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(IX) John
Augustus (2), son of John Augustus (1) and
Lucy (Cleveland) Hicks, was born at Rutland,
Vermont, January 13, 1842, and died June 10,
1911, at the home of his son, Arthur W.
Hicks, at Millington, New Jersey. He
enlisted for three years August 5, 1862, as
a private in Company B, Tenth Vermont
Volunteers. He served with distinction for
three yeas in the War of the Rebellion, and
after being severally wounded was mustered
out as major by brevet for disability, after
going through every intermediate rank. He
was mentioned on several occasions in
general and special orders for especial
bravery, serving most of his time as a staff
officer. He then entered the machinery
business in New York City, making his home
in Summit, New Jersey, doing much for the
development of that town through real estate
and building operations, and inventing many
machines and devices in the art of
carbonated beverages and vessel closures.
He married, September 22, 1868, Caroline A.,
daughter of Marcius and Frances (Pierpont)
Willson, who survives him. Children: 1.
Helen Cleveland, July 18, 1872. 2. Evelyn
Pierpont, mentioned below. 3. Julia
Carolyn, July 20, 1879.
(X) Evelyn
Pierpont, son of John Augustus (2) and
Caroline A. (Willson) Hicks, was born at
Summit, New Jersey, November 9, 1874. He
received his preliminary education at
private schools, later taking the
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course at the Summit
Military Academy. Afterwards he engaged in
business pursuits in New York City,
eventually becoming identified with various
real estate interests. He is president of
the Lackawanna Realty Company. Mr. Hicks is
prominent in society and is a member of the
Calumet Club of New York, of which he is
also a governor; the St. Nicholas Club of
New York; Amateur Comedy Club of New York;
the Larchmont Yacht Club, Baltusrol Golf
Club, Canoe Brook County Club, and Highland
Club of Summit. He married, November 8,
1905, Edith, daughter of Henry J. and Mary
(Black) Burchell, of New York, who died
February 12, 1911.
HICKS. (IX)
William Cleveland Hicks, son of John
Augustus Hicks, (q. v.) and Lucy (Cleveland)
Hicks, was born in New York City, July 21,
1829, and died in Summit, New Jersey,
October 10, 1885. He received his education
in Rutland and Middlebury, Vermont, and
graduated at Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, B. A., 1848, and M. A., 1851.
He was the inventor of the first automatic
cartridge ejector, and of the Hicks
four-cylinder engine as well as a great
number of other inventions. He was a patent
expert in scientific cases, a civil,
mechanical and electrical engineer. For
some years he was a lecturer on mechanics at
Trinity College. In politics he was a
Republican and attended the Protestant
episcopal Church, officiating as senior
warden of Calvary Parish, at Summit, New
Jersey; deputy to the general convention of
the Episcopal Church; president of the
Laymen's Association, diocese of Newark;
president of the Citizen's Association of
Summit, New Jersey. He resided at various
periods in New York City; Rutland, Vermont;
Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Brooklyn and
Summit. Although a layman, about fifty of
the clergy and two bishops were at his
funeral. He married, June 1, 1854,
Birmingham, Connecticut, Emily Norwood,
daughter of Charles and Catherine (Burlock)
De Forest, who was born in New York City,
October 20, 1835, and died in Vineyard
Haven, Massachusetts, April 21, 1898. She
was educated at the Troy Female Academy,
known at that time as the Emma Willard
School. She was a lady of many
accomplishments, and much ability, and took
part in a number of movement for the public
good. She was president of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Board of Missions, diocese
of Newark, New Jersey; president of the
Woman's Village Improvement Association, of
Summit, New Jersey; and previously resided
in New York City, Pottsville, Pennsylvania;
Derby and Hartford, Connecticut; Boston,
Brooklyn and Summit. Children: 1. Lucy
Cleveland, born in Hartford, Connecticut,
march 8, 1855, died in Vineyard Haven,
Massachusetts, May 21, 1857. 2. Emily De
Forest, born in Hartford, Connecticut, July
25, 1857, died there August 15, 1857. 3.
