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I. William W., born September 11, 1818; married (first) Eliza S. Scudder, who died November 10, 1860; (second) Sarah Amelia Coles, who died July 27, 1865; (third) Anna, of Hewlett.
2. Judith Fleet; married Isaac Hull.
3. Esther; married Ruben Rolf.
4. Elizabeth; married Ruben Rolf (perhaps as second wife).
5. James; married Mary Frances.
6. Arnold, of whom further.
7. John; married Sarah Slote. (Ibid., pp. 228, 229.)
(VIII) ARNOLD WOOD, son of John and Deborah (Fleet) Wood, was born in Huntington, Long Island, February 24, 1832, and died at Charles City Court House, Virginia, December 13, 1863. During the Civil War he enlisted in the First New York Mounted Rifles, and died in the service, being killed in an assault on a squad of rebels at the Charles City Court House. Prior to the war he lived in
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New York City. He married, May 18, 1853, Sarah Louise Reynolds. (Reynolds VIII.) Children :
I. Elizabeth Bancker, of whom further.
2. Ida Esther, born July 20, 1862.
(Howard James Banker : "A Partial History and Genealogical Record of the Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 258, 259. Col. Weygant : "The Hull Family in America," pp. 116, 180.)
(IX) ELIZABETH BANCKER WOOD, daughter of Arnold and Sarah Louise (Reynolds) Wood, was born May 17, 1860. She married, January 8, 1880, John Gribbel, son of James and Anna (Simmons) Gribbel, of St. Austells, Cornwall, England.
John Gribbel was born in Hudson City, New Jersey, March 29, 1858. He attended the College of the City of New York until 1876 and then entered the employ of the Importers' and Traders' National Bank of New York City. From 1877 until 1883 he was with the Leather Manufacturers' Bank, but at the end of that time went to Philadelphia as agent for Harris, Griffin & Company, manufac- turers of gas meters. When this firm reorganized in 1890, as John J. Griffin & Company, Mr. Gribbel was admitted to a junior partnership, and two years later was sole owner of the business. For many years this concern was his chief occupa- tion, but gradually he acquired other interests of importance and has become one of the men of his adopted city whose name and opinions are of weight and one whose cooperation is valuable in corporation management. He is president of the American Meter Company and the Tampa Gas Company; vice-president of the First District Realization Corporation, Philadelphia; director of the Insurance Company of North America, Kings County Lighting Company (New York), Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Boston), Pennsylvania Sugar Company, Philadelphia Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Philadelphia National Bank, Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, Real Estate Trust Company, Reliance Insur- ance Company, Securities Company of North America, John B. Stetson Company, Victory Insurance Company, Alliance Casualty Company, Alliance Insurance Com- pany, Canadian Meter Company (Hamilton, Ontario), City Service Company, Constitution Indemnity Company, Curtis Publishing Company, Exchange National Bank (Tampa, Florida), Fire Association of Philadelphia, and Indemnity Insur- ance Company of North America. He is a member of the American Gas Insti- tute and the Association of Illuminating Engineers. Many years ago he became interested in the Curtis Publishing Company of Philadelphia, of which he is a director, and until 1912 was a partner of Cyrus H. K. Curtis in the ownership of the "Public Ledger." In 1914, Mr. Gribbel resigned as vice-president, leaving the management in the hands of Mr. Curtis. Politically, Mr. Gribbel is a Repub- lican and in December, 1914, was elected president of the Union League of Phila- delphia, retiring at the expiration of three terms in that office. His other clubs are the Lotos of New York; the University, Art, City, Five o'Clock, and Bache- lors' Barge of Philadelphia. He also belongs to the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, serving as a member and vice-president of the council. His religious membership is in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a trustee of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, which university conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, He also received, in 1916, from Temple University of
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Philadelphia, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Apart from business his greatest interest is in the study and collection of American Colonial historical docu- ments, and of seventeenth century English books and engravings, valuable for their rarity and their intrinsic worth. The children of John and Elizabeth Bancker (Wood) Gribbel are:
I. Wakeman G. (W. Griffin), born December 24, 1880; married Margaret Douglas Latta; children : i. Margaret Douglas. ii. Elizabeth Bancker. iii Catharine Latta. iv. John (2). v. James Latta (twin). vi. William Griffin (twin).
