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low; Ruth, married John Whitney; Tabithamarried Matthew Abdy; Sarah, married

Mason; Mary, married Saw.Sybil became the wife of Joshua Shtpman.The Saybrook records show two sons of thistnarriage, Samuel and Charles.

rvi) Charles, son of Joshua and SybilrChaDman) Shipman, resided m Manetta.L married (first) Frances Dana and(second) March 31, tSUt Joanna Bartlett,daughter of Henry andBartlett. She was descended from JohnBartlett and his wife. Bettina Deveraux.whose son, William Bartlett, married MaryAndrews. William (2) Bartlett, son of thiscSe. married Anna Ober Hale, and theirson, William (3) Bartlett and his wif^ >anna Herrick, were the parents of HenryBartlett father of Joanna.

(VII) Betsey S., daughter of Charles andToanna (Bartlett) Shipman, was born Nchvember 9. 1816. Marietta and was marriedOctober 20, 1841. to Beman Gates, of thattown (see Gates VII)-

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yer. The homestead of Robert Reynolds mBoston was at what is now the c<^er ofWashington and Franklin streets. Franklinstreet w-as named for Benjamin Frankhn whowas bom in the Franklin house built on therear of the Reynolds lot. The site of theReynolds house is now occupied by the Boston Tranjcripf building.

(II) Captain Nathaniel Reynold or Reynolds, son of Robert Reynolds was bom inEngland, died July 10, 1708, atBristol, RhodeIsland. He served in King Philip s war andwas 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. Hemarried (first) Sarah, daughter of JohnDwight, of Dedham, Massachusetts, November 20, 1657. She died July 8, 1663. Hemarried (second) R';isciUa daughter of Pe«rBrackett. 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 CaptainNathaniel Reynold or Revnolds. was bomMay 10, 1686. in Bristol. Rhode Island, diedAugust 4. 1770' He married, m1709. Susanna, daughter of Rev. Gnndall Rawson, ofMendon, Massachusetts. .Children, born atBristol: Priscilla. April 13. •(twin). July 12, 1715. <hed unmarried, Mar>(twin), Julv 12. 1715. diedNovember 20, 1716: John, 'mentioned below ,Benjamin, November I5. 1722: Gr'udall, JuhII, 1726: Sarah, married Seth Chapin.

(IV) John, son of Benjamin Reynolds, wasbom April i, 1718, died in 1801. He removed to Providence, Rhode IslanJ andto Boston tolive, Febmary^ 12,_ 1765. All husurviving sons except Benjamin took part 1to ian.Ls Boston Too Forty. Ho ittorr ei(first) Januarj- n, I743. Sfanna Giles, ^econd) May 3- 1753. Dorothy ^eld-l)ury. Massachusetts. His sons Gnndal . cuward, William and Benjamin all ining when the youngest was over eightj jearof age. Children: Pnscilla, horn June17J. Samuel, April 3. 1/54. «^«d mthrevolution and was wounded by a bayonet .the time of Lee's capture, and died in earmanhood; Grindall, October 12. 1755-

There are various explana-REYNOLDS tions of the origin of the

surname Reynold or Reynolds. The common use of the fox o" "at®,of-arms of Reynolds families supports hebelief 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 simdarviz- A fox statant proper. The Ke>noldsfamily of Somersetshire, England, bore.Azure a chevron between three foxes headserased or. Crest; A fox s head as in thearms. Other Reynolds families have the fox shead in their co.ats-of-arms. _ _

(1) Robert Revnolds. the immigrant ancestor. 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 theclmich at that time. By trade he a shoemaker He removed to Wethersfield Connecticut. after a brief residence at Water-town Massachusetts, and his brother John

;ve„t .o W«h,r,fidd. Hefrom the \\-atertown churchto 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-

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speaker at theexercises when Franconia, NewHampshire, formally received its presentname: 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 manyvears at Norfolk, Virginia, where a brotheralso located. The descendants of this brotherBenjamin have since resided in Norfolk, being engaged in the cotton shipping business.One of them was an officer, in the Confederate army and afterwards was president ofthe Norfolk Young Men's Christian Association and also of the Colored Young Men'sGiristian Association; his son was sent bythe missionary societies to Seoul and was oneof the earliest, if not the first, missionary atthatplace. John Reynolds returned north andlocated at Strafford, Vermont. He married(first) Hannah Faulder, a native of Manchester, England; (second) Jane Bentley, ofBoston. Children by first wife: John, bom1800 at Norfolk, died in 1872 at Boston,Massachusetts; Edward Faulder, mentionedbdow; Williain, died about 1845 at Strafford,Vermont. Child by second wife: Mary JaneBentley.

