From the family record and the memory of Emily Crandell Blake, dau of Eliza Crandell and granddaughter of Sarah Smith Randall. Written about 1927.

"So far as I have been able to learn, the children of Joshua Randall and Sarah Smith Randall were born in NY, the older ones in and near New York City and the younger ones in and near the central part of NY. My mother, Eliza Randall, was born in Pompey, NY. Mother learned thru her brother John that their mother Sarah Smith Randall married for her first husband, when she was very young, the first mate in Capt. Angle ship just before it sailed to foreign lands never to return. There were no children by grandmother's first marriage. Uncle John did not remember the name of grandmother's first husband.

Capt. Angle married grandmother's eldest sister, Abigal. Sarah Smith Randall was of pure Holland Dutch blood; her ancestors were among the first settlers of New Amsterdam. Sarah Smith Randall, great-grandmother of Loise Randall Hutchins was an ancestress to be proud of in everyway. A woman of more tha ordinary intelligence and refinement, well educated, a reader of the very best literature, very patriotic. Grandmother was a small gray-eyed, fair complexioned, beautiful woman. As I remember her, she always wore dainty spotless white lace caps; her hair was white. She always wore a white lace fichu or one made of the same material of her own summer dress edged with lace, crossed at her belt, always the fichu about her neck and shoulders. Every article of grandmother's dress was spotless and neat. she was always knitting stockings, mittens, etc., for the numerous members of the family when I knew her. I was twelve years old when she died.

When I think of grandmothers compared with the old women of her time, I cannot but wonder at her clean dainty ways and dress. It certainly was marvelous after her long hard worked life with small means and a large family, making every garment they wore from the wool as it was cut from the sheep and the flax grown in their own fields. Grandmother has told me of the process of cleaning the wool, then carding by hand and spinning and weaving into cloth after working for days to dye the various colors. The flax was cut and retted in the fields, then broken and hetcheled to make it ready to spin and weave; then came the coloring process again. She made cloth for dresses, men's and boys suits, sheets, pillow slips and everything in the shap of cloth they had to wear, besides knitting all the stockings. Some work. Most people find it hard now a days to make their clothes with all the cloth furnished for them. Mother had several pieces of linen that grandmother made. They were very fine and even.

My mother Eliza Crandell did not look at all like her mother, being tall (5 ft. 7 1/2 in. dark brown eyes and hair, fair complexion, tho. she was like her mother in dainty ways. I never saw granfather Randall. He died in NY before I was born, long before grandmothers death. Grandfather Randall was tall 6 ft in his stocking feet, grandmother used to say. Dark complexion and eyes, black hair, very athletic. His father was English, sided with England during the Revolution. Mother has told me that grandfather was quite a sporty man, fond of good horses, etc., and would get quite "set up" at General Trainings and other big events of the times. General Trainings was in those days a big event where all kinds of sports and racing were indulged in as well as strong drinks.

Grandmother Randall always said she was the first of her family to marry out of the pure Holland Dutch blood. Grandmother was very patriotic, always trying to teach her grandchildren to love their country and their country's flag, say it was most beautiful flag that waved over any country and the most wonderful government that ever existed. It was always one of her regrets that grandfather Randall's father had been a Tory. Grandmother Randall's father (first name not remembered) Smith, died in the service of the government of pneumonia during the spring of 1780 before grandmother's birth. She was but four months old when her mother died. The four children went to live with their grandmother Bogaardt, her mother's mother.

Another family name I used to hear her mention was Baugardus - I think it was spelled. The names of the four orphaned Smith children ere Abigal, Gabriel, Elizabeth and Sarah. Abigal married Capt. angle before mentioned. Elizabeth married a man by the same name, but I do not remember if grandmother ever said if the Angles were brothers. The grandmother with whom the children lived on staten Island met with an accident which caused her death. She was spinning in the attic, there was no railing about the attic stairs, so it was supposed she accidently stepped off as she was found dead at the foot of the stairs.

Grandmother was still quite a young girl and went to live with her oldest sister who married Capt. Angle and lived in New York City. It was in New York City that the family Bible and other family records were burned when the Angle house was burned. That is the reason we have so little to trace our branch of the Smith family. Grandmother said that the Angle home was filled with treasures from every land that Capt. Angle had brought home from his many long trips on the ocean, He finally sailed never to return.