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KEW ENGLAND.
low; Ruth, married John Whitney; Tabitha
married Matthew Abdy; Sarah, married
Mason; Mary, married Saw.
Sybil became the wife of Joshua Shtpman.
The Saybrook records show two sons of this
tnarriage, Samuel and Charles.
rvi) Charles, son of Joshua and Sybil
rChaDman) Shipman, resided m Manetta.
L married (first) Frances Dana and
(second) March 31, tSUt Joanna Bartlett,
daughter of Henry and
Bartlett. She was descended from John
Bartlett and his wife. Bettina Deveraux.
whose son, William Bartlett, married Mary
Andrews. William (2) Bartlett, son of this
cSe. married Anna Ober Hale, and their
son, William (3) Bartlett and his wif^ >
anna Herrick, were the parents of Henry
Bartlett father of Joanna.
(VII) Betsey S., daughter of Charles and
Toanna (Bartlett) Shipman, was born Nch
vember 9. 1816. Marietta and was married
October 20, 1841. to Beman Gates, of that
town (see Gates VII)-
mason; 111^1/,
yer. The homestead of Robert Reynolds m
Boston was at what is now the c<^er of
Washington and Franklin streets. Franklin
street w-as named for Benjamin Frankhn who
was bom in the Franklin house built on the
rear of the Reynolds lot. The site of the
Reynolds house is now occupied by the Bos
ton Tranjcripf building.
(II) Captain Nathaniel Reynold or Rey
nolds, son of Robert Reynolds was bom in
England, died July 10, 1708, at Bristol, Rhode
Island. He served in King Philip s war and
was a soldier at Chelmsford, February 25.
1676. He was admitted a freeman in 1665.
In 1680 he removed to Bristol, Rhode Islato,
and became a leading citizen of the town. He
married (first) Sarah, daughter of John
Dwight, of Dedham, Massachusetts, Novem
ber 20, 1657. She died July 8, 1663. He
married (second) R';isciUa daughter of Per
Brackett. a well-to-do tradesman of Boston.
They were married previous to Febniary 21.
1666. Children: Sarah, born July 26. 1659;
Marv, November 20, 1660. died January 28,
1663'; John, August 4, t668; Peter, Janua^
26, 1670; Philip, Septemtor 15, '^72; Jos^J-
January 9, 1677; Hannah, January JS. '^2;
Mary, 16^: Benjamin, mentioned below,
Ruth, December 9, 1688.
X(III) Benjamin Reynolds, son of Captain
Nathaniel Reynold or Revnolds. was bom
May 10, 1686. in Bristol. Rhode Island, died
August 4. 1770' He married, m1709. Susan
na, daughter of Rev. Gnndall Rawson, of
Mendon, Massachusetts. .Children, born at
Bristol: Priscilla. April 13.
(twin). July 12, 1715. <hed unmarried, Mar>
(twin), Julv 12. 1715. died
November 20, 1716: John, 'mentioned below ,
Benjamin, November I5. 1722: Gr'udall, Juh
II, 1726: Sarah, married Seth Chapin.
(IV) John, son of Benjamin Reynolds, was
bom April i, 1718, died in 1801. He re
moved to Providence, Rhode IslanJ and
to Boston tolive, Febmary^ 12,_ 1765. All hu
surviving sons except Benjamin took part 1
to ian.Ls Boston Too Forty. Ho ittorr ei
(first) Januarj- n, I743. Sfanna Giles, ^ec
ond) May 3- 1753. Dorothy ^eld-
l)ury. Massachusetts. His sons Gnndal . cu
ward, William and Benjamin all in
ing when the youngest was over eightj jear
of age. Children: Pnscilla, horn June
17J. Samuel, April 3. 1/54. ^d mth
revolution and was wounded by a bayonet .
the time of Lee's capture, and died in ear
manhood; Grindall, October 12. 1755-
There are various explana-
REYNOLDS tions of the origin of the
surname Reynold or Rey
nolds. The common use of the fox o" "at,
of-arms of Reynolds families supports he
belief that the surname was derned ^
personal name derived from the f^^nch-Nor-
man word for fox. reynard On an old toinb-
stone at Bristol, Rhode Island, is a coafof-
arms described: Azure three ff
or Crest A fox stataiU or. In the Eng-
Hsii norks of heraldry we find y t^t simdar
viz- A fox statant proper. The Ke>nolds
family of Somersetshire, England, bore.
Azure a chevron between three foxes heads
erased or. Crest; A fox s head as in the
arms. Other Reynolds families have the fox s
head in their co.ats-of-arms. _ _
(1) Robert Revnolds. the immigrant an
cestor. sailed from Aylesford, England, m
",72 and landed in Boston, >lassachi.setts.