(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. In1860 he returned to his former home in Ver-

He married Maria Pennock, bom atwfford, daughter of Peter Pennock (seermnock). 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 atI^«own, New York, about 1843; Mary

born at Jamestown, 1845. WilliamP. and Mary J. are deceased.

^ '1) John Bentley, son of Edward Faul-^Kemolds, was born at Strafford, Ver-

24, 1835. He was educated injjPooiic schools and academy at Jamestown,|. When he was fifteen years oldl^^nied to his 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 atsource of the supply

m this country. After four yearsli^ • mtered jhe employ of the Connec-, ^3ssumsic Railroad Company, now

part of the Boston & Maine system. He afterwards became a bookkeeper in the StateBank at Rutland. Within five years he hadbeen promoted to the post of cashier of thisbank and continued there for six years. Heresigned to become the manager of the Sutherland Falls Marble Company in what is nowthe town of Proctor, Vermont, the largestmarble concern in the world. Mr. Reynoldssold the property to the present owners, ofwhom Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont,was the head. During the period of development and operation under Mr. Reynolds'ownership he was given generous financialsupport by John D. Bryant, of Boston. Mr.Bryant married a daughter of William B.Reynolds, of Boston. Marble from this quarry was shipped as far west as San Francisco,California, as early as 1876. Mr. Reynoldsbecame the introduced agent of the IngersollRock Drills west of the Rocky Mountains,which were used in boring the tunnels forthe railroads in the Rocky Mountains. Atone time Mr. Reynolds owned the waterpower at Bellows Falls, Vermont. He soldthe property to the Russell Company, whi^erected there the third wood pulp mill inthe world. He is the owner of Green Mountain Park at Cuttingsville, Vermont.

Mr. Reynolds married (first) July, 1861,Eva Susan Hayward, bom in February, 1844,daughter of Henryand Susan Williams (Perkins) Hayward, of Rutland, a descendant ofRoger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island.She died in 1886. He married (second) in1891, 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 ofGeneral 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 inthe military service of William of Orange.He located at Comwall, England, and married Mary, daughter of George Collett, ofClonmel, countyof Tipperary, Ireland. Afterresiding in Ireland and Englandfor a time, hecame before 1685 to Pennsylvania, but beingin the service of King William was in thebattle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690. Bytrade he was a cardmaker. He died in Philadelphia in 1701. His children were: Nathaniel, 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 passages to this country, under letters of marque.

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MISS NANCY PERRIN, OF GLOUCESTER, VIRGINIABy Aubrey H. Starke

In the Virginia Gazette (PD) for 4April 1774 appeared a brief weddingannouncement, the only one — in spite of the plural promise in thatissue:

"Marriages. MR. William Reynolds, Merchant in York, to MissNancy Perrin, of Gloucester."

The announcement contained no information to identif> fuithei eitheithe bride or the groom.

The groom, however, is easily identified. There are numerous lef-erencesto William Reynolds (1743?-1801) ,in the John Norton papers published by Mrs. Frances Norton Mason in John Norton &Sons, Merchantsof London a7id Virginia, 1750-1795 (Richmond, Va., 1937). The son ofa prosperous sea captain, Thomas Reynolds, and his wife Susann^aiRogers, ^he was John Norton's god-son, and he spent three years in thehome and counting house of the Nortons in London. For many yearsafter his return to Virginia in 1771. he kept up a lively correspondencewith 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 fromthe adverses of the Revolution but achieved stature as a citizen ot hisnative Yorktown. He was Justice of the Peace, Member of the Cornmitteeof Safety arid Member of the General Assembly. When he died in 1801 hehad been for some years Collector of the Port of Yorktown, where the siteof 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 stillstands, easily visible from Yorktown across the York River beveralvards of unused embroidered silk cloth, left over from herand 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 alsobeen pas.sed down in the family of their only daughter. ^ ^ ,

