Phebe (Leonard) Reynolds (1696 - 1744)

Born 11 Mar 1696 in Norton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Reynolds — married 26 Aug 1718 (to 18 Dec 1744) in Norton, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1744 at age 48 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island

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Biography

This profile is part of the Leonard Name Study.

Phoebe Leonard was the oldest child of George and Anna (Tisdale) Leonard. She was born at Norton, Massachusetts, 11 Mar 1696.^[1][2] She was named in her father George's 1716 will.^[3]

Mrs (Mistress) Phebe Leonard married 26 Aug 1718 at Norton, Joseph Reynolds of Bristol, Rhode Island,^[2] son of Nathaniel Reynolds and Priscilla Bracket.^[1] She and Joseph lived in a house now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Joseph Reynolds House, in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Anna and Joseph acknowledged receipts of several items: 28 Aug 1730, a sum of money from her brother Abiel, which he had been obliged to give her from property received of their mother; 10 June 1740, a sum from her brother Nathaniel, which Abiel had left to Phebe in his will; 28 Oct 1744, for money from her brother Ephraim that was from "our father George Leonard Esq."^[4]

In 1733, her mother, Anna Thomas, made very specific bequests of items of clothing to her "daughter Phebe (wife of mr Joseph Raynolds of Bristol)" and money that was owed to Anna.^[5]

In 1740, Phebe and her husband signed a receipt of her share of the legacy from her brother, Abiel Leonard's estate.^[6]

Phebe passed away 18 Dec 1744 at Bristol,^[7] as the wife (unnamed) of Joseph Reynolds age 49.^[8] Her gravestone can be seen at the Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website. She was buried at the East Burial Ground, Bristol.

Children of Phebe Leonard and Joseph Reynolds b. in Bristol, Rhode Island.^[1]

1. Joseph Reynolds b. 15 Nov 1719
2. George Reynolds b. 30 Apr 1721
3. Elizabeth Reynolds b. 15 Jan 1722/23; m. John Watson
4. Phebe Reynolds b. 3 Aug 1725; m. Daniel Waldron
5. Samuel Reynolds b. 14 Jul 1727, d. 30 Jul 1727
6. Samuel Reynolds b. 9 Jan 1728/29
7. Jonathan Reynolds b. 28 Sep 1732; d. 21 Jan 1753, age 20 without issue.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-(2015). Vol. 19 p. 369+image online at American Ancestors (subscription required)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass. : Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society,, 1906) pp. p. 96; p. 271
3. ↑ Probate Records 1687-1916; Index, 1687-1926 [Bristol County, Massachusetts]; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Bristol County); Probate Place: Bristol, Massachusetts. Probates, Vol 3, 1710-1716; George Leonard 1716. Accessed at Ancestry ($)
4. ↑ Mayflower Five Generations citing Bristol Co LR 27:249-50. Plymouth Co PR McrFlm 8:409 and Bristol Co PR 23:614.
5. ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Anna Thomas #20228 1733 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1558/i/20958/20228-co1/426488275
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-NVPW : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1738-1742 vol 8 > image 218 of 288; State Archives, Boston.
7. ↑ [http://rihistoriccemeteries.org/newgravedetails.aspx?ID=505424 Image of Gravestone. Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission. East Burial Ground
8. ↑ Arnold, James N. Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 : a family register for the people. 21 volumes. Download at Family Search (Providence [Rhode Island] : Narragansett Historical, 1891-1912.) Vol 6 Bristol co., Bristol Deaths p. 159

• "Annals of the Leonard Family," compiled by Fanny Leonard Koster, 1911, p74.
• "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXZ-HJY : accessed 17 May 2015), Phebe Leonard, 11 Mar 1696; citing NORTON,BRISTOL,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0873833 IT 2.

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