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Gideon, son
of James, had a fourth child, William, b.
about 1738, m. Polly Knapp; he was of
Poundridge, Westchester County, 1784, and of
South Salem, where he died in 1809. His
will executed Feb. 4, 1809, was proved at
White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1809. He
had: 1. William. 2. Clemence, who m.
Thomas Hitchcock, Feb. 26, 1784, and had:
1. John, 2. Sarah, 3. Polly. 4. Thirza.
5. William, and also 3. Sarah, who m.
----------Ames, 4. Mary, who m.
--------Hobby, and 5. Gideon, who was b.
about 1`778, m. Dec. 27, 1804, to Betsey
Reynolds, day of Nathaniel, son of
Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, son of James,
son of John, son of John the emigrant, and
(second) Apr. 15, 1831, Theodosia Smith; and
(third) widow Hannah Smith. He was of Cross
River, then of Lewisboro, Westchester
County, but was of Greenwich, Connecticut,
when he made his will May 8, 1847. He had
the following children: 1. William K., b.
June 2, 1805, m. Nancy Heusted. 2. Jane, b.
Sept. 3, 1807, m. --------- Brooks. 3.
Gideon, b. Jan. 13, 1817, m. 2. Eliza
Rich. 4. Mary E., b. Feb. 13, 1815, m.
Alsop Lockwood. 5. Sarah Ann, b. Sept,. 23,
1815, m. Joseph Todd. 6. Elizabeth, b. Dec.
31, 1820, m. Silas Todd. 7. Silas H., b.
Jan. 1, 1823, m. Julia Wood. 8. Nathaniel.
9. Caroline, who m. Harvey Avery. 10. De
Witt Clinton, b. June 2, 1828, m. Johannah
Silkman, and had: 1. De Witt Clinton, b.
Oct. 5, 1859. 2. William Silkman, b. May
18, 1861. 3. Cecil Keeler, b. Oct. 17,
1862. 4. Lisette Belle, b. July 2, 1864.
5. Delilah Hanson, b. July 24, 1866. 6.
Ilda Gertie, b. March 23, 1869. 7.
Catherine Cornelia, b. Feb. 18, 1870. 8.
Emily Johanna, b. June 22, 1872. 9. Denton
DeWitt, b. Feb. 16, 1875. 10. Gideon
Wright, b. Apr. 11, 1877. 11. Clarence
Irving, b. Apr. 29, 1879. 12. Edith Amelia,
b. Jan. 16, 1882. 13. Ethel Amrenia, b.
Jan. 16, 1882. 14. Lelia Leah, b. Dec. 10,
1884.
Gideon has by
his second wife, Theodosia Smith, an
eleventh child, Emeline, b. Jan. 31, 1832,
who m. (first) John Wills, and (second) John
Jennings.
Gideon, fifth
child of James, the son of John, son of John
the emigrant, had a fifth child, Bethia, b.
about 1740, m. Odell Close, prior to 1765,
and 6. Gilbert, b. about 1742. 7. Mary, b.
about 1744. 8. Abijah, b. about 1748. 9.
Ruth, b. about 1749. 10. Ambrose, b. about
1750, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, he
m. Ruth Knapp, and his descendants are
residing in Greenwich. He had: 1. Sarah,
m. --------- Heusted. 2. Ambrose, b. in
1791, m. Amy Reynolds, and had: 1. Ambrose,
who d.
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unm. 2. Oliver, who d.
unm. 3. Sylvanus, who had a son Sylvanus.
Ambrose and
his wife Ruth Knapp also had: 3. Joshua, b.
1793, d. Sept. 29, 1866; he m. Rachel
Reynolds, she d. Dec. 25, 1843, and had: 1.
Wm. Todd, b. June 11, 1824, m. Anna Knapp,
and had: 1. Jeanette S., b. Sept. 28,
1867. 2. Mary H., b. July 24, 1859, m.
Elbert Mills. 3. Charles A., b. Aug. 3,
1862, m. Francis Holly. 4. Joshua, b. Oct.
7, 1863. 5. Gideon, b. march 26, 1865. 6.
Everit, b. Mch. 8, 1868, m. Anna R. Best,
and had: i. Sarah, ii. Frances. 7. Harriet
L., b. June 25, 1869. 8. Frank V., b. Jan.
