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Joshua and his wife Rachel Reynolds also had children : 6. Edgar. b. Dec. 10, 1835, d. unm .; 7. Mary Louise, b. July 27. 1840, and d. young.
Ambrose, tenth child of Gideon, the son of James, the son of John, the son of John the emigrant, had by his wife, Ruth Knapp, a fourth child, Gideon, who m. Betsy Fountain and had: 1. James, d. unm., 2. Benjamin, also : 5. Mary, d. unm., 6. Bethia, d. unm., 7. Jared. b. in 1798, m. Julia Rundle, and had : I. Julia. 2. Sydney, m. Esther Purdy, and had : I. Frank, 2. Frederick W., 3. Olive, and also 3. Edward, who m. Mary E. Hastings and had : 1. Samuel, 2. Herbert, 3. David, 4. Eliz- abeth, 5. Mary.
Ambrose, son of Gideon, had also an eighth child, Benjamin, who m. Lucinda Mead and had: 1. Julia, 2. Mary. 3. Isaac, and a ninth child Eunice, who died unm.
Gideon, fifth son of James, son of John, son of John the emigrant, had an eleventh child, Jonathan, b. about 1752, of whom we have no records.
6. Justus-James-John-John.
James had a sixth child, Justus, b. 1708, d. 1747. m. Apr. 23, 1737, Elizabeth, dan. of Richard Sackett, and had at Greenwich : I. Sackett, b. Mch 3, 1738, m. Nov. 21, 1760, Mary, dau. of Benjamin Jones, and had: I. Justus, b. July 26, 1761, 2. Mary, b. Feb. I, 1763. 3. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 11, 1765, 4. Han-
nah. b. July 26, 1767, 5. Benjamin, b. Apr. 10, 1770.
Justus and Elizabeth Sackett also had: 2. Elizabeth, b. May 4. 1740, 3. Sarah, b. July 26, 1742, 4. Anna, b. May 24. 1745. 5. Mary, b. Apr. 4. 1748.
7. Jeremiah-James-John-John.
James also had a seventh child, Jeremialı, b. about 1711, m. a dau. of Peter Brown and d. in 1700, he had: 1. David, b. about 1741, and possibly others.
Nathaniel-James-John-John.
3. Nathaniel was born at Greenwich, Feh. 20, 1702-3. where his birth is given in the Com- mon Place Book. While the Greenwich Rec- ords of this period make constant mention of a Nathaniel Reynolds, it is not always impossi- ble to determine which refer to him and which to Nathaniel, b. 1715. son of Ebenezer.
He, together with Joshua, Peter and James Jr., petitioned the General Assembly in 1753 to be "set off from the Parish of Stanwich in the South West of which they lived and to be joined to the Parish of Horseneck." He was elected constable for Greenwich, Dec. 27, 1728. The records of the Second Church at Greenwich contain the record of his marriage. "On ye first day of January 1728-9 Nathaniel Reynolds was married to his wife Ruth whose name was Purdy." The Greenwich Common Place Book gives the births of two of his chil- dren: "Nathaniel Renalds' children: Dec. 8, 1720. Nathaniel: Jan. 8. 1731. Frances Ren- valls."
At a court of probate held in Stamford June 7. 1748. letters of administration were granted on the estate of Nathaniel Reynolds, late of Greenwich, deceased, and Ruth his widow was appointed administratrix. Dis- tribution was made April 7, 1752 ; after paying dlebts amounting to 580 pounds there remained for the children 413 pounds and a large amount of real estate. Ilis children are stated to be Nathaniel, Francis, Solomon, Stephen, Ruth, Anna and Hannah.
In Vol. 7. p. 67, of the Greenwich Deeds, is recorded the following: "Know all men that I, James Reynolds, Senior, of Greenwich, in consideration of the love I have for my grandsons, namely, Nathaniel Reynolds, Fran- cis Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds, and Solomon Reynolds, all natural sons to Nathaniel Rey- nolds, of Greenwich, and also by the love and good will I bear to their natural mother, Ruth Reynolds, widow and relect of the deceased Nathaniel," etc., Feb. 2. 1749-50.