In 1923 Dr. and Mr.s. William Carter Stubbs of New Orleans publishedDescendants 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 intermarried families of'ironmonger, Throckmorton, Cooke, Whiting, andBooth, and the related familie.s of Washington, Willis and Pernn. Onwages 30-31 the authors stated that Susanna Cooke, born o ISIay 17.>8.daughler of Mordecai Cooke and his wife Frances Whiting married 29October 1748 Captain Jolin Perrin (born 4 December 17..1 — died UFebruary 1770) of "Sarah's Creek," Gloucester County, a large merchanton the York River;" and had issue (enumerated in the following order) ;

1. Elizabeth Perrin (1751-1791) who married Francis Willis (1744-1797)

2. Captain John Perrin (1749-1791) who married (1st) ElizabethWashington in Frederick County and (2nd) Elizabeth Carter Ken-

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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 theproblem of including her in the pedigree, the authors on page 36 stated:"In 1773 Mrs. [sj'c] Mary Perrin married William Reynolds of Gloucesterand York (whose sister Ann married Nathaniel Littlelwn Savage andhad eight children). Their daughter Hannah [sic] Reynolds^ marriedher cousin Southey Littleton Savage." The source of this and other information was given as "mainly from Abingdon Parish Records." However Gloucester County records had been long since de.stroyed.

The Abingdon Parish Record.s, unfortunately and mysteriou.sly lost inrecent years, are represented by two slightly different late 19th centurycopies, one in the Library of the Virginia Historical Society and both available in photostatic duplication in the Virginia State Library. Neithercopy — the copies differ slightly from each other — has an entry thatindisputably concerns the wife of William Reynolds, though it is temptingto wish that the word "died" in a 1759 entry in Copy I, page 181, andCopv II, page 106, might be a misreading of "born" or "bapt" in theoriginal: "Nancy, Daughr of Mr. Jno Perrin. Died Sepr. 22nd." If thi.swere indeed Mary Ann Perrin who marrie<I William Reynolds, she wouldhave been a little less than fifteen at the time of her marriage — but notas young as her kinswoman Catherine Daingerfield Willis (1803-6 August 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 thisis not Nancy, later Mrs. William Reynolds, any other identification ofher 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 husbandvvho 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 arethe 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 beenfound in the existing York County records. There is, however, one important clue to her identity that should not be overlooked. It is in the willof Susannah Perrin Washington, the fifth and last wife of Samuel Washington, olde.st full brother of General George Washington. SusannahWa.shington named Francis Willis of Gloucester and William Reynoldsof York executors of her will. Franci.s Willis was beyond doubt herbrother-in-law. There must have been good reason for Su.sannah Washington of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia) to have namedanyone 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 limewith the Washington family i.s not made in either Perrin or Reynoldsfamily current tradition, it is not surprising. • ]\lary Ann Perrin was aminor child when her father died in 1770; she survived her sister SusannaWashington by only a few years; her only daughter, who preserved .somany family traditions, was left motherless at six and brought up withher family-conscious Savage relatives (she married a fir.st cousin) ; and

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Susanna was herself not for long or ever fully a member of the Washington family that is identified with General George Washington, althoughshe was connected by cousin marriages with other branches of the Washington 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 extravaganttendencies, variously indicated by five marriages, and by (perhaps as a consequence) pecuniary difficulties. In 1781, Washington wrote to another brother, *In God's name how did mybrother Samuel get himself so enormously in debt.' "

In General Washington's letters published by the Federal Government in1937 occurs but one contemporary reference to the fifth wife of Samuel.Writing from camp, near Fort Lee, New Jersey, on 31 August 1780, theGeneral wrote:

"Dear BrotherYour letter of the 31st Ulto. came to my handsby the last Post, from Philadelphia. It gave me much concernto find by it, that you were in such bad health. I hope this, ifit .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 theenjoyment of every blessing of life. My best regards to my Sister(with whom I should be happy in a better acquaintance) and allyour family, and with the greatest truth 1 remain Yrs., etc.