He was admitted a freeman, September 3.
. ir,74. and must have been a inember of the
clmich at that time. By trade he ashoe
maker He removed to Wethersfield Con
necticut. after a brief residence at Water-
town Massachusetts, and his brother John
;vet .o Wh,r,fidd. He
from the \\-atertown church
to become one of the founders of the Weth
mittS to the Boston church, October 4, 1643-
His will was proved July 27. '659.
ine to wife Marv and children. Children,
torn in England:' Nathaniel, mentioned be-
NEW ENGLAND.
speaker at theexercises when Franconia, New
Hampshire, formally received its present
name: Benjamin, November 17, 1757; John,
mentioned below; Edward, March 28, 1761,
merchant in Boston; William, June 3, 1763,
merchant in Boston in the East India trade;
Thomas, died young.
(V) John (2), son of John (i) Reynolds,
was bom in Providence, Rhode Island, or
^ston, February 3, 1759. He lived for many
vears at Norfolk, Virginia, where a brother
also located. The descendants of this brother
Benjamin have since resided in Norfolk, be
ing engaged in the cotton shipping business.
One of them was an officer, in the Confeder
ate army and afterwards was president of
the Norfolk Young Men's Christian Associa
tion and also of the Colored Young Men's
Giristian Association; his son was sent by
the missionary societies to Seoul and was one
of the earliest, if not the first, missionary at
that place. John Reynolds returned north and
located at Strafford, Vermont. He married
(first) Hannah Faulder, a native of Man
chester, England; (second) Jane Bentley, of
Boston. Children by first wife: John, bom
1800 at Norfolk, died in 1872 at Boston,
Massachusetts; Edward Faulder, mentioned
bdow; Williain, died about 1845 at Strafford,
Vermont. Child by second wife: Mary Jane
Bentley.
(VI) Edward Faulder, son of John (2)
Rernolds, was bomin Norfolk, Virginia, died
Rutland, Vermont, aged sixty-six years.
He was at one time a farmer in Jamestown,
whither he removed in 1837. In
1860 he returned to his former home in Ver-
He married Maria Pennock, bom at
wfford, daughter of Peter Pennock (see
rmnock). Qiildren: Harvey Faulder, bom
^Strafford in 1832; George Benjamin, 1833;
Bentley, mentioned below; Ellen M.,
Bush, New York, 1839; Edward Pay-
!^ed young; William Henry, bom at
I^own, New York, about 1843; Mary
born at Jamestown, 1845. William
P. and Mary J. are deceased.
^ '1) John Bentley, son of Edward Faul-
^Kemolds, was born at Strafford, Ver-
24, 1835. He was educated in
jjPooiic schools and academy at Jamestown,
|. When he was fifteen years old
l^^nied tohis native state and began his
^"cr at Strafford, Vermont, in the
k* riv. D copperas in a plant owned
^ j. "^y^olds family of Boston, and at
source of the supply
mthis country. After four years
li^ mtered jhe employ of the Connec-
, ^3ssumsic Railroad Company, now
part of the Boston & Maine system. He af
terwards became a bookkeeper in the State
Bank at Rutland. Within five years he had
been promoted to the post of cashier of this
bank and continued there for six years. He
resigned to become the manager of the Suth
erland Falls Marble Company in what is now
the town of Proctor, Vermont, the largest
marble concern in the world. Mr. Reynolds
sold the property to the present owners, of
whom Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont,
was the head. Duringthe period of develop
ment and operation under Mr. Reynolds'
ownership he was given generous financial
support by John D. Bryant, of Boston. Mr.
Bryant married a daughter of William B.
Reynolds, of Boston. Marble from this quar
ry was shipped as far west as San Francisco,
California, as early as 1876. Mr. Reynolds
became the introduced agent of the Ingersoll
Rock Drills west of the Rocky Mountains,
which were used in boring the tunnels for
the railroads in the Rocky Mountains. At
one time Mr. Reynolds owned the water
power at Bellows Falls, Vermont. He sold
the property to the Russell Company, whi^
erected there the third wood pulp mill in
the world. He is the owner of Green Moun
tain Park at Cuttingsville, Vermont.
Mr. Reynolds married (first) July, 1861,
Eva Susan Hayward, bom in February, 1844,
daughter of Henryand Susan Williams (Per
kins) Hayward, of Rutland, a descendant of
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island.
She died in 1886. He married (second) in
1891, Anna Amelia Joyce, of New York City.
Child of first wife: Guy Hayward, bom 1863,
died in 1896; married Pauline Hatfield Mc-
Daniells, of Rutland, Vermont, daughters of
General Isaac McDaniells, and had one child,
Paul Bentley Reynolds, born in 1885.