2. John B. (J. Bancker), born November 2, 1884; married Louise Heebner.
3. Idella Louise, born August 19, 1888; married J. Aubrey McCurdy; children: i. James Arrison McCurdy. ii. John Gribbel. iii. Richard Bancker.
4. Charles Blodget, born November 24, 1893, died April 2, 1898.
5. Elizabeth, born September 25, 1897; married Woodward W. Corkran; children: i. Eliza beth Bancker Gribbel. ii. Ann Simmons. iii. Woodward Withgott.
(Family data.)
(The Reynolds Line).
Reynold, or Reynolds, is derived from the old Christian name and signifies "son of Reynold or Renaud." It was one of the most popular font-names of the surname period and is found in most early records.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.")
(I) JOHN REYNOLDS was born in England about 1612. He is thought to have sailed from the Port of London or Ipswich and was in Watertown, Massachusetts, and made a freeman there May 6, 1635. There is some tradition that he was possibly a brother of James, of North Kingstown; William, of Providence, and Robert, of Boston. The only other mention of him in Watertown is in a land grant, July 25, 1636, which "grant" implies that he was the original and first white owner of the land and was in Watertown at its founding in 1630. He later moved to Wethersfield and then to Stamford, Connecticut. The last mention of him is in a deed in 1651, and it is not known where he moved to at that time, nor when he died. He married Sarah, born about 1614, died in Stamford, August 31, 1657. Children :
I. Elizabeth, born about 1634-35, died before 1705; married, July 15, 1654, Peter Ferris.
2. Jonathan, born about 1635-36, died in January, 1673-74; married, about 1656, Rebecca Hensted.
3. John, of whom further.
(Marion Hobart Reynolds : "The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds" (1630 ?- 1923).)
(II) JOHN REYNOLDS, son of John and Sarah Reynolds, was born probably in Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1638, and died in Greenwich, Connecticut, between November and December, 1701. His will was filed at Fairfield, Connecti- cut, December 17, 1701. On December 20, 1670, he was one of nine to receive land in Lower Horseneck Meadows and on February 4, 1686, received a grant of land in Greenwich. In 1688, the Greenwich inventory placed him as the wealthiest inhabitant. He was the first magistrate there; was King's commis- sioner from 1690-97; and justice of the peace in 1687. He married, at Green- wich, in 1668, Judith Palmer, who died before August, 1716. Children :
I. John, born about 1670, died in December, 1732.
2. Judith, born about 1672, died after 1734; married, December 10, 1692, Samuel Betts.
3. James, of whom further.
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4. Mary, born about 1679; married Peter Palmer.
5. Jonathan, born 1682, died in 1709; married Mary Mead.
6. Joshua, born about 1685, died in 1765.
7. David, born about 1687, died in 1750.
(Ibid., pp. 31-40.)
(III) CAPTAIN JAMES REYNOLDS, son of John and Judith (Palmer ) Reynolds, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1674, and died in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, February 14, 1767. He was buried in the Smithfield Burying Ground there as "James Reynolds, Esq.," where his stone still stands. He was captain of the Train Band, Greenwich, 1728. ("Colonial Records of Connecticut," Vol. 1726-35, p. 150.) He was deputy from Greenwich in 1721-24, 1727-33, 1735-38. His many deeds recorded in Greenwich show him to be a large land- holder. He married, in 1697, Sarah Holmes. ( Holmes IV.) It is known that Cap- tain James Reynolds married Sarah Holmes. From records of the Holmes family, she was too young to be the mother of his first-born children. However, the mother of Nathaniel is recorded as Sarah, and it is probable that this was Sarah Holmes. Children, born in Greenwich, Connecticut :
1. Sarah, born in 1698.
2. James, born July 6, 1700, died June 2, 1773; married Phebe Fowler.
3. Nathaniel, of whom further.
4. Mary, born February 9, 1704-05.
5. Gideon, born in 1706, died in 1769; married Bethia.
6. Justus, born in 1708, died in 1747; married Elizabeth Sackett.
7. Jeremiah, born about 1711, died in 1769; married Jemima Brown.
(Ibid., pp. 49-52.)