Ruth Purdy belonged to the well known family of Rye, N. Y. Francis Purdy in a deed of 1718 was described as "of Green- wich," as was John Purdy in 1727. As Ruth
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was married in Greenwich and had a son Francis, the probability is that she was a daughter of Francis Purdy. Both John and Francis were sons of Joseph Purdy, who ap- peared at Rye in 1677. He was the son of Fran- cis, who was an early inhabitant of Fairfield, Conn., and died in 1658. The Purdy genealogy in the "History of Rye" is incomplete, and that of Bolton is obviously inaccurate. To deter- mine the line of descent will necessitate a study of the original town records.
Ruth, after the death of Nathaniel, married Jonathan Fiske, of Greenwich. In the distri- bution of his estate recorded at Stamford, July 21, 1762, mention is made of the use by his widow of one third part of said de- scribed lands, being conveyed to said widow by her father-in-law, Mr. James Reynolds, in part, and partly came by her husband, Nathan- iel Reynolds, deceased.
Nathaniel had the following descendants : 1. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 8, 1729, removed to Cross River, Westchester co., N. Y. Letters of ad- ministration which were granted to his son Nathaniel, Dec. 23, 1805, describe him as a resident of Salem, Westchester county, N. Y. He had: 1. Nathaniel, b. in Cross River, Feb. 22, 1754, m. Oct. 15, 1778, Hannah Todd (the widow Cooley ), who was born May 26, 1759, d. Apr. 11, 1846. He was a second lieutenant of the 3rd Regiment of Westchester county militia. commanded by Col. Samuel Drake, and was taken prisoner June 24. 1779, released Oct. 24, 1781.
In his will, drawn December 20th. 1839, probated Jan. 22, 1844, at White Plains, he describes himself as being of South Salem, N. Y. He died Sept. 21, 1843, and had : I. Deborah, b. July 17, 1779, d. May 24, 1844, m. 1798, Aaron Morehouse, 2. Nathaniel, b. Ang. 7, 1782. m. Lizzie Avery. d. Mch., 1874, 3. Lydia, b. Ang. 28, 1784. m. Rev. Joshua 11. Hobby, she d. Feb. 3, 1864, 4. Betsy, b. Sept. 5, 1786, d. June 12, 1838, m. Dec. 27. 1804, Gideon Reynolds, son of William, son of Gideon, son of James, son of John, son of John the emigrant: 5. Abraham, b. Oct. II, 1788. d. in New Orleans, um .. Aug. 25, 1818. 6. Sarah, b. Sept. 15. 1790. d. Oct. 8, 1876, 7. Hannah, b. Sept. 13. 1792. d. Nov. 9. 1856, m. Henry Avery, 8. Enoch, b. Sept. 16, 1794, d. May 5, 1876, m. Lydia Cross, 9. Alvah, b. Sept. 23, 1796. d. May 6, 188t. m. Phebe A. Field, 10. George, b. Dec. 12, 1798, d. unm. Dec. 30. 1884. IT. Mariah, b. Mch. 22, 1801, <1. Jan. 3rd. 1846, m. Enoch Reynolds, son of James, son of Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer, son of Jonathan, son of the emigrant John. They lived at Bedford. N. Y .. 12. Benjamin, b. Aug. 19, 1803. m. Mary Vivian.
