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From: Glenn G Reynolds <>
Subject: [Reynolds] Re: REYNOLDS-D Digest V01 #18 - Shubal Reynolds
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:29:12 -0800
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Dear Vincent Reynolds,

I too have been looking into this Shubal Reynolds for the past 23 years.

I have responded to numerous individuals from REYNOLDS-D Digest in the
past year, so I will clarify at some length some of the confusion
without dissipating part of it.

My Great, great, great grandfather, Levi Reynolds, b. February 10, 1777,
in or near Amenia precinct, Dutchess County, New York, had a older
brother, Shubal Reynolds, b. May 10, 1775, also born in Dutchess Co.
This Shubal married a Hannah Daggett. To the best of my knowledge, this
is not your Shubal, though they may be related, I know not how?, at this
writing. Their father was one Jeremiah (Jr.) Reynolds, b. 1747 in
Fairfield Co. Connecticut. The mother was Elizabeth Daggett, and
Jeremiah and Elizabeth, were married in the Baptist church of North East
in Dutchess Co., in 1773. This Shubal and Hannah's children were, as
below, and they also had a Shubal Jr. This family seems to have lived
and died in Saratoga Co. after 1794, when this Shubal became a regular
member of the Clifton Park Baptist Church N.Y.

>
> Descendants of Shubal Reynolds
>
>
> Generation No. 1
>
> 1. SHUBAL1 REYNOLDS (JEREMIAH*A, JEREMIAH*(SR.)B, JAMES*C, JOHN*D, JOHNE) was born May 25, 1775 in Amenia precinct, Dutchess county, New York, and died April 26, 1854 in Glenville, Saratoga County, New York. He married HANNAH DAGGETT 1798 in Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York, daughter of MAYHEW DAGGETT and JEMIMA FISH. She was born January 13, 1781 in Green County , New York, and died March 10, 1859 in Glenville, Schenectady County, New York.
>
> Notes for SHUBAL REYNOLDS:
> Shubal and Hannah were first cousins, as His mother Elizabeth Daggett Reynolds was the sister of Hannah's Father, Mayhew Daggett Jr. They were farmers, and belong to the Baptist church. they had moved from Dutchess County (Pine Plains/ Millerton/ Amenia area) to Pittstown in Rensaeller Co. in about 1884 when His father Jeremiah was mustered out of Company 11 of the New York 14th Militia, commanded by Colonel Peter Yates. (Pay #23907 for 12 shillings and 11 d. This is from a copy of the R&P office of the War Department, borrowed from N.Y. State R&P files, as noted in #454,712]
>
> The Reynolds and Dagget families had been charter members of the Pittstown Baptist Church of Christ, when it was founded in March 1787. The Jeremiah Reynolds family had purchased Lot #46 in the township of Pittstown, from the Estate of William Smith "late Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec", for the sum of Pounds Sixty two, on May 6, 1794 and recorded August 8,1794.
>
> Shubal built the Reynolds homestead at Lock 9, Erie Canal, 1831. He was a founding member and Covenant signer of the Clifton Park (Abijah Peck, Pastor) Baptist Church in 1794, and remained so at least through 1800. He was censured about that time, but we find him still signing the "Covenant" well into the first decade of the early 1800's. Hannah his wife was also a member and her signature is seen often in the late 1790's and early 1800's. They are mentioned together with Levi and Lorena; Jeremiah and Elizabeth. A Sarah, who may have been the eldest child of Jeremiah and Elizabeth, is also mentioned. We note that Phoebe Daggett a sister of Hannah's is on the records, and Esther Hinckley is also mentioned on one occasion.
>
> He became a Charter member of the Scotia Baptist Church in 1840.
>
> They are mentioned in the monograph by T.W. Reynolds, "Preliminary History of Jeremiah Reynolds and some 300 Descendants in America, 1945, a typescript. See also Federal Census records; NY State Census Records; Schenectady Cemetery records; and Vol. 1., Clifton Park Baptist Church Records; Mayhew Daggett's Revolutionary War Pension, National Archives; Wilder genealogy.
>
> State: NY
> County: Rensselaer Co.
> Page #: 789
> Census/Enumeration year: 1800
> Age ranges in household: 00100-1010000
>
>
>
> Children of SHUBAL REYNOLDS and HANNAH DAGGETT are:
> i.JUSTUS HALL2 REYNOLDS, b. 1800, Pittstown, Rensallaer County, New York; d. 1868, Schenectady County, New York; m. SARAH "JANE" ANN WYLIE, Abt. 1822, New York; b. Bet. 1799 - 1800, New York; d. 1861, Glenville township, Schenectady County, New York.
>
> More About JUSTUS HALL REYNOLDS:
> Burial: Vale Cemetary, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., N.Y.
>
> More About SARAH "JANE" ANN WYLIE:
> Burial: Vale Cemetary, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., N.Y.
>
> ii.HENRIETTA REYNOLDS, b. September 08, 1802; m. JAMES GARRETT.
> iii.RACHEL REYNOLDS, b. Abt. 1804, Schenectady, N.Y.; d. Abt. 1875, Illinois; m. FREDERICK TRASK WILDER, Abt. 1822, New York; b. September 13, 1798, Woodstock, Vermont; d. Abt. 1855, New York.
> iv.MARY REYNOLDS, b. 1806; m. ARTHUR MORRISON.
> v.SHUBAL JR. REYNOLDS, b. October 21, 1808; d. September 06, 1887, Scotia, Saratoga Co., N.Y..
> vi.JULIA REYNOLDS, b. 1810; d. October 23, 1865, Scotia Old RDC; m. ______ BARKER.
> vii.HANNAH REYNOLDS, b. January 30, 1811; m. ABRAM HOGENBAUM.
> viii.ASA REYNOLDS, b. Abt. 1813; d. December 05, 1862, Fairfax Co., Virginia; m. SARAH FULLER, 1839.
> ix.RUTH ABBE REYNOLDS, b. Abt. 1815.
> x.GEORGE PRINCE REYNOLDS, b. May 18, 1817; d. January 31, 1871, Scotia, Saratoga Co., N.Y.; m. SARAH ANN MABEE.
> xi.SARAH L. REYNOLDS, b. 1824; d. January 04, 1842; m. JOSEPH P. WATKINS.
> xii.LEVI R. REYNOLDS, b. 1825, Glenville, Saratoga Co., N.Y.; d. 1896; m. AGNES S. MABEE; b. 1830

