Rebecca Reynolds

Abt 1657 - 1730  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Rebecca Reynolds  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1657  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	3 Jun 1730	Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut   [4]
  Person ID	I2571	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Reynolds,   b. Abt 1631   d. Bef 23 Jan 1673 (Age ~ 42 years)
  Mother	Rebecca
  Marriage	Abt 1656  [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F17046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Walter Butler   d. Apr 1693
  Children	+ 1. Esther Butler
  Family ID	F5619	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Her parentage is not perfectly proven, but Donald Lines Jacobus argued (in "Walter Butler of Greenwich, Conn." and "Walter Butler, Penoyer, and Reynolds", citation details below) that she was probably a daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Reynolds. In deeds at Greenwich after the death of her husband Walter Butler, her name is generally written "Clapman." Peter Clapham, a widower with one daughter, married a second wife Rebecca about 1694. By her he had three children and died 18 Feb 1698. His widow married, by 1717, a man named Brown, and died in Fairfield, where her oldest married Clapham daughter was living, and where her stone says that she died 3 Jun 1730 in her 75th year, placing her birth near 1655. The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Reynolds, taken 23 Jan 1674, lists daughter Rebecca "about sixteen years of age", which would place her birth about 1657. Assuming this is the woman buried at Fairfield in 1730, as argued above, this would make her a sister-in-law of Joshua Knapp (husband of her sister Elizabeth Reynolds), who was her co-administrator on the estate of her first husband Walter Butler, and also a sister of Jonathan Reynolds who with Jonathan Knapp was, after the death of Peter Clapham, guardian of the Clapham children.

  
  

• Sources

  [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946., first name only. [S520] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Walter Butler, Penoyer, and Reynolds." The American Genealogist 33:50, 1957., first name only. [S519] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Walter Butler of Greenwich, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 32:145, 1956. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S4171] The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds by Marion H. Reynolds. Brooklyn: The Reynolds Family Association, 1924. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008.