Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-11
LAST or HISTORIC HOUSE.
Building Where Phebe Reynslds Fought the Tories, Succumbs to
 Last Winters Shows.

Last Winters Shows.
 Crushed beneath the weight of snow that fell upon it's ancient roof last win- ter, the Reynolds house on the outskirta of the village of Monroe, IN r., is at last no more. It was built 127 years ago. in TIT, by Henry Reynolds, Westchester county Quaker, who, with his wife and five children, fled to Orange county dur ing the revolution. Although Quaker he took up arms against the British ana was one of the band of 200 under Mad Anthony Wayne who stormed and cap- tured Stony Point.
 His activity in plans to rid the mouns tains whereabouts of the notorious Glade jus Smith gang of tories gained him their bitter enmity, and one night in July 17S2, on the pretense of being American soldiers looking for deserters, three of the most desperate of that gang gained admittance to the Reynolds house.
 In the presence of his wife and his 12- year-old daughter Phebe, they bound and hanged Reynolds to the big iron crane of the fireplace, and proceeded to ransack the house While they were in another room Phebe cut her father down. her mother having swooned.
 The tories came hurrying back and hanged Reynolds again, although the girl fought SO desperately to save him that she was stabbed several times. Then they returned to their plundering. and Phebe once more succeeded in cut- ting her father down, and was dragging him out of the house when the tories again ipterfered.
 The girl placed her body over that of her father as he lay on the floor in her efforts to shield him from the robbers. They stabbed father and daughter re- peatedly. They at last tore Phebe from her fathers body and threw it into a large chest, closing the lid, andlleaving both father and child for dead. As they departed from the house they rolled large stone against the door. Mrs Reynolds had recovered conscious ness, and Phebe, wounded as she was. made her way to the chest, and with the aid of her mother dragged her father out and placed him on the bed. Finding that he was still alive, the girl was started out to summon neighbors for aid, when her mother discovered that the tories had set fire to the house She and Phebe succeeded in extin- gushing the flames before they had gained much headway, and Phebe made i all the speed she could to the nearest neighbours mile away. That neighbor mounted fleet horse and, on his way to Goshen for a doctor, reused others, who armed themselves and started in pur- ] suit of the tories.
 ! When Phebe got back home her father had so far recovered as to be able to talk The doctor arrived betimes, and found that Reynolds had received no fewer than 30 serious wounds from swords and I knives, but not one of them had touched 8 vital spot. One of his ears was nearly severed from his head, and one arm was slashed so that it was ever after useless. Phebe was covered with wounds, nine being in the breast and head At day. light Mrs. Reynolds gave birth to child The baby lived, grewsto womanhood, and became the mother of one of the most prominent families in southern New York, as the wife of Dr. Blake Wales, pioneer physician
 1 Soon after Reynolds and Phebs re- covered from their injuries he disposed of his property and removed to Sullivan county, where he became 8 leading citi- gen.. He was elected to the assembly in 1 1895.
 Phebe Reynolds married Jeremiah Drake, and became the maternal headof the numerous and conspicuous Drake I family of that part of the state.
 The Reynolds farmhouse has had many owners since. The house had been untenanted for three or four years, and had fallen into dilapidation. It was one of the landmarks of that historic re- zion.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Gignoux, of New York. is the present owner of the Reynolds property.