News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

Devin descendant, Stanley Wayne Devin, passed away at 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2014. He was the last living child of Ira & Oleta Devin.
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    Reynolds Gentry

    Male Abt 1756 -


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    Generation: 1

    1. 1.  Reynolds Gentry was born about 1756 in South Carolina (son of Heekiah Gentry and Catherine Reynolds).

    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Heekiah Gentry was born in 1736 in Virginai.

      Heekiah married Catherine Reynolds in 1754 in Lunenburg Co., Virginia. Catherine (daughter of Thomas Reynolds and Hannah Lewis) was born about 1740 in Virginia; died after 1810 in South Carolina. [Group Sheet]


    2. 3.  Catherine Reynolds was born about 1740 in Virginia (daughter of Thomas Reynolds and Hannah Lewis); died after 1810 in South Carolina.
      Children:
      1. Hezekiah Gentry was born about 1755 in South Carolina.
      2. 1. Reynolds Gentry was born about 1756 in South Carolina.
      3. Anna Gentry was born about 1760 in South Carolina.
      4. Delia Gentry was born in 1763 in South Carolina.


    Generation: 3

    1. 6.  Thomas Reynolds was born in 1716 (son of Richard Reynolds, Jr. and Mary Anderson).

      Thomas married Hannah Lewis in 1740. [Group Sheet]


    2. 7.  Hannah Lewis
      Children:
      1. 3. Catherine Reynolds was born about 1740 in Virginia; died after 1810 in South Carolina.
      2. Thomas Reynolds, Jr. was born about 1745; died about 1841.
      3. Robert Reynolds was born about 1760.
      4. Abigal Reynolds was born in ca 1735.
      5. Mary Reynolds was born in ca 1735.
      6. Caroline Reynolds was born in ca 1735.


    Generation: 4

    1. 12.  Richard Reynolds, Jr. was born in 1669 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia (son of Richard Joshua Reynolds and Elizabeth Sharpe); died on 05 Sep 1754 in King William Co., Virginia.

      Notes:

      Richard Reynolds is said to have been married to Elizabeth Ann Williams and sired no recorded children about 1694.

      Then, in 1713 to Mary Anderson

      The will of Richard Reynolds, Sr., who married Elizabeth Sharpe, lists Elizabeth Lewis, the daughter of Richard Lewis as follows: 27 Jul 1711, Richard Reynolds, of Newport Parish: Legatees - Wife Elizabeth; son Richard; son Sharpe; son Christopher the land on which Richard Jackson lives; grandson ----Reynolds; what is due Elizabeth Lewis one of the daughters of Richard Lewis to be paid. Executors my wife and sons. Recorded 26 May 1712. Witnesses: Arthur Smith, Giles Driver and Jane Benn (Doc.#132r). Hence, this confirms that the above record refers to Richard Reynolds, Sr., (son of Christopher Reynolds, Sr., the immigrant) and his wife Elizabeth Sharpe with their son, Richard Reynolds, Jr., who married Elizabeth Williams, listed as an overseer with Thomas Joyner, Jr. source: R Stucker.

      Richard married Mary Anderson about 1713 in Isle of Wight, VA. Mary (daughter of Robert Anderson, Sr. and Celia Massie) was born in 1672-1680; died in 1725. [Group Sheet]


    2. 13.  Mary Anderson was born in 1672-1680 (daughter of Robert Anderson, Sr. and Celia Massie); died in 1725.

      Notes:

      These are not the parents of Hugh Reynolds. Proximity evidence suggests Hugh Reynolds was in Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1757 with William Neely.

      Married:
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      Children:
      1. John Reynolds was born on 10 Feb 1725 in Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A..
      2. Barbara Reynolds was born about 1722 in Surry Co., Virginia.
      3. William "James" Reynolds was born in 1715; died about 1796 in Caroline Co., Virginia.
      4. 6. Thomas Reynolds was born in 1716.
      5. Richard David Reynolds was born in 1720 in Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent, Virginia.