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Edward Randolph (1632 - April 1703) was an English colonial administrator, best known for his role in effecting significant changes in the structure of England's North American colonies in the later years of the 17th century. In 1676 he was the bear of a royal letter to the governor and council of Massachusetts to resolve claims of Robert Mason and Ferdinando Gorges in the provinces of New Hampshire and Maine.[1] Called "evil genius of New England and her angel of death",[2] his reports to the Lords of Trade (predecessors to the 18th century Board of Trade) convinced King Charles II to revoke the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1684, and he was a leading figure in the unpopular Dominion of New England. Randolph served as secretary of the dominion. While in that position, he argued for tighter Crown control over proprietary and charter colonies whose administrations lacked such oversight, and he was often given the difficult task of enforcing England's Navigation Acts in whichever colony he was posted to, often against significant local popular and political resistance. His actions were a significant contribution to the development of Great Britain's colonial administrative infrastructure, but he remained unpopular in the dominion. During the 1689 Boston revolt, which deposed Andros and overthrew the dominion, he was jailed. In 1691 the subject was appointed surveyor general of the customs in the American mainland, as well as, some of the island colonies and a year later received an additional appointment as deputy auditor of Maryland.[3] The subject having visited all the colonies north of the Bahamas made a presentation to the government with a view to have the charters revoked in the American colonies by the parliament of 1700. Facing a postponed bill, the lawyer filed his evidence in a chancery court.[4]He was born in Kent in 1632, read law at Gray's Inn, and studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, although he apparently did not receive a degree. He died on Virginia's eastern shore in 1703. References- {{cite book|last=Hall|first=Michael Garibaldi|title=Edward Randolph and the American Colonies|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill, NC|year=1960|oclc=181784}}
1. ^"America and West Indies: March 1676." Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 9, 1675-1676 and Addenda 1574-1674. Ed. W Noel Sainsbury. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1893. 355-365. British History Online website Retrieved 15 March 2019.
2. ^Washburn, Emory (1840). Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts. Boston, MA: Little and Brown. Public Domain. p. 121.
3. ^Osgood, Herbert Levi. (1958). The American colonies in the eighteenth century. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith reprint, permission of Columbia University Press. V.1, pp. 162-163.
4. ^Osgood, pp. 218-219
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