Nathaniel and his wife Ruth I'mds also had: 2. Francis, b. July 8, 1731. Nothing is known of his descendants. There was a Francis Reynolds who lived at Crum Elbow, Dutchess county, N. Y., at this time, and it is probable that they were identical. 3. Ruth, b. about 1733, m. - Merritt, and in 1760 she was living on the property at Clap-board- tree-ridge given her by her grandfather James. 4. Solomon, b. about 1735. nothing is known of his descendants. There was a Solo- mon who lived at Poundridge, N. Y., another at Crum Elbow, N. Y., and one at Woodbury, Conn., 5. Anna, b. about 1737, m. Samuel Pal- mer. In a deed recorded at Greenwich in Vol 8. dated Feb. 25, 1760, "Samuel Palmer and Anna Palmer his wife of Greenwich sells to David Knapp two acres in said Greenwich which was given to the said Anna by her hon- ored grandfather James Reynolds, formerly of said Greenwich, but now of Dutchess in the province of New York a lot on Clap-board- tree-ridge, bounded east by our sister Mer- ritts, west by our sister Hannah Fiske." Their descendants lived in Westchester county. 6. Stephen, b. Dec. 31, 1740 ( for his descendants see hereinafter), 7. Hannah, m. July 21, 1762, Jonathan Fiske, the son of Jonathan Fiske, who married her widowed mother Ruth Purdy. Their descendants reside in Saratoga county and at Troy, N. Y.
Stephen-Nathaniel-James-John-John.
In a deed recorded at Greenwich, vol. ix, p. 52. Feb. 2, 1762, Stephen described himself as of "Woodbury. county Litchfield." and sells to Jonathan Fiske his share of his father Na- thaniel's estate and of his grandfather's James Reynolds' of Dutchess county, N. Y. The fact that he removed to Woodbury, Connecti- cut, as soon as he had reached his majority, coupled with the fact that there was a Solo- mon there residing, makes the identification of the latter with Solomon, son of Nathaniel, more than probable. The Woodbury family of Reynolds are attributed without apparent authority to John of Wethersfield. (Note. All of the data from the time that Stephen left Woodbury are derived from family records. )
Stephen removed to Amenia City, Dutchess county, prior to 1763. where his uncle James lived, and where his grandfather James died, and erected in 1764 a residence on the old Al- bany post road and about a half mile to the north of the Amenia City (Smithfield) Church. This contained three rooms of the entire width of the house, with kitchens and dependences behind. It was of frame, and a story and a half high. It was torn down in 1877.
lle is probably identical with the Stephen
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Reynolds who enlisted in the Continental Army, Capt. Daniel Shepard's company (see "New York in the Revolution," pp. 259-454) during the Revolution, in the New York forces, since there is no record of any other Stephen of an age which would have made it possible for him to take part in this war. He died in Amenia, August 17, 1815, and is buried in the "City" (Smithfield ) graveyard. His will is recorded in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He married, Amenia, N. Y., February Ist, 1763, Rachel Denton. She was born April 12, 1742 (o. s.), and died in Albany, N. Y., No- vemher 10, 1815, while on her way to visit her son Stephen, at Minaville, N. Y., and was buried in one of the church burial grounds in Albany, and in 1856 her remains were trans- ferred to the Reynolds plot in the Albany Rural Cemetery. Her father was Benjamin Denton, of Foster's Meadows, Wallingford, Connecticut, also of Farmington, Connecticut, and Amenia, New York: married at Farm- ington, December 1, 1724, Rachel Wheeler, of Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of Richard Denton (died in 1699), the son of Nathaniel Denton, of Jamaica, L. I., the son of Richard Denton, of Halifax, England, (born in 1586), a clergyman, a graduate of Cambridge University in 1623, who came to America in 1634 and settled in Watertown, Connecticut. He led those colonists who founded the settlement at Wethersfield and subsequently removed to Stamford, with the first settlers. Cotton Mather eulogizes him in his Magnala. He removed to Long Island, returned to England and died there.
Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton had the following children: 1. Stephen, b. Sept. I, 1765 (o. s.), see hereinafter. 2. Rachel, b. Sept. 1. 1767, d. unm., June 2, 1785, 3. Chloe, b. Dec. 5, 1768, d. unm., June 18, 1789, 4. Israel, b. Oct. 31, 1772, studied medicine with his brother Stephen, at Minaville, N. Y., established the first mail service in Pine Plains, Dutchess county, N. Y., and died there Mch. 28, 1823, he m. Deborah Dorr, June Ist, 1798, dau. of George Dorr Jr., of Lyme, Conn .. h. Oct. 26, 1770. d. June, 1850, at Pine Plains. They had: I. Walter, b. at Pinc Plains, N. Y., Feb. 5. 1801, d. at Pine Plains, Jan. 3. 1844, m. May 5, 1839, Julia Husted. He was gradu- ated at Yale, 1822, studied law in Albany and at a law school in Litchfield, Conn; he had : 1. Cornelius Husted, b. Sept. 1, 1841, d. Nov. 7. 1876, 2. Ellen Husted, b. Oct. 1, 1843. d. July 20, 1865. Walter and his wife Julia Husted also had : 2. Julia. b. Apr. 23. 1803. d. Sept. 22, 1870, m. Hiram Willson, 3. Eliza, b. Mch. 22, 1805, d. at Pine Plains, Oct. 2, 1892, m. Feb. 18, 1824. Hiram Willson, b. Aug. 12, 1799, at
Smithfield, d. June 22, 1873, at l'ine Plains, and had: I. Ellen Willson, b. Oct. 8, 1825, d. Sept. 26, 1843, 2. Israel Reynolds Willson, b. Nov. 2, 1827, m. Sept. 16, 1852, Elizabeth Conklin, 3. Julia Willson, b. Feb. 11, 1830, d. May 22, 1858, m. Aug. 28, 1851, Isaac Smith Carpenter. 4. Edward Paysen Willson, b. Dec. 26, 1832, d. at leavenworth, Kansas, Aug. 30, 1910, m. Oct. 13, 1863, Helen Fair- child, m. (second) Olive Sinks, Sept. 21, 1869. 5. Sarah Rebecca Willson, b. May 2, 1836, m. Sept. 5, 1860, Isaac Smith Carpenter, and is now living (1911) at Smithfield, Amenia City, Dutchess county, N. Y., 6. Elizabeth Deborah Willson, b. July 20, 1838, m. Dec. 7, 1871, Theodore Strong.
Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton also had: 5. Phebe, b. May 12, 1778, at Smith- field, Amenia City, d. Mch. 28, 1842, m. Abra- ham Bockie Pugsley, of Dutchess county, N. Y. He was born in 1776, at Smithfield, d. Dec. 9. 1851, they had: I. Jane Augusta Pugsley, m. James Ridgeway, and had : I. Frederick A. B. Ridgeway, m. Mary F. Davis and had seven children, living in 1911 at White Creek, N. Y., 2. Eliza Pugsley, m. Roswell Graves, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and had : 1. Mary. 2. Lizzie. 3. Belle. 3. Cornelius A. Pugsley, b. 1806, d. Jan. 7, 1865, at Danby, N. Y., m. Louisa Clark, of Danby, N. Y., and had: I. Abraham Bockie Pugsley, b. 1854, m. Blakesley, lives near Ithaca, N. Y., 2. Cornelia Pugsley, m. Oscar Jennings, of Danby, N. Y., and had three children, 3. Mary Pugsley, m. William R. Humphrey, of Ithaca. N. Y.
Stephen and his wife Rachel Denton also had: 6. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1785, d. at Pine Plains, Apr. 10, 1844, unm., 7. Rachel, b. Oct. 14. 1785, d. at Pine Plains, Mch. 24, 1861, 8. Samantha, h. May 27, 1768, d. at Amenia City, Sept. 27, 1822, unm.
Stephen-Stephen-Nathaniel-James-
John-John.
1. Stephen Reynolds, M.D., son of Stephen Reynolds and Rachel Denton, was born in Amenia, Dutchess county, N. Y., September 1, 1765 (o. s.), July 31, 1765 (n. s.). His class poem written in his freshman year, which is still in existence, is evidence that he went to college, but to which one is unknown. He died in Amsterdam, N. Y., July 8th, 1833, while visiting his nephew, Deodatus Wright, and was buried there.
