1. Peter Reno
1International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.com.
"Husband: PETER RENO
Birth: 1724 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Father: STEPHEN ARNAUD
Mother: MARY
Wife: ELEANOR RENOW
Birth: 1734 Of, Amenia, Dutchess, New York
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Death: 12 APR 1797."2Steven G. Fancy & Sue Reneau Damewood , Genealogy of the Reno/Reneau Family in America, 1600-1930, http://users.frii.com/sfancy/Reno.pdf, page 578.
Web site, accessed on 30 June 2009.
"Descendants of Peter Reno
Generation No. 1
1. PETER1 RENO was born Bef. 1740 in Germany. He married ELEANOR ?.
Notes for PETER RENO:
A Peter Reno immigrated to America and arrived in Philadelphia in 1752 according to miscellaneous immigration records.
Child of PETER RENO and ELEANOR ? is:
2. i. Simeon2 Reno, b. July 07, 1758, Duchess Co., NY; d. April 14, 1814, Schodack, Rensselaer Co., NY."3H. B. Pierce, History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York, Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1879. Online version, HeritageQuest Online., 615.
"The great-grandfather of L. G. Reno, and the first of the family who settled in America, was Peter Reno, who was born in Germany, on the French line, and emigrated to Dutchess Co., N. Y., where he died."
L. G. Reno’s biography on page 615 is in the section on Schuyler County.4I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, ... Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1727-1776, 1965, page 272, World Vital Records, <www.worldvitalrecords.com>.
"Sept. 19, 1752. Ship Edinburgh. James Russel, Captain, from Amsterdam, last from Cowes.
Peter Renau... Frantz Renau..."5Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Ancestry.com.
The Passenger and Immigration Lists Index refers to a 1769 tax list for Mulberry Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, that names Peter and Frantz Renau. I found this tax list in the Pennsylvania Archives, which is free on Footnote.com, but I didn’t see Peter and Frantz Renau listed.6Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, Pleasant Valley, New York : F.J. Doherty, c1990-2005, page 713.
"JEREMIAH(4) OOSTERHOUT, (Jan(3), Lawrence(2), Jan Janse(1)), was bp. 6 Nov. 1743 at the Rhinebeck Flats Reformed Church with Sp. Isaak Cool and Geesie Traphagen. He married ... Jane, b. 1747, probably sister to Peter Renno/Rennau. The Beekman rent book contains the following: "PETER RENNAU, Dover. He occupies 50 acres of land adjoining the south side of Bastian Wheeler's farm, has no lease but by agreement is to pay 12 1/2 bushels per. This place fomerly belonged to Jeremiah Oosterhout, on 1 May 1772 the rent since which time I believe there has been no rent paid tho the note is discharged." ..."7New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 , Ancestry.com, <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7831&enc=1> .
"Name: Peter Renau
Event: Lived
Year: 1776
County: Dutchess
Province: New York
Comments: (Land Bounty Rights) 5th Reg't
Source: New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. I - Extracts
Publisher: J. B. Lyon Co.
Publication info: Albany, NY, 1904
Page: 246."8Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, Orlando, Fla., 2007; BYU Family History Archive, www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/, vol. 9, page 159.
Web site, visited 9 Aug. 2009.
"James Morehouse, was born 21 June 1747... He was involved in several land transactions: ... He evidently had another farm [in Dover?] under lease: "26 Jan. 1782. Lease to Peter Renno for the lives of Simeon Renau, aged 21 and Nellie Renau, his son & dau. 1787 James Morehouse has the mountain farm. By Peter Renau in full to May 1 1786 [pd July 1786]. 1 Aug. 1785: Lease from Margaret Livingston to James Morehouse for the mountain which was in Runno's (sic) possession during the lives of said James Morehouse, his wife Casia and son James aged 9 years: 1/6th on sales. For said lease he is to pay £20 and 160 bushels of wheat."."9Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, vol. 1, pages 410-411.
Nathaniel Brockway … James Morehouse … Cornelius Dutcher … Peter Renno Those names are proprietors of the land that they apply for-this 7th day of Sept. 1786.” [NY Land Papers XLII:158] A map accompanied this petition and the description of the parcel was as follows: … This land was in the area of the Oblong where the Ten Mile River enters the State of Connecticut…."
"On 7 Sept. 1786 a number of men from Pawling sent the following petition to the NYS legislature: “Whereas your Excellancy’s humble petitioners having settled on Certain Vacant lands situate on the Oblong in Pawling’s Precinct being protracted by a scale of twenty chains to one inch by Nathan Soule, the number of acres is three thousand four hundred and twenty acres. Whereas your Excellancy’s humble petitioners humbly prays that his Excellancy or the commissioner of the land office might inspect the map “Which we have got of our land and that will give you a particular [?] description of the bounds. This we have sent by the bearer, Enock Phillio. Whereunto we have set our hands this 7th day of Sept. 1786.
