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Abigail Finch[1]

Female Est 1669 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Abigail Finch 
    Born Est 1669  Watertown, Massachusetts Colony Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I18570  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 31 Oct 2017 

    Family Joseph of Mass Reynolds,   b. 1669, Watertown, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1727, Watertown, Massachusetts, or Stamford Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 1698  North Kingstown, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Joseph2 of Mass Reynolds,   b. 1699, Watertown, Massachusetts Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Samuel Finch [of MA] Reynolds,   b. 1703, Stamford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1727, Salem, Bradford, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
    +3. John Reynolds,   b. 1708, Stamford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Nehemiah Reynolds,   b. 1709, Stamford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +5. Ruben Reynolds,   b. 1714, Stamford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1765, East Greenwich, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Last Modified 31 Oct 2017 
    Family ID F6849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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

  • Sources 
    1. [S243] THE REYNOLDS FAMILY, J. Montgomery Seaver, (American Historical Genealogical Society).
      Joseph Reynolds, s/o John Reynolds (1612-1660) m. Abigail Finch; m. 2nd Abigail Rundel; ch. Joseph b 1699 m. Ruth Ferris; served in French and Indian War; also had son Joseph who m. 2nd Lydia Parker. and Ruth Rich, first.

    2. [S243] THE REYNOLDS FAMILY, J. Montgomery Seaver, (American Historical Genealogical Society).
      Ruben Reynolds (1713-1765) m. Elizabeth Mead. Ch. Titus Reynolds m. Sarah Husted, Joel Reynolds b 1743 m. Amy Hobby, David Reynolds (1753-18270) m. Margaret Crissey.

    3. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/3824/gpc_newenglandmarriages-0634?pid=64686&backurl=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db%3DNewEnglandMarriages%26h%3D64686%26tid%3D22493484%26pid%3D29789006350%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26rhSource%3D60525&treeid=22493484&personid=29789006350&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=gpc_newenglandmarriages-0634.
      Job Reynolds and Sarah Crawford
      John Reynolds (1552-1736) + Ruth Knapp (1666-1736+); b. 1696 Greenwich CT
      Jonathan (1635-16674 & Rebecca Heusted (1645-); ca 1660 Greenwich Connecticut
      Joseph (1672-1722) & Susanna Babcock