Joseph Reynolds, Sr.

DNA confirmed: RJ Brown (descendant of daughter Hannah) has many DNA matches to descendants of the other children of Experience Davis and Joseph Reynolds.

RJ Brown also matches descendants of siblings of Joseph Reynolds: Sarah, Lucy, Lydia, "Captain R", and Elizabeth.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Daniel Reynolds by SmartCopy: Nov 18 2014, 0:58:54 UTC

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REYNOLDS, JOSEPH Ancestor #: A095831 Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): PRIVATE Birth: 7-9-1749 EXETER KINGS CO RHODE ISLAND Death: 12-25-1823 BROWN CO OHIO Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #716; ROBERTS, NY IN THE REV, PP 89, 91 Service Description: 1) CAPT JAMES DENISON, COL KILLIAN VAN RENSSELAER 2) 4TH REGT, ALBANY CO

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Joseph Reynolds, Sr.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/census15.htm?cj=1&o_xid=...
1800 US Federal Census, Town of Stephentown. NY
Information on this page is from Volume 21, Number 4 of Tree Talks published by the Central New York Genealogical Society in December 1981. Debby Masterson transcribed it for us
Columns
A - Free white males under 10
B - Free white males 10-16
C - Free white males 16-26
D - Free white males 26-45
E - Free white males 45 and over
F - Free white females under 10
G - Free white females 10-16
H - Free white females 16-26
I - Free white females 26-45
J - Free white females 45 and over
K - All others
L - Slaves

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Head of Household A B C D E F G H I J K L
Reynolds, Joseph 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

1820 US Census Ohio Brown
name: Joseph Reynolds
event place: Eagle, Brown, Ohio
page number: 353
nara publication number: M33
nara roll number: 86
film number: 0181392
digital folder number: 004093884
image number: 00198

“Joseph Reynolds came to Limestone (Maysville), Ky., from New York State in 1799, and, in the spring of 1800, purchased 1,250 acres of land in what is now Jackson (formerly Eagle) Township, and began clearing out a farm the same season. In 1804-05, having a large family himself, and other settlers arrived in vicinity, the hand mill was found to be inadequate for the grinding of the grain of the settlement, and, after some bother getting suitable buhrs, the horse-mill was put in operation...Here Joseph Reynolds settled in 1800.”

Carl Thompson's Collections of Brown County, Ohio, page 528-
"Reynolds, Joseph- private in Capt. Peter Van Vort 's Co., 13th Regt., Albany County, NY Militia. Born in 1749 in Rensselaer County, NY, and married to Experience Davis. Children: Joseph, Jr., married Jane Abbott in 1804; Lettie, married Samuel Dixon; Hannah, married John Abbott on Mar. 1, 1804; Roxie, married Terry Womacks in 1815. Soldier died in 1824 and is buried in Reynolds Cemetery, Brown County, Ohio, Row A, grave 10, 5 miles from Ash Ridge, Ohio, on US Rte. 62, in Jackson Township. He bought 1250 acres of land in Eagle Twp. In 1800 where he had a hand mill, later a horse (powered) mill. Ref. : V-106, No. 105213, DAR Linage, Beer's History of Brown County, Ohio, pages 659, 543, 581, and 275."
Title Historical Collections of Brown County, Ohio
Compiled by Carl N. Thompson
Contributor Brown County Genealogical Society
Edition illustrated, reprint
Publisher Little Miami Publishing Company, 2004
ISBN 1932250204, 9781932250206
Length 1340 pages

