Reynolds, Abraham, 1772-1858
John M. McDonald interview — 1849-11-17
Abraham Reynolds (1772-1858) was a nephew of Horton Reynolds, at whose home in Greenwich, Connecticut, American Colonel Levi Wells was captured by a party of Refugee cavalry commanded by Thomas Huggeford in December 1780. He describes the circumstances of this attack. Reynolds also recalls Loyalist Captain Nathan Frink, a native of Connecticut who led raids into Greenwich.
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Novr 17th Abraham Reynolds of North Street Connecticut: “I was born in 1772, and remember when Col. Wells and some of his officers and men were surprised and taken off by Major Huggeford in 1780. I think there were not more than one or two Americans killed
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on that occasion. – Well’s officers and men were quartered in three farm houses not far apart which were all attacked at the same time; – Horton Reynolds’s and the two others. Captain Frink was up here frequently during the latter years of the war. He was a brave man and always went ahead. Charles Smith of North St – several miles above here is one of the best men you could see for Revolutionary information I am not a brother but a cousin of Mrs. Belcher and Mrs. Hobby.