Randall Holden Jr.
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Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island, British America
Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island, British America
Major Randall Holden Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives | |
| In office October 1714 – May 1715 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Frye |
| Succeeded by | William Wanton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 1660 Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island, British America |
| Died | 13 September 1726 (aged 66) Warwick, Colony of Rhode Island, British America |
| Spouse |
Bethiah Waterman
(m. 1686; died 1726) |
| Children | 7 |
| Parent(s) | Randall Holden Frances Dungan |
Major Randall Holden Jr. (April 1660 – 13 September 1726) was a colonial Rhode Island politician.
Holden was born in April 1660 in Warwick in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the son of Frances (née Dungan) Holden (1632–1696) and Randall Holden, co-founder of Portsmouth and Warwick who was one of the signers of the Portsmouth Compact.[1][2][3] His younger brother, Charles Holden, married Catherine Greene (a daughter of Deputy Governor John Greene Jr.),[4] and his younger sister, Susannah Holden, married Benjamin Greene (son of Thomas Greene and grandson of John Greene, an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations who was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence and a co-founder of the town of Warwick).[5]