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Now to add to your confusion, Shubal's father Jeremiah (& Elizabeth),
had a brother Shubael, who had married Mercy Lounsbury. They in turn
had a son Shubal, who went west to Livingston Co., NY, and eventually
wound up in or near Green Creek Township, in Sandusky, Ohio. They also
had a son Shubal. See below:

>
> Descendants of Shubael* Reynolds
>
>
> Generation No. 1
>
> 1. SHUBAEL*1 REYNOLDS (JEREMIAH*(SR.)A, JAMES*B, JOHN*C, JOHND) was born August 10, 1752 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and died March 01, 1839 in Green Creek Township, Sandusky, Ohio. He married MERCY LOUNSBURY Abt. 1771 in Amenia Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, daughter of NATHANIEL LOUNSBERRY and EUNICE BROWN. She was born February 25, 1755 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and died Abt. 1806.
>
> Notes for SHUBAEL* REYNOLDS:
> Shubael's interesting and very peripatetic life, are too voluminous to inscribe here. To that end, I have copied all of the records from the National Archives (1982); Military section, and have attached them for the reader to digest. Of special interest is the Court affidavit signed by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth, dated October 26, 1833. Also his plea to the War Department, made in his behalf by a legal counselor, R. H. Stevens of Lockport, New York. This tells of his walking from Niagara, New York, to Avon, New York and back; a distance of over two hundred miles round trip, at the age of 81. This was to prove his case with the Pension board. His claim is # S 7374, and an affidavit 28787 filed with the War Department. He entered the service in July of 1776, discharged after 2-3 weeks; Then entered again in the spring of 1777 for 11 Months and 5 days under Capt. James Talmidge, and Col.'s DuBois, and Humphrey in the Battles of the Mohawk and Fort Plain. He then serve!
d under Capt. and subsequently Col. Colby Chamberlain. He was in the battle with Col. Ethan Allen when they took Crown Point; and at Stone Araby. He buried the body of Col. Brown after the latter engagement. Col. Brown was the officer who exposed Benedict Arnold for his traitorous actions, and was B. Arnold's brother in law. He, Col. Brown was a cousin of Shubael and Jeremiah Reynolds. Shubael's primary duties in the Army were as an "Artificer", or Outfitter. He handled the horses, their saddles, their tack and reins, hauled caisson and canon. He was indeed, a very determined and resolute man, trying to prove what was rightfully his. He was awarded $37.22 per annum beginning on the 4th day of March 1834 (50 years after the end of the Revolutionary War. In total he received for payment in arrears before March 4, 1834, $111.66, and a six-month additional allowance of $18.66 to September 4, 1834, for a back total of $130.32)
>
> His daughter Lorena married her first cousin Levi. Levi is being the second son of Shubael's brother Jeremiah. Of course my** great-great grandfather Levi J. Reynolds, the son of Lorena and Levi, is part of the focus of this ancestral study. After 1835 and until is death, Shubael was a resident of Green Creek Township, Sandusky, Ohio; living near or with his son, Shubal. His brother Jeremiah's oldest son was also named Shubal.
>
> ** Glenn George Reynolds
>
>
> Children of SHUBAEL* REYNOLDS and MERCY LOUNSBURY are:
> i.SARY2 REYNOLDS, b. June 26, 1772; d. November 01, 1836.
> ii.NATHAN REYNOLDS, b. February 17, 1778.
> iii.DAVID REYNOLDS, b. July 12, 1779.
> 2.iv.LORENA* REYNOLDS, b. October 26, 1781, Crum Elbow, Dutchess County, New York; d. October 06, 1857, Lena, Stephenson county, Illinois.
> 3.v.JASON REYNOLDS, b. June 18, 1784, Horse Neck, Vermont; d. 1836, Leicester, N.Y..