10, 1871.
Joshua and
his wife Rachel had also: 2. Elthea. 3.
Rachel Ann. 4. Abraham. 5. Augustus
Norman, b. June 21, 1833, m. Martia A.
Mills, and had: 1. Elbert N., b. Jan, 24,
1863, m. Cora E. Graves, and had: 1.
Raymond A., b. Nov. 25, 1888. 2. Leonard
G., b. May 24, 1891. Augustus Norman also
had: 2. Lillie T., b. Jan. 17, 1869. 3.
Norman T., b. Dec. 21, 1873. 4. Bethia, b.
Oct. 26, 1875.
Joshua and
his wife Rachel Reynolds also had children:
6. Edgar, b. Dec. 10, 1835, d. unm. 7. Mary
Louise, b. July 27, 1840, d. young.
Ambrose,
tenth child of Gideon, the son of James, the
son of John, the son of John the emigrant,
had by his wife, Ruth Knapp, a fourth child,
Gideon, who m. Betsy Fountain and had: 1.
James, d. unm. 2. Benjamin, also; 5. Mary,
d. unm. 6. Bethia, d. unm. 7. Jared, b. in
1798,, m. Julia Rundle and had; 1. Julia.
2. Sydney, m. Esther Purdy, and had: 1.
Frank. 2. Frederick W. 3. Olive and also
3, Edward, who m. Mary E. Hastings and had:
1. Samuel. 2. Herbert. 3. David. 4.
Elizabeth. 5. Mary.
Ambrose, son
of Gideon, had also an eighth child,
Benjamin, who m. Lucinda Mead and had: 1.
Julia. 2. Mary. 3. Isaac, and a ninth
child, Eunice, who died unm.
Gideon, fifth
child of James, son of John, son of John the
emigrant, had an eleventh child, Jonathan,
b. about 1752, of whom we have no records.
6. Justus--James--John--John.
James had a
sixth child, Justus, b. 1708, d. 1747. M.
Apr. 23, 1737, Elizabeth, dau of Richard
Sackett, and had at Greenwich: 1. Sackett,
b. March 3, 1738, m. Nov. 21, 1760, Mary,
dau. of Benjamin Jones and had: 1. Justus,
b. July 26, 1761. 2. Mary, b. Feb. 1,
1763. 3. Elizabeth, b. April 11, 1765. 4.
Hannah, b. July 26, 1767, 5. Benjamin, b.
Apr. 10, 1770.
Justus and
Elizabeth Sackett also had: 2. Elizabeth,
b. May 4, 1740. 3. Sarah, b. July 26,
1742. 4. Anna, May 24, 1745. 5. Mary, b.
Apr. 4, 1748.
7. Jeremiah--James--John--John.
James also
had a seventh child, Jeremiah, b. about
1711, m. a dau. of peter Brown and d. in
1769, he had: 1. David, b. about 1741 and
possibly others.
Nathaniel--James--John--John.
3. Nathaniel
was born at Greenwich, Feb. 20, 1702-03
where his birth is given in the Common Place
Book. While the Greenwich Records of this
period make constant mention of a Nathaniel
Reynolds, it is not always possible to
determine which refer to him and which to
Nathaniel, b. 1715, son of Ebenezer.
He, together
with Joshua, Peter, and James Jr.,
petitioned the General Assembly in 1753 to
be "set off from the Parish of Stanwich in
the South West of which they lived, and to
be joined to the Parish of Horseneck." He
was elected constable for Greenwich, Dec.
27, 1728. The records of the Second Church
at Greenwich contain the record of his
marriage. "On ye first day of January
1728-9, Nathaniel Reynolds was married to
his wife Ruth whose name was Purdy." The
Greenwich Common Place Book gives the births
of two of his children: "Nathaniel Renalds'
children: Dec. 8, 1729, Nathaniel; Jan 8.
1731, Frances Renyalls."
At a court of
probate held in Stamford, June 7, 1748,
letters of administration were granted on
the estate of Nathaniel Reynolds, late of
Greenwich, deceased, and Ruth his widow was
appointed administratrix. Distribution was
made April 7, 1752; after paying debts
amounting to 580 pounds there remained for
the children 413 pounds and a large amount
of real estate. His children are stated to
be Nathaniel, Francis, Solomon, Stephen,
Ruth, Anna and Hannah.
