Judge David Reynolds and Polly Purdy

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Husband Judge David Reynolds ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1774 - Cecil Co, MD 1
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           Died: 1839 1
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         Father: Benjamin Reynolds (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary Job (      -      ) 2 3

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   Other Spouse: Eleanor Moore (      -1849) 4 - 1813 4

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Wife Polly Purdy ²

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           Died: Bef 1813 - Lewistown, Mifflin Co, PA
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         Father: Col.  Purdy (      -      )
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Children

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1 M Dr. John Purdy Reynolds ^{2 4}

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           Died: 6 Mar 1836 - Texas 2
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2 M Benjamin Bryson Reynolds ⁴

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           Died:  - Texas
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3 F Mary Job Reynolds ⁴

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         Spouse: John Christy (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Judge David Reynolds

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All the sons of Benjamin Reynolds except John removed from Maryland to the Juniata Valley in Pennsylvania, about the close of the 1700s, and settled in Mifflin County.

In 1809, at which time David Reynolds had been for twelve or fifteen years a resident of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Governor Simon Snyder divided the principal offices of that county between Mr. Reynolds and William P. Maclay, commissioning the former as register of wills, clerk of the Orphans' Court and recorder of deeds, and giving to Mr. Maclay the offices of prothonotary and clerk of the Quarter Sessions and of the Oyer and Terminer. The offices were held as thus divided until 1816, when, on the election of Mr. Maclay to Congress, the offices which he had held were transferred to Mr. Reynolds, while the offices thus vacated by the latter were filled by the appointment of David Milliken as his successor. Under Governor J. Andrew Shultze (1823-29), David Reynolds was appointed and commissioned associate judge of the courts of Mifflin County, which office he continued to fill to the time of his death. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat and an active politician through all the mature years of his life.
His business was that of canal contractor and general dealer in merchandise, grain, and other products, which, at that time, were brought in large quantities from the surrounding country to Lewistown, to be shipped thence by boats on the Juniata in times of high water. Among the buildings which he rected and owned in Lewistown was the residence which stood on the south side of Market Street, at the head of the Juniata Bridge, and the large brick building which occupied the north corner of Market and Main Streets, on the "Diamond," and which was for some years used as a hotel, but was later occupied by the offices of the Gazette, the Adams Express and for store purposes. Both the buildings mentioned were, at different times, occupied by Judge Reynolds as his residence.

1 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 527.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 75.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 140.

4 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 528.