Helen De Forest, born in Hartford,
Connecticut, May 7, 1859, died there June
11, 1860. 4. George Cleveland, born in
Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 1861,
died in Brooklyn, march 14 1864. 5. Edith
Norwood, born in Brooklyn, November 18,
1864, died there September 23, 1865. 6.
Norwood De Forest, born in Summit, New
Jersey, 1872, died there in 1876 7. William
Cleveland, born in summit, New Jersey,
January 31, 1866; married at St. John, New
Brunswick, Canada, November 17, 1897, Jennie
Margaret Hughes, who was born in Gagetown,
daughter of Benjamin Nunn and Margaret
(Good) Hughes. 8. De Forest, of whom
further.
(X) De
Forest, son of William Cleveland and Emily
Norwood (De Forest) Hicks, was born at
summit, New Jersey, October 30, 1875. He
received his education at St. Paul's School,
Concord, New Hampshire, and was graduated
from Trinity College in 1896 with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts. He is in the banking
business in New York City. He belongs to
Veterans Company K of the Seventh Regiment,
and is secretary of the St. Nicholas Club.
(The Cleveland Line).
There has
been much controversy among those interested
regarding the proper orthography of the
surname Cleveland. The signature of Moses
Cleveland, of Woburn,. Massachusetts, as a
subscribing witness, certainly indicate that
the ancestor of the Clevelands of New
England origin spelled his own name
Cleveland. On old Woburn records the name
is rendered Cleauland,
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1648-82; Cleaveland,
1701 to 1704, and Cleveland in 1702. In
England from a very early period the name
has always been spelled Cleveland, except
ina few instances, where it have been
rendered Cleavland or Clevland. Certain
branches and individuals of the posterity of
Moses Cleveland spell the name Cleaveland.
The name would seen to be derived from
Cleveland, North Riding, Yorkshire, England,
Thorkil de Cleveland in 1066 being
apparently the first to bear it.
(I) Moses or
Moyses Cleveland or Cleavland, the common
ancestor of the Clevelands of New England
origin, was probably born at Ipswich,
England, about 1624, and died at Woburn,
January 9, 1701. He came, it is thought,
when a youth from Ipswich, Suffolk County,
England, and sailed, according to a family
tradition, from London, arriving in America
in 1635. He first landed somewhere is
Massachusetts, probably either at Plymouth
or at Boston. John Cleveland wrote, in
1759: "My great-grandfather's name was
Moses Cleveland, and he came from Ipswich to
Suffolk, England. He was young when he came
to New England, and was an apprentice to a
joiner, and came here with his master. He
settled in Woburn, near Boston, married, and
had seven sons." He married, in Woburn,
1648, Ann Winn. Children: 1. Moses, born
1651. 2. Hannah, 1653. 3. Aaron, mentioned
below. 4. Samuel, 1657. 5. Miriam, 1659.
6. Joanna, 1661. 7. Edward, 1664. 8.
Josiah, 1666. 9. Isaac, 1669. 10. Enoch,
1671.
(II) Aaron,
son of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland, was
born at Woburn, Massachusetts, January 10,
1654, and died at Woburn, September 14,
1716. He was a soldier in the King Philips'
War, as were also his brothers Moses and
Samuel. He was made a freeman in 1680, and
became prominent in all affairs at Woburn.
He was a housewright by trade, though he
also engaged in farming and land
speculating, being known as a man of
distinction in the town and wealthy. He
married (first) at Woburn, September 26,
1675, Dorcas, daughter of John and Hannah
(Jones) Wilson; (second)
Prudence------------. Children: 1. Dorcas,
born 1676. 2. Hannah, 1678. 3. Aaron,
mentioned below. 4. Hannah, 1687, married a
Beard. 5. Moses, 1689. 6. Sarah, 1692. 7.
Miriam, 1694. 8. Isabel, 1697. 9. Ann,
1699. 10, Benjamin, 1701.