Twelve years later, in a letter of 2 May 1792, giving a genealogical account of his family. General Washington wrote of hi.s brother: "SamuelWashington, son of Augustine and Mary, was five times married . . .Fifth, to Widow Perrin." It is perhaps significant that the General recalled the family name rather than the married name of his brother'.s lastwife. . • u-

Washington, who provided generously for all of his nephews in hiswill, had no occasion to provide for the child of Samuel Washington bySusanna Perrin. Just as Simnna did not long survive Samuel, so her

• son Perrin Washington did not long survive her. They were all dead morethan fifteen years before General Washington made his will.

Of the three children of John Perrin (1721-1770) and his wife SusannaCooke (1738-1782), married 29 October 1748, the eldest was certainlyJohn Perrin, ^r. He was born 8 October 1749 — that made him six yearsyounger than William Reynolds — and he was a .student at William andMary in 17G4. He was married (Ist) to Elizabeth Washington of Fred-crick County, not a near relative of the General but daughter of HenryWa.«;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.unKennon and his wife Priscilla Willis. He was the father,of William Kcnnon Perrin (1784-1853) who sold "Sarah's Crook" (Since called "UtlleEngland") and moved inland to "Gosheiv" which is still owned by his de-.scendants. He died 24 November 1791. Only a few Perrin tombstones remain at "Little England" as reminders, that it was once a Perrin property.

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child of John and Susanna Cooke Perrin, was married about 29 April1767 to Francis Willis (1744-1797) of Gloucester County, son of Francisand Elizabeth Carter Willis of "Whitehall," Gloucester County, and tohim 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 andof Accomack. This was two and a half or three years before Mary AnnPerrin married William Reynolds and we may assume that Susanna wasat least that much older than Mary Ann. In 1770 young Holden wascourting Susanna, and the cautious prospective mother-in-law wanted toknow something about his future prospects. His father, George Holden,Sr., clerk of Accomack, replied in a letter that was in effect a contract ofmarriage and was recorded as such 27 January 1774 (Accomack DeedBook, 1770-1777, pp. 255-56.) Mr. Holden who had only this son and adaughter, went into great detail explaining about the land and slaves, etc.He also explained that he had land and slaves on the western shore, and500 acres in Hanover County, 539 acres in Albemarle, and 15 slaves "which1 intend for him if he behaves himself well."

George Holden, Sr., of Accomack was dead by 26 September 1777 AvhenGeorge Holden, Jr., of Gloucester and Susanna his wife sold land in Accomack inherited by George Holden, Jr., from his father. Young Holdenhimself died in Gloucester County in April, 1777, leaving a will signed2 January 1777 and probated 5 June 1777, a summary of which appearsin Crozier's WillioAnshurg Wills (page 31). In this will he named hisdaughters Anna and Susanna, the children of his sister Elizabeth Holden,and her husband William Taliaferro, and his own wife. One of the executors was John Perrin, his brothei*-in-law, and one of the witnesses tohis signature was Elizabeth Willi.s, his sister-in-law.

His widow, Susanna Perrin Holden, married (2nd), probably in 1780and as his fifth wife, Samuel Washington (born 16 November i734, died1781). Where they met or where they were married is not known, but themarriage took Susanna Perrin far from Gloucester and tidewater Virginiato the Piedmont region and Berkeley County where at "Harewood," ahouse 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 JohnCooke, was probated 18 December 1781 (Berkeley County Will Book I, pp.237-239). Susanna WaMdngton's will, signed 5 December 1782, was probated 20 May 1^3 (Berkeley County Will Book I, pp. 310-317.) ' In itshe made reference to her son, John Perrin Washington, her first husbandGeorge Holden and their daughters Nancy and Susanna Holden, her sisterWillis of Gloucester (who was to divide her clothes between her daughters), her "friend" Francis Willis of Gloucester (who was charged withthe 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 WilliamReynolds of York Executors of this iny last Will and Testament trustingthat they will Execute the same in a manner suitable to that confidencewhich I put in their Integrity, Justice, Diligence and Punctuality."

