Notes for Christopher Robert REYNOLDS

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Notes for Christopher Robert REYNOLDS

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From "Adventures pf Purse and PErson 1607-1625" Came to Virginia in "John & Frances"1622, "A small Bark"
Census of February 16, 1623-24, "Warwick Squeake" Isle of Wight, February 7, 1624/25;
served m. Edward Bennett 4 yrs. (Indenture)
1636: granted 430 acres in Warrisquick Co. (A "John Bennett" is listed as a passenger on the same ship.)

Granted 363 acres on North West side of the head of Lower Bay Creek adjoining land of Richard Reynolds Jr. Son.

**Christopher Reynolds came to Virginia in the John and Francis 1622, as recorded in the census of 1623/4 at Warwick Squeake (Isle of Wight) and in the muster 1624/5 headed the list of Mr. Edward Bennett's men there.

On 15 September 1636 he was granted 450 acres in Warrisquick County bounded by a back creek and running eastward behind the Pagan Shore some three miles upward.

Christopher Reynolds left a will dated 01 May 1654.

(Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1987, page 502.)
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from: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=waslugs&id=I365
Note: Christopher followed his sister to Virginia in 1622 aboard the 'John and Frances'. Christopher reported to his relative, 'Uncle Billy'. Captain William Pierce (Cecily arrived with William and his wife in 1610) who was actually his mother's second cousin. William Pierce had considerable stature in the province in defense matters. He became Capt. of the Guard and then Governor of Jamestown. Uncle Billy's friend in London, Edward Bennett, had sent over 600 settlers to the colony and had been made an honorary member of the Virginia Company and was given a substantial land patent. One of the strings attached was that(our grandfather) Christopher Reynolds be given the job as secretary to Edward's brother, Robert Bennett who was to act as general manager. Robert and Christopher resided in Bennett's Plantation. During the Indian attack in 1622 the adjacent Lawne's Plantation was totally destroyed, the only survivors were those away from home. At Bennett's Plantation 86 settlers had arrived by that time and trenches and stockades had been completed. There were 33 survivors of the initial attack including Christopher and Robert. (For more about Christopher and the others, see "Reynolds History Annotated (1475-1977) Compiled by William G. Reynolds" "Virginia Venturer by Hale" and " Seventeenth Century Isle of Wright County Virginia, by John Broddie" amoung references.

Type: Book
Periodical: "Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register"
Publication: Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publ., Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993,1994, and 1997
Page: p. 135

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