Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Reynolds was born on 4 July 1793, in Cross River, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States, his father, James Reynolds, was 34 and his mother, Abigail Knapp, was 27. He married Phebe on 31 October 1815, in South Salem, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States. He lived in Bedford, Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 July 1896, in Cross River, Lewisboro, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 102, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Somers, Westchester, New York, United States.
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- Neyor Reynolds, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ebenezer Reynold, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ebenezer Reynolds, "Find A Grave Index"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Reynold , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Leitrim): in Ulster the English name in 1 above was substituted for Mac Raghnaill; see McReynolds .
History: Christopher Reynolds of Gravesend, Kent, England, arrived in America sometime before his marriage in 1644 in Isle of Wight County, VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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