Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 5

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1026

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faithfully championed, for, naturally of a retiring disposition, and averse to public prominence, he had steadfastly declined the mayoralty and other important positions which he was solicited to ac- cept. His considerate humanitarianismi found eloquent expression in his efforts in behalf of temperance. His voice was ever heard in denun- ciation of the evils of the liquor traffic, persistent- ly opposed the granting of licenses, and the sa- loon keepers greatly dreaded and feared him. But he went far in advance of the great mass of tem- perance agitators. He gave his personal effort to the reclamation of the drunkard, and rescued many a one from a life of poverty and shame, and aided him to an honest and happy establish- ment in life.

Mr. Carter was twice married, first, August 5, 1839, to Susan S. Spaulding, of Abington, Connecticut, about the time he had completed his trade, and two years before he located in Provi- dence. The year of his coming (1841) a child was born to them, but death claimed the young mother a month later, and in the following sun- mer the little one also died.

Mr. Carter married (second) August 7, 1843, Olive Ingalls, of Canterbury, Connecticut, a double cousin of his first wife. Her ancestry is traced to the early colonial period, her emigrant ancestor being Edmund Ingalls, son of Robert Ingalls. and grandson of Henry Skirbeck. Ed- mund Ingalls was a native of England, born in Lincolnshire in 1598. He came to Salem, Mas- sachusetts, in 1628, with Governor Endicott's company. In 1629, with his brother Francis and four others, he founded the settlement at Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1648, while traveling on horseback to Boston, he came to his death by drowning in the Saugus river, the accident re- sulting from a defective bridge. His son Henry, born in 1627, died 1719, was a landowner in Ips- wich, and was one of the first settlers of Andover, where he bought land from the Indians. making payment with clothing and trinkets. He was a wealthy man for the times, and took a leading part in town affairs. He married Mary Osgood, July 6, 1653. a daughter of John Osgood, who was the first representative to the general court from Andover, in 1651. It is the first record of a marriage in Andover. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. Simon Bradstreet, following the Puritan doctrine and belief in marriage as a civil compact. Their son Henry, like his father, was prominent in colonial affairs. Joseph Ingalls, son of Henry, Jr., was born in Andover in 1697, and married Phobe, daughter of John Farnham.

Their son, Joseph, Jr., born 1723, removed to Pomfret, Connecticut ; he married Sarah Abbott, daughter of Paul and Elizabeth (Gray) Abbott, and died in 1790.

Their son, Peter Ingalls, born 1752, died 1783, served in the war of the Revolution. He married Sarah Ashley, and the homestead built by him is still standing and remains in the owner- ship of descended relatives of his daughter, at Elliott. Connecticut. His son Marvin, who served in the war of 1812, born 1789, married Amelia Spaulding, who came from an old colo- nial family. Her father, James Spaulding, lived at Windham, and was one of Putnam's militia that marched to Lexington, and was also in the company that marched to Cambridge in the early period of the revolutionary war, and his name appears on the pension roll of Revolutionary sol- diers in 1815. He was descended from Edward Spaulding, whose family records go back to an early period of English history, and numbered at least one eminent divine among its members. Edward Spaulding settled in Braintree, Massa- chusetts, between 1630 and 1633, where he was prominent in town affairs, being a selectman and also for many years a surveyor of highways. He was a landed proprietor and left a large estate. The crest of the Spaulding family bears the motto "Hinc mihi salus."

Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter had three children : Amelia Maria, Pulaski Pliny, and Marvin Phineas.

Amelia Maria Carter was born April 29. 1844. She married William DeWitt Kennedy, February II, 1868.

Mr. Kennedy is of Scotch-Irish and French- Dutch ancestry. One of his ancestors of his mother's side was chaplain in Cromwell's army. His father was James Schofield Kennedy. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Schofield) Kennedy. The father of Thomas was John, whose family was of Scotch-Irish lineage. He was born April 24, 1739, and came to America from Bangor, Ireland, in 1763. He was of the Scotch Presbyterian faith. He settled in Kings- ton, New York, and later married Mrs. Josiah (Armstrong) Van Fleet, widow. Soon after his marriage in 1780 they moved to Wyoming Valley.

His mother was Pauline Javne (the original form of the family name being "De Jeanne") the daughter of Samuel and Elsie Stephens Jayne, the latter being the daughter of the Rev. David Jayne, whose wife was Elizabeth DeWitt, a cousin of the wife of General James Clinton, of Revolutionary fame. The grandfather of Mrs ..

