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Notes for Christpher REYNOLDS

Chapter (11) Christopher Reynolds
Received from Esther Radcliffe; eradclif@@ix.netcom.com

Christopher (111) was the first male ancestor of this family to reach America. His age at the time he immigrated has beenvariously estimated.
It was probably eighteen years considering the responsibilities he assimed immediately upon arrival. In any event, he booked passage on the good ship John and Frances. It arrived in 1622 and the young passenger reported promptly to sister Cecily Jordan and her original chaperon William Pierce (III). To
fathom young Christopher's ensuing carreer, it will be helpful to first recall the activities of his new sponsor, "Uncle Billy".
During the eleven years between the arrival of these two Reynolds charges, William Pierce (III) had evolved as a councilor of considerable stature on defense matters in the new Colony. It was he had secured the headwaters of the James River as far as the Falls by proposing two heavy ordnances for Berkeley Plantations on the North shore to Flowerdew Hundred on the South shore and seven to the way station at Henrico, which, incidentally, were manned by the Farrar family. It was also his recommendations that every plantation in the colony should install its own trench and stockade system against attacks by the natives.

Next, he built a stockade fort at Jamestown proper and manned it with four of the heaviest cannon. Then, Pierce turned his back upon the headwaters of the great river and began to think in terms of securing his route downstream to the sea. The North bank, looking seaward, he secured with a palisade
running in a northeasterly direction from Jamestown across the entire peninsula to Kiskyak, which was the forerunner of Yorktown. There he erected another fort where he mounted three more pieces of heavy ordnance. This ingenious venture sealed the Indians out of a 300,000 acre sanctuary for the settlers. The
sanctuary included the entire lower peninsula from Jamestown to Elizabeth City on the north bank of the river at its confluence with Chesapeake Bay.

Then, Pierce took note of his right flank that was expose from the Waresquoack Plantation opposite Jamestown


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