In Vol. 7, p.
67, of the Greenwich Deeds is recorded the
following: "Know all men that I, James
Reynolds, Senior, of Greenwich, in
consideration of the love I have for my
grandsons, namely, Nathaniel Reynolds,
Francis Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds, and
Solomon Reynolds, all natural sons to
Nathaniel Reynolds, of Greenwich, and also
by the love and
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good will I bear to
their natural mother, Ruth Reynolds., widow
and relect of the deceased Nathaniel" etc.
Feb. 2, 1749-50.
Ruth Purdy
belonged to the well-known family of Rye, N.
Y. Francis Purdy in a deed of 1718 was
described as "of Greenwich," as was John
Purdy in 1727. As Ruth as married in
Greenwich and had a son Francis, the
probability is that she was a daughter of
Francis Purdy. Both John and Francis are
sons of Joseph Purdy, who appeared in Rye in
1677. He was the son of Francis, who was an
early inhabitant of Fairfield, Conn., and
died in 1658. The Purdy genealogy in the
"History of Rye" is incomplete, and that of
Bolton is obviously inaccurate. To
determine the line of descent will
necessitate a study of the original town
records.
Ruth, after
the death of Nathaniel, married Jonathan
Fiske, of Greenwich. In the distribution of
his estate recorded at Stamford, July 21,
1762, mention is made of the use by his
widow of one third part of said described
lands, being conveyed to said widow by her
father-in-law, Mr. James Reynolds, in part,
and partly came by her husband, Nathaniel
Reynolds, deceased.
Nathaniel had
the following descendants:
1. Nathaniel,
b. Dec. 8, 1729, removed to Cross River,
Westchester Co., N. Y. Letter of
administration which were granted to his son
Nathaniel, dec. 23, 1805, describe him as a
resident of Salem, Westchester County, N.
Y. He had: 1. Nathaniel, b. in Cross
River, Feb. 22, 1754, m. Oct. 15, 1778,
Hannah Todd (the widow Cooley), who was born
May 26, 1759, d. Apr. 11, 1846. He was a
second lieutenant of the 3rd.
Regiment of Westchester County militia,
commanded by Col. Samuel Drake, and was
taken prisoner June 24, 1779, released Oct.
24, 1781.
In his will,
drawn December 20th, 1839,
probated Jan. 22, 1844, at White Plains, he
describes himself as being South Salem, N.
Y. He died Sept. 21, 1843, and had: 1.
Deborah, b. July 17, 1779, d. May 24, 1844,
m. 1798, Aaron Morehouse. 2. Nathaniel, b.
Aug. 7, 1782, m. Lizzie Avery, d. Mch.
1874. 3. Lydia, b. Aug. 28, 1784, m. Rev.
Joshua H. Hobby, she d. Feb. 3, 1864. 4.
Betsy, b. Sept. 5, 1786., d. June 12. 1838,
m. Dec. 27, 1804, Gideon Reynolds, don of
William, son of Gideon, son of James, son of
John, son of John, the emigrant. 5.
Abraham, b. Oct. 11, 1788, d. in New
Orleans, unm., Aug. 25, 1818. 6. Sarah, b.
Sept. 15, 1790, d. Oct. 8, 1876. 7. Hannah,
b. Sept. 13, 1792, d. Nov. 9, 1856, m. Henry
Avery. 8. Enoch, b. Sept. 16, 1794, d. May
5, 1876, m. Lydia Cross 9. Alvah, b. Sept.
23, 1796, d. May 6, 1881, m. Phebe A.
Field. 10. George, b. Dec. 12, 1798, d.
unm., Dec. 30, 1884. 11. Mariah, b. Mch.
22, 1801, d. Jan. 3rd, 1846, m.
Enoch Reynolds, son of James, son of
Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer, son of Jonathan,
son of the emigrant John. They lived at
Bedford, N. Y. 12. Benjamin, b. Aug. 19,
1803, m. Mary Vivian.
Nathaniel and
his wife Ruth Purdy also had: 2, Francis,
b. July 8, 1731. Nothing is known of his
descendants. There was a Francis Reynolds
who lived at Crum Elbow, Dutchess County, N.