(The Pennock Line).
Joseph Pennock, son of Christopher Pen
nock, was according to tradition an officer in
the military service of William of Orange.
He located at Comwall, England, and mar
ried Mary, daughter of George Collett, of
Clonmel, countyof Tipperary, Ireland. After
residingin Ireland and Englandfor a time, he
came before 1685 to Pennsylvania, but being
in the service of King William was in the
battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690. By
trade he was a cardmaker. He died in Phila
delphia in 1701. His children were: Nathan
iel, died young; Joseph, mentioned below.
Joseph (2), son of Joseph (r) Pennock,
was bom at or near Qonmel, Ireland, in 1677.
He followed the sea and in one of his pas
sagesto this country, under letters of marque.
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187
MISS NANCY PERRIN, OF GLOUCESTER, VIRGINIA
By Aubrey H. Starke
Inthe Virginia Gazette (PD) for 4April 1774 appeared a brief wedding
announcement, the only one in spite of the plural promise in that
issue:
"Marriages. MR. William Reynolds, Merchant in York, to Miss
Nancy Perrin, of Gloucester."
The announcement contained no information to identif> fuithei eithei
the bride or the groom.
The groom, however, is easily identified. There are numerous lef-
erencesto William Reynolds (1743?-1801) ,in the John Norton papers pub
lished by Mrs. Frances Norton Mason in John Norton &Sons, Merchants
of London a7id Virginia, 1750-1795 (Richmond, Va., 1937). The son of
a prosperous sea captain, Thomas Reynolds, and his wife Susann^ai
Rogers, ^he was John Norton's god-son, and he spent three years in the
home and counting house of the Nortons in London. For many years
after his return to Virginia in 1771. he kept up a lively correspondence
with various members of the Norton family, as his own Letter Book.s.
1771-1783, in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress reveal.
Never truly successful as a merchant himself, he suffered greatly from
the adverses of the Revolution but achieved stature as a citizen ot his
native Yorktown. He was Justice of the Peace, Member of the Cornmittee
of Safety arid Member of the General Assembly. When he died in 1801 he
had been for some years Collector of the Port of Yorktown, where the site
of his home and store are marked today. . t,-
Reynolds' wife Mary Ann Perrin was, according to family tradition,
the daughter of Mr. John Perrin of "Sarah's Creek," Gloucester County,
now known as "Little England," a handsome colonial house that still
stands, easily visible from Yorktown across the York River beveral
vards of unused embroidered silk cloth, left over from her
and her satin wedding slippers are owned by a descendant in \villiams-
burg; other keepsakes including her prayer book with her signature
"Mary Reynolds, 1774" are treasured by other descendants. China,
silver and some furniture that belonged to her and her husband have also
been pas.sed down in the family of their only daughter. ^ ^ ,
In 1923 Dr. and Mr.s. William Carter Stubbs of New Orleans published
Descendants of Mordecai Cooke of "Mordecai's M(nmt " Gloucester Co.,
Va. 1650 and Thomas Booth of Ware Neck, Gloucester Co., Va., 1685
(New Orleans, privately printed), a collection of notes on the muchly in
termarried families of'ironmonger, Throckmorton, Cooke, Whiting, and
Booth, and the related familie.s of Washington, Willis and Pernn. On
wages 30-31 the authors stated that Susanna Cooke, born o ISIay 17.>8.
daughler of Mordecai Cooke and his wife Frances Whiting married 29
October 1748 Captain Jolin Perrin (born 4 December 17..1 died U
February 1770) of "Sarah's Creek," Gloucester County, a large merchant
on the York River;" and had issue (enumerated inthe following order) ;
1. Elizabeth Perrin (1751-1791) who married Francis Willis (1744-
1797)
2. Captain John Perrin (1749-1791) who married (1st) Elizabeth
Washington in Frederick County and (2nd) Elizabeth Carter Ken-
7."
188 " NATJONAI. GKNBAI,Oi;U'AL SOCIKTY QUAKTKKLY
non, 1783.
3. Susanna Perrin (no dates given) who married (1st) George Holden,
who died before 1779 and (2nd) Samuel Washington.
Not certain that Nancy, or Mary Ann Perrin, was also a member of
this Perrin family but faced with the record of her marriage and the
problem of including her in the pedigree, the authors on page 36 stated:
"In 1773 Mrs. [sj'c] Mary Perrin married William Reynolds of Gloucester
and York (whose sister Ann married Nathaniel Littlelwn Savage and
had eight children). Their daughter Hannah [sic] Reynolds^ married
her cousin Southey Littleton Savage." The source of this and other in
formation was given as "mainly from Abingdon Parish Records." How
ever Gloucester County records had been long since de.stroyed.