196. ROBERT REYNOLDS (George, Joseph, Joseph, James) born Feb. 21, 1736 North Kingstown (now Exeter) RI, d. Sep. 1806 Factoryville PA; m. Jan. 20, 1757 EUNICE WAITE, daughter of John and Sarah (Smith) Waite, by Elder David Sprague [Arnold, Vit. Rec. of RI, 5:27]. The Exeter Tax List of 1762: "Robert Reynolds, son of George, taxed 6s 6d." The Census of 1774 gives three Roberts of Exeter, one being this Captain Robert, the others the son and grandson of Joseph. The Census of 1790 also gives three Roberts, showing that Capt. Robert was still in Exeter.
The military service of Robert was confined to the local militia. He was elected to the Captaincy of the First Exeter Company of the King's County Regimant as early as June 1767. During the Revolution he again became Captain of the same Company in July 1780, August 1781 and May 1782 [Smith, Civil and Military List of RI, Vol. 1:268, 390, 404, 414 and RI Col. Rec., IX:95,408]. He was sometimes listed as Captain Robert Reynolds "Jr." to distinguish him from Robert, son of Joseph, and sometimes as "son of George". In her pension application Sarah Bates, widow of James Bates, averred that her husband was an Ensign "in the same company of which Robert Reynolds was Captain."
As to the details of his service there is no personal documentary evidence, wherefore his activities must be deduced from the affidavits of his comrades. From their applications for pensions we learn that they drilled once a week, responded to alarms by day and by night, guarded the coast, and joined in expeditions. It was the custom to call out the militia by turns; a company or part of a company being on duty one month and remaining at home the next. Some of the men, however, volunteered to serve the alternate month, either because they were patriotic or because they substituted for others who were drafted.
Alarms during the first year of the war caused the militia to be called "Minute Men", for they were supposed to be ready on the instant to repel raiding parties from the British army at Newport of from the British fleet that was harrying the Sound and the Bay. That the First Exeter Company was so engaged is known from the affidavit of David Bissel of that company, for he affirmed that he aided in preventing "Landings and depredations of the enemy ... who filled the Bay with their Cruzers, Galleys, and Barges, and often landed on the shores and burnt Houses and carried off both Men & Cattle." The exposed parts of the coast, guarded by the King's County militia, extended from Watch Hill, near Westerly to Point Judith, on the southern shore, and along the western side of Narragansett Bay, with mention being made of Boston Neck, Tower Hill, Warwick, Wickford, and the North and South Ferries, together with the names of owners of the houses where the men were quartered. In the course of duty they arrested those who tried to trade with the enemy, captured spies and Tories, drove Hessians off Conanicut Island, and took a few stranded British vessels. Once they camped in Exeter Hollow "to search and take up persons suspected of being favorable to the enemy."
By far the most important service of the militia occurred in August 1778, when the Council of War
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ordered all of the companies in the State to "march with three days provisions ready dressed," to aid General John Sullivan's Expedition against the British at Newport. This movement culminated in the Battle of Rhode Island on August 29, a battle in which 1023 British were lost and 211 Americans.
The presence of Robert Reynolds in the Battle of Rhode Island can be inferred from the fact that all of the militia had been called out, that the pension affidavits establish the participation of the First Exeter Company, and that Robert's son, George, was wounded by a Hessian. As to the exact rank held by Robert there may be some doubt, produced by variations in the affidavits. On the one had was that of Daniel Sunderline who averred that "In the Spring of 1778 he was drafted into Captain Robert Reynolds Company ... In August he was again drafted or called out and placed under the command of the same Captain ... carried over to Rhode Island in the time of General Sullivan's Expedition ... was in the engagement on the Island." On the other hand some affidavits make Jonathan Bates the Captain at that time. A reconciliation of the difference may be brought about by assuming that Bates had been assigned to other duties and that Reynolds was really in charge. That he was capable of filling the position is unquestioned, as he was afterward elected Captain for three successive years.
The last notice of Robert's connection with anything military is a tradition that he was called "Colonel" at a time when he, about seventy years of age, inspected the little trainband of eleven men which met at Clark's Green in Abington Township, Pennsylvania.
The cause of his migration is unknown. It was probably due to the hard times that followed the Revolution, or to overcrowding, or to alluring advertisements of cheap land in the West. One of these advertisements in the "United States Chronicle" of Providence RI describes quite accurately the region where Robert settled:
"Valuable Lands for Sale in lots of 100, 200, 300 and 400 Acres; a Body of very valuable Lands,
equal in Point of Soil, Situation, and Advantages of Water Carriage, to any Lands in the United States. The Soil has been proved, and is found on Cultivation to be fertile in Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, Potatoes, and other esculent Vegetables.
"The Lands are situated in the County of Luzerne, and State of Pennsylvania, within 7 miles of a River which is navigable to the Sea in Boats of considerable Burthen; and large Rafts of Timber, from Settlements on the same River many miles above these Lands, are in the proper Season of the Year, sent to Baltimore, Havre de Grace, and other Places. The Lands are about 170 Miles North of Philadelphia, 60 Miles West of Poughkeepsie, on the North River, and about 240 on a direct West Course from Providence. The Canal from the Mouth of the Susquehannah, which it is expected will soon be accomplished, will afford direct Water Carriage from the Landings near this tract to Philadelphia."
Hollister states in his "History of the Lackawanna Valley" that Robert came about 1793 in company with William Hall, Job Tripp, Ezra Dean and Robert Stone. When these men left their homes they did not speak of going to northeastern Pennsylvania, but of "going to the Beech Woods," for that was the name applied to the whole region.