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Kennedy, the Rev. David Jayne, served in a New Jersey regiment in the Revolution, and took up a large and valuable section of "soldier land" near Lake Cayuga, New York. Her grandfather, Ebenezer Stephens, entered the Revolutionary army at the age of seventeen, and remained in service the entire seven years of the war. He drew a pension at Wilkes-Barre as long as he lived.

Mr. Kennedy is a director in the Scranton Savings Bank, and is otherwise prominent in the business life of the city. He was many years a trustee in the Providence Presbyterian church, and now serves in the same capacity in the church at Green Ridge, his present place of residence. He served in the war of the rebellion in the Thir- tieth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, during the emergency, when the state was invaded, and the last year of the war as quartermaster's clerk in the Fiftieth New York Regiment (Engineer Corps), and is now a member of Ezra Griffith Post, No. 139, G. A. R.

Mrs. Kennedy graduated from East Green- wich Seminary, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. in 1865. She has been for many years interested in the philanthropic movements of the city, par- ticularly in connection with the Home for the Friendless. She has been on its board of man- agers for twenty-three years, and has held many offices from secretary to president. For some years she has been vice-president of the Young Woman's Christian Association. For thirty years she was an active member of the Providence Presbyterian church, but since 1893 has been identified with the Presbyterian church at Green Ridge.

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are the parents of four children : I. William Pulaski, born October 30, 1869, graduated from Scranton high school, class of 1889. He is teller of the People's Bank of Scranton. He married Georgina, daughter of George R. Kittle, who was also a graduate of Scranton high school, class of 1889. 2. Dr. Lucius Carter, born September 8, 1872, gradu- ated from Princeton College in 1895, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1898, and is now a practicing physician in Scranton. 3. Kathrine May, born November 11, 1875, graduated at School of Lack- awanna, and is the wife of Dr. William A. Sher- man, of Newport, Rhode Island, who is de- scended from one of the first settlers of Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard College in 1899, and from the medical department in 1902. Harold Sherman, born November 28, 1884, 4.

graduated at Blair, (New Jersey) Academy, class. of 1905.

Pulaski Pliny, second child of Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter, was born June 6, 1849. He was educated at East Greenwich, Rhode Is- land, and at Fort Edward Institute. He is largely interested in real estate enterprises, and is owner of the large office building at the corner of Adams avenue and Linden street, Scranton. He married, June 6, 1882, Venitia White, born Feb- ruary II, 1862, daughter of Joseph M. and Phebe A. (Cole) White, daughter of Immanual Cole, the latter of excellent English descent. Joseph White was the son of Ephraim White, of White's Mills, near Honesdale, who was the son of Ezekiel White (Third) the son of Eze- kiel White, Jr., and Sarah Vinton White. He was the son of Ezekiel White ( Ist) who mar- ried Abigail Blanchard. Ezekiel ( Ist) was the son of Captain Ebenezer White, whose wife was Hannah Phillips. Captain Ebenezer was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and was a son of Thomas White (wife's name unknown) who. was admitted a freeman in Massachusetts colony 1635-6. Place of nativity in England unknown. He was among the early settlers of Weymouth. and a member of the church there; many years a selectman, often on important committees, and also commanded a military company, and was representative to the general court in 1637, 1640, 1657 and 1671.

There were born to Pulaski Pliny and Veni- tia (White) Carter, six children: 1. Pulaski, born June 2, 1883, a graduate of the Scranton high school, class of 1903, now a sophomore at the Boston School of Technology. 2. Phebe, born September 14, 1885, graduate of the Scranton high school, class of 1904. 3. Ina, born March I, 1888, died January 26, 1897. 4. Olive Ingalls, born November 9, 1890, senior in Scranton high school. 5. Ada, born November 3, 1893. 6. Roy, born July 13, 1899.

Marvin Phineas, youngest child of Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter, was born November 28, 1857. ,He was educated at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He is one of the successful busi- ness men in Scranton, the owner of valuable real estate, a director in the People's Bank, and other- wise actively identified with the business of the city. He married Minnie Parmelia Murphy, born June 26, 1863, daughter of Jolin Murphy, of Warrenville, Connecticut. He was several times elected to the state legislature, and is a man of business prominence in the town where he re- sides. Her mother was Mary, daughter of Ben-

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jamin Spaulding, descended from Edmund, who came to Braintree, Massachusetts, about 1630. To them were born three children: I. Marvin Clarence, born July 29, 1885, a graduate of the high school, class of 1905. freshman in Lafayette College. 2. Lucius, born November 20, 1887, died June 3, 1889. 3. Marguerite, born May 30, 1889, a senior in Scranton high school.

