This affair was the Rhode Island "Boston Tea-Party," and was prompted by very similar causes. Grindall also served creditably in the Revolution:

"Grindall Reynolds (Rhode Island): Ensign, Capt. Peter Taylor's Co. Second Co., First Battalion, Providence, under Lieut. Col. Comm. Eleazer Jenckes, First Regiment; Lieutenant, under Captain Bennett Wheeler, Second Co., Providence, First Regiment, under Lieut. Col. Com. Christopher Lippitt, May '83; same May '84. Captain Fourth Co., Providence Militia, May 1788."

In 1898, Frank Wayland Reynolds, whose notes have much improved this volume, wrote to Mrs. Prescott Bigelow, Boston:

"You speak of remembering Uncle William as living next to Grandfather Edward, and I do not wonder that you do not know about Uncle Grindal; but he lived on the other side of Fort Hill, and lived till about the time the other two brothers died, in fact, he outlived them, for he was 92 years old when he died. I do not know why, but somehow or other, at our family parties his children never seemed to have been included."

Captain Grindall Reynolds m. 1st, Abigail Rhoades of Newport, R. I., March 2, 1780, ceremony by Rev. Joseph Smith. She was b. Newport, Oct. 24, 1760; d. Providence, Sept. 26, 1789; five children. He then m. 2nd, Mehitable Russell, at Providence, Jany. 1, 1795; b. there, Jany., 1777; d. Nov. 6, 1798, one child. He m. 3rd, Cynthia Kendall, Landaff, N. H., Aug. 9, 1820; b. Fitzwilliam, N. H., April 13, 1795, forty years his junior; she b. Boston, Sept. 3, 1865; was of Landaff or Franconia; three children. Grindall resided in Providence until after 1797; removed before 1820 to Franconia, N. H.; after 1825 in Boston. He was 65 at his last marriage; his youngest child was born when he was 75. He was for a short time in Norfolk, Va.

401. DOROTHY, b. Providence, Nov. 23, 1780; died in infancy, Dec. 4, 1794, Providence.

402. Infant, b. Providence, April 15, 1782; died two weeks later, April 30, 1782.

403. POLLY, b. Providence, March 7, 1784; d. there, Oct. 4, 1785, infancy.

404. MARY, b. Providence, Jany. 21, 1786; d. March 6, 1828; m. Joseph Reynolds Newell in Boston.

405. REBECCA, b. Providence, Feby. 7, 1789; d. Nov. 30, 1790, infancy.

406. JOHN RUSSELL, b. Providence, May 7, 1797; d. there, Sept. 16, 1798, infancy.

407. CYNTHIA KENDALL, b. Franconia, N. H., May 12, 1821; d. March 18, 1870, Boston; unmarried.

*408. GRINDALL, b. Franconia, N. H., Dec. 22, 1822; d. Sept. 30, 1894; m. Lucy M. Dodge.

409. HENRY RUSSELL, b. Boston, April 1, 1830; d. April 5, 1912; m. Susan D. Reynolds, also of this descent.

188. BENJAMIN REYNOLDS: (John; Benjamin3; Nathaniel2; Robert1) b. Bristol, R. I., March 17. 1757; d. Dec. 4, 1842, Nansemond Co., Va., at home of his son, Benjamin B. He m. 1st: Elizabeth Bradford of Duxbury, Mass., April 22, 1784; b. ther about 1760; and d. there June 29, 1785; her only child died about four months later. Intention of marriage to "Betsey" Bradford was filed in Boston, March 11, 1784. See the Bradford Genealogy. He m. 2nd, Mary (Molly) Waldron, his second cousin, Oct. 15, 1786. She was b. Bristol, Jany. 5, 1764; d. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 9, 1803, or 1818, daughter of Daniel & Phebe (Reynolds) Waldron of Bristol. See page 88 herein for her Reynolds ancestry. They had nine children.

Benjamin lived many years in Norfolk, and at the home of his son. Benjamin and his brothers are said to have participated in the "Boston Tea Party;" at any rate Grindall participated in the Gaspee affair in Naragansett Bay. Benjamin's descendants have been Virginians, living in Norfolk and engaged in cotton shipping. There is a strong family tradition that Benjamin was in the Revolutionary War, as his brothers Samuel, Grindall and John certainly were; but we do not have the record of his service. His son William died of wounds sustained in the War of 1812. Benjamin's grandson, William D., was an officer in the Confederate Army from Virginia in the Civil War; and William D., Jr., was one of the earliest, or the first, missionary in Seoul, Korea. Benjamin's gt. grandfather, Captain Nathaniel, was an officer in King Philip's Indian War, 1675-76.

Benjamin moved about considerably. His first child was b. Duxbury, Mass.; his 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th, in Providence, R. I.; his 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th, in Norfolk, Va.; and his 8th in Boston. From this we gather that his successive places of residence were: early years in Bristol, R. I.; 1784-85, at least, in Duxbury, Mass.; 1786-9, Providence; 1790-93, Norfolk, Va.; 1794-99, Providence; 1800-01, Boston; from 1802 onward in Norfolk, Va. We do not know how he was attracted to the South. His brother John went there about 1800. Many of their R. I. family were maritime adventurers, which may explain the migration to Norfolk.

