Sgt. Samuel [D105] Reynolds^[1]

1674 - 1745  (71 years)

• Name	Samuel [D105] Reynolds
  	Seaver Memoir
  Prefix	Sgt.
  Born	1674	Haverhill, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Oct 1745	Haverhill, Massachusetts
  Buried	Bradford Cemetery   [2]
  Person ID	I17957	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of James Reynolds
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2019

  
  

  Family	Abigail Middleton,   b. 1674, Haverhill, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown, Haverhill, Massachusetts
  Notes	https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt Deed and Will from the Essex Records in Salem, Mass. " Dec. 26, 1710. John Bolnton to Samuel Runels in Bradford, Husbandman, in consideration of £7, part paid and part secured by bill, a certain piece of land lying in the township of Bradford, 20 acres as it is bounded, be it more or less ; bounded on the N. E. corner on a little small red oak marked and on the South side of a frog pond ; and so running on the East side upon land of Thomas West till it come to Boxford line ; and on the South on Boxford line to the stump of an old tree, with stones by it, on Boxford line; and from that stump, on the West side, by land of Richard Kimball, unto a stake and stones on the N. W. corner." We have no evidence of real estate as possessed in Massachusetts at an earlier date by a member of this family; implying that though married some eight or ten years previously, this ancestor did not have a " home of his own," in Bradford, till 1710-11. It is evident, too, from this deed, and the price paid, that his original twenty-acre lot must have been comparatively wild and less valuable land at the time of purchase. The northern bounds are not given, but its location on Boxford line is made certain. This was afterwards known in Bradford as the "Job Runnels Place," where the ''Job Runnels apples," excellent for their keeping qualities the year round, were found growing. J. Warren Chad wick now owns the same site, near Chadwick*s or Little Pond. The land was transferred from John Runnels [22] to James Buswell, and by the latter to John Chadwick. The old Runnels house was standing as late as 1840.
  Children	+ 1. Stephen [D106] Reynolds,   b. 14 May 1703, Bradford, Massachusetts ,   d. 19 Mar 1755, Bradford, Massachusetts  (Age 51 years) + 2. Job [Middleton] Reynolds,   b. Abt 1694, Kingstown, Rhode Island ,   d. 3 Jun 1776, Salem, Bradford, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 82 years) + 3. Samuel Middleton [MASS] Reynolds,   b. 17 Dec 1706, Haverhill, Massachusetts ,   d. 1784, Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts  (Age 77 years) + 4. Ebenezer [Middleton] Reynolds,   b. Est 1715, North Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island ,   d. 4 Aug 1795, Haverhill, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F6518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories		New Jersey-Connecticut-Delaware Reynolds; Reynolds Family History by J. Montgomery Seaver; American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1929 ReynoldsFamilyHistorybySEAVER.pdf
  		Memoir George W. Reynolds Family of Warwick, Massachusetts. ny_reynolds.pdf

  
  

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  [S107] Family Histories, http://www.reynoldspatova.org/histories/ReynoldsFamilyHistorybySEAVER.pdf. [S107] Family Histories, https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt. Samuel Reynolds The "Inventory" of his estate was taken by Thomas Kimball and two others, Dec. 3, 1745, and is still to be seen among the old papers of Ensign Enos Reynolds [64]: " Amounting, whole, in bills of ye last Tenor, £222 17s» 3d." Among the items specified are "About 80 acres of land with buildings thereon, £160." "One pare of oxen £9." 'Thirteen barriels of cyder, with bariels £3." " Waring apareal £5 Is. 6d.," and various " Utensiels for husbandry." He d. and was buried in Bradford. The writer was so happy as to discover his grave, in the old Bradford cemetery, in 1871! The rich satisfaction was also afforded of resetting the prostrated gravestones and remarking their inscriptions, which read, upon the headstone, " Here lies buried the body of Sergt. Samuel Runels who died the 27th of October, 1745, aged 61st years"; on the footstone, ''Samuel Runels." Date of death corresponds with that upon the Town Records ; but a mistake of " 5 " for " 7 " was undoubtedly made in the age, as well as in the manner of expressing it. He