Mr. Carter, the father of the family above named, whose career as a man of affairs and a humanitarian has been treated of in the foregoing narrative, met with a dreadful accident from the effects of which he never entirely recovered, and which doubtless shortened his life. In Novem- ber, 1876. while driving in his carriage, his vehi- cle was driven into on each side by two teams driven by drunken racers. Mr. Carter was caught in the wreckage and so seriously injured that for some days his life was despaired of. His excellent constitution, unimpaired by reason of his abstemious habits, enabled him to resume his accustomed avocations, but he never regained his old vigor. He died October 13. 1884, aged sev- enty-one years, leaving to survive him his widow and their three children. His widow died De- cember 8, 1898.

REYNOLDS FAMILY. The purpose of this narrative of the ancestors and descendants of James and Deborah Reynolds, of North Kings- ton, Rhode Island, compiled by H. C. Reynolds, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was to place upon the pages of a printed book of considerable circula- tion a portion of a great mass of data in the hope that thus the records might be preserved. It may be interesting only to those who realize that "in treasuring up the memorials of the fathers, we best manifest our regard for posterity." It may be, too, that notwithstanding the errors and omis- sions inseparable from a work of this character, that this very imperfect and incomplete sketch may lead to corrections and additions of great value in the future work of the genealogist of this large family, descendants of which will be found in every state in the Union. The National Reynolds Family Association meets annually, usually in Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island. Its purpose is to perfect the family his- tory. Interested persons will receive valuable in- formation by joining this association, of which Mir. Howard I. Reynolds, 1827 Tioga street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is secretary.

Authorities differ as to the authenticity of the conclusions of J. O. Austin, of Providence, Rhode Island, the eminent authority, who, in his work

styled "The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Families," states that William Reynolds was the first progenitor of the numerous Amer- ican families bearing the name. It is to be noted that, while he places William, of Providence, at the head of the family, he nevertheless begins his numerical notation with James (I), of whom more hereafter. "American Ancestry" also gives James as the son of William, of Kingstown, Rhode Island (1647). However, as the contro- versy at this time is unsettled, it may not be amiss to briefly outline his career that there may be pre- served some incidents of his life, and that the reader may judge for himself of the merits there- of, and if of an inquiring mind he may seek a solition of the question and, finding it, clear up any which may remain undispelled.

It is fairly settled that William Reynolds was born 1596 in Gloucestershire, England. He mar- ried Ruth , 1615. Of his ancestors little is known, and it will be best not to attempt to give them until more authentic information is obtained. It is stated that he came by way of Bermuda, and he is said to have been a member of of the church of Salem. In 1637 he is said to have bought, for 2s. 6 p., certain lands at Prov- idence, Rhode Island, and is said to have engaged in business with Roger Williams. He was the second of the thirteen signers to the compact, which is as follows: "We, whose names are hereunder, desire to inhabit the town of Rhode Island and do promise to subject ourselves in ac- tive and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major as- sent of the present inhabitants, masters of fami- lies, incorporated together into town fellowship, and such others whom they admit unto them, only in civil things." The italics are those of the writer of this article. Arnold states that these signers were the second comers.1 It is worthy of more than passing note that this declaration meant what it said. Religious liberty in Rhode Island was apparently of first importance after an orderly government had been established. The influence of Rhode Island was potent when the fundamental law of this nation was later estab- lished, in securing a constitutional declaration which guaranteed to the freeman of all times in this land the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.

I. Arnold's "History Rhode Island," vol. i, p. 103. Field's "History Rhode Island," vol. iii, p. 8. For facsimile see "Proceedings Rhode Island Historical Society." 1880-81.

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On July 27, 1640, he and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for a firm government. This was a more elaborate document than the first." but it preserved all the essentials of the first com- pact. November 17, 1641, he and twelve others complained in a letter to Massachusetts of the "insolent and riotous carriage of Samuel Gorton and his company," and therefore the petitioners desire Massachusetts to "lend us a neighborlike helping hand, etc."3 An interesting discussion of the cause which led to this appeal will be found in the work cited. On January 27, 1644, he and others of Providence testified as to the outrage on Warwick settlers by Massachusetts. On Janu- ary 27, 1645, he sold Robert Williams all his houses and homeshare and three small pieces of meadow. On the same date he sold to William Field a share of six acres on Fox's Hill. April 27, 1646, he sold to Thomas Lawton his valley containing eighty acres and three acres of meadow, "provided that if in case hereafter the town shall be put to any charge about Indians, that he or they that doth possess the land shall pay their share." After the sale of his land at Providence, Rhode Island, it is supposed he set- tled at Kingston, Rhode Island, where he passed away.