(III) Aaron
(2), son of Aaron (1) and Dorcas (Wilson)
Cleveland, was born at Woburn,
Massachusetts, July 9, 1680, and died in
that part of Cambridge called Mystic, now
Medford, Massachusetts, in 1755. He was a
captain of militia, and lived in Woburn till
1794, later in Medford and Charlestown. He
was admitted in 1711 by proof and baptism to
Cambridge Church, and he was transferred in
1720 to Medford Church and received to
communion in East Haddam. He was a
constable in 1717, an office like that of a
magistrate and conferred usually on the best
scholars and the best men. He kept a tavern
at Cambridge, on the western side of the
Mystic River, and was a builder and
contractor. At East Haddam he became
prominent in the military and was
successively cornet, lieutenant, and
captain. He married, at Woburn, January 1,
1701, Abigail Waters, born at Woburn,
November 29, 1683, died probably at Norwich,
in 1761. Children: 1. Samuel, born 1704.
2. Abigail, 1706. 3. Dorcas, 1709. 4.
Josiah, 1713. 5. Aaron, mentioned below.
6. John. 7. Moses, 1719. 8. Mary, 1724.
(IV) Aaron
(3), son of Aaron (2) and Abigail (Waters)
Cleveland, was born at Charlestown, October
19, 1715, and died at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, August 11, 1757. He was a
clergyman and a character of considerable
note. He entered Harvard in 1731 and was
graduated in 1735./ he was a large,
powerful man, it is said, and excellent in
all exercises requiring strength and
agility. It is not known where he studied
theology. He probably preached his first
sermon at Medford. He was ordained Minster
of the Strict Congregational Church, Haddam
Society, July, 1739. He became an
Episcopalian, and took his family in 1754 to
Norwich, where his widowed mother resided.
He married, August 4, 1736, Susannah Porter,
born at Medford, April 26, 1716. Children:
1. Susanna. 2. Stephen, 1738. 3. Aaron,
mentioned blow. 4. Dorcas, 1740. 5.
William, 1742. 6. George, 1745. 7.
Margaret, 1748. 8. Lucy, 1749. 9. Abigail,
1751. 10, Elizabeth. 1752.
(V) Aaron
(4), son of Aaron (3) and Susannah (Porter)
Cleveland, was born in 1738, at Medford, and
died at New Haven.
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Connecticut, September
21, 1815. He was one of the most prominent
characters of the Cleveland family. He was
apprenticed to the hatter at Haddam. While
learning his trade he devoted all his
leisure to study, and when nineteen wrote a
poem that is still published. He married
(first) Abiah Hyde; (second) Elizabeth
Breed. Children: 1. George, mentioned
below. 2. William, born 1770. 3. Charles,
1772. 4. Frank, 1774. 5. Aaron, 1778. 6.
Lucy, 1787. 7. Stephen, 1792. 8. Jeremiah,
1794. 9. Abiah Hyde, 1796.
(VI) George,
son of Aaron (4) and Abiah (Hyde) Cleveland,
was born January 9, 1769, and died at
Middlebury, Vermont, February 2, 1851. He
lived first at Norwich, Connecticut, where
he entered into partnership with his father
and commenced the manufacture of hats. In
one week their manufactory was burned in a
great fire. George removed to Guilford,
where he carried on the business and resided
there till 1808, when he gave up his
business and removed to Middlebury,
Vermont. There he was a merchant and
postmaster for twenty yeas. He was
appointed United States tax collector and
was elected member of the Vermont
legislature from Weybridge. He married
Catey Caldwell, born at Guilford, August 20,
1776, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Ranna)
Guilford. Children: 1. Catherine, born
1792. 2. Samuel, born 1794. 3. Marietta,
1796. 4. George, 1797. 5. Sarah, 1799. 6.
Samuel, 1801. 7. Susan, 1802. 8. Charles,
1804. 9. Lucy, mentioned below. 10.
William, born 1809. 11. Aaron Porter,
1809. 12. Edward Henry, 1813.
(VII) Lucy,
daughter of George and Catey (Caldwell)
Cleveland, was born at Guilford,
Connecticut, January 12, 1806, and died at
Rutland, Vermont, August 10, 1860. She
married, at Middlebury, Vermont, September
28,m 1828, Rev. John Augustus Hicks, born in
New York City, February 22, 1802, and died
at Burlington, Vermont, November 4, 1860,
son of Oliver Hewlett and Julia (Bush)
Hicks. (See Hicks.)