must have been more than 61 years old, as appears from the birth of his oldest son, and the age of his second son's wife, buried at his side. Calling it '71 years," the year of his birth, not otherwise ascertained, is reasonably fixed at 1674, This synchronizes with his supposed arrival from Nova Scotia in 1690. We also learn, only from the above inscription, that he bore the military title of "Sergeant." His widow d. Oct. 11, 1753, in Bradford (Town Records). Their children were all b. in Bradford except the second. [S243] THE REYNOLDS FAMILY, J. Montgomery Seaver, (American Historical Genealogical Society), Lineage of Reverend John Reynolds English Clergyman. Samuel Reynolds b. 1674; d. 1745; m. Abigail Middleton, Haverhill, Mass. Samuel is the Father of Stephen b 14 May 1703, Bradford, Mass m. Ester Hovey Rowley; d 19 Mar 1753. [S107] Family Histories, https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt. GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR of SAMUEL RUNELS, OF BRADFORD, MASS., 1703? 1748. This immediate Nova-Scotian origin of Samuel seems also confirmed by an allusion in his will. The term "Eastern parts" would not then have been applied to the " District of Maine," as that was a part of Massachusetts. No place east of Essex County would naturally be meant, which was itself farther west than Arcadia or the present provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. His grandfather, too, either as owner or occupant, had evidently gained for him a right to those lands. It is, therefore, reasonable to infer that this " grandfather Runels" may have been among those Scotch settlers who came to Nova Scotia with La Tour, a French Protestant, in 1628. They landed at Port Royal (now Annapolis), and built the so-called ** Scotch Fort" on the east side of the Basin- (Granville) 5 the remains of which were visible as late as 1829. When Sir William Phips of Massachusetts captured Port Royal, May 20, 1690, the English dismantled, but did not garrison, the fort; and we are told by Haliburton (Hist, of Nova Scotia, Vol. I, p. 72), that " In this defenceless state the unfortunate Arcadians in the neighborhood were attacked by two piratical vessels, the crews of which set fire to a number of houses, slaughtered their cattle, hanged some of the inhabitants, and deliberately burned one family, whom they had shut up in their dwelling-house to prevent their escape." FIRST GENERATION. 1. Samuel^ was b., as supposed, about the year 1674, near Port Royal, N. S. ; m. Abigail Middleton, probably of Haverhill, Mass., 1700-2. The old Haverhill record has " Samuell Renolls and Abigail Middeltine." But this orthography is of no authority in opposition to the earlier and more numerous citations of the name on the Bradford Records, both christian names and the wife's original surnayne being also incorrect. All their children, except the second, are given on the Bradford Records as "sons and daughters of Samuel and Abigail Runels." It is inferred either that she was at her father's home in Haverhill at the birth of her second child, or that they lived first in Bradford, afterwards in Haverhill, and then in Bradford again, where they were finally settled, as proved by the following abstract of Deed and Will from the Essex Records in Salem, Mass. [S10] R.W. Ryan. Reynolds Select Reynolds Surname Genealogy The name Reynolds was a Norman import to England, from Reginald or in Old French Reinold. The earlier root is the Old Norse Rognvaldr, comprised of the elements ragin meaning "counsel" and wald meaning "rule." Reynold was a Viking leader who harried the English and Irish shores in the 10th century. Name variants have included Reynold and Reynell. The Irish MacRaghnaill derives from the Gaelic of Randal or Reginald. This name became anglicized to Reynolds. Select Reynolds Resources on The Internet Reynolds Family History in Essex Reynolds Essex genealogy. Reynolds Family Association. Reynolds arrivals in America. Reynolds Family Circle. Reynolds family genealogy. Reynolds Irish Reynolds history. R.J. Reynolds. R.J. Reynolds family tree. Reynolds Family Beginnings. John Reynolds in New Brunswick. Select Reynolds Ancestry England. The Reynolds name first appeared in Somerset where they were granted lands after the Norman Conquest in 1066. William filius Raunaldi is recorded in the Domesday Book. SW England. A Reynell family originally from Cambridgeshire transplanted themselves to Devon in the 14th century where they were substantial landowners. They