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Excerpt from History of North Carolina, Vol. 6: North Carolina Biography Hardin. W. Reynolds was a planter, cultivating tobacco on his large estate. He was also a manu facturer of chewing tobacco and accumulated a comfortable fortune. On his mother's side Mr. Reynolds is of English stock. His' maternal great-grandfather, Joshua Cox, immigrated to America from England in colonial days and saw service in the French and Indian wars. Later he became captain of a com pany that espoused the cause of the colonies against the mother country in the war of independence. Nancy Cox Reynolds, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in Stokes County, North Carolina, where her father was a large land owner, and where she spent her girlhood days, only about thirty miles from the site. Of the city later made famous by the achievements of her son. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.