REYNOLDS.
John Reynolds (1), progenitor of this branch
of the family, is supposed to have sailed
from the port of London--i. e., Ipswich,
England, in 1633. Sarah Reynolds (his
wife), aged 20, was a passenger on the ship
"Elizabeth" which sailed from Ipswich "bound
for New England the last of April, 1634."
Among the
passengers were many who settled at
Watertown, Massachusetts, and subsequently
removed to Weathersfield and Stamford,
Connecticut, but John Reynolds was not among
them. John Reynolds was admitted a freeman
of Watertown, May 6, 1635. Robert, his
brother, had been admitted September 3,
1634.
Sir Richard
Saltonstall, together with a body of
Pilgrims or Separatists, had founded
Watertown, Massachusetts, where a church was
"gathered" under Phillips as pastor, August
27, 1630. The latter came from Boxford,
County Essex, and most of the colonists were
members of his former charge.
Unfortunately, the records describing the
settlement of Watertown are not in
existence, but on page 4 of the earliest
book of records is the fist entry in which
the names of colonist are mentioned: Nov.
14, 1635--agreed that Daniel Patrick, Brian
Pemberton, Richard Bernard, Ephraim Child,
Abraham Browne, Charles Chaddock and John
Reynolds shall divide to every man his
Property and Meddow and upland that is
plowable and the rest to be common."
The first
book of deeds entitled "the Watertown Lands,
Grants and Possessions," page 157, and
constituting the second inventory, described
his allotment as follows: John Reinolds,
An Homestall of five acres and half by
estimation bounded the North with the
Highway, the South with Isaac Mixer, and the
East with John Sherman granted to him."
Learning of
the rich meadows along the Connecticut
River, some few of the Watertown colonists,
in the late autumn of 1634, founded the
settlement of "Pyquag," now Wethersfield,
and spent the winter there. On May 29th
of the year following, six person (among
them Robert Reynolds) under the head of Rev.
Richard Denton, who has received their
dismissal from the Watertown Church March 29th
of that year, set out to "form a newe in a
church covenant in the River of Connecticut"
(Conn. Col. Records, p. 1.).
On October 15th,
1635, about sixty colonists set out from
Watertown to the new settlement. Such was
the general distress that many of them
returned in December, but in
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The early spring of
1636 once more repaired to "Watertown on the
Connecticut River.' It was not until Feb.
21, 1637, that the settlement received the
name of Wethersfield. The colonists were
continually exposed to danger from the
Pequots. In April, 1637, they waylaid the
settlers as they were going into their
fields and killed six men and three women.
On May 26, 1637, the Wethersfield men,
uniting with those from Windsor and Hartford
and with seventy Mohegans under their
sachem, Uncas, attacked the Pequots, burnt
seventy wigwams and killed five or six
hundred of the enemy. (See Trumbull, vol.
1. Chap v.)
Both John and
Robert were among those who removed from
Watertown prior to July 25, 1636, as they
did not share in that division of land. As
stated above, John still owned property in
Watertown at the time of the second
inventory; i. e., 1644. Robert Feke, Brian
Pemberton and Daniel Patrick are also
included, although all of them had removed
to Wethersfield and Stamford.
Robert
removed from Wethersfield to Boston, where
he died April 27, 1659. His will, executed
20, 2, 1658, proved in Boston, July 27,
1659, give the names of Mary, his wife, and
children: 1. Nathaniel. 2. Ruth Whitney.
3. Tabitha Abdy. 4. Sarah Mason, and 5.
Mary Sanger. His will concludes with the
statement, "I and my wife being stricken in
age and are almost past our Labour." From
this we much conclude that he was born about
1590, and was either much older than his
brother, John, or that the latter was born
earlier then 1612, the date of birth
attributed to him. (See New Eng. His. &
Gen. Reg., Vol. IX., p. 137.) His only son
Nathaniel removed to Bristol, Rhode Island,
where the family still continues. The
tombstone of Joseph, Nathaniel's son, still
standing at Bristol is well known as a fine
example of early carving and shows the
Reynolds coat-of-arms--three foxes statant
in pale proper, crest on an Esquire's
helmet, a fox statant proper.
