Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-17
in three places! And can't put it out.

in three places! And I can't put it out,
if it burns down over our heads!"
The bound boy still stood motionless
by the wall, rs if he were nailed to the
spot, and could not be induced to move.
Phebe was compelled to leave her father,
as the volumes of smoke then began to
come from an adjoining room warned
her of another impending danger. The
Tories had set fire to some fax and to
two straw beds. Phebe extinguished
the fire, and then tried to make the
bound boy run and alarm the neighbors,
but he would not stir. BY persistent
effort the brave girl, herself covered with
wounds, and her clothes saturated with
blood, brough her father back to con-
seriousness, and then, consiening him to
the care of her mother, who had grown
more composed, she started out to give
the alarm. In her relation of her ter
rible experiences of that night to her
children and grandchildren more than
half century afterward, she dwelt with
particular pride ON the. fact that she
noted the Growing of the cocks as she
started after help, and said to herself,
it must he nearly morning" This,
she thought, indicated how cool
and collected she was after the frightful
scene she had Just witnessed. She
alarmed the neighbors, and doctor was
summoned from Goshen. A party started
in pursuit of the Tories. It was found
that Reynolds had 80 serious wounds,
inflicted by swords and knives, but not
one of them had reached vital spot
One of his ears was nearly severed from
his head, and it was bound back as near
ly as possible to its place, but the manner
in which it healed dis6gured him for
life. One of his arms was so badly
cut that he never recovered its use.
Phebe had two serious wounds, one in
the breast and one in the head. The
others were painful but not dangerous,
decorations. 1t was several weeks before
Reynolds and his daughter were again
able to get about, and their escape from
the death that was intended for them
was so wonderful that the people for
miles around focked to see them. The
fright he experienced that night. Brain
fever followed, and he died, begging
that his head should not be cut off, Mrs.
Reynolds gave birth to her child the day
after the assault of the Tories. 1t lived,
grew to womanhood, and is well remem-
bered in Sullivan county as the wife of
DR.. Blake Wales, one of the pioneer
physicians of this part of the state, and
the prCgenitor of large and prominent
family. Caleb Reynolds, the child who
was kicked 30 bruually by one of the
Tories, grew up, and was soldier under
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans,
and was killed in that engagement.
The Wings who set out in pursuit of
the Tories overlook them in the noun
tains, and only two Of them escaped
alive. Kelley, the leader, was killed, as
above stated, by young man named
June. The property that was found by
his side was the coat in which Henry
Reynolds had been married Is years be-
fore. The cost was returned to Rev
nolds, but he refused to touch it after it
had been in the possession of Tory, and
ordered it to be burned. Edward
Robin escaped to Canada, and years
afterward sons of his returned to Orange
county to search for booty that their
father and others of the Smith gang had
hidden in the mountains. In 1888,
Henry Reynolds removed to Sullivan
county, and settled in what was known
as the Mutton Hill neighberhood, being
one of the pioneers of the town of Never
sink. he was the first supervisor of the
town, in 1898. In 1905 he was elected
10 the assembly, and was, until his death,
one of the leading men in Sullivan
county. His wife presented him with
six children after leaving Orange county.
Phebe Reynolds married Jeremiah
Drake soon after the family came to
Sullivan county. Her descendants are
among the most numerous and res
pected in this part of the state. The
known descendants of Henry Reynolds,
according to one of the family number
nearly 1900, as 10 of his children
reached maturity, married, and reared
large families.