The Abingdon Parish Record.s, unfortunately and mysteriou.sly lost in
recent years, are represented by two slightly different late 19th century
copies, one in the Libraryof the Virginia Historical Society and both avail
able in photostatic duplication in the Virginia State Library. Neither
copy the copies differ slightly from each other has an entry that
indisputably concerns the wife of William Reynolds, though it is tempting
to wish that the word "died" in a 1759 entry in Copy I, page 181, and
Copv II, page 106, might be a misreading of "born" or "bapt" in the
original: "Nancy, Daughr of Mr. Jno Perrin. Died Sepr. 22nd." If thi.s
were indeed Mary Ann Perrin who marrie<I William Reynolds, she would
have been a little less than fifteen at the time of her marriage but not
as young as her kinswoman Catherine Daingerfield Willis (1803-6 Au
gust 1867) who was married at the age of thirteen to Ateher.son Gray
(and at the age of twenty-three to Prince Achille Murat.) - And if this
is not Nancy, later Mrs. William Reynolds, any other identification of
her or of this Mr. John Perrin is confused by the lack of other Glouccster-
.shire records, parochial or secular.
It would help with the identification of Nancy Perrin if her husband
vvho called her "Molly" had identified her more fully in the letters
in his Letter Books. Happy as he was in his marriage-and frequent as are
the references to "UoWy;' "Mrs. Reynolds," or "my wife" in his lettens,
there is not in them a clue to her fuller identity. Nor has any clue been
found in the existing York County records. There is, however, one im
portant clue to her identity that should not be overlooked. It is in the will
of Susannah Perrin Washington, the fifth and last wife of Samuel Wash
ington, olde.st full brother of General George Washington. Susannah
Wa.shington named Francis Willis of Gloucester and William Reynolds
of York executors of her will. Franci.s Willis was beyond doubt her
brother-in-law. There must have been good reason for Su.sannah Wash
ington of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia) to have named
anyone in York County, Virginia, executor of her will. Williarn Reynolds,
it is reasonable to believe, was also, a brother-in-law, her sister's husband.
If thi.s idenlificiition and the connection, though brief in span r)f lime
with the Washington family i.s not made in either Perrin or Reynolds
family current tradition, it is not surprising. ]\lary Ann Perrin was a
minor child when her father died in 1770; she survived her sister Susanna
Washington by only a few years; her only daughter, who preserved .so
many family traditions, was left motherless at six and brought up with
her family-conscious Savage relatives (she married a fir.st cousin) ; and
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189
Susanna was herself not for long or ever fully a member of the Washing
ton family that is identified with General George Washington, although
she was connected by cousin marriages with other branches of the Wash
ington family.
Over sixty years ago, in The True George Wof^hhigton (Philadelphia,
1898, page 24) Paul Leicester Ford wrote:
"Samuel, the eldest of his own brothers, and his junior by but two'
years, was not a favorite. He seems to have had extravagant
tendencies, variously indicated by five marriages, and by (per
haps as a consequence) pecuniary difficulties. In 1781, Wash
ington wrote to another brother, *In God's name how did my
brother Samuel get himself so enormously in debt.' "
In General Washington's letters published by the Federal Government in
1937 occurs but one contemporary reference to the fifth wife of Samuel.
Writing from camp, near Fort Lee, New Jersey, on 31 August 1780, the
General wrote:
"Dear BrotherYour letter of the 31st Ulto. came to my hands
by the last Post, from Philadelphia. It gave me much concern
to find by it, that you were in such bad health. I hope this, if
it .should arrive safe, will find you much amended.
"It is considerable time I wrote you ..."
(And then, after a di.scus.sion of military and political matters:)
"I sincerely wish you a perfect restoration of health, and the
enjoyment of every blessing of life. My best regards to my Sister
(with whom I should be happy in a better acquaintance) and all
your family, and with the greatest truth 1 remain Yrs., etc.
Twelve years later, in a letter of 2 May 1792, giving a genealogical ac
count of his family. General Washington wrote of hi.s brother: "Samuel
Washington, son of Augustine and Mary, was five times married . . .
Fifth, to Widow Perrin." It is perhaps significant that the General re
called the family name rather than the married name of his brother'.s last
wife. . u-
Washington, who provided generously for all of his nephews in his
will, had no occasion to provide for the child of Samuel Washington by
Susanna Perrin. Just as Simnna did not long survive Samuel, so her
son Perrin Washington did not long survive her. They were all dead more
than fifteen years before General Washington made his will.
