Betty (Turner) Reynolds (1726 - bef. 1816)

Born 12 May 1726 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Reynolds — married 3 Nov 1748 in Brockton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 4 Mar 1816 before age 89 in North Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Betty Turner was born in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Province of Mass. Bay on 12 May 1726 to Japhet Turner and his wife Elizabeth Morse.^[1] She married Thomas Reynolds in Brockton on 3 November 1748,^[2] and the marriage was also recorded in East Bridgewater.^[3]

She was named in her grandmother Widow Hannah Tupper's will, dated 26 Aug 1766: To "my aforesaid daughter Elizabeth Pratt , & my fifteen grandaughters namely Betty Rennels, ... all my household goods, & other estate not given away to be equally divided ...."^[4]

Elizabeth Reynolds died sometime shortly before 4 March 1816 when her will was presented for probate.^[5] Elizabeth Reynolds of Bridgewater, widow, wrote her will on 15 April 1803 in which she name her sons Joseph, Thomas and Josiah Reynolds; daughters Susanna Howard, Elizabeth Reynolds, Amy Dunbar, Martha Packard. She named her son-in-law Oliver Howard was named as executor of her estate. Witnesses were Darius Howard, Joseph Reynold Jr., Daniel Howard Jr.^[5]

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Turner) Reynolds born Bridgewater:^[6]

1. Amy, b. 29 Oct 1749; d. 09 May 1752.
2. Joseph, b. 21 Jun 1751; m. Jemima Perkins 17 Sep 1772
3. Amy, b. 21 Feb 1753; m. Silas Dunbar 02 Jul 1772.
4. Elizabeth, b. 22 Jun 1755; unm. 15 Apr 1803.
5. Susanna, b. 24 Apr 1757; m. Oliver Howard 02 Nov 1780
6. Martha, b. 23 Mar 1759; m. Parmenas Packard 09 Apr 1778
7. Thomas, b. 27 Jan 1762; m. Tabitha Thayer 10 Feb 1785
8. Josiah, b. 01 Jul 1766; m. Mary Phillips 10 Dec 1785.

Sources

1. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Middleborough, Mass., Vital Records, " Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 6(1904):228.

   "Betty Turner the daughter of Japheth Turner & of Elisabeth his Wife was born : May : 12 1726."

2. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Brockton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, F.H. Gilson Company, 1911), p. 274.

   "REYNOLDS, Thomas and Elisabeth Turner, Nov. 3, 1748.* C.R.1."

3. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of East Bridgewater, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1917), p. 286, citing a "private record, from a copy made by Judge Nahum Mitchell of the records of the First Church of East Bridgewater, with additions and corrections by the copyist"

   "REYNOLDS, Tho[ma]s and Eliz[abeth] Turner, ____, 1748."

4. ↑ Bowman, George E., "Hannah Hatch's Three Husbands," Mayflower Descendant Vol. XXI (Jul 1919), p. 101.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Probate records 1813-1820 vol 46-47 > image 511 of 534; State Archives, Boston. Plymouth Probate Records, Vol. 47:490.
6. ↑ Vital records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston : NEHGS, 1916) Vol. 1:276-277

See also:

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRM-KDV : accessed 24 January 2022), Elizabeth Reynolds, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 54, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 16; FHL microfilm 205,617.