Randall McAlister (1744 - 1819)

Born 1744 in Peterborough, N.H

Died 1819 at about age 75 in Smith's Peterborough pt

Biography

Private Randall McAlister served with 1st New Hampshire Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Randall McAlister is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A074404.

Randall McAlister is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 245360
Rank: Private

Isaac Hammond lists Randall McAllister from Peterboro, NH among those wounded in Stark's Regiment during the Battle of Bunker Hill.^[1]The DAR lists him as being born in Scotland.^[2]

Randall McAllister is listed as as a deserter. By his military pension he must have deserted the English forces. I don't think he would have recieved anything if it was the other way around.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oS50hDIHkNoC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=Randall+McAllister,+Mary+Blair&source=bl&ots=rORrbgZBtL&sig=JYUQWgf2vznmZH0LhbePTqfIcFA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=S3jjUum0OIvg2wW_toHwDg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Randall%20McAllister%2C%20Mary%20Blair&f=false

McAlister, Randall, of Peterborough, N.H.; soldier and deserter, 1775; b. 1744; m. Mary Blair, B 1749, d. 1833; Child: Mary; d. 1819, aged 75. -Smith's Peterborough pt. 2 p140

Sources

1. ↑ Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to May 1777'. Compiled and Edited by Isaac W. Hammond A. M., published 1885 by Parsons B. Cogswell of Concord, N.H.' Reprinted by Archive.org
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed March 5, 2018), "Record of Randal McAllister", Ancestor # A074404.