> vi.NATHANIEL REYNOLDS, b. September 18, 1786.
> vii.SARAH REYNOLDS, b. September 01, 1791.
> viii.EUNICE REYNOLDS, b. April 06, 1795; m. OLIVER MOORE, January 07, 1816.
> 4.ix.SHUBEL REYNOLDS, b. January 18, 1797, Fulton, Oneida Co., New York; d. March 20, 1860, Sandusky Co. Ohio.
> 5.x.SYLVANUS REYNOLDS, b. May 17, 1800, Oneida Co., New York; d. 1882, Bangor Township, Van Buren Co., Michigan.
> xi.ELECTY REYNOLDS, b. December 1806.
>
>
>
> 3. JASON2 REYNOLDS (SHUBAEL*1, JEREMIAH*(SR.)A, JAMES*B, JOHN*C, JOHND) was born June 18, 1784 in Horse Neck, Vermont, and died 1836 in Leicester, N.Y.. He married ESTHER MAC MILLAN in Saratoga County, New York, daughter of JOSEPH MAC MILLAN and AVIS BOWEN. She died in Milan, Ohio.
>
> Notes for JASON REYNOLDS:
> Was in the War of 1812.
> Places of residence: Horsehead, Vermont; Saratoga Co., N.Y.; Avon, and Leicester, Livingston Co., N.Y.; Cattaraugus County, New York.
>
> Children of JASON REYNOLDS and ESTHER MAC MILLAN are:
> i.ELIZA M.3 REYNOLDS, m. __________ WARDEL.
> ii.SIBLINGS 10-11, REYNOLDS, m. A MARTIN AND A HACKETT.
> iii.ELECTA M. REYNOLDS, b. October 13, 1833, Moscow, Livingston Co., N.Y.; d. July 30, 1907, Milan, Ohio; m. FRANCIS G. LOCKWOOD; d. July 25, 1891, Milan, Ohio.
>
> Notes for ELECTA M. REYNOLDS:
> Electa moved to Milan, Ohio, with her mother, Esther McMillan Reynolds and others of the family, about 1850.
>
> iv.JANE A. REYNOLDS, b. August 26, 1818, Avon, Livingston Co..
>
>
> 4. SHUBEL2 REYNOLDS (SHUBAEL*1, JEREMIAH*(SR.)A, JAMES*B, JOHN*C, JOHND) was born January 18, 1797 in Fulton, Oneida Co., New York, and died March 20, 1860 in Sandusky Co. Ohio. He married ELIZABETH BUTLER January 23, 1820. She was born August 18, 1798, and died July 12, 1885 in ?Fulton Co., Ohio.
>
> Children of SHUBEL REYNOLDS and ELIZABETH BUTLER are:
> i.PAULINA I3 REYNOLDS, b. September 21, 1821.
> ii.PAULINA II REYNOLDS, b. September 18, 1823.
> iii.LETITIA SALINA REYNOLDS, b. January 01, 1825; d. February 15, 1868; m. PETER CORBY.
> iv.SHUBEL` REYNOLDS, b. July 24, 1826; d. September 09, 1922; m. LUCY CAROLINE HEIRD.
> v.MARY E. REYNOLDS, b. June 24, 1828; d. October 17, 1916; m. BENJAMIN PORTER.
> vi.STATIRA E. REYNOLDS, b. June 07, 1830, Sheffield, Lorain Co., Ohio; d. September 27, 1899; m. (1) LYMAN CABLE; m. (2) JOHN L. LEVEISEE, November 15, 1866; b. July 04, 1809.
> vii.OLIVER PORTER REYNOLDS, b. March 12, 1832.
> viii.MARTHA PAULINA REYNOLDS, b. March 10, 1834.
> ix.FRANCIS EDWIN REYNOLDS, b. October 18, 1836.
> x.JULIUS KENYON REYNOLDS, b. June 10, 1839.
>
> Notes for JULIUS KENYON REYNOLDS:
> Died in the Battle of Antietam.
>
> xi.FRANCES BURTON REYNOLDS, b. January 10, 1842.
>
> Notes for FRANCES BURTON REYNOLDS:
> Also Died in the battle of Antietam.
>
> xii.GEORGE MILTON REYNOLDS, b. July 22, 1844.

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Please note the large number of Shubal's, Shubel,etc. Now The elder
Shubael was born in Fairfield Co. Conn., he is too old for your Shubal,
even though some of his children were born in Vermont. However his
Shubal was NOT born in Vermont.

Finally, My Levi lived in Ripley, Chautauqua Co., adjacent to Sherman.
I have many records on Abiathar, Major D. and have visited this great -
- - -grandsons farm east of Sherman. I note the census shows that
Shubal to whom you refer living in French Creek on the other side of
Sherman.

That riddle is still under study.

Please keep in touch and share any documents which you have. I have had
numerous communications with individuals writing the Digest regarding
Ransom. I have not solved that question. Virginia Barden of Ripley or
Frances McCutcheon, may know more, by this time.

Respectfully,

Glenn G. Reynolds

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