Of the three children of John Perrin (1721-1770) and his wife Susanna
Cooke (1738-1782), married 29 October 1748, the eldest was certainly
John Perrin, ^r. He was born 8 October 1749 that made him six years
younger than William Reynolds and he was a .student at William and
Mary in 17G4. He was married (Ist) to Elizabeth Washington of Fred-
crick County, not a near relative of the General but daughter of Henry
Wa.;hiiu'l"u'.r Mifhllc.u.x, ;i brother nf Wonwr Washingloo. and (2nd)
J1 October 1783 to lOli/.abetli Carter Kcnnon, datii'lilco* of Citbinel Wdli.un
Kennon and his wife Priscilla Willis. He was the father, of William Kcn
non Perrin (1784-1853) who sold "Sarah's Crook" (Since called "Utlle
England") and moved inland to "Gosheiv" which is still owned by his de-
.scendants. He died 24 November 1791. Only a few Perrin tombstones re
mainat "Little England" as reminders, that it was once a Perrin property.
Elizabeth Perrin (born 1 August 1751, died 5 December 1791), second
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child of John and Susanna Cooke Perrin, was married about 29 April
1767 to Francis Willis (1744-1797) of Gloucester County, son of Francis
and Elizabeth Carter Willis of "Whitehall," Gloucester County, and to
him we shall return later.
Susanna Perrin (the date of her birth is not known) was married
(1st) before 27 November 1771 to George Holden, Jr., of Gloucester and
of Accomack. This was two and a half or three years before Mary Ann
Perrin married William Reynolds and we may assume that Susanna was
at least that much older than Mary Ann. In 1770 young Holden was
courting Susanna, and the cautious prospective mother-in-law wanted to
know something about his future prospects. His father, George Holden,
Sr., clerk of Accomack, replied in a letter that was in effect a contract of
marriage and was recorded as such 27 January 1774 (Accomack Deed
Book, 1770-1777, pp. 255-56.) Mr. Holden who had only this son and a
daughter, went into great detail explaining about the land and slaves, etc.
He also explained that he had land and slaves on the western shore, and
500 acres in Hanover County, 539 acres in Albemarle, and 15 slaves "which
1 intend for him if he behaves himself well."
George Holden, Sr., of Accomack was dead by 26 September 1777 Avhen
George Holden, Jr., of Gloucester and Susanna his wife sold land in Ac
comack inherited by George Holden, Jr., from his father. Young Holden
himself died in Gloucester County in April, 1777, leaving a will signed
2 January 1777 and probated 5 June 1777, a summary of which appears
in Crozier's WillioAnshurg Wills (page 31). In this will he named his
daughters Anna and Susanna, the children of his sister Elizabeth Holden,
and her husband William Taliaferro, and his own wife. One of the exec
utors was John Perrin, his brothei*-in-law, and one of the witnesses to
his signature was Elizabeth Willi.s, his sister-in-law.
His widow, Susanna Perrin Holden, married (2nd), probably in 1780
and as his fifth wife, Samuel Washington (born 16 November i734, died
1781). Where they met or where they were married is not known, but the
marriage took Susanna Perrin far from Gloucester and tidewater Virginia
to the Piedmont region and Berkeley County where at "Harewood," a
house very similar in interior plan and decoration to "Sarah's Creek,"
Samuel Washington had lived for fully twenty years.
X Samuel Washington's will, witnessed by Charles Washington and John
Cooke, was probated 18 December 1781 (Berkeley County Will Book I, pp.
237-239). Susanna WaMdngton's will, signed 5 December 1782, was pro
bated 20 May 1^3 (Berkeley County Will Book I, pp. 310-317.) ' In it
she made reference to her son, John Perrin Washington, her first husband
George Holden and their daughters Nancy and Susanna Holden, her sister
Willis of Gloucester (who was to divide her clothes between her daugh
ters), her "friend" Francis Willis of Gloucester (who was charged with
the education of her son), her si.ster Lewis of Glouce.^ter (not identified,
but surely not iier sister-in-law Mrs. Hetty ^\ashington Lewis of Fred-
ericksburg) and named "my said Friends Franci.'? .Willis and William
Reynolds of York Executors of this iny last Will and Testament trusting
that they will Execute the same in a manner suitable to that confidence
which I put in their Integrity, Justice, Diligence and Punctuality."