John
Reynolds' house was given in the map of
Wethersfield was on High Street, the third
from the meeting house and neat the center
of the town. This and other property were
recorded by him, "the 12th month
and 11 daie, 1640," and again recorded by
John Hollister on 3m 20d 1644, as "bought of
John Reynolds."
It was not
long before internal dissensions were
disturbing the church at Wethersfield and
dividing inhabitants as well as the
brethren. The Rev. Richard Denton became
the leader of the more progressive and
radical party. The ministers of the other
churches of the river, and Mr. Davenport
from New Haven, successively tried to unite
the factions. The latter suggested the
expediency of one of the parties removing
and making a new settlement. At length a
number of men who were the most pleased with
the advice of Mr. Davenport and the New
Haven brethren, and to whom the government
of that colony was most agreeable determined
to remove and settle in combination with New
Haven. Nathaniel Turner had on July 1st,
1640, on behalf of the New Haven colony,
bought of Ponus, sagamore of Toquams, and of
Wascussee, sagamore of Shippan, a tract of
land which includes the presnt towns of
Darien and Stamford and part of Greenwich
paying about 33 pounds for a tract of land
of one hundred and twenty-eight square
miles. This tract, Rippowanis, Mr. Andrew
Ward and Mr. Robert Coe, of Wethersfield,.
On October 30, 1640, purchased of the New
Haven Colony on behalf of themselves and
about twenty other planters on these
conditions: 1st. the
Wethersfield men were to give the price paid
to the Indians for the land by Mr. turner,
2nd. A fifth part of the lands
were to be reserved of by the court to such
other settlers as they saw fit. 3d. They
were to join with the New Haven plantation
in the form of government there adopted.
Twenty men were to settle in Stamford by the
last of November 1641.
It was
decided that the majority of the seven
church members, church membership being
essential to becoming a freeman, should
remove with a minority of the planters and
that they should take the church
organization with them. Thirty men, among
them John Reynolds, volunteered as pioneers
of the new colony. These subscribed "100
bushels of corne," to be paid May or June,
1641, to the New Haven Colony, to make good
the purchase price of the land, each man
giving as he was able and receiving a
proportional amount of land. In this
subscription, Mr. Denton ranks third with
4.1 bu.; Jo. Reynold, eighth with 3.2 bu.
(Stamford Records, p. 5.)
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Of these
thirty, twenty-eight removed to the site of
Stamford in the summer of 1641. On October
19th they held their first
meeting, electing five men to form a
provisional government and dividing the land
between them. An account of this is to be
found at Stamford in the earliest town
record entitle "1640-41 a towne book of ye
free holders of the towne of Stamford as it
was after wards called but now Rippowan,
containing the act and conclusions of the
companie of Wethersfield men." At this
meeting "the man under consideration
absenting himself while his case was in hand
and so successively and when he was called
in again and demanded if so much gave him
content and so content and satisfaction was
by everyone of these men acknowledged and
they set down these numbers of acres of
march and upland after the same proportion
that followeth XXX Mr., Denton 14 acres XXX
John Reynolds 11 acres." (Stamford Records,
p. 7.)
The New Haven
colony had not only been fully satisfied by
the one hundred bushels of corn, so that an
assessment was laid to make this good. The
following is John Reynolds' account" "For
rate--now 56, 10.0 and due at W. 13. S. 6 d
and to received Jo Renoulds 17 S. 11 d.
makes 4. Lbs. 08-3.,' each of whom
subscribed a 'pick.' The next mentioned of
him is in a list of twelve men. Here his
name appears as Jo. Renoulds. Latter is a
tax list to make good the loss of the town
mill and dam and for building a 'captain's
house.' 'Jo. Reynoulds debtor or loss by
mill 2 6 9, house 13 by 39.9 and he hath
paid (for loss) at mill, First bill 9 s. 6.