Y., at this time, and it is probably that
they were identical. 3. Ruth, b. about
1733, m. -------- Merritt, and in 1760 she
was living on the property at
Clap-Board-tree-ridge given her by her
grandfather James. 4. Solomon, b. about
1735, nothing is known of his descendants.
There was a Solomon who lived at Poundridge,
N. Y., another at Crum Elbow, N. Y., and one
at Woodbury, Conn. 5. Anna, b. about 1737,
m. Samuel Palmer. In a deed recorded at
Greenwich in vol. VIII, dated Feb. 25,
1760, "Samuel Palmer and Anna Palmer his
wife of Greenwich sells to David Knapp two
acres in said Greenwich which was given to
the said anna by her honored grandfather,
James Reynolds, formerly of said Greenwich,
but now of Dutchess in the province of New
York, a lot on Clap-Board-tree-ridge,
bounded east by our sister Merritts, west by
our sister Hannah Fiske." Their descendants
lived in Westchester County. 6. Stephen, b.
Dec. 31, 1740 (for his descendants see
hereinafter). 7. Hannah, m. July 21, 1762,
Jonathan Fiske, the son of Jonathan Fiske,
who married her widowed mother Ruth Purdy.
Their descendants reside in Saratoga County
and at Troy, N. Y.
Stephen--Nathaniel--James--John--John
In a deed
recorded at Greenwich, vol. ix, p. 52 Feb.
21, 1762. Stephen described himself as of
"Woodbury, county Litchfield," and sells to
Jonathan Fiske his share of his father
Nathaniel's estate and of his grandfather's,
James Reynolds, of Dutchess County, N. Y.
the fact that he removed to Woodbury,
Connecticut, as soon as he had reached his
majority,
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coupled with the fact
that there was a Solomon there residing,
makes the identification of the latter with
Solomon, son of Nathaniel more than
probable. The Woodbury family of Reynolds
are attributed without apparent authority to
John of Wethersfield. (Note: All of the
data from the time that Stephen left
Woodbury are derived from family records.)
Stephen
removed to Amenia City, Dutchess County,
prior to 1763, where his uncle James lived,
and where his grandfather James died, and
erected in 1764 a residence on the old
Albany post road and about a half mile to
the north of the Amenia City (Smithfield)
Church. This contained three rooms of the
entire width of the house, with kitchens and
dependences behind. It was of frame, and a
story and a half high. It was torn down in
1877.
He is
probably identical with the Stephen Reynolds
who enlisted in the Continental Army, Capt.
Daniel Stepard's company (see "New York in
the Revolution," pp. 259-454) during the
Revolution, in the New York forces, since
there is no records of any other Stephen of
an age which would have made it possible for
him to take part in this war. He died in
Amenia, August 17, 1815, and is buried in
the "City" (Smithfield) graveyard. His will
is recorded in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He married,
Amenia, N. Y., February 1st,
1763, Rachel Denton. She was born, April
12, 1742, (o.s.), and died in Albany, N. Y.,
November 10, 1815, while on her way to visit
her son Stephen, at Minaville, N. Y., and
was buried in one of the church burial
grounds in Albany, and in 1856 her remains
were transferred ro the Reynolds plot in the
Albany Rural Cemetery. Her father was
Benjamin Denton, of Foster's Meadows,
Wallingford, Connecticut, also of
Farmington, Connecticut, and Amenia, new
York; married at Farmington, December 1,
1724, Rachel Wheeler, of Hartford,
Connecticut. He was the son of Richard
Denton (died in 1699), the son of Nathaniel
Denton, of Jamaica, L. I., the son of
Richard Denton, of Halifax, England (born in
1586), a clergymen, a graduate of Cambridge
University in 1623, who came to American in
1634 and settled in Watertown, Connecticut.
He led those colonists who founded the
settlement of Wethersfield and subsequently
removed to Stamford with the first
settlers. Cotton Mather eulogizes him in
his Magnala. He removed to Long Island,
returned to England and died there.
Stephen and
his wife Rachel Denton had the following
children: 1. Stephen, b. Sept. 1, 1765 (o.s.),
see hereinafter. 2. Rachel, b. Sept, 1,
1767, d. unm. June 2, 1785. 3. Chloe, b.
Dec. 5, 1768, d. unm., June 18, 1789. 4.