In October, 1777, shortly after (leorge Holden's death, a kinsman of
Susanna's, Francis Whiting, had died in Berkeley County and Samuel
NANCY PERKIN
Washington, Gabriel Throckmorton (another kinsman) and James Nourse
had made an appraisal of his estate. Asecond ^W^aisal had been made
bv John Cooke (still another kinsman), Gabriel Throckmorton and James
Nourse; and in December, 1777, a third appraisal made by Mordecai
.Throckmorton, Warner Throckmorton and John Perrin -- the latter
Susanna's own brother. The inter-related families of Cookes, fhrock-
mortons. Whitings and Willises were almost as numerous in Berkeley
County as the Washingtons and were indeed related to the Washingtcms
through Gloucester County alliances. It is possible that the marriage be-
teen the widowed kinswoman of the one family (whom General Washing- ,
ton remembered by her maiden name) and the four times bereaved senior
member of the Berkeley County Washingtons there were live biothei.s
who settled in or near Charlestown was an arranged marriage.
There was at least twenty years difference in their ages.
Only the one child, John Perrin Washington; was born to the union
and after his father'.s death James Nourse and John Cooke signed as
securities the bond his mother gave as his guardian, 18 December 1781.
The young boy was himself dead by IG December 178o, the date ot the
division of his mother's estate in which he does not figure He should
not be confused with another Perrin Washington (born /
died 18 November 1857) the son of ^\arner Washington II (?-^b^l829)
and his wife Mary Whiting who was the daughter of Francis Whiting
(died 17211) and ids wife Frances Perrin (1684-1732), both related by
blood to Susanna Perrin Wa.shington.
It is hardly likely that Susanna Washington of Berkeley County, sur
rounded by kinsmen of her own and kinsmen of her late husband, would
have named Francis-Willis and William Reynolds of distant ^ork County
executors of her will unless there had been a close relationship, and
Francis Willis was beyond question her brother-in-law though following
18th century conventions she called him friend in her will. IVilliam
Reynolds, if tradition of his wife's parentage is correct, was brother-in-
law too, and as the language of the will testifies both weie held in
the highest esteem by the testatrix. The will was presented for probate
on 20 May 1783 by Francis Willis, Jr., her brother-in-law, and Warner
Washington, Jr., a witness to the signing* and her mother s cousin. Vi -
liam Reynolds never qualified as executor, however. He had at that
time problems that kept him busy in tidewater Viiginia.
When he returned from London to Virginia in the spring of 1771, age
about 28 William Reynolds had been at first undecided whether he should
settle at Anhapolis or New York (both of which he visited) and he chose
York, in Virginia, partly because he owned property there and had good
connections, especially with the Norton family, whose son John Hatley
Norton managed the firm's business in Virginia. Reynolds kejit up a
lively correspondence with the Nortons in London as well as with his own
coii.sin Samuel Uoyers and lu ver ceased to look hack with nostalgia on his
three years in L.mduii. In a k-Uer of 0 Scpicniber 1771 U> G'-oit.c I;
dew Norton who, lliough eight years younger, was his special Iricnd lu
the Norton family, he indicated that he was thinking of marriage and
ordered teaspooms, a punch ladle, and other silver, all to be marked
with his crest. In a letter of 23 May 1772 he .stated that he had ^im in
tension of marrying "the estimable Miss Grymes." On 9August 1/ /- he
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daughter (possibly Susanna) was nnvi" rejected by one
the family, who could have been the ^-ouSer Nancy
that thrfom% wrwel^k^^^^^^
dividual men/era ^rnecesarry On "A & 'flT
July 1773" in the Nnr^nt> ,.orv,Jl Foreign Drs taken 30th
wx uuiin irei rin, uec. had paid the Nortons 52-15-10
Rejmolds wrote George Norton on 12 August 1772 1f^ov v. i, i i
rejected bv Miss Grvmes /"wIiatvi 1772, aftei he had been
he hoped to marry Miss Nancv Waller^\>i ^ had himself rejected), that
had been rejecte^brMiss ^September 1772 he
5 Auffiisf 177Q V*A I-* who, he decided, was a coouette On
state [was] better than the life of ahbeX; " vJm i I
to have led in his London day'ranV^e ^'l.ted^^
cousin Rogers that his wife was "in a fair ^vsv t. p 3 '"
rS:?e"him.o';hTs'"4r:L\e: heXLfS" SivEt"
intimare acquaintance of mine." i^ecemoei km, an
16 May 1775 Reynolds mentioned the battle that liri ' i
at Concord, in Massachusetts, and nine davs later Vip .-f ff \ ^
Nprtons.in London that he had been topptt'from tL
mittee of Safety because of his friendshi with Norton m
it; s "S?;H'Ss
1/79 Reynolds had given his brother-in-law his price. ' "
ihe war disrupted the mercantile career of Revnolds in.i i... i f
lettm-s fron?hi's London L-iemll Tlmtiir Ter "he sought trre''"
s^rr-^:r-r.iZp^
Enemy
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193
anna Perrin Washington was admitted to probate in distant Berkeley
County without his qualifying as executor.
