Joseph3 of Mass Reynolds

Joseph3 married Lydia Parker. Lydia was born Est 1737, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Israel [Parker] Reynolds was born 1753, Greenwich Fairfield Connecticut; died 1812, Fairfield, Connecticut.
2. Parker Reynolds was born 1755, Stamford, Connecticut; died 1833, Prob. Stamford, Connecticut.
3. Asa Reynolds was born 1759, Greenwich, Fairfield Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown.

Joseph3 married Ruth Rich. Ruth was born Est 1727, Watertown, Massachusetts Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Joseph2 married Ruth Ferris/Farris. Ruth (daughter of Peter Ferris/Farris and Elizabeth Reynolds) was born 1699, North Kingstown, Greenwich, Rhode Island; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Abigail Finch 1698, North Kingstown, Rhode Island . Abigail was born Est 1669, Watertown, Massachusetts Colony; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

From the Lebanon, Conneticut town website:

http://www.lebanontownhall.org/trumbulltownhist3.htm

Settlement of the Town of Lebanon
The town of Lebanon was formed by the consolidation of a number of tracts of land when the town was incorporated by the General Assembly on October 10, 1700. The tracts of land included early land grants by the General Assembly, cessions by Mohegan Indians, and proprietary purchases by settlers from the Mohegans in the 1690s. The area encompassed nearly 80 square miles. It included the modem town of Columbia and a small section of the town of Andover.
In 1663, the General Court granted to Major John Mason of Norwich a tract of 500 acres of land for services to the colony. Mason selected a tract northwest of Norwich, in what is now the Goshen section of Lebanon, at a place along the Yantic River that the Indians called Pomocook. It was on the Hockanum Path, the Indian path from Norwich to the Connecticut River.

The tract officially confirmed and surveyed in 1664, was the first land grant in what would later become the town of Lebanon. It contained extensive stands of white cedar, valuable for shingles, clapboards and cooperage stock, and was called Cedar Swamp. In 1666, the colony granted the Rev. James Fitch, the minister in Norwich and Mason's son-in-law, a tract of l20 acres adjoining Major Mason's land.

Captain Mason's Mile, as it is first referred to in colony records, was a one-mile wide, seven-mile-long grant from Joshua, son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, to Captain John Mason, Junior, in March 1675/76. This large tract was adjacent to the earlier Mason and Fitch grants.

Before he died in September 1676, John Mason, Junior, conveyed half the Mile to his father-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch. John Mason 111, as the heir to one half of the Mile, and his grandfather, James Fitch, surveyed the land in 1695 and distributed the land. The area is also called "Fitch's and Mason's Mile."
In 1663, the General Court granted to Major John Mason of Norwich a tract of 500 acres of land for services to the colony. Mason selected a tract northwest of Norwich, in what is now the Goshen section of Lebanon, at a place along the Yantic River that the Indians called Pomocook. It was on the Hockanum Path, the Indian path from Norwich to the Connecticut River.

The tract officially confirmed and surveyed in 1664, was the first land grant in what would later become the town of Lebanon. It contained extensive stands of white cedar, valuable for shingles, clapboards and cooperage stock, and was called Cedar Swamp. In 1666, the colony granted the Rev. James Fitch, the minister in Norwich and Mason's son-in-law, a tract of l20 acres adjoining Major Mason's land.

Captain Mason's Mile, as it is first referred to in colony records, was a one-mile wide, seven-mile-long grant from Joshua, son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, to Captain John Mason, Junior, in March 1675/76. This large tract was adjacent to the earlier Mason and Fitch grants.

Before he died in September 1676, John Mason, Junior, conveyed half the Mile to his father-in-law, the Rev. James Fitch. John Mason 111, as the heir to one half of the Mile, and his grandfather, James Fitch, surveyed the land in 1695 and distributed the land. The area is also called "Fitch's and Mason's Mile."

The settlers in the Square were primarily from towns in the Norwich area and from a number of Massachusetts towns, including a large group from the Northampton area. Many of the families were closely related to each other, either through marriage or direct kinship. The first ten allotments were granted to a group of these Massachusetts men, who assigned these lots on their own. How they came to acquire these ten allotments has yet to be discovered.

