James Banks

incoorectly remembered as having escaped from the Wallabout Bay prison ships: see: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90941388/james-banks-reynolds. Note that his account is at variance form period newspaper reporting. (see documents) He was in the Sugar House prison and ended up there.
fndagrave has a portrait

James lived on Bowery Hill during the second and third decade of the 19th century: with or next door to his son-in-law Nathaniel Reynolds, III.

National Cyclopaedia Bio.

REYNOLDS, James Banks, physician, was born in New York city, Apr. 8, 1833, son of William E. Reynolds. His great-grandfather was a native of England, who emigrated from Surrey and settled at Greenwich, Conn., in 1709. married a daughter of James Banks, a sterling patriot who took part in the revolutionary war..

~•James Bank and his son-in-law Nathaniel Reynolds lived side by side on the Bowery Road in 1816 & 1821 see: https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~10~10~21~12... page 32 of 76