(IV) NATHANIEL REYNOLDS, son of James and Sarah (Holmes ) Reynolds, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, February 20, 1702-03, where his birth is recorded in the Common Place Book, and died in 1748. He was elected constable of the town on December 27, 1728. He married Ruth Purdy, of Rye, New York, on January 1, 1728-29. Children :
I. Nathaniel, of whom further.
2. Francis, born July 8, 1731.
3. Ruth, born about 1733, died after 1760; married a Merritt.
4. Solomon, born about 1735.
5. Anna, born about 1737; married Samuel Palmer.
6. Stephen, born December 1, 1740, died August 17, 1815; married, in 1763, Rachel Denton.
7. Hannah, born in 1742; married Jonathan Fiske.
(Ibid., pp. 70-72.)
(V) NATHANIEL REYNOLDS, JR., son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Purdy) Rey- nolds, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, December 8, 1729, and died at Cross River, New York, in 1805. He removed to Cross River, Westchester County, New York, and in the 1790 census for Salem, New York, is listed with one son over sixteen, one under sixteen, and four females. He was a farmer in Cross River, and built his house there in 1766. He married, in 1753, Sarah. Children :
I. Nathaniel, born February 22, 1754, died September 21, 1843; married Mrs. Hannah (Todd) Cooley.
2. Jared, born in Lower Salem, New York: married Huldah Cross.
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3. Benjamin ; married, May 15, 1782, Abigail Murphy; was in Revolution.
4. Ferris ; married, September 7, 1786, Lydia Avery.
5. Ezra, of whom further.
6. Samantha; married, October 15, 1778, a Bigelow.
7. Daughter, married a Mead.
8. Daughter.
(Ibid., p. 103.)
(VI) EZRA REYNOLDS, son of Nathaniel and Sarah Reynolds, was born in Salem, New York, and died in New York City in 1824. He was a resident of New York City, and the administration of his estate was issued November 15, 1824, to his son, Justus. He married, in Salem, New York, June 6, 1780, Sarah Bush. Children :
I. Justus, of whom further.
2. Sands.
(Ibid. "New York City Letters of Administration," Book XX, p. 194. "Thirty-second Reunion of the Reynolds Family Association," p. 33. Supplemental claim of Elizabeth Bancker (Wood) Gribbel, through Captain James Reynolds.)
(VII) JUSTUS REYNOLDS, son of Ezra and Sarah (Bush) Reynolds, was born in Salem, New York, in 1790. He married, in 1814, Martha Jane Bancker. ( Bancker VI.) Children :
I. James Bancker, born in 1816, died in 1846.
2. William Bancker, born in 1818, died in 1877; married, in 1837, Sarah M. Hyatt.
3. Maria Wakeman, born September 5, 1820, died August 21, 1902; married, in 1855, John Jacob Griffin, of Philadelphia.
4. Ezra, died young.
5. Ezra, died young.
6. Elizabeth Bancker, born in 1825, died in 1897; married, in 1843, Cromwell T. White.
7. Adrian, born in 1827, died in 1905; married, in 1845, Mary Barnes.
8. Catherine Elizabeth, born in 1831, died in 1860; married, in 1852, Charles Grandison Waterbury.
9. Abraham Bancker, born in 1832, died in 1879; married, in 1849, Caroline Sturges.
10. Sarah Louise, of whom further.
(Howard James Banker: "A Partial History and Genealogical Record of the Bancker or Banker Families of America," pp. 258-59. Supplemental claim of Elizabeth Bancker (Wcod) Gribbel through Captain James Reynolds.)
(VIII) SARAH LOUISE REYNOLDS, daughter of Justus and Martha Jane (Bancker) Reynolds, was born July 1, 1834, and died January 15, 1921. She married Arnold Wood. (Wood VIII.)
(Ibid.)
(The Holmes Line).
The old Scandinavians used Holm to designate one who lived on a river island, and Anglo-Saxon forms are almost identical in spelling and in meaning. It is evi- dent also that some families were given the name from another origin, that of the holly tree or holm-oak. The name occurs in an old Anglo-Saxon chronicle as early as 902 A. D.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.")
(I) FRANCIS HOLMES was probably born in County York, England, about 1600, and died in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1675. He came to America about
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1635, and first settled in Massachusetts. From there he removed to Stamford, Connecticut. He married Ann. Children :
I. John, of whom further.
2. Stephen, born about 1632, died in Stamford, Connecticut, May 15, 1710; married Mar- tha, who died March 13, 1728.
3. Ann, born in 1634; married Samuel Dean, of Stamford, Connecticut.
4. Richard, born about 1637, died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1704; married Sarah.
(Spencer P. Mead: "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecti- cut," pp. 566-68.)
