This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reynolds (Rennals, Reinalls, Reniolds, Runnels), Benton, Woodworth, Dyer, Smithson, Williams, Seymour, Kellogg, Hurd, Reed, Flint Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJDBAIB/1259.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Wanda! I did find one Reynolds in NY in my book "Genealogies of CT Families From the New England Historical & Genealogical Register - Vol II", p 523. Samuel Smithson m. Margaret Williams & had 8 children. Child #7 was Joseph Benjamin Smithson, who m. Hannah Waldo of Chatham, NY & removed to Northampton, NY. They had 2 children - Hannah Cornelia Smithson, who married Sylvester Reynolds of Chatham, and Samuel Waldo Smithson. Alternate spellings for Reynolds are Rennals, Reinalls, Reniolds, Runnels - and many others. I also have some families from Stamford & Rocky Hill, CT. I have a Lucy Seymour who m. Martin Kellogg & she died in Winfield, NY 19 Sept. 1839. They had 9 children, 1st being Laura Kellogg, who m. Ambs Reynolds on 20 Mar 1808. Also married to the Seymour family, Orin D. Reed, b. in Sodus in 1841, d. in Rock Falls, IL m. in Flint, MI, Electa J. Hurd, b. 27 June 1851 in Cranetown, Seneca County, NY. After Orin died, Electa married Leonard M. Reynolds, who died in Frankenmuth, MI. Thirdly, she m. Edward Flint, who d. in Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington. Orrin served in the Civil War, was injured, but re-enlisted, taken prisoner in Oct. 1864 in Fair Oaks, VA & was discharged in 1865. Electa lived in at least 4 states, NY, IL, MI & WA. Just in case it might tie in somewhere - Levi Benton was a first settler of Yates County, NY, freeman 1775, removed from CT to MA & back to CT, then NY, where the town of "Benton" was named in his honor. In 1816, he removed to Indiana, where he died. He m. Mary, dau. of Abner & Hannah (Dyer) Woodworth of Salisbury, CT. They had 10 children. Child #7, Joseph Benton m. Aney Reynolds in 1807. They lived in Ind. & he died in 1872. I will look through more records and books, specifically for NY Reynolds. Asa & Electa & Mehitable seem quite elusive! Lynn