And dam 9 s. 3 s. house, 12 s. last charge
5,s, all 38 s. 6d.'"
The last
mention of him is in a deed recorded March,
1651, of property in the extreme west
section of the town near the site of Old
Greenwich, bounded by "ye lot which was John
Renoles." (Stamford Records, p. 51.)
On page 55 of
the original Stamford records is recorded
the marriage of his daughter: "Peter Ferris
and Elizabeth Rinealls Joyned ye 15 July,
1654." Her husband, Freeman, of Stamford,
Connecticut, 1662, representative 1667, was
the son of Jeffrey Ferris, one of the seven
original proprietors of Greenwich, who had,
like John Reynolds, removed successively
from Watertown and Wethersfield to
Stamford. They had the following children:
1. Joseph, son of Peter Ferris, b.
20-6-1657. (Stam. Rec. p. 74.) 2. Illegible,
son of Peter Ferris, illegible, 1659. 3.
Elizabeth, dau. of peter Ferris, b.
28-11-1659-d-5-2-1660. Stamford Rec. p. 98.
4. Mary, dau. of Peter Ferris, b. May 2,
1662 (Stam. Rec. p. 76.) 5. Elizabeth, dau.
of peter Ferris, b. Jan. 2, 1664. (Stam.
Rec. p. 76.)
As
Peter
Ferris is mentioned as Sen. In the entry of
his death, September 28, 1706, it is
probable that the illegible name was Peter.
On page 19 of
the Stamford Records is entered the death of
the wifeof John: "Sarrah Reanolds died
31-16-1657." On page 20 a second entry
gives it as "Sarra. Reanols died ye 31
August 1657." We have records of only three
of John's children: 1. Elizabeth, b. about
1634. 2. Jonathan, b. about 1636. 3. John,
b. about 1638.
The
subsequent history of John is undetermined.
A John Reynolds, often confused with him,
was at Wethersfield as early as June 29,
1674, when he had by Naomi Latimer a son
John, and a second son, Jonathan. As Naomi
Latimer was born April 4, 1648, he would
have been approximately thirty-six years
older then his wife, and sixty-two years of
age when the first child was born. These
children are not to be confounded with the
John and Jonathan of Greenwich, as the
histories of all four are well known. It is
said that only a few years ago there was at
Wethersfield a tombstone to a certain John
Reynolds who died in 1662., the constant
recurrence of the names John and Jonathan in
the Greenwich and Wethersfield families
implies an intimate connection.
Jonathan,
eldest son of John the Emigrant.
The site of
"Old Greenwich," now Sound Beach, lying some
three miles to the west of Stamford, had
been purchased from the Indians on behalf of
the New Haven Colony, on July 18, 1640, by
Robert Feaks, and Captain Daniel Patrick,
the latter a companion of John Reynolds of
Watertown and Wethersfield.
About 1653 many of the settlers of Stamford
had moved there, and among the earliest
inhabitants were Jonathan and John Reynolds,
whose land lay along the Two Brothers'
Brook, which fact probably suggested its
name.
Subsequently
to 1653 the name of Jonathan Reynolds
appears but once in the Stamford Records:
"Jan. 7, 16666, Wm. Grimes for
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Swearing veanly by ye
name of God it being fully proved by Mr.
Jones and Jonathan Renolds and Jos. Knapp ye
said Grimes is fined ten shillings and to
pay all changes of his being to Stamford
which is four shillings to each man." This
Grimes at that time was an "Inhabitant" of
Greenwich, as were the witnesses.
In the
Greenwich town Records is an account of a
town meeting held February 5, 1664, in which
it was proposed to divide the "common lands
by a rule of proportion according to what
each man's estate shall be visable." The
proprietors are given as follows" "Jeffre
Ferris Sense, Joshua Knapp Sense, Joseph
Ferris, Jonathan Reynolds, Angell Heusted,
John Mead Sense, John Hobbe." These were
termed the "Seven Proprietors." (Sense is
an abbreviation for Senior).