Israel, b. Oct. 31, 1772, studied medicine
with his brother Stephen, at Minaville, N.
Y., established the first mail service in
Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., and
died there Mch. 28, 1823, he m. Deborah
Dorr, June 1st, 1798, dau. of
George Dorr, Jr., of Lyme, Conn., b. Oct.
26, 1770, d. June, 1850, at Pine Plains.
They had: 1. Walter, b. at Pine Plains, N.
Y., Feb. 5, 1801, d. at Pine Plains, Jan. 3,
1844, m. May 5, 1839, July Husted. He was
graduated at Yale, 1822, studied law in
Albany and at a law school in Litchfield,
Conn., he had: 1. Cornelius Husted, b.
Sept. 1, 1841, d. Nov. 7, 1876. 2. Ellen
Husted, b. Oct. 1, 1843, d. July 20, 1865.
Walter and his wife Julia Husted also had:
2. Julia, b. Apr. 23, 1803, d. Sept. 22, m.
Hiram Willson. 3. Eliza, b. Mch. 22, 1805,
d. at Pine Plains, Oct. 2, 1892, m. Feb. 18,
1824, Hiram Willson, b. Aug, 12, 1799, at
Smithfield, d. June 22, 1873, at Pine
Plains, and had: 1. Ellen Willson, b. Oct.
8, 1825, d. Sept. 26, 1843. 2. Israel
Reynolds Willson, b. Nov. 2, 1827, m. Sept.
16, 1852, Elizabeth Conklin. 3. Julia
Willson, b. Feb. 11, 1830, d. May 22, 1858.
M. Aug. 28, 1851, Isaac Smith Carpenter. 4.
Edward Paysen Willson, b. Dec. 26, 1832, d.
at Leavenworth, Kansas, Aug. 30, 1910, m.
Oct. 13, 1863, Helen Fairchild, m. (second)
Olive sinks, Sept. 21, 1869. 5. Sarah
Rebecca Willson, b. May 2, 1836, m. Sept. 5,
1860, Isaac Smith Carpenter, and is now
living (1911) at Smithfield, Amenia city,
Dutchess County, N. Y. 6. Elizabeth Deborah
Willson, b. July 20, 1838, n. Dec. 7, 1871,
Theodore Strong.
Stephen and
his wife Rachel Denton also had: 5. Phebe,
b. May 12, 1778, at Smithfield, Amenia City,
d. Mch. 28, 1842, m. Abraham Bockie Pugsley,
of Dutchess County, N. Y. He was born in
1776, at Smithfield, d. Dec. 9, 1851, they
had: 1. Jan Augusta Pugsley, m. James
Ridgeway, and had; 1. Frederick A. B.
Ridgeway, m. Mary F. Davis and had seven
children, living in 1911 at White Creek, N.
Y. 2. Eliza Pugsley, m. Roswell Graves, of
Brooklyn, N. Y.., and had: 1. May. 2.
Lizzie. 3. Belle., 4. Cornelius A.
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Pugsley, b. 1806, d.
Jan. 7,. 1865. At Danby, N. Y.., n. Louisa
Clark, of Danby, N. Y. and had: 1. Abraham
Bockie Pugsley, b. 1854, m. ----------
Blakesley, lives near Ithaca, N. Y. 2.
Cornelius Pugsley, m. Oscar Jennings, of
Danby, N. Y., and had three children. 3.
Mary Pugsley, m. William R. Humphrey, of
Ithaca, N. Y.
Stephen and
his wife Rachel Denton also had: 6.
Elizabeth, . Sept., 14, 1785, d. at Pine
Plains, Apr. 10, 1844, unm. 7. Rachel, b.
Oct. 14, 1785, d. at Pine Plains, Mch. 24,
1861. 8. Samantha, b. may 27, 1768, d. at
Amenia City, Sept. 27, 1822, unm.
Stephen--Stephen--Nathaniel--James--John--John
1. Stephen
Reynolds, M. D., son of Stephen Reynolds and
Rachel Denton, was born in Amenia, Dutchess
County, N. Y., September 1, 1765 (n.s.).
His class poem written in his freshman year,
which is still in existence, is evidence
that he went to college, but to which one is
unknown. He died in Amsterdam, N. Y., July
8th, 1833, while visiting his
nephew, Deodatus Wright, and was buried
there.
