George Reynolds and [Unk] Davis

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Husband George Reynolds ¹

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           Born: Abt 1730 - Glasgow, Scotland
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           Died: Autumn, 1795 - Huntingdon Co, PA
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         Father: [Ancestor] Reynolds (      -      )
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       Marriage:  - ? Huntingdon Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Margaretta Stopp (      -1823) 2 - 1777 2

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Wife [Unk] Davis ²

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Children

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1 M John Reynolds ²

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2 F Esther Reynolds ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Mann (      -      ) 2

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3 F Elsie Reynolds ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Ross (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - George Reynolds

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The first ancestor of this Reynolds family to come to America was born about 1730 in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to the colonies in 1754. He had learned the trade of tanner and went to London, England, in 1753, about the time the king was raising troops to send to America, to fight the French and Indians. He crossed over with General Braddock, landed in Philadelphia in 1754, and marched with the army under Braddock and Washington to Pittsburgh. They were met by the French and Indians fourteen miles up the Monongahela river, at a place known as Braddock's Fields. There a battle was fought and General Braddock was killed, his army routed, and George Reynolds badly wounded; he was shot through the neck, the bullet going through between the big leader and his neck bone. He dropped his gun and stuck his two forefingers in the wound, ran to the river and hid in a laurel thicket. There he remained overnight, and was found the next day. He was taken to Fort Necessity, and through the skill of the surgeon got well, but was excused from duty, stiffness in his neck exempting him. But he received his land warrant for military services just the same, and coming out on the frontier located a tract at the head of Woodcock valley, or the foot of Warrior's Mark Ridge, in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, seven miles from the county seat. Part of the town of Huntingdon, according to family tradition, is now on his holding. [HAC 1914, 369]

He was born in 1730 in England, and came to America in 1753. [HAC 1914, 384]

George Reynolds, according to Mrs. Judith Dull, his granddaughter (daughter of his son David), was a man of education and ability. He was of the English type, having light hair and blue eyes, while his wife Margaretta had black hair and eyes, her son David favoring her in appearance and coloring. [HAC 1914, 385]

He resided on his farm until the fall of 1795, when he dropped dead off his feet in the yard before his own door, aged sixty-five years. [HAC 1914, 370]
He died suddenly at a neighbor's where he had eaten noon-day dinner, in April, 1796. [HAC 1914, 384]

By his second marriage there were eight children, five sons and three daughters.
With the exception of George (the eldest son and second child) all of the children of George and Margaretta Reynolds came to Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. [HAC 1914, 370]
Whether he married her before or after coming to America is not known. [HAC 1914, 384]

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 369, 384.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 370, 384.