PARTIAL GENEALOGY OF JOHN REYNOLDS BoRN IN ENGLAND IN 1612 (SUPPOSEDLY), SAILED FROM IPSWICH COUNTY, SUFFOLK. A PART OF His LINEAGE TO 1916 As Compiled and Published by ALVAH REYNOLDS ALTONA, ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER, 1916 WITH A CHAPTER OF HERALDRY EXTENDING BACK TO 1327 GALESBURG, ILL,: WAGONER. PRINTING COMPANY 19!6 A Partial Genealogy of John Reynolds Born in England in 1612 tr EXPLANATION In following the descendants of John Reynolds we have omitted the sir name, using only the given name. Figure K>Il Jeft is the ~o. of child in the family, and Roman Figure the No. of generation from John, he being the first in AU'er­ ica. Letters b. for born; d. for died; m. for married, etc. In tracing from present to past generations take the name, the No. of name, No. of generation and the family to which it belongs, and you have a good directory from one generation to another. We have traced the descendants of John Reynolds by his son, Jonathan, and his wife, Rebecca Husted, in Part One. In Part Two the tracing is of his son, John, and his wife, Judah Palmer. 1.Ve find that the two lines come together in the marriage of Enoch and Mariah Reynolds in 1819, in the sixth and seventh generations and after a lapse of more than two centuries. Their lineage hereinafter noted. We are indebted to the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Reynolds Family Association for partial records of lineage of John Reynolds to the fo,uth and fifth generation, and to Spencer P. Mead's History of Greenwich for many military records. The Reynolds land transfers were taken from his History and we think Spencer P. Mead, LL. B., of New York Bar has more record of Greenwich than any other man. If you want a more interesting account of Greenwich read his book. We have left blank pages for you to record the Reynolds fam­ ilies we have not found, and correct all errors, hoping some one will publish a perfect Genealogy of the Reynolds family. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Alvah Reynolds, son of Enoch Reynolds and J\iar­ iah Reynolds, compiler and publisher of this Genealogy Book, was born un a farm near Bedford Station, West­ chester County, N. Y., ]\fay 22, 1830. My father, with others, neighbors, hired a school teacher winters to teach their children. They came for miles around to learn how to read, write, and cipher. Our school building was small, with long benches for seats and a wide board fastened to the wall to write on. Our pens were made from a goose quill, and ink made by boiling the sap and bark of trees. As soon as I was old enough I was sent out to learn the carpenter's trade. I worked some three and a half years for 30, 35 and 40 dollars a year. Two winters my boss did not have work, so I went home and went to school. J\iy teacher then was a fine man and a good scholar. After I learned my trade I found work in and around New York City at 10 shilling and 12 a day the first year, and 14 shilling and 15 shilling a day for two years, and 16 shilling and 17 shilling a day for about one and a half years. I put about one-half of my wages in the Greenwich, N. Y., savings bank, lived t~nd clothed myself on about one-half of my wages. In the summer and fall of 1854 I got the Western fever and took Horace Greeley's advice to "go west, young man, and grow up with the country." In De­ cember, 1854, in company with my cousin, James H. Newman, started for Kansas to help build up that Ter­ ritory into a free State. Lucky or unlucky, we never got to Kansas. We found difficulties we had not count­ ed on. The suspension bridge at Niagara had not been opened for railroad traffic. We crossed over with our baggage on a temporary wagon bridge. Our emigrant train was a slow poke, 8 or 10 miles an hour, and stopped 6 REYNOLDS GENEALOGY for wood and water every two hours. Arriving at Wind­ sor, we unloaded, ferried to Detroit, and loaded again for Chicago. On arriving at Chicago we were pretty tired. Rid­ ing and sleeping on wooden benches for some three weeks had begun to wear on us, so we rested in Chicago some three or four days and started for St. Louis via Springfield and Alton by cars and river boat to St. Louis. To our dismay 'we found no river boats run­ ning on the l\-1issouri River, so after a day or two we concluded to _buy a yoke of oxen