He studied medicine with James Potter. M. D., at New Fairfield, Connecticut, 1784; removed to Minaville, town of Florida, Mont- gomery county, N. Y., in 1785. and practiced there until May, 1832, when he removed to Schenectady. N. Y., having purchased No. 25
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No. Church street, the next building north of the Dutch Church. He was a celebrated Latin scholar and something of a poet. He was the founder and president of the Wash- ington Benevolent Society, and going to Phil- adelphia he commissioned Sir Gilbert Stewart to paint a replica of his portrait of Washing- ton, which he presented to the Society. When the Society was disbanded the portrait was returned to him, and it is now in the posses- sion of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Frank P. Wilder, of Saratoga (Josephine Voorhees). He was the president of the Montgomery Medical Society, which issued certificates en- titling its members to practice medicine, and was one of the first in this portion of the coun- try to hold clinics.
Portraits of Stephen and his wife Lydia Bartlett, painted by Ames, about 1812, are in possession of their granddaughter, the widow of Rev. William C. Hopkins, of Toledo, Ohio.
He married, at Warrensburgh, Florida, Montgomery county, N. Y., October 29, 1787, Lydia Bartlett, who was born at Lebanon. Connecticut, August 27, 1770, and died at Amsterdam, N. Y., August 27, 1843. Her father was Nathaniel Bartlett, born at Goshen, Conn., November 23, 1727; removed to Flor- ida, N. Y., in 1785, then to Charlton, Sara- toga county, N. Y., died there, and was the son of Capt. Josiah Bartlett (born Marshfield, May 24. 1701, removed to Lebanon, Conn., died March 16, 1782), who married at Marsh- field, Jan. 3, 1723, Mercy Chandler, born in 1705 ; died Feb. 17, 1781 ; she was the dangh- ter of Edmund Chandler, of Duxbury, b. 1680, d. 1721, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1680, d. 1732. Edmund Chandler was the son of Joseph Chandler, died 1666, and Hannah, and grandson of Edmund Chandler. Elizabeth Alden was daughter of Jonathan Alden, and granddaughter of John Alden, b. 1599, May- flower. 1620, d. Sept. 12, 1686, m. Priscilla Mullins, b. 1602, Mayflower, 1620.
Josiah was the son of Ichabod Bartlett, born 1664, married Dec. 28, 1699, Elizabeth Water- man (1679-1708), died Plymouth, 1715. Eliza- beth Waterman was the daughter of Joseph Waterman, b. 1643, d. Jan. 1, 1712, m. 1672. Sarah Snow (b. 1650, d. Dec. II, 1741), and granddaughter of Robert Waterman, m. Dec. II, 1638, Elizabeth Bourne, daughter of Thomas Bourne, b. 1581, d. May 4. 1634.
Ichabod was the son of Benjamin Bartlett. born 1638, married Sarah Brewster. 1656, died 1691. She was daughter of Love Brewster, b. 1607, d. 1650, Mayflower, 1620, m. Mch. 15, 1634, Sarah Collier. He was the son of El- der William Brewster, b. 1560, Mayflower, 1620, d. Apr. 16, 1644.
Benjamin was the son of Robert Bartlett, born in England, in 1603, came to Plymouth in ship "Ann" in 1623, and died in 1672, who married Mercy Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, who came in the Mayflower, and whose wife was Elizabeth Jouatt, b. 1588. d. Oct. 2, 1673.
Lydia Bartlett's mother was Mercy Otis, born in Colchester, Conn., July 3, 1734; mar- ried, Dec. 14, 1752, Nathaniel Bartlett, and was the daughter of Nathaniel Otis (born in Scituate, Jan. 30, 1690, died in 1772), who married Hannah Thacher (born Oct. 9. 1690. died Colchester, 1776), daughter of Col. John Thacher (born Marshfield, Mass., Mch. 17. 1639, at Marblehead, Rep. 1668-1680, d. May 8, 1710, and Lydia Gorham, his wife, b. Nov. II, 1661, at Barnstable, Mass., who was a (laughter of John Gorham, b. at Bernesfield, Northampton, England, Jan. 28, 1621, settled at Marshfield, Mass., later of Barnstable, cap- tured in King Phillip's war, died Feb. 5. 1776, and of Desire Howland, his wife. m. 1643, d. Oct. 13, 1683, who was the daughter of John Howland, b. 1592, Mayflower, 1620, d. Feb. 23. 1673, and Elizabeth Tilley, b. 1607, May- flower, 1620, d. Dec. 21, 1687.
