This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reynolds, Sumner, Cooley, Jeffords Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJDBAIB/1259.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Lynn, Thank you for the info. It is helpful. C.S.'s daughter-in-law recorded the family history and thats what has been passed down the family. Now I'm wondering if they really did come here from Canada. Suppose they came here from England and lived in CT or RI and then moved to NY? There was a Baptist migration from the Rhode Island area to the New York area where he was born. (C.S. later became a Baptist minister in Florida.) If they did move here from Canada, why would they move to CT and then back to NY? Or maybe the Cooley/Sumners/Reynolds lived in NY together and then some of them moved to CT? Also, my great-grandfather (C.S.'s son) was named Sumner Jeffords Reynolds. The Jeffords name coming from C.S.'s wife's brother-in-law who was a Jeffords. Sumner must be a family name but I can't make the connection. I'm wondering if C.S. was the son of Asa and Electra? With the dates you supplied that would be the same time frame. I have copies of newspaper articles about Rev. C.S.! Reynolds, if you're interested I will send them to you if you supply me with your email address. Thanks, Wendy