Ancestry of
Burt Reynolds

Movie Actor

James Field

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Burt Reynolds — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Field 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Goodrich   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1764 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1823 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Hurd Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Mar 1787 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Congregational Church, Sandgate, Bennington, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Anna Hurd Field (Ahnentafel No:17 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    James Field "enlisted in Capt. Douglas's company in the Regiment under the command of Col. Sherman of the Connecticut line of Continental Troops" in the month of November or December 1780 at Derby, Connecticut. James Field left the service at the end of the war at West Point, New York about 1783 after which he continued to reside in New York and possibly Vermont.

    It is possible that James Field was the son of his father's second wife Experience.

• Sources for James Field

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestors #A039072.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2018).
  • ³ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Pension records for James Field and widow Anna Hurd (Spencer) Field.
  • ⁴ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 231, 330, gives birth year as 1750.

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