410. BRADFORD, b. March 14, 1785; died in infancy, Oct. 1785.

411. NANCY WALDRON, b. Feby. 4, 1788; d. Suffolk, Va., Jany. 19, 1790, aet. about 2. 412. MARY, b. Dec. 26, 1790; d. Norfolk, Va., July 18, 1792, aged about 11⁄2 years. 413. BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 4, 1792; d. Providence, June 26, 1797, aged about 42. 414. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 8, 1794; d. Norfolk, Va., April 24, 1817, of wounds sustained in the War of 1812, aged about 22.

415. MARY ANN WALDRON, b. Jany. 20, 1797; d. St. Louis, Mo., Feby. 19, or Sept. 19, 1836; m. Henry Singleton, of Norfolk, Va., April 10, 1816. Removed to St. Louis. First three children b. Norfolk; others Portsmouth, Va. Nine Singleton Children: 1. Ann Elizabeth, b. Jany. 4, 1817; d. in Norfolk; m. Wm. H. Smith, civil engineer, and had Sarah F., m. a Holden of St. Louis; John Henry m. in

St. Louis; Benjamin, m. in St. Louis. 2. William Reynolds, b. Oct. 24, 1818, of Washington, D. C.; m. twice. 3. John, b. Oct. 25, 1820, d. July 6, 1821. 4. Sarah Francis, b. May 3, 1822; died in infancy. 5. Sarah Francis, b. Aug. 28, 1824; m. Wm. Holden of St. Louis and d. there. 6. Mary Louisa, b. Dec. 9, 1826; d. Oct. 13, 1831. 7. John Henry, b. Dec. 26, 1828; lived in St. Louis, Mo. 8. Benjamin Reynolds, b. Sept. 24, 1831; lived in St. Louis, Mo. 9. Rev. Horace Leonard, b. Dec. 27, 1833, of Wash., D. C.; Presbyterian minister of N. Y. City.

416. ELIZABETH, b. April 5, 1799; d. Oct. 12, 1800, Boston, in infancy.

417. ELIZABETH, 2nd, b. Feby. 2, 1801; d. Elkton, Ky., in 1831; m. Rev. John J. Pierce. Presbyterian Minister. We know only that at one time they lived in Mississippi.

*418. BENJAMin Bradford, b. Oct. 21, 1803; d. Sept. 27, 1847; m. Maria G. Davis, 1829.

419. GEORGE Leonard WalDRON, b. Nov. 14, 1811; d. Jany. 31, 1897; m. thrice, q. v.

190. EDWARD REYNOLDS: (John1; Benjamin3; Nathaniel2; Robert1) b. Providence, R. I., Thursday, March 26, 1761; d. Nov. 2, 1848, Boston. His will (1848) is in the Suffolk Registry of Probate, Boston. Census of 1790, shows only Edward and his wife, Boston. On Sept. 11 1791, at Brattle Street Church, Boston, Edward "owned the covenant" when his first child Jane was baptized. On May 7, 1798, Matthew Pedley, Boston, mortgaged property in Margaret's Lane to Edward Reynolds, et al. Edward was a Boston merchant, had a large flour business, and owned more or less shipping; he ran the first line of packets between Boston and Philadelphia, and accumulated a considerable fortune. His descendants are numerous and notable in Boston; many of them are graduates of Harvard. On account of his youth, he was probably not in the Revolutionary War, though his brothers were.

He m. 1st, Miss Deborah Belcher, Sunday, June 20, 1790, ceremony by The Reverend Mr. Clark. She was b. Boston, Aug. 11, 1769; d. Oct. 8, 1813, aged 44; the daughter of Samuel & Deborah (Thompson) Belcher of Boston. Samuel was the son of Samuel & Abigail Belcher, son of Major Moses B. Belcher of the French & Indian War. Samuel Belcher of Boston was "Captain, Col. Jacobs' Regiment of Guards; list of men stationed at Boston under General Gates, Jany. 1, 1779." This family were descendants of Gregory & Catherine Belchert who was in New England as early as 1637.

Edward Reynolds m. 2nd, Miss Ann (Nancy) Foster, of Walpole, N. H., May 28, 1819, who d. Jany. 1, 1866, daughter of Isaac F. Foster, M. D., and his wife, Mary Russell, of Charlestown, Mass. They had no issue.

Children (all of whom married and had children) were all born in Boston:

†Ibid, lx, 125-136; 243-256, Belcher Genealogy.

Mrs. Ann Foster Reynolds (1819-1866)

Edward Reynolds (No. 190)

William R. Dimmock

(1835-1878)

Edward R. Dimmock

(1830-1854)

Mrs. Emily Augusta Reynolds

Dimmock (1807-)

Silhouette at the Reynolds home on Fort Hill, Boston.