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- [S126] United States Archives, file:///C:/Users/MaryFrances/Desktop/.A%20Genealogy%20of%20Runnels%20and%20Reynolds%20Families%20in%20America%20%20With%20Records.html.
Stephen Reynolds became affianced to Chloe, dau. of Moses Thurston.
Afterwards, when absent as a New-Hampshire soldier, he was accustomed to send to Tier his wages, which she faithfully kept in her
possession, intending to purchase her marriage outfit with the money. As the currency was depreciating, and likely soon to be worthless, she was advised by a friend, at one time, to lay it out in rye; but she listened to no such suggestion, and when at last she came to " buy her furniture," was obliged to pay 67 for a white
cream pitcher," and for other things in like proportion ! Haying m., as proposed, in 1782, they followed their brother-in-law ? the Rev. Stephen Fuller, who m. Phebe Thurston ? to Vershire, Vt.
(1789), where he d. suddenly, July 22, 1798, aged 44. " He had a loving disposition and great muscular powers." She afterwards moved to Fletcher, Vt., but finally settled on the wild lands owned by her husband, in Topsham, Vt., and there d. Dec. 13, 1807, aged 49. The five oldest children b. in Hollis; the others in Vershire.
Children of Chloe Thurston and Stephen Runnals [Reynolds]
Stephen, b. 1783; d. by scalding, at the age of 13 months.
Mary Crocker [445], b. Aug. 4, 1784.
Stephen [458], b. Sept. 1, 1785 (HoUls Recs.), 1786 (Family Recs.), yet "13 months younger than Mary."
Hannah ] ^- ^^^' ^^' ^^^^ (Hollis), 1788 (Family).
Chloe d. Aug. 29, 1804, at Fletcher, Vt.;
Hannah d. 1808, at Topsham, Vt.
Moses Thurston [472], b. Mar. 5, 1790, at his uncle Fuller's,
Sarah [475], b. June 14, 1793.
Sollis [489], >. A__|, K 1707
Skwall [600], 5 *"? ^P"^ ^' ^^^^?
Named after their two grandmothers,?the one being a Sollis, the other a Sewall, before marriage.
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