James Reynolds (1), born May 13, 1625 (by some genealogists said to have been in England. 1617) ; married Deborah - , 1646; she was born 1620. He died 1700-02, and his will was probated 1702. James Reynolds settled at North Kingston, Rhode Island, coming from Plymouth Colony about 1645.+ It is probable that he first settled north of Smith's Trading House, and near what is now Stony Lane road. It would appear that he with others were accommodated with lands in the northern part of Kingstown, ad- joining the East Greenwich line and adjoining the French settlement. May 13, 1665, he and others petitioned the assembly for accommoda- tion of land in King's Province. He took the oath of allegiance May 24, 1671. He was made a constable 1671. In 1677 ten thousand acres in the vicinity were assigned to be divided between one hundred men. James and his son, then of age, drew shares in this land. In 1687, according to the order of Governor Andros (see Potter's

"Narragansett," p. 221), he and his son were liv- ing in this remote settlement and were assigned a portion of the hay cut on the French meadows.5 In Rhode Island the principal town functionary was styled the head officer ; he probated wills, and usually throughout New England there could be no town without the constable. He gave warn- ings of town meetings; he was the direct repre- sentative of the old vestry clerk ; he recorded the proceedings of the selectmen ; he commanded the watch, collected taxes and returned to the general court the names of deputies selected by the town."6 May 2, 1677, he and others petitioned the assembly for instructions, assistance and ad- vice as to the oppressions they suffer under from the Colony of Connecticut. A brief account of the cause of complaint may be of interest.

For some years prior to 1677 a controversy had been waged between Rhode Island and Con- necticut upon the location of a boundary line, which had resulted in much ill feeling .? Al- though threatened by the Indians, the common danger did not deter the opposing parties from waging a bitter war, and May 24, 1677, James Reynolds, Thomas Gould and Henry Tibbits were seized by Captain Dennison and carried off pris- oners to Hartford. They sought the protection of the authorities of Rhode Island. Demand was made for their release and Rhode Island threat -. ened reprises if the request was refused. The first business of the assembly was looking to the securing the release of the prisoners. Gould compounded with Connecticut and petitioned for leave to replant in Narragansett, acknowledging the authority of Connecticut. The authorities of Rhode Island responded, and advised them "that you might receive all suitable encouragement that as you continue true to your engagement to this Colony and upon that account are kept prisoners, we shall equally bear your charges of imprison- ment, and with all expedition address ourselves to His Majesty for relief."8 The bitter quarrel con- tinuing, on May 24, 1677, he with forty-one other inhabitants of Narragansett petitioned the King that he would put an end to their differences

2. See vol. i, page 109. Arnold's History.

3. Ibid, vol. i, p. ITO.

4. Savage, in his "Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England." says James probably resided at Plymouth in 1643, and the family tradition of James landing at Plymouth strengthens this view.

5. From an article in W'ickford (Rhode Island) Standard, by J. Warren Gardner, October 28, 1904.

6. "Local American History." Howard. p. 89.

7. Arnold's "History Rhode Island." vol. i. p. 125. See also Turnbull's "Colonial Records and Colon- ial Records of Rhode Island." Colonial Records, ii, 540, note.

8. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary Rhode Isl- and Families."

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about the government thereof, which hath been, so fatal to the prosperity of the place ; animosi- ties still arising in people's minds as they stand affected to this or that government .?

Under the provisions of his will dated Octo- ber 15, 1692, he bequeathed certain of his slaves to his children, but before his death he requested them to give their slaves their freedom when they should arrive at the age of thirty years. Accord- ingly the records show the following deed of gift of John and Deborah Sweet :

Know all men by these presents, that Where- as I, John Sweete, of Kingstown, in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, have received a deed of gift, made to me and my wife that now is Deborah Sweete, which deed of gift is from honored father James Reynolds, senior, of said Kingstown in said Colony, whereas in by our honored father given to us, our heirs and as- signs, one negro girl called by the name of Betty, and in and by said deed of gift given unto us for- ever, and also by said honored father's last will and testament as doth appear, she is given to us forever, notwithstanding we find by a late deed of gift of our honored father that he hath seen cause to alter his mind, and is willing, notwith- standing his former deed of gift, and his last will and testament, that the said Betty, his negro girl, shall be free and at her own disposing when she attains to the full age of thirty years, to which last deed of gift, and do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns fully by these presents, to set the said Betty, our negro servant. free, to be wholly at her own dis- posing forever.