(II) JOHN HOLMES, son of Francis and Ann Holmes, was born about 1630- 1635, and died July 6, 1703-29. He moved to Bedford, Westchester County, in 1680. His name appears in 1690 as one of the resident proprietors of Bedford, New York. He married, in Stamford, December 3 or March II, 1659, Rachel Parcett Waterbury, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1639, daughter of John and Rose (Lockwood) Waterbury. Children :
I. John, born October 8, 1660, died young.
2. Mary, born September 25, 1662; married, December 1, 1692, Daniel S. Clason.
3. Stephen, of whom further.
4. Sarah, born about 1667; married, February 25, 1691, Jonathan Miller.
5. Rachel, born December 7, 1669.
6. John, born, October 18, 1670, died before June 8, 1763; married Jemima.
7. Richard, born about 1672-73; married, about 1691, Mary Miller, daughter of John Miller.
8. Jonathan, born about 1674; married, before 1702, Dorothy.
9. Rose, born about 1679, died in 1750; married, April 9, 1702, John West Cott.
IO. David, born about 1682; married Ruth.
II. Joseph, born about 1683; married Joanna.
(Spencer P. Mead: "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecti- cut," pp. 566-68, 673. Rev. Robert Bolton: "History of Westchester County, New York," p. 736. Marion H. Reynolds, A. B. and Mrs. Anna C. Rippier : "History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds, 1630-1923," pp. 49-52. E. B. Huntington : "History of Stamford, Connecticut," p. 161. Grace H. F. Edwin : "Jonathan Waterbury Genealogy," pp. 98 and 115.)
(III) STEPHEN HOLMES, son of John and Rachel Parcett (Waterbury) Holmes, was born at Stamford, Connecticut, January 4 (14), 1664-65, died in Greenwich about 1721 (when his estate was settled by his two sons, Isaac and Stephen).
He married, November 18, 1686, Mary Hobby. (Hobby II.) Children :
I. Sarah, of whom further.
2. Jonathan, born about 1688, died in 1750; married (first), July 29, 1907, Sarah Seely, who died February 27, 1727, daughter of Jonas Seely.
3. Stephen, Jr., born about 1690; married (first) Sarah Green, who died September 15, 1713; married (second), February 27, 1717, Martha Mead, daughter of Jonathan Mead, who was born December 11, 1693. He moved to Vermont after his second marriage.
4. Benjamin, born about 1692, died in 1745.
5. Mary ; married, in 1716, Caleb Mead, born in 1694, died in 1733.
6. Isaac, born about 1700, died in Greenwich, in 1793; married Abigail Mead, who was born in 1704, daughter of Ebenezer Mead.
(S. P. Mead: "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich," pp. 551 and 566. "Waterbury Genealogy," pp. 98 and 115. Marion Hobart Reynolds, A. B., and Mrs. Anna C. Rippier : "His- tory and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds, 1630-1923," p. 50. Spencer P. Mead : "Mead Family," pp. 273, 298, 317, and 336.)
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HOBBY.
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WRIGHT.
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(IV) SARAH HOLMES was the daughter of Stephen and Mary (Hobby) Holmes. She married Captain James Reynolds. ( Reynolds III.)
(Alvah Reynolds : "Partial Genealogy of John Reynolds," born in England, 1612, sailed from Ipswich, County Suffolk, p. 94.)
(The Hobby Line).
Hobby, Huby, or Hobbe, found its beginning in a Danish root, hob standing for a herd, and by meaning a town. A possibility exists also that some Hobby families drew their name originally from the French nickname for hawk or falcon, which was Hobbie or Hobby.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) JOHN HOBBY was the first of the Hobby family to settle in Greenwich, Old Town, Connecticut. He was born, probably in England, in 1632, and died at Greenwich, Connecticut, in May, 1707. The first authentic account that can be obtained of him anywhere in the New England colonies is on October 11, 1659, when he testified before the Magistrate's Court at New Haven, in reference to a horse detained by George Slawson, of Stamford, Connecticut. He might have been at Newtown, Long Island, in 1656. He was one of the original patentees named in the patent granted to the town of Greenwich by the General Assembly in May, 1665. On March 16, 1666, he was granted a swamp so far as it adjoins his lot. He was granted part of the uppermost meadows lying south of the West- chester path on December 3, 1670.