He studied
medicine with James Potter, M. D., at New
Fairfield, Connecticut, 1784; removed to
Minaville, town of Florida, Montgomery
County, N. Y., in 1785, and practiced there
until May, 1832, when he removed to
Schenectady, N. Y., having purchased No. 25
North Church Street, the next building north
of the Dutch Church. He was a celebrated
Latin scholar and something of a poet. He
was the founder and president of the
Washington Benevolent Society, and going to
Philadelphia he commissioned Sir Gilbert
Stewart to paint a replica of his portrait
of Washington, which he presented to the
Society. When the Society was disbanded the
portrait was returned to him, and is now in
the possession of his great-granddaughter,
Mrs. Frank P. wilder, of Saratoga (Josephine
Voorhees). He was the president of the
Montgomery Medical Society, which issued
certificates entitling its members to
practice medicine, and was one of the first
in this portion of the country to hold
clinics.
Portraits of
Stephen and his wife Lydia Bartlett, painted
by Ames, about 1812, are in possession of
their granddaughter, the widow of Rev.
William C. Hopkins, of Toledo, Ohio.
He married,
at Warrensburgh, Florida, Montgomery County,
N. Y., October 29, 1787, Lydia Bartlett, who
was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, August 27,
1770, and died at Amsterdam, N. Y., August
27, 1843. Her father was Nathaniel
Bartlett, born at Goshen, Conn., November
23, 1727; removed to Florida, N. Y., in
1785, then to Charlton, Saratoga County, N.
Y. died there, and was the son of Capt.
Josiah Bartlett (born Marshfield, may 24,
1701, removed to Lebanon, Conn., died March
16, 1782), who married at Marshfield, Jan.
3, 1723, Mercy Chandler, born in 1705; died
Feb. 17, 1781; she was the daughter of
Edmund chandler, of Duxbury, b. 1860, d.
1721, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1680, d.
1732. Edmund chandler was the son of Joseph
Chandler, died 1660, and Hannah, and
grandson of Edmund Chandler, Elizabeth
Alden was daughter of Jonathan Alden, and
grand-daughter of John Alden, b. 1599,
Mayflower, 1620, d. Sept. 12, 1686, m.
Priscilla Mullins, b. 1602, Mayflower,
1620.
Josiah was
the son of Ichabod Bartlett, born 1664,
married, Dec. 28, 1699, Elizabeth Waterman
(1679-1708), died Plymouth, 1715. Elizabeth
Waterman was the daughter of Joseph
Waterman, b. 1643, d. Jan. 1, 1712, m. 1672,
Sarah snow (b. 1650, d. Dec. 11, 1741), and
granddaughter of Robert Waterman, m. Dec.
11, 1638, Elizabeth Bourne, daughter of
Thomas Bourne, b. 1851, d. May 4, 1634.
Ichabod was
the son of Benjamin Bartlett, born 1638,
married Sarah Brewster, 1656, died 1691.
She was daughter of Love Brewster, b. 1607,
d. 1650, Mayflower, 1620, m. Mch. 15, 1634,
Sarah Collier. He was the son of Elder
William Brewster, b. 1560, Mayflower, 1620,
d. Apr. 16, 1644.
Benjamin was
the son of Robert Bartlett, born in England,
in 1603, came to Plymouth in ship "Ann" in
1623, and died in 1672, who married Mercy
Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, who came
in the Mayflower, and whose wife was
Elizabeth Jouatt, b. 1588, d. Oct. 2, 1673.
Lydia
Bartlett's mother was Mercy Otis, born in
Colchester, Conn., July 3, 1734; married,
Dec. 14, 1752, Nathaniel Bartlett, and was
the daughter of Nathaniel Otis (born in
Scituate, Jan. 30, 1690, died in 1772), who
married Hannah Thacher, (born Oct. 9, 1690,
died Colchester, 1776)., daughter of Col.
John Thacher (born Marshfield, Mass., Mch.
17, 1639, at Marblehead, Rep. 1668-1680, d.