When the Reynolds family arrived they found the land preempted by Connecticut men. Accordingly, the Reynolds clan moved over the divide to unoccupied sections in Tunkhannock township along the South Branch of the Tunkhannock Creek. They chose land about fifteen miles from the present city of Scranton and about thirty miles from Wilkes-Barre, the county seat of Luzerne. The region in which they settled became Abington township in 1806. In this township there are now the villages of Clark's Summit, Clark's Green, Glenburn (Humphreysville), Dalton (Bailey Hollow), La Plume, Waverly (Abington Center), Wallsville, Fleetville (Benton), Tompkinsville, Nicholson, West Nicholson, Pierceville, and Factoryville. Some of these towns are now in Wyoming County, others in Lackawanna.
Captain Robert and his wife came here in the spring of 1797 with his soms and daughters, in-laws, and some of his grandchildren, about twenty-five to thirty in all. The date of this migration is not known from any legal documents, but from the birth of Mary (Polly) Reynolds, daughter of Phineas, on April 15, 1797 as recorded in the old memorandum book. All of the earlier children are set down as born in Exeter. Scouts may
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have been sent ahead several years before 1797, and the men may have come during the previous year to clear land, build cabins, and to get ready for the spring planting.
The legal measures by which Robert and his sons obtained title can only be inferred. It is probable that they made contracts to purchase on some installment plan, extending payments over a long period, for no Reynolds received a deed before January 1, 1820. In Robert's case no title could be given because he died long before the final payment was due, leaving no record of any transfers.
The party from which Robert and his sons purchased their farms was Samuel Meredith, the first Treasurer of the United States. The land was a dense forest, traversed by a few Indian paths. Yet under the law it was owned by an inhabitant of Philadelphia. This law, passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania after the Revolution, enabled persons to take out tracts, which would be warranted to them by the Commonwealth. In the case of Robert's farm Mercy Ellis purchased it and other land, a parcel of 429 acres, for $26.50 on April 3, 1792. Her warrant covered almost the whole of the future village of Factoryville. A year later she sold this tract to Samuel Meredith. Nor was she the only one who sold land to him and to his brother-in-law, George Clymer. These sales were part of a gigantic real estate speculation, operated through "dummies". They may have been entirely legal, but they appear rather tricky. Meredith and Clymer would get men and women to file claims for sections, then after a proper interval they would take over the tracts from their agents. Thus Meredith became owner of a million acres.
Meredith and Clymer cannot fairly be called rascals. Both were patriots during the Revolution, both held highly honorable positions in the State and Nation, Meredith was a General in the Continental Army and Clymer was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Both were bankers who backed their army with cash, most of which was lost to them forever. On the whole they should be regarded as shrewd, farsighted business men, who were not afraid to speculate on the future of their country.
Any feeling of antipathy toward Meredith and Clymer probably arises from the fact that they bought land for 7 cents per acre and sold it without work on their part for $3 an acre. The last purchase recorded is that made by Alvah Reynolds who acquired land from Thomas Clymer, Trustee, in 1849, nearly sixty years after the original conveyance.
The location of Robert's farm in the future Factoryville was on the southern side of the Tunkhannock Creek. It included the acreage on which is now the Baptist Church, the cemetery and the flats. On this land he built a log cabin just below a spring. From this position, facing the valley, he could look to the right on the farm of his son Phineas, and across the stream to the holdings of his sons George and Solomon. The former contracted for land above and below the spring, and the latter took land up the creek, including that now occupied by Keystone College.
Upon the death of Robert on 1806 his land gravitated into the hands of his son Solomon, for he occupied the log cabin, received a deed from Meredith and Clymer, and willed the premises to his sons Beriah and Ziba.
Eunice Waite, wife of Robert, was born at North Kingstown RI in 1735, and died in Abington in 1802. Her name appears in 1766 on a list of the members of the Exeter Baptist Church. She was descended from lines that took an active part in the civil and military life of Rhode Island. Briefly her descent is given here.
Thomas1 Waite came to RI in 1638 and lived in Newport and Portsmouth.
Samuel2 Waite married Hannah Wightman of Kingstown.
Samuel J.3 Waite married Alice Wightman, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Updike).
John4 Waite b. Feb. 22, 1709; m. Feb. 27, 1728 Sarah Smith. He was a Justice of the Peace, farmer,
merchant, and drayman. In the Census of 1774 he was the owner of three blacks. Member of the
Exeter Baptist Church.
When Robert died in 1806 he was buried beside his wife on a hillside belonging to Phineas, his son,
which overlooked "The Hollow", as the Vale was then called. The land in which he was interred came subsequently into the possession of Abel Capwell, then to his daughter Christianna, wife of Martin N. Reynolds. More than a century after Robert's death his remains and those of his wife were removed with ceremonies by the local Reynolds Association to the Evergreen Cemetery of Factoryville. The remains of his sons George and Solomon and their wives were also reinterred beside their parents. The headstones and footstones were resurrected, the latter containing the initials only. The headstone of Robert and Eunice is quite
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unique, being a sandstone slab inserted into a recess in another larger stone. On the sandstone, below an ornamental border, is a large outline of a heart which contains within the upper lobes script capitals "I" and "M". The body of the heart contains the other words of the inscription: "Memory of Robert Reynolds who died Sept. 1806 AE 70 & Eunice his wife died an. 1802 AE 67 years". The tree of life is carved in the bottom of the heart. Beneath is a biblical verse: "Who shall lay anything To the charge of God's elect? It is God that Jusfieth Rom. 8th"
Children, born in Exeter:
406. SARAH b. Oct. 17, 1757; married and moved to New Jersey 407. ANN b. Dec. 18, 1759, d. Mar. 10, 1760