1International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.com.
"Husband: PETER RENO
Birth: 1724
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Father: STEPHEN ARNAUD
Mother: MARY
Wife: ELEANOR RENOW
Birth: 1734 Of, Amenia, Dutchess, New York
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Death: 12 APR 1797."2Interments in Rensselaer Co., NY Cemeteries, <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/cemr3.txt>.
Web site, visited on 12 Aug. 2009.
"SURNAME: Renow
FIRST NAME: Eleanor
BIRTH DATE:
DEATH DATE: 12 Apr 1797
AGE: 63y
WIFE:
HUSBAND: Peter Renow
MOTHER:
FATHER:
TOWN: East Greenbush
CEMETERY: East Greenbush/Reformed Church
COMMENTS:."3International Genealogical Index.
"Husband: PETER RENO
Birth: 1724
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Father: STEPHEN ARNAUD
Mother: MARY
Wife: ELEANOR RENOW
Birth: 1734 Of, Amenia, Dutchess, New York
Marriage: About 1757 New Rochelle, Westchester, New York
Death: 12 APR 1797."
4. Eleanor Reno
1Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, Pleasant Valley, New York : F.J. Doherty, c1990-2005, vol. 4, page 601.
"Ruloff Dutcher, b. 1760 m. Ellen (or Elizabeth) Renno (the Renno family was of Pawling) who was b. 1770. They removed to Otsego Co. where he died 1838 and she 1847 near Cherry Valley, NY. A John Dutcher was in Otsego Co., NY in 1800 at 2-1-2-0-1 and 3-2-0-1-0, probably the father to this man. Ruloff had children; (TD 1993:(21):1:35).
i. Simeon. A Simeon Dutcher married Abigail Patterson, probably ca. 1817. (HT A-2826, 20 July 1940.)
ii. Dorcas. Dorcas Dutcher, b. 8 Nov.1791 m. Michael, b. 4 April 1791, son of Ludwig and Louisa (Hoffman) Snyder. (DAR Bible XIII:215). HT A-8667, 30 Sept. 1963 claims that Dorcas married John Snyder but Bible record seems to be accurate.) The Snyders were of Duanesburgh, etc. (NB a Jacob Dutcher was in Duanesburgh in 1800).
iii. Marquis.
iv. Peter.
v. Philo.
vi. Cypher.
vii. George.
viii. Margaret.
ix. Ann.
x. Hannah."
The spouses of the children of Ruloff and Ellen (Renno) Dutcher are listed in volume 6, page 959.21847 Deaths as reported to the county clerk, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyotsego/vitals/1847.htm.
"Cherry Valley. Eleanor E. DUTCHER, Jan. 23, aged 77 yr."
1Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, Pleasant Valley, New York : F.J. Doherty, c1990-2005, vol. 4, page 601.
"Ruloff Dutcher, b. 1760 m. Ellen (or Elizabeth) Renno (the Renno family was of Pawling) who was b. 1770. They removed to Otsego Co. where he died 1838 and she 1847 near Cherry Valley, NY. A John Dutcher was in Otsego Co., NY in 1800 at 2-1-2-0-1 and 3-2-0-1-0, probably the father to this man. Ruloff had children; (TD 1993:(21):1:35).
i. Simeon. A Simeon Dutcher married Abigail Patterson, probably ca. 1817. (HT A-2826, 20 July 1940.)
ii. Dorcas. Dorcas Dutcher, b. 8 Nov.1791 m. Michael, b. 4 April 1791, son of Ludwig and Louisa (Hoffman) Snyder. (DAR Bible XIII:215). HT A-8667, 30 Sept. 1963 claims that Dorcas married John Snyder but Bible record seems to be accurate.) The Snyders were of Duanesburgh, etc. (NB a Jacob Dutcher was in Duanesburgh in 1800).
iii. Marquis.
iv. Peter.
v. Philo.
vi. Cypher.
vii. George.
viii. Margaret.
ix. Ann.
x. Hannah."
The spouses of the children of Ruloff and Ellen (Renno) Dutcher are listed in volume 6, page 959.2International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.com.
"Roeloff Dutcher. Death: 30 MAR 1838. Spouse: Eleanor OR Ellen Elizabeth Reno. Marriage: < 1789> <, , New York>."