were described as "men of great credit, fidelity, and service to their kings, country and state in peace and in war." Both the Reynell and Reynolds names were to be found in Devon. A Reynolds family in Plympton produced the great 18th century portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The naval Reynolds came from Cornwall. They made their home in the late 18th century at Penair near Truro. And the Reynolds name was also prominent in tin mining at St. Agnes, starting possibly with William Reynolds who was born there in the 1680?s. Owen Reynolds, a yeoman farmer from Melcombe in Dorset, was five times its mayor in the 1550?s. His nephew Edward benefited from the patronage of the Earl of Essex and died in 1623 in London a rich man. Kent. A Reynolds line dating back to the 16th century in East Bergholt in Kent included descendants who were among the early immigrants to America. From a later naval family came George Reynolds who got himself involved in the Chartist movement in the 1840's. He founded a radical newspaper, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, which became popular. The paper continued in a different guise as Reynolds News until 1967. East Anglia. The birth of Thomas Reynolds was recorded at Great Chesterford in northern Essex in 1569. He appeared in court in 1598 after a brawl with a neighbor. One family history dates back to the marriage of James Reynolds and Susannah Wood at Little Bardfield in 1711. In the churchyard of the nearby village of Great Sampford there are a number of Reynolds gravestones of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Just across the border into Cambridgeshire were the Reynolds of Castle Camps and the Reynolds of Leverington: Sir James Reynolds, a Cromwellian general, had taken a lease on the Castle Camps estate as a safe retreat for his family during the Civil War. His grandson Sir James was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1727. While Richard Reynolds was rector of Leverington near Wisbech in the 1670?s. His son Richard, born there, became the Bishop of Lincoln. He acquired Paxton Hall in Huntingdonshire in 1730 where the family remained for several generations. Lancashire. There was a Reynolds family in Lancashire which inherited the Strangeways estate near Manchester in 1711. Francis Reynolds from this family distinguished himself in naval actions in the West Indies and later took over the family estates at Tortworth in Gloucestershire (his home there is now a country house hotel). Lancashire received an influx of Irish Reynolds in the 19th century. Mary Reynolds from Mohill in county Leitrim settled her young family in Manchester after the death of her husband during the famine years. Her letters recently published, The Reynolds Letters: An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester, present a story of Irish immigrants making good in industrial England at that time. Ireland. The Reynolds name came to Ireland at the time of Strongbow in the 1200's. These English invaders took the titles of Earls of Cavan, Lisburne and Mountmorris. A later English invasion in the 17th century gave rise to the Reynells from Devon of Reynell castle. However, the largest numbers of Reynolds have been home-grown. From early times the lands around Lough Rynn in county Leitrim were owned and settled by the MacRaghnaill clan. Sean na gCeann or John of the Heads, so called for beheading his rebellious clansmen, was their chief in the late 1500's. The next century saw the English taking over Leitrim and the Irish, including the McRaghnaills, being gradually pushed out. A second exodus occurred at the time of the potato famine. Even so, nearly half of the Reynolds in Ireland today come from Leitrim. The Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds was born in nearby Roscommon. Portugal. A Reynolds family from Kent has been in Portugal since 1820, first as cork importers and then as wine producers. America. The English Reynolds in America came first. Early Reynolds settlers in New England were Robert and Mary Reynolds and their four children who got there in 1630. Christopher Reynolds from Gravesend in Kent arrived in Virginia in 1622 on the Francis and John. Their family line is documented in Stephen Tilman's 1959 book, The Rennolds-Reynolds of Virginia and England. [Beware of this reference-mfe] Members of this family were subsequently involved in the freighting business in upstate New York. They later moved west: P.G. Reynolds became a mail