Joseph Reynolds, Sr.

•Birth: ABT 1760 in possibly LUNENBURG Co. or HALIFAX Co. VA. •Death: ABT JUL 1829 in PATRICK Co. KY.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db... During a visit to Patrick Co., VA, a family researcher found the following records of a lawsuit in the Patrick Co. VA records--

July, 1829 Richard Reynolds, James Reynolds and Joseph Reynolds, VS Sarah Reynolds, widow of Joseph Reynolds, deceased, Shadrack Sloan and Catharine Sloan, his wife, William Ferrell and Susanna Ferrell, his wife, ISHAM SLOAN AND POLLY SLOAN, his wife, William Reynolds, Stephen Nolin and Nancy Nolin, his wife, Laurence Slum??? and Elizabeth Slum???, his wife, children and heirs of Joseph Reynolds, deceased.

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Another family researcher writes: I find it interesting that in all you research you never mention Hardin and Nancy Jane (COX) Reynolds marrying. They are R.J. Reynolds parents. They are also Abram David Reynolds parents. They lived at Rock Spring Plantation in Patrick Co, VA. They had 16 children there. In researching Reynolds I find it strange no one ever mentions Cox's after all R J Reynolds marrys his mother's sister's grandaughter, Mary Katharine Smith. Catherine Cox who married Madison Tyler Smith was her grandmother. Also R J stands for Richard Joshua. Both of these names were after his grandparents because Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds parents were 1st cousins. I think people researching Cox would like to know things about Reynolds but also Cox's and how they connect. For instance the Nancy Jane Cox Reynolds school, the land there and near there was Cox land at one time. Her grandparents, Joshua and Mary Neal Cox, had a home right down the road. .........................

The earliest Floyd County, Kentucky survey of land for an individual named Reynolds was for Joseph Reynolds who obtained 50 acres on Beaver Creek, which was recorded in 1834 (Doc.#11c). Name and residence patterns indicate that this was the same Joseph Reynolds who was the husband of Sarah Reynolds. Sarah Reynold's estate was probated in 1847 in Floyd County. The fact that this Joseph Reynolds obtained land on Beaver Creek prior to 1834, and Hamilton Reynolds, married in Floyd County on 17 Feb 1834, in the same year the survey was recorded, indicates that Hamilton Reynolds was the son of Joseph and Sarah Reynolds. Notice that Hamilton didn't purchase land there until thirteen years later in 1847, the same year that the estate of Sarah Reynolds was probated and he appears to have received his inheritance. Hence, Hamilton Reynolds appears to have lived on land originally owned by his parents until he received his inheritance in 1847 from the administration of the estate of his mother, Sarah Reynolds, the widow of Joseph Reynolds.

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Since there are no listings for a Joseph Reynolds in North Carolina in 1800-1810, we searched the reconstructed tax lists for Virginia in 1787 and 1810. The 1810 Virginia tax lists several Joseph Reynolds including one of Patrick County, Virginia (Doc.#55g), where James Reynolds resided according to the Floyd County, Kentucky, Power of Attorney which was filed in connection with the widow of Joseph Reynolds, i.e. Sarah Reynold's estate. In addition to Joseph, there were several other Reynolds families also listed in Patrick County, Virginia in 1810: Richard, Thomas, Jesse, George, Moses, Abraham, Thomas and Henry Reynolds (Doc.#55g). Though the 1787 tax list for Virginia lists no Joseph Reynolds in Patrick County, Patrick County wasn't created until 1791 from Henry County. There is a Joseph Reynolds who was tithed in Henry County in 1787 along with Mary, Moses, Bartlett, Jesse and David Reynolds (Doc.#56d). Notice the similarity of name patterns between the 1810 tax list for Patrick County and the 1787 tax list for Henry County. This appears to confirm that the Reynolds families of Patrick County resided in that portion of Henry County from which Patrick County was created in 1791.

In order to confirm that Joseph and Sarah Reynolds are related to the Reynolds families of Patrick and Henry Counties of Virginia, we searched the Patrick County, Virginia records. According to published abstracts of Patrick County, there are several listings for Joseph Reynolds including the following:

12 Feb 1813 - Patrick County, Virginia Wills, pp. 111-2

Will of William Perkins

...being sick and weak...The land I now live on sold and money equally divided among my sons, Christian, William, David and Thomas Perkins. The land I own on the mountain is to be equally divided amongst my daughters. Son Christian Perkins three negros. Son, William Perkins 1 negro and 15 pounds cash. Son, Thomas Perkins 2 negros. Son David Perkins, 2 negros. Daughter Sarah Reynolds, 2 negros. Daughter, Susanah 2 negors, 2 feather beds and furniture, 1 horse and side saddle. Daughter Elizabeth 2 negros, one feather bed and furniture and 2 mares. Daughter Nanny Boyd 2 negros. I lend to Mary Ann Moss one negro. It is my desire that the land that Joseph Reynolds lives on to be sold and money divided amongst all of his children. What I have not given away is to be sold and the money divided among my sons and daughters. The money coming to Sarah Reynolds to be put out to interest until her last child comes of age, then divided among them. The same to apply to Nanny Boyd. One daughter is mentioned as Suky.

Witnesses: Richard Stokes, Fanney Stokes & Sarah Hall

Executor: John Hall and Samuel Houston

Returned: March Court, 1813 (Doc.#50b, 101-101e)

Notice in this will that William Perkins, Sr., refers to his daughter as Sarah Reynolds. She was the wife of Joseph Reynolds according to William Perkins, Sr.'s will. According to the Ancestral File, Sarah Perkins was born on 9 Aug 1763 at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia. She was christened on 12 Sep 1763 at St. James Church in Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia.

The actual will of William Perkins, Sr., lists much more information than the abstract which is listed above. A copy of the original is included with this report along with the estate inventory and administration records (Doc.#101-101e). The information from the will and probate records correspond with the names of Joseph and Sarah Reynolds, as well as with the probate of Sarah Reynold's estate in Floyd County, Kentucky in 1847