Name |
Lewis Renaud (Reno) |
Suffix |
Jr. |
Birth |
22 Jul 1676 |
Valance Dauphin, Basses-Alpes, France |
Gender |
Male |
Property |
25 Feb 1700 |
Stafford Co, Virginia |
100 acres from John Allen |
- Lewis Reno acquired his first 100 acres of land from John Allen on February 25, 1700 for 2100 pounds of tobacco "to me in hand paid or promised to be paid" (Stafford County Deed Book Z, p. 73-74). This land had been purchased by John Allen and his brother William Allen from Augustine Kneaton, and was "situate and lying between the Rocky Run and Austins Run in Acquia". John and William Allen signed a Deed of Division for the parcel (witnessed by Lewis Reno) just prior to John Allen selling his portion to Lewis Reno. On March 9, 1705, John Allen confirmed the deed to Lewis Reno, "the 2100 pounds of tobacco having been fully paid" (Stafford Co. Book Z, p.309). A later land record by John Allen's brother, William Allen, mentions "a tract of land sold by my brother John Allen to Lewis Renoe a Frenchman of Westmoreland County". Stafford County was formed out of part of Westmoreland County, and Prince William County was later formed from part of Stafford County.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reynaud/reneau_history.htm
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Property |
7 Jun 1707 |
Stafford Co, Virginia |
Ursula Allen |
- On June 7, 1707, Ursula Allen, "wife of John Allen of the County of Stafford", granted power of attorney to Nathaniel Pope to "acknowledge in Stafford County Court a certain tract of land granted by sale by my said husband Lewis Renoe in the same County the 9th day of March 1705 giving and granting unto my said attorney my whole power of authority in and about the premis to acknowledge in Court my right of Dower of the said land...". (Stafford Co. Book Z p.372).\
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reynaud/reneau_history.htm
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Residence |
1723 |
Dettingen, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia |
- According to the 1723 Virginia Tobacco Lists, brothers Henry and Gabriel Moffett were living in the household of Lewis Reno in 1723 in Dettingen Parish. Frank Moffett wrote the following based on his research of these tobacco lists: "This was a census which was taken to allocate the number of tobacco plants which each male would be allowed to plant, as there was a tobacco glut, and the price was suffering. Sort of a colonial version of FDR's "Land Bank" program, wherein farmers were paid not to grow crops, etc. The brothers Henry (sometimes recorded as Heinrich) Moffett and Gabriel were listed in the household of Lewis Reno, a Huguenot, along with Reno sons, in Dettingen Parish, the location of which is now in Prince William County (then Stafford County).
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reynaud/reneau_history.htm
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Property |
16 Jul 1728 |
Stafford Co, Virginia |
- William Forster/Foster, 16 Jul 1728-31 Aug 1728; 219 acres on Winter's Branch; adjacent his own land, Lewis Renoe, Lewis Tacquet, Clement Sabyla, John Savage, John Adams. Surv. John Warner.
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Will |
27 Jan 1755 |
Prince William Co, Virginia |
- Lewis Reno's will was probated on November 27, 1754, with his sons Lewis Reno and Thomas Reno named as executors. They presented his will in Court on January 27, 1755 and signed a bond, both spelling their name Reno (PW Co. Court Order Book 1754-1755, p. 181). On August 26, 1755 they reported an inventory and appraisal of his estate, but the detailed records have been lost or destroyed as has his will and any record of his marriage.
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Death |
27 Jan 1755 |
Manassas, Prince William Co, Virginia |
Burial |
28 Jan 1755 |
Prince William Co, Virginia |
Notes |
- Louis was a Huguenot who was encouraged by Nicholas Hayward to come to the Virginia colony. It appears that after Louis had escaped religious perscution in France and come to Engand, he was given money to settle in Virginia by the English crown 8 September 1687. This is shown on a bounty award given him and his brother Benjamin and their families. It appears that he arrived in Virginia between July and October of 1688. He travelled with his wife and children and also with his brother Benjamin and his wife and children.
A little over 10 years after arriving in Virginia, Lewis purchased 100 acres of land from a man by the name of John Allen 25 February 1700. For this he paid 2100 pounds of tobacco. I don't know where he got the tobacco from, unless maybe he had been farming rented land prior to buying his own farm.
In 1711 and 1712, he (perhaps son Louis; the father would be quite elderly by now) acquired much larger tracts of land in partership with others. Louis may have lived on Broad Run near Bristow. His home may have been a three story structure with slave quarters in a separate building. During the civil war, the Union army forced the slaves to burn down their quarters and then leave the premesis. There was once a secret staircase leading from the cellar to the water level of the well, so that the family members could get water safely without Indians seeing them. The home was once used as a hospital during the Civil War.
"Genealogy of the Reno/Reneau Family in America, 1600-1930"
Author: Sue Reneau Damewood and Steven Fancy
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wilde_tree-1&id=I6484
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Lewis Reynaud, whose name appears as the anglicized version Renoe, Rennoe, or Reno in early Stafford County, Virginia records, had to have been under 21 years of age on October 10, 1688 when he was included in the Letter of Denization granted his parents, but he must have been at least 21 in February 1700 when he acquired land in Virginia, thus fixing his birth before 1678.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reynaud/reneau_history.htm
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Person ID |
I36515 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
3 Dec 2011 |
Family |
Mrs. Anne (..) Reynaud (Reno), b. Abt 1680 d. Aft 1720, of, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia (Age ~ 41 years) |
Marriage |
Abt 1701 |
Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia |
Children |
| 1. Thomas Reno, b. Abt 1702, Prince William Co, Virginia d. 24 Dec 1777, Dentingen Parish, Prince William Co, Virginia (Age ~ 75 years) |
| 2. Margaret Reno, b. Abt 1704, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. Aft 1710 (Age ~ 7 years) |
| 3. Sarah Reno, b. Abt 1707, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. Aft 1710 (Age ~ 4 years) |
+ | 4. Major/Gent Lewis Reno, Jr., b. Abt 1710, Manassas, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. Sep 1774, Prince William Co, Virginia (Age ~ 64 years) |
| 5. Judith Reno, b. Abt 1711, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. Aft 1764, Prince William Co, Virginia (Age ~ 54 years) |
+ | 6. Francis Reno, b. Abt 1710, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. Aft 1787, Prince William Co, Virginia (Age ~ 78 years) |
+ | 7. John Thomas Reno, b. 13 Apr 1715, Stafford Co (now Prince William Co), Virginia d. 1808, Sinking Creek, Elizabethtown, Carter Co, Tennessee (Age 92 years) |
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Family ID |
F12555 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Nov 2011 |