William Reynolds (c. 1750–1802)
In 1796 Bushrod Washington wrote Reynolds regarding a debt and an order of pork.
William Reynolds was born circa 1750 in Yorktown, Virginia. Apprenticed to the London countinghouse of John Norton & Sons, he returned to Yorktown in 1771 to work as a merchant. Reynolds also served as an alderman, member of the town council, and collector and inspector of the revenue for the port of Yorktown. He married Mary Ann Perrin (1757–1790) in 1774; they would have several children. William Reynolds died sometime in 1802.
"To George Washington from William Reynolds, 20 October 1789," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0142. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 8 September 1789 – 15 January 1790, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 209–210.]
Julie Richter and Jody Allen, Historical Overview of Africans and African Americans in Yorktown, at the Moore House, and on Battlefield Property, 1635-1867, Volume I (National Park Service: Colonial National Historical Park, 2012).
"Calendar of the Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson," Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State, Number 8 (1894), 208.
National Park Service, Yorktown’s Main Street: Historic Resource Study.
Senate Executive Journal, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, 165 (A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation).
William Reynolds in Reynolds Family Tree (Ancestry.com).
William Reynolds at ReynoldsPAtoVA.org.
Mary Ann Perrin at FamilySearch.