Samuel Middleton [MASS] Reynolds^{[1, 2]}

1706 - 1784  (77 years)

• Name	Samuel Middleton [MASS] Reynolds
  Born	17 Dec 1706	Haverhill, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	1784	Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts
  Person ID	I18789	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of James Reynolds
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Sgt. Samuel [D105] Reynolds,   b. 1674, Haverhill, Massachusetts ,   d. 27 Oct 1745, Haverhill, Massachusetts  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Abigail Middleton,   b. 1674, Haverhill, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown, Haverhill, Massachusetts
  Notes	https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt Deed and Will from the Essex Records in Salem, Mass. " Dec. 26, 1710. John Bolnton to Samuel Runels in Bradford, Husbandman, in consideration of £7, part paid and part secured by bill, a certain piece of land lying in the township of Bradford, 20 acres as it is bounded, be it more or less ; bounded on the N. E. corner on a little small red oak marked and on the South side of a frog pond ; and so running on the East side upon land of Thomas West till it come to Boxford line ; and on the South on Boxford line to the stump of an old tree, with stones by it, on Boxford line; and from that stump, on the West side, by land of Richard Kimball, unto a stake and stones on the N. W. corner." We have no evidence of real estate as possessed in Massachusetts at an earlier date by a member of this family; implying that though married some eight or ten years previously, this ancestor did not have a " home of his own," in Bradford, till 1710-11. It is evident, too, from this deed, and the price paid, that his original twenty-acre lot must have been comparatively wild and less valuable land at the time of purchase. The northern bounds are not given, but its location on Boxford line is made certain. This was afterwards known in Bradford as the "Job Runnels Place," where the ''Job Runnels apples," excellent for their keeping qualities the year round, were found growing. J. Warren Chad wick now owns the same site, near Chadwick*s or Little Pond. The land was transferred from John Runnels [22] to James Buswell, and by the latter to John Chadwick. The old Runnels house was standing as late as 1840.
  Family ID	F6518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna, Widow Sessions Reynolds,   b. 1690, Bradford, Massachusetts ,   d. 20 Sep 1746, Haverhill, Massachusetts  (Age 56 years)
  Married	3 Mar 1728	Bradford, Massachusetts [prob]
  Children	1. Samuel R.3 Reynolds,   b. 19 Dec 1730, Bradford, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 Apr 1810, Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F7538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Hannah Emmerson,   b. 1710,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Anna Reynolds,   b. 1748, Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F7556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  RI Kingston Marriages RI Kingston Marriages.pdf

  
  