and rig a wagon with cover for our first home. We took a ferry boat across into Illinois to find the oxen. We met with fairly good luck, got the oxen and wagon and provisioned it in four or five days, and struck out. One incident: While eat­ ing dinner at the hotel some miscreant, black or white, confiscated Newman's overcoat, not stopping to take out the Bible he carried in it, given to him by a good lady friend in New York. I well remernber the verse she wrote in each Bible she gave us. It read: Pray hear to me, and not delay, To read a chapter every day; Pray read this book with pious care, And for your dying hour prepare. MRS. KATHARINE N. COLE We drove along some four or five miles, came to wood and roads without fence and log house, with col­ ored occupants, and some lank, wild hogs hunting for mask (food). Occasionally a nest of pigs where four or five mothers had left their little ones in a bed of leaves and gone off to hunt food. We were warned to leave the pigs alone, for an alarm from the pigs would bi-ing the mothers and we would have to climb a tree. 1Ne finally came to the little town of ,v ashington, on the bank of the Missouri River about Christmas. Was of­ fered work in a saw mill which we accepted and worked there about two months. Not liking our occupation or location, we concluded to retrace our steps to St. Louis. AUTOBIOGRAPHY 7 There we took a river boat for Peoria, stopped there several days. Not finding work at our trade we went to Rock Island, Davenport and Moline. Disappointed in not finding work, we walked to Geneseo, where New­ man was taken sick with measles and I found work building an office for 0. J. Stow, the druggist. By the time Newman was able to work and the office completed, we found work in Altona, Ill., building a tavern or hotel for Stewart Koon in June, 1855. After the hotd was completed, we found work in and around Altona for three or four years. The pros- . pects of political disturbances, Civil War, stopped all bcsiness in 1858, for four or five years, so that corn was burned for cooking and heating and sold for 10 cents a bushel in the markets. In 1857 I bought a quarter section of land, N. W. S. two, 13 North, 2 East, 4 P. Meridian, for 2400 dol­ lars, laying out. Had it to fence and brake, plow and build on for a home. In April, 1859, I got married to Susannah Hayden. We took up our abode in a shanty and went to work farming as best we could. We done without all luxuries and many comforts for some eight or ten years. As times got better we added to our farm, so that in 1894 we had nine eighties; seven hundred and twenty acres of land in Ontario Township free of incumbrance. In that year we deeded to our six children each an eighty acres of land. In 1896 my wife died and my two youngest daughters kept house for me eleven years. In 1907, not wanting the care of the farm any longer, I sold it to my youngest son, Charles C. Reynolds. A part of the consideration was that I have a home with him as long as I live. The money consideration I divided equally between my chil­ dren. As to my religious views I am a firm believer in God, and in His Son Jesus Christ, as set forth in His Gospels to man. AL v AH REYNOLDS 8 REYNOLDS GENEALOGY PART ONE 1. I. J OH:N REYNOLDS, b. in England, 1612; m. Sarah ---, b. in England, 1614. They came to America, Watertown, :Mass., in 1633. Tradition says County Suffolk, Town of Ipswich. He married Sarah ---, born in England in Hil4. They came to America from the Port of Ipswich on Ship Elizabeth early in 1688 to the New England col­ ony in l\1assachusetts. They first settled at Water­ town, where his first child, a daughter, was born in 1684 and named in honor of Ship that brought them safe over. They took out papers as free-men in 1685. Joined the church, as all citizens at that time had to be regis­ tered on the church records. Some I-Iistorians have thought and asserted that John Reynolds had brothers here, one Robert Reynolds, of Boston, lived at Water­ town a short time and they associated together in church capacity. Robert Reynolds was authorized by the Bos­ ton Church to organize and establish a church at W eath­ ersfield, Conn. John Reynolds and family, with others from vVatertown, l\1ass., moved in 1635 to "\\r eathers­ field, Conn., and joined and helped build up the church (colony).