In October, 1777, shortly after (leorge Holden's death, a kinsman ofSusanna's, Francis Whiting, had died in Berkeley County and Samuel

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Washington, Gabriel Throckmorton (another kinsman) and James Noursehad made an appraisal of his estate. Asecond ^W^aisal had been made

•bv John Cooke (still another kinsman), Gabriel Throckmorton and JamesNourse; and in December, 1777, a third appraisal made by Mordecai.Throckmorton, Warner Throckmorton and John Perrin -- the latterSusanna's own brother. The inter-related families of Cookes, fhrock-mortons. Whitings and Willises were almost as numerous in BerkeleyCounty as the Washingtons and were indeed related to the Washingtcmsthrough 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 seniormember of the Berkeley County Washingtons — there were live biothei.swho 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 unionand after his father'.s death James Nourse and John Cooke signed assecurities the bond his mother gave as his guardian, 18 December 1781.The young boy was himself dead by IG December 178o, the date ot thedivision of his mother's estate in which he does not figure He shouldnot 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 byblood to Susanna Perrin Wa.shington.

It is hardly likely that Susanna Washington of Berkeley County, surrounded by kinsmen of her own and kinsmen of her late husband, wouldhave named Francis-Willis and William Reynolds of distant ^ork Countyexecutors of her will unless there had been a close relationship, andFrancis Willis was beyond question her brother-in-law though —following18th century conventions — she called him friend in her will. IVilliamReynolds, 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 inthe highest esteem by the testatrix. The will was presented for probateon 20 May 1783 by Francis Willis, Jr., her brother-in-law, and WarnerWashington, Jr., a witness to the signing* and her mother s cousin. Vi -liam Reynolds never qualified as executor, however. He had at thattime problems that kept him busy in tidewater Viiginia.

When he returned from London to Virginia in the spring of 1771, ageabout 28 William Reynolds had been at first undecided whether he shouldsettle at Anhapolis or New York (both of which he visited) and he choseYork, in Virginia, partly because he owned property there and had goodconnections, especially with the Norton family, whose son John HatleyNorton managed the firm's business in Virginia. Reynolds kejit up alively correspondence with the Nortons in London as well as with his owncoii.sin Samuel Uoyers and lu ver ceased to look hack with nostalgia on histhree 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 luthe Norton family, he indicated that he was thinking of marriage andordered teaspooms, a punch ladle, and other silver, all to be markedwith his crest. In a letter of 23 May 1772 he .stated that he had ^im intension of marrying "the estimable Miss Grymes." On 9August 1/ /- he

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daughter (possibly Susanna) was nnvi" rejected by onethe family, who could have been the ^-ouSer Nancythat thrfom% wrwel^k^^^^^^dividual men/era ^rnecesarry On "A & 'flTJuly 1773" in the Nnr^nt> ,.orv«,Jl Foreign Drs taken 30th

wx uuiin irei rin, uec. had paid the Nortons £52-15-10Rejmolds wrote George Norton on 12 August 1772 1f^ov v. i, i irejected bv Miss Grvmes /"wIiatvi 1772, aftei he had beenhe hoped to marry Miss Nancv Waller^\>i ^ had himself rejected), thathad been rejecte^brMiss ^ September 1772 he5 Auffiisf 177Q V *A I-* • who, he decided, was a coouette On

state [was] better than the life of ahbeX; " vJm i Ito 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 li«ri ' iat Concord, in Massachusetts, and nine davs later Vip .-f ff \ ^Nprtons.in London that he had been topptt'from tLmittee of Safety because of his friendshi with Norton m

it; s "S?;H'S£s1/79 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 °Tlm tiir Ter "he sought trre''"s^rr-^:r-r.iZp^—Enemy

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anna Perrin Washington was admitted to probate in distant BerkeleyCounty without his qualifying as executor.

For several years after the coming of peace Reynolds tried to recouphis losses, shifting the emphasis from trade with London to trade withthe West Indies, but success eluded him. Whether it was the result ofthe Revolution or poor management of his own affairs, Reynolds graduallywithdrew from business. On 1 January 1795 he became collector ofthe Port of Yorktown and on 6 August 179G "to do justice to [my condition] as far as my circumstances will permit" he conveyed the whole ofhis property in trust to H. Nel.son, Jr., and Thomas Griffith, Esqr. xorthe benefit of the Claimants."

