
male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 45 & over, 3 females under 10,
2 females 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 45 & over.

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