contractor and stage operator in Dodge City for the trails heading south to the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. His brother Milton, who adopted the writing name of Kicking Bird, covered Indian council meetings as a roving reporter and became an advocate for Western settlement. another Milton Reynolds, but of German origin, introduced the first ballpoint pen to an unsuspecting public in 1945. Abraham Reynolds was a poor tobacco farmer in Virginia in the early 1800's. His son Hardin started a plantation at Rock Spring in Patrick county. Hardin's son RJ, the second of sixteen children born there, embarked on a plan to build his own tobacco factory at Winston Salem. It was he who developed the huge tobacco empire that is RJ Reynolds. Irish. Irish Reynolds also came to America. John Reynolds arrived in Virginia in the 1770's. His descendants moved onto Kentucky and Missouri. Robert and Margaret Reynolds from Louth reached Tennessee in 1784 and then continued to Illinois. Their son John rose to be the fourth governor of that state. Nineteenth century arrivals were more numerous. And many Reynolds went to Canada at that time as well. Canada. Early arrivals had been Empire Loyalists, such as William Reynolds, leaving America after the Revolutionary War. William had been a coronet in the British army and led a group of Loyalists out of New York in 1796. He and his family ended up in Dorchester (near London), Ontario. Bernard and Mary Reynolds came in the late 1830's from county Leitrim and settled in Renfrew county, Ontario. Other Reynolds followed, from both England and Ireland, as the 19th century proceeded. South Africa. In 1850 two Devon farmers, Thomas and Lewis Reynolds, set off on the Justina for South Africa to seek their fortunes (their uncle Charles had previously emigrated to Australia). The brothers' business took them to sugar refining in Natal. But it was the next generation - Frank and Charles Reynolds - who are generally considered as the founders of South Africa's sugar industry. Frank built the family home of Lynton Hall at Pennington on the south coast. It now operates as a luxury hotel. Australia. Two brothers, Richard and Edward Reynolds, were convicted of petty theft in Chelmsford and were transported to Australia in 1791. They were educated and literate and Edward kept a diary of the hardships of the journey. The brothers later surfaced in Hawkesbury, NSW. Richard petitioned for a land grant: "The petitioner arrived in this colony on the Atlantic in 1791, has been free about 28 years, has endured all the hardships to which and infant colony could subject him, and has reared a family of ten children to the habits of industry." His petition was successful. He died in Wilberforce in 1837 and left a large number of descendants. John Reynell from Devon was an early settler in South Australia. He came in 1838 and started the first commercial vineyard in the colony. Meanwhile Thomas and Mary Reynolds arrived in Western Australia from Oxfordshire in 1842. Their descendants are still to be found there. Charles Reynolds from Devon came to Tocal in the Hunter valley in 1844 and worked there until his death in 1871. In his time he was recognized an an expert on horse and cattle breeding in New South Wales. Select Reynolds Miscellany If you would like to read more, click on the miscellany page for further stories and accounts: Reynolds Miscellany Select Reynolds Names Walter Reynolds was the son of a Windsor baker who became a favorite of King Edward II. The king made him Archbishop of Canterbury. Sir Joshua Reynolds from Devon was a leading English portrait painter of the 18th century. R.J Reynolds, a Virginia tobacco farmer, founded the R.J Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1890. Richard S. Reynolds, nephew of RJ, founded the American Metals Company in 1919 and developed it as one of the world's leading aluminium companies. Paul Revere Reynolds, a descendant of the American patriot Paul Revere, was the first literary agent in New York, in 1893. Milton Reynolds, a Chicago businessman, introduced the first ballpoint pen on the market in 1945. Albert Reynolds was the Irish Prime Minister in the 1990's. Debbie Reynolds, born in Texas, is an American actress and singer Burt Reynolds is a well-known American actor. Select Reynolds Today 85,000 in the UK (most numerous in Cambridgeshire) 76,000 in America (most numerous in Texas) 32,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia) Sent from Raymond?s iPhone