Reynolds' wife, Mary Ann Perrin, died in 1790. Reynolds himself died24 October 1801, leaving a will in which he requested that his body beburied in a decent manner next to that of his wife. Family traditionasserts that they were both buried in the yard of York-Hampton Pari.sh(now Grace) Church at Yorktown, but their graves are not marked todayand 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 claimsantedating the Revolution, one of their agents reported of Reynolds thatlately his circuniKtance.H lu\d hoeii IndillocenL :ind he "<1ied very latelyleaving very little property." Of his Irieiid and brother-in-law hiancisWillis another agent reported that "he died about six years ago very muchembarrassed in his circumstances and did not leave estate enough to payhis debts." ®

William Reynolds and his wife Mary Ann Perrin had four sons andone daughter:

1. Thomas Reynolds, born in April 1775, died unmarried shortly afterhis father. In his will dated 17 June 1800 and proved 21 July 1802 henamed his brothers George Norton Reynolds and Lewis Reynolds and hissister Harriet. He was surely named Thomas in honor of his paternalgrandfather. _ , xv

2. John Reynolds, who is not mentioned in the will of his brotherThomas, presumably died before that brother. There is no family tradition concerning him, other than his name — which was that of his maternal grandfather — and he probably died unmarried.

3. George Norton Reynolds, named for his father's closest friend in theNorton family, George Flowerdew Norton, was born 25 March 1781 anddied 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 hisand death were found in the journal of his son Thomas Caute R.Gy^oWs(1821-1887) who was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Missouri in 1860and served as Confederate Governor of tliat divided state, retainingthe great seal of the state as his authority for office which he excrci.sedfrom Arkansas and later from Texas, liis journal, like his grandlather sletter 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, notLouis, in family records that are old but by no means contemporary, andit is possible that he was named for the Lewis family. If so. there ri.sesagain the question of the unidentified "sister Lewis" of Susanna Penin

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lltl'lX Ms 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 wastn 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^eS pr^trv".!" H' Southey LyttletVn Savageof Captain Nathaniel Lyttleton Savage and his wife Ann Reynolds.

Savage, born 25 April 1779, died 31 December 1811IpVf f f" marriage, and Harriet Reynolds. Sava're waschildr"e:i%\ar"®S:rvvr:/' ®0.,^/'®?.'"''®',^^*?®'°" Savage III, named for his paternal grandfatherand for his uncle who was afounding member of the Virginia Society ofthe Cincinnati. He was born 13 April 1806 and died —nine years before his mother — 8 January 1853. ^

18^3 Reynolds Savage born 10 December 1808, died 5 August1853. He was named for his maternal grandfather.

aiea xi August 1897. She was named for Harriet Reynolds Saviffe'sown mother and for the paternal aunt, Susanna Reynolds Raisin-TayforTamp f f 41 ? ®coincidence that Susanna was also thename 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 ofcoara4wt by app ybgInU' 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.

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temn New ^"8^^ ^ die family in Calvert Cormty warvA Anne Anmdel County. T „ marriod Sarah Robinsou.

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Rfifs.~Wm of Henry Robinson, Jr.-1884. •"Will of William Reynolds—1730.Will of Edward ReynoIds-1747.

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Robert Roberts, the first of his line in Calvert County,beth Johns, daughter of Richard Johns. The Roberts famlty iiwidely dispersed Puritan families who settled in the Ccddniss.erts family of Calvert became Quakers. Robert Bd^eitsand by his will divided his lands among alarge fan^ of chfliillB^Bbrodiers-in-Iaw, Kinsey and Isaac Johns, were theHis 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 residteitAllen Roberts is theLower Bennett. Tlie .i^ine of Ann; Rnbey^.1800. She i^entinued to Itye k QMt.^Ckunty.'munityof tbe UpiMsr andThey;wein.id»eraEUMried'wRh Aefomilies. , .. .-v

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