For several years after the coming of peace Reynolds tried to recoup
his losses, shifting the emphasis from trade with London to trade with
the West Indies, but success eluded him. Whether it was the result of
the Revolution or poor management of his own affairs, Reynolds gradually
withdrew from business. On 1 January 1795 he became collector of
the Port of Yorktown and on 6 August 179G "to do justice to [my con
dition] as far as my circumstances will permit" he conveyed the whole of
his property in trust to H. Nel.son, Jr., and Thomas Griffith, Esqr. xor
the benefit of the Claimants."
Reynolds' wife, Mary Ann Perrin, died in 1790. Reynolds himself died
24 October 1801, leaving a will in which he requested that his body be
buried in a decent manner next to that of his wife. Family tradition
asserts that they were both buried in the yard of York-Hampton Pari.sh
(now Grace) Church at Yorktown, but their graves are not marked today
and probablv never were marked with headstones.
Reynolds was still Collector of the Port of Yorktown when he died.
When the British merchants tried to collect on their American claims
antedating the Revolution, one of their agents reported of Reynolds that
lately his circuniKtance.H lu\d hoeii IndillocenL :ind he "<1ied very lately
leaving very little property." Of his Irieiid and brother-in-law hiancis
Willis another agent reported that "he died about sixyears ago very much
embarrassed in his circumstances and did not leave estate enough to pay
his debts."
William Reynolds and his wife Mary Ann Perrin had four sons and
one daughter:
1. Thomas Reynolds, born in April 1775, died unmarried shortly after
his father. In his will dated 17 June 1800 and proved 21 July 1802 he
named his brothers George Norton Reynolds and Lewis Reynolds and his
sister Harriet. He was surely named Thomas in honor of his paternal
grandfather. _ , xv
2. John Reynolds, who is not mentioned in the will of his brother
Thomas, presumably died before that brother. There is no family tradi
tionconcerning him, other than his name which was that of his mater
nal grandfather and he probably died unmarried.
3. George Norton Reynolds, named for his father's closest friend in the
Norton family, George Flowerdew Norton, was born 25 March 1781 and
died 15 April 1864. He lived in Charleston, S. C., married a Miss Sims,
and raised a family of 5 sons and 2 daughters. The dates of his
and death were found in the journal of his son Thomas Caute R.Gy^oWs
(1821-1887) who was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri in 1860
and served as Confederate Governor of tliat divided state, retaining
the great seal of the state as his authority for office which he excrci.sed
from Arkansas and later from Texas, liis journal, like his grandlather s
letter books, is in the Library of Congress.
4 Lewis Reynolds, according to family tradition the youngest son,
was "a midshipman who died at sea." The name is spehed Lewis, not
Louis, in family records that are old but by no means contemporary, and
it is possible that he was named for the Lewis family. If so. there ri.ses
again the question of the unidentified "sister Lewis" of Susanna Penin
national genealogical society quarterly
lltl'lXMs bro?her'Ss'
Reynolds was the only dau8:hter of William and Marv Ann
rusr?784'rdt/ She":" bo alu-
Skpn J<f! mother died. She was
tn hp VP. . t! ^Eastville, in Northampton County on the Eastern Shore
^,,1 Q by her paternal aunt, Mrs. Susanna Reynolds Taylor fform'
Noi-thrpto?c:;.^y!T"
25 Apiil 1805, in the home of his first cousin Thomas Lyttleton Savae^e
S pr^trv".!" H' Southey LyttletVn Savage
of Captain Nathaniel Lyttleton Savage and his wife Ann Reynolds.
Savage, born 25 April 1779, died 31 December 1811
IpVf f f" marriage, and Harriet Reynolds. Sava're was
childr"e:i%\ar"S:rvvr:/'^
0.,^/'?.'"''',^^*?'" Savage III, named for his paternal grandfather
and for his uncle who was afounding member of the Virginia Society of
the Cincinnati. He was born 13 April 1806 and died nine years be
fore his mother 8 January 1853. ^
18^3 Reynolds Savage born 10 December 1808, died 5 August
1853. He was named for his maternal grandfather.
aiea xi August 1897. She was named for Harriet Reynolds Saviffe's
own mother and for the paternal aunt, Susanna Reynolds Raisin-Tayfor
Tamp f f 41 ? coincidence that Susanna was also the
name of the sister of her mother. Miss Nancy Perrin of Gloucester. ^
^'i:^otk"coun^ April 1768;
< u Tn-n young children in the Perrin home in the late 1760's whpn Moti/.w
IeaDINg!' If'SlNG and''ARXra^^^^ MAN, Jpable of
coara4wt by app ybg
InU' y'TT" <PD) 22 FabmarJ imf?; 8 1 2
thaniel Lyttleton Savage whor married William Rpvnolds' sister Ann RpvnnMc
of It.onliSt" n.arriapes'^ee AdvcU^'t
"An item in the Virghiin Cazrltc (R) of T Al-iv 177x1 n xi evi i -a.. a.