In witness whereof we set our hands and seals, the day of the date hereof, being the twen- ty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord ont thousand seven hundred.

(Signed) JOHN SWEETE. DEBORAH SWEETE.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 115 :

THOMAS FREY,

JOHN HEATH.

The above written instrument or deed of gift was entered and compared with the original, De- cember twelfth in the year 1701, by me,

JOHN HEATH. Town Clerk.

The other slaves bequeathed by his will were conveyed before his death by deed of gift, but under the provisions thereof were to be given

their freedom at thirty years of age. The James Reynolds homestead has descended for five gen- erations and is still in the family. The large burial ground on the homestead at Sand Hill Farm has been purchased in fee, incorporated, and is now in charge of a board of trustees, Thomas A. Reynolds, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, having borne the whole expense, and in addition states his intention of endowing it that it may be preserved for all time. James and De- borah had ten children :

I. John, born October 12, 1648; married Sarah Ayres. He was killed by the Indians in King Philip's war, in Narragansett, Rhode Isl- and. December 19, 1675. His body was recov- ered and interred at Sand Hill Farm. Their chil- dren were: John, born 1672; Sarah, married

2. James, Jr., born October 28, 1650, North Kingstown, Rhode Island ; married Sarah Green, of James and Deliverance. She was born 1660: married (second) Joanna

3. Joseph, born November 27. 1652, died 1739.

4. Henry, born January 1, 1636, died 1716; married Sarah Green, of James and Deliverance, born August 26, 1663.

5. Deborah, born February 12 or 17, 1658; married John Sweet. He was born 1655, and died 1717, at Exeter.

6. Francis, born October 12, 1662, North Kingston, Rhode Island; died 1722; married Elizabeth Green, of James and Deliverance.

7. Mercy, born December 22, 1664: married Thomas Nichols. They had eleven children.

8. Robert, born 1666; married Smith ; he died 1715. They had four children.1º 9. Benjamin, born 1669.

IO. Elizabeth,11 born,

(II) Joseph (2), James (I), born November 27, 1652 ; married ; married (sec-

ond) Mercy His will proved 1739. North Kingstown, Rhode Island.12 John, his son by first wife, and John's mother-in-law, were ex-

IO. J. Warren Gardner states in his article in Wickford Standard, Oct. 28. 1904, that "he believes that the Robert who married Deliverance Smith was a son of Joseph, of James, and born about 1679. of Ben- jamin, the ninth child."

II. He states that Elizabeth is accredited as a daughter of James, but he can find no record.

12. In a letter of Thomas A. Reynolds, of East Greenwich, R. I., he states his belief that Joseph (2) resided at Kingston and died there,

9. Ibid.

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ecutors. In his will he refers to his son Joseph (3) as having died, and also refers to his mar- ried daughter, Jones Clark. His will proved left eight children, four of whom were under age. Names of his children were all that remained of the will, that was injured by fire in 1870. He was called "Big Joe" on account of his strength and stature. He settled in what is now the "town" of Exeter, Rhode Island. He, with his father, James (I), and his brothers, James and Henry, signed the petition of 1679, July 29, men- tioned heretofore in this account. September 14, 1714, he deeded one-half of a certain tract of land situate in East Greenwich, bought of his brother Henry. This land was a part of 35,000 acres of land purchased by Henry: the part sold Joseph is now in West Greenwich, and about 1714 he deeded this land to his sons. June 3, 1709, Jo- seph Reynolds (2), Joseph Reynolds, Jr., (3) Robert Reynolds (3) and Robert Bently pur- chased a tract of land of seven hundred twenty- seven acres lying mostly in Exeter, between the Ten Rod road and the north line of Pettaquam- scott Purchase, bounded east by the Dunfer Hill road, and running west to the present Purgatory road. Joseph, Jr. (3) settled on the westerly part of this tract at Exeter, Rhode Island, or near where Nicholas C. Reynolds now ( 1904) lives. Robert settled on the easterly part, at or near where the late Benjamin L. Arnold lived and died.

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 5

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1026

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1026