[These early Fitch Families likely related to Abigail, wife of Joseph Reynolds (Runnals).-mfe

Peter married Elizabeth Reynolds 15 Sep 1706, Prob. Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John of Watertown [A101] Reynolds and Sarah Chesterfield/Cheserton) was born Abt 1634, Watertown, Massachusetts Colony; died Abt 1700, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Children of Elizabeth Reynolds & Peter Ferris:
(1 Joseph Ferris: (11) Born 20 August 1657 at Stamford, Connecticut. Married Mary Smith and had the following son:
(a. Joseph Ferris, Jr.: Born 21 March 1688. Married (1st) Mercy Buxton on 18 June 1718. Married (2nd) Deborah Crissey on 18 February 1720.
(2. Peter Ferris, Jr.: (12) Born 20 June 1660/59. (also seen: 3rd child)
(3. Elizabeth Ferris #1: (13) Born 28 January 1659 at Stamford, Connecticut (also seen: 2nd child, b. 28 Nov 1658). Died there 5 April 1660 (also seen: d. 2 May 1660).
(4. Mary Ferris: (14) Born 2 May 1662 at Stamford, Connecticut.
(5. Elizabeth Ferris #2: 15 Born 2 January 1664 at Stamford, Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
Sent to the General Assembly in 1667

Jonathan married Rebecca Heusted/Husted Apr 1706, Greenwich, Connecticut. Rebecca was born Est 1640, Stamford, Connecticut; died Yes, date unknown, Prob. Stamford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

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Name:
Daughter of Angeli Heusted

Notes:

Miscellaneous Notes from Reynolds Family Association 1923;
Reunion of 1923

The Thirty-second Annual Reunion and Banquet will be held
at New London, Conn., Saturday, June 30, 1923. Further particulars will be given later.

Reception Committee
The President appointed the following Reception Committee
for the next annual reunion of the Association to be held at New- London :

Mr. Giles L. Reynolds, New London, Conn., Chairman.
Mrs. Marion G. Dean. New London. Conn.
Mrs. Gardiner Greene, Norwich, Conn.
Miss Gertrude P. Reynolds, East Haddam, Conn.
Miss Elsie B. Reynolds, East Haddam, Conn.
Mr. John E. Reynolds, North Haven, Conn.
Miss Margaret A. Reynolds, North Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Frederick C,. Reynolds, New York, N. Y.
Mr. joseph G. Reynolds, Wick ford. R. 1.
Mrs. Lula A R. Fowler. Pawtucket, R. I
https://archive.org/stream/annualreunionrey31reyn_0/annualreunionrey31reyn_0_djvu.txt

John married Sarah Chesterfield/Cheserton. Sarah was born 1614, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; died 13 Jan 1657, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Alan Reynolds
June 6 2020
John Reynolds was first of my family to arrive in America from England. His name is noted on a monument to 60 original settlers of Watertown Massachusetts (5 miles west of Cambridge) who arrived there in 1630 with Puritan leader Governor Saltonstall. He is also on another monument as a founder of Greenwich Connecticut.
John Reynolds was reportedly born May 1, 1612 in Boxford, Suffolk, England, and died after 1651 (possibly July 18, 1660) in Greenwich or Stamford Connecticut. He was admitted as a Freeman of Watertown on May 6, 1635, which was necessary to vote and hold office. It required being a landholder and a member of Watertown church.
John?s wife Sarah Chesterfield arrived on the ship Elizabeth from Ipswich in 1634 at age 20, already married (she is Sarah Reynolds on the ship records). In 1636, John and Sarah moved with several other settlers, including John?s brother Robert, to Weathersfield, Connecticut. Sarah died August 21, 1657.
John?s father, George, was born about 1563 in county Kent, England, married in 1584 to Thomasyn Church, and died 1634 in London. George?s father Christopher Reynolds, the first known of the family, was born between 1527 and 1530 in Kent. He married about 1554 and settled in London where he and his brother Nathaniel and his seven sons engaged in trade and commerce. Robert, who also emigrated to New England, was born about 1587-1590 and married Mary Pulleyne. He died in Boston on April 27, 1658 and his son Nathaniel moved to Bristol, Rhode Island, where a statue of his son Joseph bears the Reynolds coat of arms with the shield of a squire (suggesting the family?s high standing in England).
In the summer of 1641 John Reynolds was one of 28 men who volunteered as pioneer settlers of Stamford, using corn to buy 11 acres from the Dutch New Haven Colony (which did not join Connecticut until 1664) on the extreme west section of town, near Old Greenwich, (now Sound Beach).
John and Sarah had three children: Elizabeth born about 1635, John Jr. born about 1636 in Wethersfield, and Jonathan born about 1638.