Revolutionary War Soldier. Thomas Randall was Captain of the Third Continental Artillery, his commission being dated August 10, 1776. Randall was wounded eight times and taken prisoner at the Battle of Paoli on the night of September 20-21, 1777. His wounds being too severe, he was left on parole until he was exchanged that December. He was furloughed until the end of March 1778, but was back in command of a company under Colonel Lamb's Second Continental Artillery at the Battle of Monmouth in June. Randall served until at least July 1779, when his name last appears, in the records of the First Maryland Artillery. After the war, Randall served in a number of civic positions. He was a founding member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, an alderman from the South Ward of New York City and an active member of Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1783 he was presiding officer of the Common Council of the City of New York. When George Washington came to the city for his inauguration, Randall served as coxswain of the ceremonial barge which transported Washington from Elizabeth, N.J. to New York City. Randall was warden of the Port of New York before being named superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, and buoys for the Sandy Hook light and all other such installations in New York in June 1790. Before the war, Randall had been one of twenty merchants who founded the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York on April 5, 1768.
Revolutionary War Soldier. Thomas Randall was Captain of the Third Continental Artillery, his commission being dated August 10, 1776. Randall was wounded eight times and taken prisoner at the Battle of Paoli on the night of September 20-21, 1777. His wounds being too severe, he was left on parole until he was exchanged that December. He was furloughed until the end of March 1778, but was back in command of a company under Colonel Lamb's Second Continental Artillery at the Battle of Monmouth in June. Randall served until at least July 1779, when his name last appears, in the records of the First Maryland Artillery. After the war, Randall served in a number of civic positions. He was a founding member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, an alderman from the South Ward of New York City and an active member of Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1783 he was presiding officer of the Common Council of the City of New York. When George Washington came to the city for his inauguration, Randall served as coxswain of the ceremonial barge which transported Washington from Elizabeth, N.J. to New York City. Randall was warden of the Port of New York before being named superintendent of lighthouses, beacons, and buoys for the Sandy Hook light and all other such installations in New York in June 1790. Before the war, Randall had been one of twenty merchants who founded the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York on April 5, 1768.
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