Nathaniel Reynolds (bef. 1625 - 1708)

Born before 10 Apr 1625 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England

Husband of Sarah (Dwight) Reynolds — married 30 Dec 1657 (to 8 Jul 1663) in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Priscilla (Brackett) Reynolds — married about 1664 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1708 after age 83 in Bristol, Bristol, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Biography

Nathaniel Reynolds immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Nathaniel Raynols (Reynolds) was baptized 10 April 1625 at All Saints Church in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, the son of Robert Reynolds and his wife Mary (Curver) Reynolds.^[1][2]

Pane-Joyce Genealogy has a very good description of Capt. Nathaniel Reynolds which hits every point on our family worksheets but does it much more thoroughly and has reference points. (GWood) His Occupation Shoemaker. Nathaniel first married Sarah Dwight, second Priscilla Brackett.

According to Savage, freeman1665, He is in Boston tax list of 1695; but had some years lived at Bristol.’

Nathaniel’s father’s will left him a large amount of property, and the family home on the corner of Washington and Milk Streets in Boston. He lived in Boston until about 1681 when he and his family removed to Bristol where he built a home on the northeast corner of Bradford and Thames Streets.313

Nathaniel had signed with the Proprietors on 27 Aug 1680 for a thirty-second part of the Mt Hope Lands, and was an original settler of Bristol. He was one of the founders on 3 May 1687 of the Congressional Church at Briston, and was elected grand juryman, sealer of leather, and selectman of Bristol. Capt. Nathaniel Reynold’s will called him of Bristol, and it was dated 7 Oct 1706 and proved 3 Nov 1708. He mentioned no wife, but named five sons: Nathaniel (eldest) of Boston, John, Peter, Joseph, and Benjamin (youngest) Reynolds; daughters Sarah wife of John Fosdick of Boston, Mary Woodbery, Hannah wife of Samuel Royall of Boston, an d Ruth Reynolds; his sister Mary Sanger of Watertwon; his house in Boston, his farm and house in Briston, and his 500 acres in Quenepank (Quinapaug). An inventory of his estate in Boston, located in the south end, was dated Boston 3 Nov 1708 and totalled £794 5s 6d.313

Nathaniel was select Mar 1685 Chief Constable for the City of Boston. Later he served as Lieut. and then Capt. in the Massachusetts Militia.401

Nathaniel was born circa 1627 in England, of parents Robert and Mary ( ) Reynolds. He was living in Dedham, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay by 30 December 1657 when he was married 1st, to Sarah Dwight in Boston by Gov. John Endicott.^[3] Together they had three children, Sarah, Mary, and Nathaniel. Sarah died in Boston 8 July 1663. He married 2nd, Priscilla Brackett by 19 March 1664/5. They had eight children together, the first six born in Boston, the last two in Bristol (then in Massachusetts). They removed to Bristol some time after the 1681 birth of daughter Hannah. Nathaniel was one of the founders, and made a deacon of, in May 1687, the Bristol Church. He died suddenly in Bristol on 10 July 1708.^[4]

The children of Nathaniel and Priscilla were:

1. Mary, born "about 1665;"
2. John, born 4 August 1668;
3. Peter, born 26 January 1670;
4. Phillip, born 15 September 1674;
5. Joseph, born 29 December 1676;
6. Hannah, born 15 January 1681;
7. Benjamin, born 10 May 1686;
8. Ruth, born 9 December 1688.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ West, Randy A. "The English Origin of Robert¹ Reynolds of Boston, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (Spring 2023):179–181. American Ancestors (free). Citing All Saints, Isleworth, Middlesex, parish register, 1566–1655 [FHL DGS 8041035] image 82: "10 April 1625 Baptism Robert Rainols & Mary his wyfe had there sone Nathaniell baptiz[ed]"
2. ↑ Baptism: "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988"
   FamilySearch Record: D6SB-2ZN2 (accessed 16 July 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSF7-LNFW Image number 00083
   Nathaniell Rainols baptism on 10 Apr 1625, son of Robert Rainols & Mary, in Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.
3. ↑ Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, (Municipal Printing Office: Boston,1908) p. 63

   "Nath Reynolds & Sarah Dwite daughter of John Dwite of Dedham were married 30th -- 10th month by John Endecott Governor."

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Vital Records from The NEHGS Register Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Volume 155 (2001), page 286. Subscription site.

• D. Pane-Joyce, "Robert Reynolds (2503) & Mary," Pane-Joyce Genealogy, (https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_009.html#P24631 : accessed 1 Apr 2022), child 6435: Capt. Nathaniel Reynolds.

• D. Pane-Joyce, "Capt. Nathaniel Reynolds (6435) & Priscilla Brackett (9629)," Pane-Joyce Genealogy, (http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr08/rr08_146.html#P24686 : accessed 1 Apr 2022)

• The Reynolds Family Association / Nathaniel Reynolds https://www.reynoldsfamily.org/line12/robert1.php

• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island.

• Saunders, Dorothy. Bristol, Rhode Island's Early Settlers (Heritage Books, Westminster, MA, 2010) #12. p.28.

• Munro, Wilfred. The History of Bristol, R.I. (J.A. & R.A. Reid, Providence, 1881) p.79.

• Bodge, George. Soldiers in King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War (Boston, Mass., 1906) Page 279