Vtrginia Genealogist, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 321.
Harrict Reynolds Savage and numerous members of the familv !{ in
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tovlings family were among the son of
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rs on the Tax List of 1782 as ^ ^' ( KUonheacl
,nd of Dear Ronghl, an.) John Rawl.ngs also o.n , .r
xlanor. !!, Cen of 1800 f'v'
vner of thirty-eight ^ave. ^ ^ > reside
.4 lower Calvert County. T1 o memhers have h.eld many
io Calvert County to the present d., . ^ ^
anportant civil and miUttiry ' j;. ,i. i.istofv of Cal-
varRcvolution, and occupy an important place n.
>-Mt County.
Bef.Land Records and Tax Lists.
REYNOLDS ^
Tire Reynolds family is erne ^ tho. Puritan
temn New ^"8^^ ^ die family in Calvert Cormty war
vA Anne Anmdel County. T marriod Sarah Robinsou.
left his lands in Mver oounry. ^ He>mokls.
dwelling plantation on the Upp leaving uwill. Edward Reyrc
Reynolds died pnor o owning lands on
Simulating wealth. If not Qua^ tL*ti3s Revnold-. becautC the great
i.t^ws and other Quakfir famih^s. _ .
landowner of the Upper a.fis ^ HE
... possessed of 3029 acres of Im.d rdl n,!
were inherited by Ins th.ngbiei of Gcn-
. t.d Reynolds of 1782 shows the Reynolds
Ja.ines John Mack.ill. - KrUvarvl-mid ^^^V;i.^ll!
^4 >-1 '""'rR 'TiiL^hit' imr; iir,!;; Ore wcaiSMcr of U... .
y, .molds. Erlward RcynoWs n . W
. .He wn.s the owner of hn)-u^b^. rcpr-vnicd C.atv-I
^^ve-holdings in Calvert Couutv |. for .several ^c-rs.
iu the I.owcr nou,- ot the Mania.,, .Vs- .u 'ty
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He ws Ricceeded by his son. Thomas Reynoja#, wha
bes ae last of the line in Calvert County. Hedi64, Qr,le&i|N|^^ti^K
ptiOT to Ae Civil War. It is probable that hes<^d his
taticms, as did many of the Quakers prior to the Civfl War,
Rfifs.~Wm of Henry Robinson, Jr.-1884. "
Will of William Reynolds1730.
Will of Edward ReynoIds-1747.
ROBERTS
Robert Roberts, the first of his line in Calvert County,
beth Johns, daughter of Richard Johns. The Roberts famlty ii
widely dispersed Puritan families who settled inthe Ccddniss.
erts family of Calvert became Quakers. Robert Bd^eits
and by his will divided his lands among alarge fan^ of chfliillB^B
brodiers-in-Iaw, Kinsey and Isaac Johns, were the
His dwelling plantatkm consisted of about one-half, of Gatys
near Pjukar's Greek. This he 'kR to his.ddest-soe3^^E|
Roberts, listed in the Debt Book of 1753,ns residteit
Allen Roberts is the
Lower Bennett. Tlie .i^ine of Ann; Rnbey^.
1800. She i^en
tinued to Itye k QMt.^Ckunty.'
munityof tbe UpiMsr and
They;wein.ideraEUMried'wRh Ae
fomilies. , .. .-v
Refc.W of Robert 8<il)erts1728. , jij ( ,
latodRecords aiTd Tax Lists. ; ^
flOB/ysoy . .
The Rd^eaaoos wore another of the Puritan {unRiec who
American Colonies from New England toVi^fnfa. -Jolm RdfallM|)|i
the leafier and minister of the jPuritan Cofeny inthe Netherltti^
to the Maydowei Puritans coming to America. ^Tl Calvert
branch erf the Robinson family was founded hy Hesay Robinieati 0^;.
settled in Calvert not later than 1658. He.transported it niiTntiijlgi'
settlm to Manland, for which he was granted Robtnson's Rest. 1^';
of IISO acre# tm the Hpper Cliffs adjoining Letchworth's nhnn#^ ^
south- Hfifory Hof^kwon died in 1675 andleft his lands to his-
Robioflfia, jr Hie ktter died in 1684, leaving Rabtosbrt*s
. ^icl. .Y.HV i i'j
m
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vCdiBrty.
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about 1668. Both we
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hanna, a tract oik jl^;
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the '^Second'
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