Rev. John Reynor, Plymouth, Ma
The name has been spelled many different ways including Reynor, Reyner, Rayner, Raynor and Reinor. John was born at Gildersome in West Riding County Yorkshire, England which is about 35 miles from Scrooby. He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford where he received his A. B. in 1625. His first wife was Anna Boyse who was one of four co heiresses in his native parish. He had two children with her. His second wife was Frances Clark with whom he had six children. She had been a maid servant in the family of Rev. John Wilson of Boston. John had an estate in Gildersome in the parish of Batley in Yorkshire near Leeds where he had been born.
He emigrated to Plymouth in 1635 or 1636 and had lands granted to him Feb. 6, 1636. He was called to be teacher and became a Freeman in 1637. At Plymouth “he was an able and godly man of meek and humble spirit, sound in truth and every way:. He wrote a letter on Moral Laws in 1642. After 18 years of service in Plymouth he was called to be pastor at Dover, New Hampshire in 1655. He was held in great esteem by his parishers. One of his sisters became the second wife of Governor William Bradford. Governor Bradford spoke of him in his history of Plymouth Plantation.
Rev. John Reynor >d. Ann Reynor (m. Job Lane 1620) >s. John Lane (m. Susannah Wipple) > d.Susannah Lane
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I’m not really a facebook person, but I Googled John Reynor and Oxford because I was kind of sure he went to school there, and needed a quick confirmation. Thanks for the pert delineation, but OH, MY what a wonderful thing you have done here putting your genealogical understanding to great use with your web pages.
I have been to Plymouth and Dover, N.H., and explored some of the stomping ground. I would like to read his treatise on Moral Laws if you can point me there.
I was wondering if you had read John Greenleaf Whittier’s ‘How the Women Went from Dover’
Apparently Rev. Raynor was not friendly with early Quakers.
Anyway, so much of your ancestry crosses, and parallels with mine, and I just love reading your vignettes.
In 1999, from Pennsylvania, I helped co-plan with a third cousin the Whipple Reunion on the 100th anniversary of the Ipswich Historical Society acquiring the John Whipple House. In the spring before the July reunion, the curator of the house museum let me sleep in it. It was an awesome experience.
I, too, am descended from Ann Reynor and Job Lane… but me through this way
John Lane-Susannah Whipple
John Lane-Catherine Whiting
John Lane-Martha Flagg
Gershom Flagg Lane-Lydia Thomas
Abiah Lane-Thomas Bagley
Hannah Bagley-John Rowe
Mary Rowe-Elias Felker
Margie Felker-LeRoy Baker
Donald Baker-Lila Green
Robert L. Baker – I am in my 19th year as editor of the Wyoming County Press Examiner in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT TO THE COMMUNITY!