• 408. GEORGE b. Feb. 19, 1761, d. Dec. 19, 1844

409. WAITE b. Dec. 26, 1763, d. Mar. 23, 1769

• 410. EUNICE b. Dec. 29, 1765
• 411. PHINEAS b. Feb. 23, 1768
• 412. JOANNA b. Dec. 11, 1769, d. Apr. 4, 1852
• 413. SOLOMON b. Sep. 14, 1771, d. Dec. 25, 1852

203. JOSEPH REYNOLDS (George, Joseph, Joseph, James) was born in Exeter RI July 9, 1749, d. Dec. 25, 1823 Eagle (now Jackson) Township, Brown County, OH. On October 31, 1771 he was married at Exeter by Elder Solomon Sprague to EXPERIENCE DAVIS of West Greenwich. She was born April 9, 1751, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Davis, d. Nov. 7, 1832 Jackson Township, Brown County, Ohio.
Shortly after their marriage Joseph and Experience Reynolds moved from Exeter to Stephentown, Albany (now Rensselaer) County NY. This area was originally part of western Massachusetts. A boundary adjustment in 1789 placed the area in New York. During the Revolution he served in the 4th Regiment, Albany County Militia, under Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer, and also in Captain Peter Van Vort's Company, 13th Regiment, Albany County Militia. In the census of 1790 he was listed as a householder in Stephentown.
In 1798 or 1799 Joseph emigrated from New York state to Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky, and in the spring of 1800 purchased 1,250 acres of land in Eagle Township, Adams County (now Jackson Township, Brown County), Ohio and began clearing off a farm the same season. All his children including those already married and with families of their own, settled in the same neighborhood, which became known as the "Yankee Settlement." Joseph Reynolds continued to reside on the land he first purchased until his death December 25, 1823. His wife Experience survived until Nov. 7, 1832. Both are buried in the Reynolds Family Cemetery about one and one-half miles southwest of the village of Ash Ridge. Joseph and Experience (Davis)
Reynolds were the parents of fourteen children. 414. DANIEL
Children:
415. STEPHEN
416. HENRY
417. WILLIAM
418. JOANNA

• 419. DAVIS b. Mass. December 26, 1779 now Stephentown NY; m. Amelia Dunn 420. ELIZABETH

421. LUCY
422. JOSEPH JR.
423. HANNAH
424. CLARK
425. GEORGE probably d. young in RI or NY 426. LEVINA probably d. young in RI or NY 427. ROXANA
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