May
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8, 1710, and Lydia
Gorham, his wife, b. Nov. 11, 1661, at
Barnstable, Mass.), who was a daughter of
John Gorham, b. at Bernesfield, Northampton,
England, Jan. 28, 1621, settled at
Marshfield, Mass., later of Barnstable,
captured in King Philip's War, died Feb. 5,
1776, and of Desire Howland, his wife, m.
1643, d. Oct. 1, 1683, who was the daughter
of John Howland, b. 1592, Mayflower, 1620,
d. Feb. 23, 1673, and Elizabeth Tilley, b.
1607, Mayflower, 1620, d. Dec. 21, 1687.
John
Gorham was the son of Ralph Gorham, who
settled in Duxbury, 1637.
Col. John
Thacher was son of Rev. Anthony Thacher, b.
1587, at Salisbury, England, removed to
Holland, removed to Boston, June 3, 1635,
removed to Yarmouth, 1643, and died there
Aug. 22, 1667.
He married,
1635, in England, Elizabeth Jones. Children
of Stephen and Lydia Bartlett: 1. Marcus
Tullius, b. in Minaville, N. Y., Dec. 29,
1788, died in Albany, N. Y., July 11, 1864,
married first, Cynthia Herrick, married
second, Albany, May 6, 1823, Elizabeth Ann
Dexter (see hereinafter). 2. Betsy, b.
Dec. 9, 1790, d. in Amsterdam, N. Y., Feb.
8, 1858, and buried there, married Amsterdam
Apr. 24, 1811, Dr. Samuel Voorhees (Van
Voorhees) of that city, b. Nov. 1, 1787,
graduate of Union, 1811. He studied
medicine with Stephen Reynolds, died
Amsterdam 1870, and had: 1. Marcus Tullius,
b. May 19, 1812, d. in Puebla, Mexico, Dec.
13, 1844, and buried there. 2. James Leslie
Voorhees, b. July 22, 1815, Union college,
1835, d. umn, at Amsterdam, N. Y., 1891. 3.
Stephen Reynolds Voorhees, b. in Amsterdam,
July 13, 1818, died there Nov. 15, 1901. 4.
George Maxwell Voorhees, b. in Amsterdam,
March 16, 1826, died there, Sept. 14, 1909;
m. in Northampton, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1852,
Hannah Alexander Slocum, b. in Pawling, N.
Y., June 5, 1832, died April 3, 1871, three
children. No descendants. (See Voorhees
Family).
Stephen and
his wife Lydia Bartlett also had: 3. Marcia
Phebe, b. Apr. 7, 1794, died in Aurora,
Ill., Sept. 11, 1856, m. Aug. 1, 1825,
Alexander Cruikshank Gibson, b. in Hebron,
N. Y., Mch. 6, 1794, mayor of Schenectady,
N. Y., for many years died in Aurora, Ill.,
Aug., 14, 1874, and had: 1. David Gibson,
b. May 27, 1826, d. aurora, Ill., June 4,
1887, m. at Fairfax, Iowa, Dec. 27, 1877,
Laura B. Hedges (b. at Elmira, N. Y., Oct.
4., 1834), and had one child. 2. Charles
James Gibson, b. Oct. 2, 1827, Union
College, 1846, d. in Aurora, Ill., Apr. 14,
1852. 3. Franklin Gibson, b. Mch. 7, 1830,
d. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1892; m.
Mariaville, N. Y., Mch. 26, 1857, Ann
Marilla Marsh, no children. 4. Julia, b.
Aug. 19, 1832, m. Aurora, Ill., Jan. 2,
1877, Rev. William C. Hopkins, and had: 1.
Frank Gibson Hopkins, b. Feb. 25, 1879, at
Champaign, Ill.
Marcus Tullius--Stephen--Stephen--Nathaniel--James--John--John
1. Marcus
Tullius, son of Dr. Stephen Reynolds and
Lydia Bartlett, was born in Minaville,
Florida township, Montgomery County, N. Y.,
December 29, 1788; died at his residence,
No. 25 No. Pearl Street, Albany, N. Y., July
11, 1864, and is buried in the Albany Rural
Cemetery.
