Colonial Graveyards

Young "Mildrad" Rand of Charlestown, Ma.
She lies at rest in Phipps Street Burying Ground, plot P73

This stone reminds me of an initialed Caleb Lamson stone in Portsmouth.

Mildrad Rand
Daugtr of Mr
Joseph & Mrs. Sarah
Rand, Decd Nobbr
26 1718 Aged 1 Year

Mildred was the seventh of Joseph and Sarah (Brigden) Rand's fourteen children, and according to Wyman she was born January 18, 1717/18, and died November 26, 1718. Joseph and Sarah would name child eight Mildred as well, but she died July 26, 1720, just shy of 10 months old. Child ten was the next girl — and the third attempt at having a one named Mildred who survives. Alas, this Mildred born April 3, 1723, and baptized on the seventh, "died early". Sarah's grandmother's name was Mildred, so the naming seems to be in honor of her, and their last child was named in honor of her mother, Sarah Barrett.

Children of Joseph and Sarah Rand, of Charlestown, MA:
1. Joseph, b. Dec. 8, 1704.
2. Sarah, bapt. Aug. 10, 1707; d. Feb. 5, 1720/21.
3. Nathaniel, b. Sep. 15, bapt. Sep. 18, 1709.
4. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 24, bapt. Aug. 26, 1711; d. Oct. 1, 1711.
5. Abigail, b. Dec. 13, bapt. Dec. 14, 1712; m. Thomas Wood.
6. Zechariah, b. Mar. 31, bapt. Apr. 3, 1715; d. Jan. 1, 1716/17.
7. Mildred, b. Jan. 18, bapt. Jan. 19, 1717/18; d. Nov. 26, 1718.
8. Mildred, b. Sep. 14, bapt. Oct. 11, 1719; d. Jul. 26, 1720.
9. Zechariah, b. Feb. 28, 1721/22; bapt. Apr. 29, 1722; listed in the 1771 valuation (No. 341, not paying taxes).
10. Mildred, b. Apr. 3, bapt. Apr. 7, 1723; d. young.
11. Timothy, b. Apr. 7, bapt. Apr. 12, 1724; d. sometime after 1753.
12. Sarah, bapt. Mar. 29, 1725; m. Richard Kettell.
13. Esther, bapt. Sep. 11, 1726; m. Isaac Bradish.
14. Barret, bapt. Sep. 3, 1727; d. young.

Rachel (Harwood) Balston
At Kings Chapel, Boston, Ma

Here Lyeth Buried
Yᵉ Body Of Rachel
Yᵉ Late Wife Of
Nathaniel Balstoⁿ
Daughter Of Thomas
& Rachel Harwood
Aged 26 Years
Died March Ye 21
1687/8.

This is the only information on American Ancestors relating to Rachel:

Rachel was born in Boston February 25, 1660 — the first child of Thomas and Rachel Harwood. She married Capt. Nathaniel Balston, and died March 21, 1687/8

Capt. John Mellows.
At King's Chapel, Boston, Ma.

HERE LYETH BURIED
Ye BODY OF CAPT
JOHN MELLOWS
AGED ABOUT 25.
YEARS DEC'D
FEBRUARY Ye 14
1682.

John was the son of John and Martha Mellows. He married a woman named Sarah, and they had at least one child, named Elisha, born March 16, 1680.

Sources:
• American Ancestors.
• A report of the Record Commissioners containing Boston births, baptisms, marriages and deaths, 1630-1699.
• Memorials of the dead in Boston, containing exact transcripts of inscriptions on the sepulchral monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston; with copious historical and biographical notices of many of the early settlers of the metropolis of New England.