John Hobby married, about 1655, but his wife's name is not known. Children:
I. John, born about 1657, died March 12, 1693; unmarried.
2. Thomas, born about 1660, died Angust 6, 1732; married Rebecca.
3. Elizabeth, born about 1662; married Ebenezer Prindle.
4. Hannah, born about 1664; married Cornelius Burnham.
5. Martha, born about 1666; married Thomas Morehouse, Jr.
6. Rebecca, born about 1669, died before 1707; married November 1-8, 1686, Samuel Hardy.
7. Mary, of whom further.
8. Benjamin, born about 1675, died in 1744, unmarried. On May 10, 1697, he was granted ten acres of land at Horseneck, and on January 11, 1703, bought land from his father.
9. Rachel, born about 1678; married Henry James.
Io. Jonathan, born about 1682; married Sarah Mead, daughter of Ebenezer Mead, Decem- ber II, 17II.
(James Savage: "Genealogical Dictionary of New England," Vol. II, p. 437. Spencer P. Mead : "Ye Historie of Ye Towne of Greenwich," pp. 455 and 458. S. P. Mead : "Abstract of Church and Town Records of Greenwich," p. 23.)
(II) MARY HOBBY, daughter of John Hobby, was born about 1670 (or 1662), died after 1713. She married (first) Stephen Holmes. (Holmes III.) She mar- ried (second) as his second wife, Benjamin Green, February 13, 1713, who died March 6, 1726. Benjamin Green was the son of John and Mary Green, of Stam- ford. She received a deed of gift from her father on September 15, 1693.
(Spencer P. Mead: "Ye Historie of Ye Towne of Greenwich," pp. 551 and 566.)
(The Fleet Line).
The surname Fleet is of local origin, and is found mostly in the dioceses of Lincoln, Salisbury, and Winchester. John de Flete was of County Lincoln in
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1273, and Fulco de Flete was rector of West Lynn, County Norfolk, in 1340. The immediate ancestry of our family is not known.
(Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.")
(I) CAPTAIN THOMAS FLEET was in Huntington, Long Island, New York, as early as 1660, and is said to have come from England in his own vessel, landing at Cold Spring Harbor at a place later called Fleet's Hole. He brought his family with him and developed extensive commercial interests, having as many as forty vessels on the seas. In 1670 he was an overseer of the town; in 1672 was one of the owners of the "10 farmes"; in 1681, with Isaac Platt, was chosen deputy ; 1684 was one of three commissioners to hold court; in 1684 was one of the com- mittee to procure patent. Thomas Fleet had a son :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
("American Ancestry," Vol. XI, p. 5. "History of Suffolk County, New York," p. 5.)
(II) THOMAS FLEET, son of Captain Thomas Fleet, was probably born in England. He married, November 1, 1681, Esther Parrott. Children :
I. Elizabeth; married a Vernon, of Newport, Rhode Island.
2. Parrott.
3. Simon, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) SIMON FLEET, son of Thomas and Esther (Parrott) Fleet, was born after 1681, and died in Jamaica, West Indies, in April, 1732. He married Hannah Bailey, born October 7, 1703, died June 16, 1729, daughter of Samuel Bailey (or Bayles), and granddaughter of John and Ruth Bayles. Children :
I. Esther, born March 4, 1726, baptized May 29, 1726; married, September 18, 1751, Joseph Sandford, of Newport, Rhode Island.
2. Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid. Moses L. Scudder: "Records of the First Church in Huntington, Long Island," 1723-79, p. 25.)
(IV) THOMAS FLEET, son of Simon and Hannah (Bailey or Bayles) Fleet, was born April 3, 1728, baptized May 19, 1728, and died May 10, 1784. He mar- ried, in 1753, Deborah Underhill. (Underhill V.) Children :
I. Arnold, of whom further.
2. John, born April 13, 1757, died January 12, 1814; married (license June 14, 1781), Margery Tobias.
3. Simon, born August 1, 1758.
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