John Gorham was the son of Ralph Gor- man, who settled in Duxbury, 1637.
Col. John Thacher was son of Rev. An- thony Thacher, b. 1587, at Salisbury, England. removed to Holland, removed to Boston, June 3. 1635, removed to Yarmouth 1043, and died there Aug. 22, 1667.
He married, 1635, in England, Elizabeth Jones. Children of Stephen and Lydia Bart- lett : I. Marcus Tullius, b. in Minaville, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1788, died in Albany, N. Y., July II, 1864, married first. Cynthia Herrick, mar- ried second, Albany, May 6, 1823, Elizabeth Ann Dexter (see hereinafter). 2. Betsy, b. Dec. 9, 1790; d. in Amsterdam, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1858, and buried there, married, Amsterdam, Apr. 24, 1811, Dr. Samuel Voorhees ( Van Vorhees ) of that city, b. Nov. 1, 1787, gradu- ate of Union, 1811. He studied medicine with Stephen Reynolds, died Amsterdam. 1870. and had: I. Marcus Tullius, b. May 19. 1812, d. in Puebla, Mexico, Dec. 13, 1844, and buried there. 2. James Leslie Voorhees, h. July 22, 1815, Union College, 1835, d. ummm. at Am- sterdam, N. Y., 1891. 3. Stephen Reynolds Voorhees, b. in Amsterdam, July 13. 1818. died there Nov. 15, 1901. 4. George Max- well Voorhees, b. in Amsterdam, March 16. 1826, died there, Sept. 14, 1900: m. in North- ampton, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1852, Hannah Alex- ander Slocum, b. in Pawling, N. Y., June 5, 1832, died Apr. 3. 1871, three children. No descendants. (See Voorhees family.)
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Stephen and his wife Lydia Bartlett also had : 3. Marcia Phebe, b. Apr. 7, 1794, died in Aurora, Ill., Sept. 11, 1856, m. Aug. I, 1825, Alexander Cruikshank Gibson, b. in Hebron, N. Y., Mch. 6, 1794. mayor of Schen- ectady, N. Y., for many years, died in Au- rora, Ill., Aug. 14, 1874, and had: 1. David Gibson, b. May 27, 1826, d. Aurora, Ill., June 4, 1887. m. at Fairfax, Iowa, Dec. 27. 1877, Laura B. Hedges (b. at Elmira, N. Y., Oct. 4. 1834), and had one child. 2. Charles James Gibson, b. Oct. 2, 1827. Union College, 1846. d. in Aurora, Ill., Apr. 14. 1852. 3. Frank- lin Gibson, b. Mch. 7, 1830, d. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1892; m. Mariaville, N. Y., Mch. 26. 1857. Ann Marilla Marsh, no children. 4. Julia. b. Aug. 19. 1832, m. Aurora, Ill., Jan. 2, 1877, Rev. William C. Hopkins, and had : I. Frank Gibson Hopkins, b. Feb. 25, 1879, at Champaign, Ill.
Marcus Tullins-Stephen-Stephen- Nathaniel-James-John-John.
I. Marcus Tullius, son of Dr. Stephen Rey- nolds and Lydia Bartlett, was born in Mina- ville, Florida township, Montgomery county, N. Y., December 29, 1788; died at his resi- dence, No. 25 No. Pearl street. Albany, N. Y., July 11, 1864, and was buried in the Albany Rural Cemetery.
When he was ten years of age he was sent to the high school at Canajoharie, N. Y., where he remained three years, and on leaving there he entered a collegiate school at Utica, where he was fitted for college. In 1805 he entered Union College, and was graduated, ranking second in the class of 1808. He was an excellent classical student, and also en- joyed the study of philosophy. He began the study of law in the office of Matthias B. Hil- dreth. of Johnstown, Fulton county, New York, who was many years the attorney gen- eral of New York state. He was admitted to the bar February 14. 1811, and early evinced those talents which enabled him to advance rapidly. He practiced at Johnstown for sev- enteen years, where he was compelled to con- tend with the talented lawyer, David Cady. In May, 1828, he removed to Albany, N. Y., where he passed the remainder of his life.
