Dear Sandy: The Marion H. Reynolds book that you cite mentions the marriage of a Robert Reynold to a Mary Pulleyne in a footnoot on p. 8, and cites Boyd's Marriage Index for the information that that marriage took place in Fremington, Devon, in 1623. How Robert got from his supposed birthplace in Kent (Aylesford?) to Devon for this marriage is a matter for speculation. I agree with Robert that the English history of the Reynolds family of Boston is rife with undocumented assumptions and needs a lot of work to arrive at a standard of proof that could be accepted. The only halfway decent connections between that marriage mentioned above and the Ruth of the John-2 Whitney marriage, are the fact that it took place in 1623 and Ruth is presumed to have been born in 1623 since she is (also) presumed to have been married to John-2 in 1642 -- the other is that the wife in that marriage is also named Mary. I have pursued this matter with the Reynolds Family Association and the Reynolds-L maillist, with no good response. Allan E. Green