When he was
ten years of age he was sent to the high
school at Canajoharie, N. Y., where he
remained three years, and leaving there he
entered a collegiate school at Utica, where
he was fitted for college. In 18095, he
entered Union college, and was graduated,
ranking second in the class of 1808. He was
an excellent classical student, and also
enjoyed the study of philosophy. He began
the study of law in the office of Matthias
B. Hildreth of Johnstown, Fulton County, New
York, who was many years the attorney
general of New York State. He was admitted
to the bar February 14, 1811, and early
evinced those talents which enabled him to
advance rapidly. He practiced at Johnstown
for seventeen years, where he was compelled
to contend with the talented lawyer, David
Cady. In May, 1828, he removed to Albany,
N. Y., where he passed the remainder of his
life.
"From the
year 1837 down to the adoption of the Code
of Procedure, Marcus T. Reynolds, Samuel
Stevens and Nicholas Hill were regarded
impartially as the three most prominent
lawyers in New York State. It was said that
a reference to the reports of cases argued
in the appellate courts of the state from
1817 to 1853, when he retired, will show
that Marcus T. Reynolds was counsel in more
cases adjudicated in the supreme court and
the court for the correction of errors than
almost any other lawyer of this state.
During a period of twenty-six years he was
second to none as a barrister, and the story
of his career during that time is the
history of the su-
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preme court, court of
correction of errors and the court of
appeals.
"He had the
faculty of passing from grave to gay, from
lively to severe, with surprising facility.
He carried his cases, by being thoroughly
imbued with them himself, and them, by a
clear and well-defined statement to the
court, and jury, imparting the impression
that he had no doubt of the right of his
case. Before a jury he had a sort of
magnetic power, by which he photographed his
own ideas and reasons upon the minds of the
jury." (See Proctor's "Bench and Bar," and
"Proceedings of the Albany Bar on the Death
of Marcus T. Reynolds," Albany Evening
Journal, July 15, 1864.)
He was
confirmed by the Senate as Justice of
Supreme Court, July 7, 1849, and was also
elected congressman. Within a year or two
of the operation of the first passenger
railway train, in 1831, he became concerned
in the organization of steam roads, and when
in May 5, 1831, several small lines
consolidated as the Albany & West
Stockbridge Railroad, the last line to the
west of what later became the Boston &
Albany road, he was elected president of the
new company. He was also chosen president
of the Utica & Schenectady railroad, later
merged into the New York Central Lines, and
was president of the Albany & Northern
Railroad. He was a director of the Albany
Insurance Company from 1835 to 1863; a
director of the New York State Bank from
June, 1840 to July, 1861; a founder of the
Albany Hospital, organized in 1849; a
founder and trustee of the Albany Orphan
Asylum, organized May 19, 1830; an organizer
and fourth largest contributor to the Albany
Rural Cemetery, and one of the largest
contributors to the founding of the Dudley
Observatory in 1852; elected a vestryman of
St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 1843,
serving through 1860, and chairman of its
most important committee, e. g., March 25,
1845, to sell the church land on Maiden
Lane, Pine and Lodge street; 1845, to
procure a new rectory; 1855, to secure
funds for the new church edifice which was
consecrated October 4, 1860.
He resided a
long time at No. 7 Park Place, Albany, which
site was taken about 1870 for the new
capital. His last residence was at the
southeast corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl
Streets, where he practiced law and lived
with his family.
Many years
before his death he was thrown from his
horse, the fall producing an injury to one
of his knee-pans, of such serious mature
that amputation became necessary. He was
immediately carried into a store, where a
skilled surgeon determined that an operation
must inevitably follow, stating further that
perhaps it had better be done on the
following day. "I wish you to proceed
instantly, for I cannot have the latter upon
my mind," said Mr. Reynolds. The surgeon
obeyed. This was before the day of either
chloroform or ether, but the patient
submitted without a groan. From this time
on he generally conducted his cases sitting.
Marcus T.
Reynolds married (first) Cynthia Herrick,
born at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y.,
December 26, 1794, died at Amsterdam, N. Y.,
November 25, 1820, and was buried there.
She was the daughter of Benjamin Herrick,
died at Amenia March 11, 1810, aged 54, who
was the son of Benjamin Herrick died at
Amenia, January 10, 1779, aged 46, and Sarah
Denton, died at Amenia, December 8, 1778,
aged 47, who was the sister of Rachel
Denton, the wife of Stephen Reynolds, where
her ancestry is given. All of the above are
buried at the City graveyard (now
Smithfield), Dutchess County, N. Y., where
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