"From the year 1837 down to the adoption of the Code of Procedure, Marcus T. Rey- nolds. Samuel Stevens and Nicholas Hill were regarded impartially as the three most prom- inent lawyers in New York state. It was said that a reference to the reports of cases argued in the appellate courts of the state from 1817 to 1853. when he retired, will show that Marcus T. Reynolds was counsel in more cases adjudicated in the supreme court and the court for the correction of errors than al-
most any other lawyer of this state. During a period of twenty-six years he was second to none as a barrister, and the story of his career during that time is the history of the supreme court, court of correction of errors and the court of appeals.
"He had the faculty of passing from grave to gay, from lively to severe, with surprising facility. He carried his cases by being thor- oughly imbued with them himself, and then, by a clear and well defined statement to the court and jury, imparting the impression that he had no doubt of the right of his case. Be- fore a jury he had a sort of magnetic power, by which he photographed his own ideas and reasons upon the minds of the jury." (See Proctor's "Bench and Bar," and "Proceed- ings of the Albany Bar on the Death of Mar- cus T. Reynolds," Albany Evening Journal, July 15, 1864.
He was confirmed by the senate as justice of supreme court, July 7, 1849, and was also elected congressman. Within a year or two of the operation of the first passenger railway train, in 1831, he became concerned in the organization of steam roads, and when on May 5, 1836, several small lines consolidated as the Albany & West Stockbridge railroad, the last line to the west of what later be- came the Boston & Albany road, he was elected president of the new company. He was also chosen president of the Utica & Schenectady railroad, later merged into the New York Central lines, and was president of the Albany & Northern railroad. He was a director of the Albany Insurance Company from 1835 to 1863: a director of the New York State Bank from June, 1840, to July, 1861 ; a founder of the Albany Hospital, or- ganized in 1849; a founder and trustee of the Albany Orphan Asylum, organized May 19. 1830; an organizer and fourth largest con- tributor to the Albany Rural Cemetery, and one of the largest contributors to the found- ing of the Dudley Observatory in 1852: elected a vestryman of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 1842, and advanced to warden in 1843, serving through 1860, and chairman of its most important committees, e. g., March 25, 1845. to sell the church land on Maiden Lane. Pine and Lodge streets: 1845, to pro- cure a new rectory : 1855. to secure funds for the new church edifice which was consecrated October 4, 1860.
He resided a long time at No. 7 Park Place. Albany, which site was taken about 1870 for the new capitol. llis last residence was at the south east corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl street, where he practiced law and lived with his family.
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Many years before his death he was thrown from his horse, the fall producing an injury to one of his knee-pans, of such serious na- ture that amputation became necessary. He was immediately carried into a store, where a skilled surgeon determined that an opera- tion must inevitably follow, stating further that perhaps it had better be done on the following day. "I wish you to proceed in- stantly, for I cannot have the matter upon my mind," said Mr. Reynolds. The surgeon obeyed. This was before the day of either chloroform or ether, but the patient sub- mitted without a groan. From this time on he generally conducted his cases sitting.
Marcus T. Reynolds married (first) Cyn- thia Herrick, born at Amenia, Dutchess county, N. Y., December 26, 1794, died at Amsterdam, N. Y., November 25, 1820, and was buried there. She was the daughter of Benjamin Herrick, died at Amenia, March 11, 1810, aged 54, who was the son of Benjamin Herrick, died at Amenia, January 10, 1779, aged 46, and Sarah Denton, died at Amenia, December 8, 1778, aged 47, who was the sis- ter of Rachel Denton, the wife of Stephen Reynolds, where her ancestry is given. All of the above are buried at the City grave- yard (now Smithfield), Dutchess county, N. Y., where the inscriptions were copied in 1897.
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