• Sources

  [S40] Will, Will of Samuel Sr. Mentions Sons, Stephen, Samuel, Ebenezer, Job, . George is not mentioned in his father's Will; he is either dead or gone with his share of his father's estate. -mfe [S107] Family Histories, https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt. A Genealogy of Runnels and Reynolds Families in America; with records and brief memorials of the earliest ancestors, so far as known and many of their descendants, bearing the same and other names. Samuel, of Samuel Reynolds, b. Dec. 17, 1706, probably in Hayerhill, as his blrth appears on the Haverhill, and not on the Bradford Records ; the only child given on the former under his parents' names. [S126] United States Archives, https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt. 17. Samuel^ [3] (SamueP), was admitted to full communion with the Cong. Church in BradLford, as " Samuel son of Samuel," PART I. ? SECOND GENERATION. 9 "Mar. 3, 1728." He m., 1st, Mrs. Anna Sessions, Feb. 18, 1730. Her crumbling gi'avestones were accidentally found, 1871, in the old Bradford cemetery, near the grave of Samuel [1]. Inscriptions with difficulty deciphered as follows : Head, " Here lies buried the body of Anna, the wife of Mr. Samuel Runels (Jun.), " who died 20th of September, 1746, and in the 56th year of her age." Foot, "Anna Runels." This makes the year of her birth 1690, while the date of her death agrees with the Bradford Recs. He m., 2nd, Hannah Emerson, of Haverhill, Nov. 19, 1747. (Haver. Recs.) He is called a "House Wright," "June 3, 1738," when Maxwell Hazeltine conveyed to him, for £36, " a parcel of marsh or meadow, scituate lying and being in Rowly, on Plumb Island" "May 1, 1747," he bought of Eben Sherwin "for £650, old tenor, two pieces of land in Boxford, 51 acres." From these and seven othex deeds, we infer that within twenty years after his first marriage he added to the small property given him by his father (and probably, by his own industry at his trade) some forty acres of land in Bradford and at least eighty acres in Boxford ; also that his estate at first was near that of his father's and the line of the two towns, at Little Pond, where he lived, perhaps at a home furnished by his first wife as the widow Sessions, till between 1747 and 1749. He then became, probably at his second marriage, a resident of Boxford, on the other side of Little Pond, at the homestead still occupied by some of his posterity. Two deeds are also found of "Apr. 2 " and " May 20, 1777," the latter giving him possession of a small "tract of marsh" in Newbury ; and the following deed will show to his Concord (N. H.) descendants the origin of their Horse Hill estate : " July 26, 1777 ; John and Benja. Jones of Beverly to Samuel Runnels of Boxford, Gentleman for £48 a certain lott of land situated in Concord, in the county of Hillsboro' and State of N. Hamp., being a certain 80 acre lot in said township, lying at or near Horse Hill, so called." Tradition says that he was a lieut. in the old French war of 1756, with his son as a drum-major. He d. Apr. 12, 1783, aged 76 ; and " P'^eb. 3, 1784, administration of the Estate of Samuel Runnels, late of Boxford, gent., deceased, was granted to Samuel R, his son." His Inventory was given in, "Apr. 6, 1784." Property amounted to £699 4.-^., including farm, personal property, and one quarter part of a " gondola." rated at £2 58., defined by Coffin (Histoiy of Newbury) as a " hay boat," and probably used by Samuel [3] on Merrimack River for visiting his Plum Island and Newbury purchases. Return of commissioners, appointed for division of his estate, was made " May 8 " ; and " assignment made by Judge of Probate to Samuel Runnels and Anna Page, his only children July 6, 1789." Children: ? 18. Samuel [93], b. Dec. 19, 1730, in Bradford (1st wife) ; bap. as " Son of Samuel Jun., Dec. 20, 1730 " 19. Anna [102], b. 1748-9, probably in Boxford; but bap. at the Bradford Church, "Feb. 25, 1749," as a "daughter of Samuel and Hannah B." [nee Emerson] [S126] United States Archives, https://archive.org/stream/agenealogyrunne00runngoog/agenealogyrunne00runngoog_djvu.txt. [S126] United States Archives, 17. Samuel^ [3] (SamueP), was admitted to full communion with the Cong. Church in BradLford, as " Samuel son of Samuel," PART I. ? SECOND GENERATION. 9 "Mar. 3, 1728." He m., 1st, Mrs. Anna Sessions, Feb. 18, 1730. Her crumbling gi'avestones were accidentally found, 1871, in the old Bradford cemetery, near the grave of Samuel [1]. Inscriptions with difficulty deciphered as follows : Head, " Here lies buried the body of Anna, the wife of Mr. Samuel Runels (Jun.), " who died 20th of September, 1746, and in the 56th year of her age." Foot, "Anna Runels." This makes the year of her birth 1690, while the date of her death agrees with the Bradford Recs. He m., 2nd, Hannah Emerson, of Haverhill, Nov. 19, 1747. (Haver. Recs.) He is called a "House Wright," "June 3, 1738," when Maxwell Hazeltine conveyed to him, for £36, " a parcel of marsh or meadow, scituate lying and being in Rowly, on Plumb Island" "May 1, 1747," he bought of Eben Sherwin "for £650, old tenor, two pieces of land in Boxford, 51 acres." From these and seven othex deeds, we infer that within twenty years after his first marriage he added to the small property given him by his father (and probably, by his own industry at his trade) some forty acres of land in Bradford and at least eighty acres in Boxford ; also that his estate at first was near that of his father's and the line of the two towns, at Little Pond, where he lived, perhaps at a home furnished by his first wife as the widow Sessions, till between 1747 and 1749. He then became, probably at his second marriage, a resident of Boxford, on the other side of Little Pond, at the homestead still occupied by some of his posterity. Two deeds are also found of "Apr. 2 " and " May 20, 1777," the latter giving him possession of a small "tract of marsh" in Newbury ; and the following deed will show to his Concord (N. H.) descendants the origin of their Horse Hill estate : " July 26, 1777 ; John and Benja. Jones of Beverly to Samuel Runnels of Boxford, Gentleman for £48 a certain lott of land situated in Concord, in the county of Hillsboro' and State of N. Hamp., being a certain 80 acre lot in said township, lying at or near Horse Hill, so called." Tradition says that he was a lieut. in the old French war of 1756, with his son as a drum-major. He d. Apr. 12, 1783, aged 76 ; and " P'^eb. 3, 1784, administration of the Estate of Samuel Runnels, late of Boxford, gent., deceased, was granted to Samuel R, his son." His Inventory was given in, "Apr. 6, 1784." Property amounted to £699 4.-^., including farm, personal property, and one quarter part of a " gondola." rated at £2 58., defined by Coffin (Histoiy of Newbury) as a " hay boat," and probably used by Samuel [3] on Merrimack River for visiting his Plum Island and Newbury purchases. Return of commissioners, appointed for division of his estate, was made " May 8 " ; and " assignment made by Judge of Probate to Samuel Runnels and Anna Page, his only children July 6, 1789." Children: ? 18. Samuel [93], b. Dec. 19, 1730, in Bradford (1st wife) ; bap. as " Son of Samuel Jun., Dec. 20, 1730 " 19. Anna [102], b. 1748-9, probably in Boxford; but bap. at the Bradford Church, "Feb. 25, 1749," as a "daughter of Samuel and Hannah B." [nee Emerson]