One of the
earliest deeds recorded at Greenwich (p. 3,
vol. A) is a bill of sale bearing date
December 13, 1665, from Richard Vowles of
rye, to Jonathan Ronalds, of Greenwich, of
"seven acres of upland more or lesse which
lieth within the compass of ye land that was
called ye ox pasture, situate in Greenwich,
bounded as followeth, northerly by ye hye
way, westerly by Grimes land and southerly
by Joseph Ferrises land, Easterly by a
Swamp, also three acres of Maddow more or
less bounded southwest by Jonath Ronaldoes
land, North east by Joseph Ferris, Westerly
by Joshua Knapps' land and Eastardly by
Jonathan Ronoldes upland also a sartaine
partsoll of upland XXX also my whole rite
and interest Elizabeth Neck also my whole
interest in land unto Myanos River." At the
bottom of the page is the following:
1. Jonathan
Ronalds do by this firmly assigne and make
over this within bill of sale unto my
Brother John Ronalds freely oneing and
acknowledging the whole rite and interest in
ye aforsayd bill of sale to be his to wit my
brother John Reynolds and for a witness of
ye truth of ye same I have set to my hand
according to date within written Jonathan
Ronalds.
In presence
of
Joseph Mead,
Timothy
Knapp.
This bill and deed entered in the year of
our Lord 1682, Februari 27.
In 1667
Jonathan Reynolds was made a member of the
Assembly for Greenwich, and on October 24th,
1669 he was made a freeman of Connecticut by
the Assembly of Greenwich. On December 28th
, 1669, Jonathan Reynolds,
Sargeant Lockwood, John Hobby, Joshua Knapp,
John Mead, and Joseph Mead were appointed to
free the town of all claims by Daniel
Patrick, the son of Daniel Patrick, formerly
Patroon of the Manor, who now appeared
laying claims to his father's land. The
committee for the settlers who held by
squatters sovereignty bought him off by
paying a horse, a saddle and bridle and
fifty pounds. He served on various
important committees for the laying out of
lands, for making survey of Horseneck to see
if it be suitable for the settlement of a
township, as surveyor of highways, etc., all
of which appointments are recorded in the
common Place Book of Greenwich. The
following is the last mentioned of Jonathan
in the Greenwich Records: "At town meeting
13, 12th month, Joshua Knapp is
chosen to be a townman in the room of
Jonathan Reynolds." No other business was
considered at this meeting. The last
previous meeting was November 13, 1673. It
is therefore probable that he died in
November of December, 1673.
Letters of
administration on his estate now filed at
Fairfield, Connecticut, January 23, 1673-74,
speak of him as "lately deceased," and
mentioned his children: 1. Jonathan R.,
about 13 years. 2. John R., about 11
years. 3. Joseph R., about 4-1/2 years. 4.
Rebecca R., about 14 years. 5. Sarah R.,
aged 8 last November 6th. 6.
Elizabeth R., aged 6 last August.
Apportionment
was by Angell Heusted and Jonathan Knapp.
He left a "widow Renals" and total estate of
three hundred and fifty-eight pounds.
Inventory taken March 10, 1673074.
Ebenezer, posthumous child, was born in
1673.
The
apportionment was by Angell Heusted, and
showed a total estate of three hundred and
fifty-eight pounds. The will of Angel
Heusted, also filed at Fairfield in 1706,
mentioned his "son-in-law Jonathan Renalds."
It is possible that the "widow Renalds"
mentioned in the apportionment might have
been a daughter of Heusted. While the above
estate would not to-day be considered a
large one, it was sufficient to place him
second among the "Twenty-seven Proprietors
of 1672." Who purchased the Horseneck tract,
for at that time the rights in the
distribution of land were based upon the
wealth of the colonists.
The following
are the descendants of Jonathan Reynolds as
far as they have been as-
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certained; unless
otherwise stated it may be assumed that they
were all of Greenwich, Connecticut.
We have no
information concerning the eldest child,
Rebecca, excepting that she was born in
1659.
2. Jonathan-Jonathan-John.
The second
child, Jonathan, was born in 1660, and
married, Dec. 7th, 1682, Nevill
Ridewere. The marriage is recorded in the
Common Place book at Greenwich, as are the
births of their children, i. e. |
