Parents: Lewis RENO and [BTB] Ann WATERS.

He was married to Elizabeth BAYLISS in 1744 in Prince William, Virginia. Children were: Enoch RENEAU, Frances (Fanny) RENEAU, Francis RENEAU JR. , Lydia RENEAU, Lawrence RENEAU, Nancy RENEAU, Sarah RENEAU, Mildred RENEAU, Dorothy Dolley RENEAU, Bayless RENEAU, Jane RENEAU, George F RENEAU, Susanna RENEAU.

He was married to Frances in 1744 in Prince William, Virginia.

He was described as a son of Lewis Reno in a deed dated May 25, 1761 (PW Co. Deed Bk. P, p.67). He was listed as a minor on the Stafford County Tithe Rolls for 1723 and 1724. He made his home on the Reno portion of the Reno-Waters grant of 1712 on Cedar Run at the mouth of Goose (later called Philomen's) Run (William L. Reno, Jr., The Reno Family, 1975). Francis Reno was a vestryman of Dettingen Parish, and a member of the County Court (William Reno 1975). In the 1787 census for Prince William County, he is taxed for one son 16-20 years old, 13 slaves, 7 horses, and 14 cattle. His son Enoch also has slaves and livestock, whereas Francis Reno Jr.'s taxes are paid by his father. On September 12, 1796 (Deed Book Z, p. 44) Francis Renoe Senior, of Prince William County, conveys to Enoch Renoe of same county, for 100 pounds, 130 acres of land whereon the said Enoch now dwells, adjoining lands of Thomas Renoe's orphans, including about 75 acres formerly sold by the said Francis Renoe to the said Enoch Renoe, etc. Witnesses were George Reno, Daniel Onear, and Baylis Renoe. His will was dated October 18, 1794 and was probated on October 2, 1797 (PW Co. Will Bk. H, pp. 224-227). His wife was not named in the will. In his will he mentions sons Enoch Renoe, Francis, George, and Baylis Renoe, and daughters Lidia More, Nancy Whitledge, Fanny Tackett, Milley Jamison, Dolley Renoe, Jane Renoe, and Susanna Crosby. He bequeaths land, 22 slaves, furniture, and livestock to his children in his will. He bequeaths "to my son Enoch Reno all that tract or parcel of land which I purchased of John Tassly to him and his heirs forever". "To sons George and Baylis Renoe, the tract of land on which I now live. George to have the part that lieth on the North side of Phillemons and Baylis to have the part that lieth on the South side of the said Run". The witnesses to his will were Isaac Farrow, George Tackett, Daniel Orear, Robert Luttrell, and William Baylis. His name appears in the DAR Patriot Index as a private from Virginia. 

He was married to Nora West MARING in 1881.

He was married to Jane REED on Feb 2 1793 in , Jefferson, TN. He was married to Jane REED.

He was married to Jean REED on Feb 10 1794 in , Jefferson Co., , TN. He was married to Jean REED.

He was married to Mary (Polly) THOMAS on Mar 5 1813 in , Jefferson, TN. Children were: Robert Patten RENO.

He was married to Elizabeth RENNO on Jul 20 1820 in , Madison Co, AL.

He was married to Delphia about 1853 in , Greene, IL.

He was married to Vola PARSONS.

He was married to Elinor Jane WITT on Apr 14 1844 in , Greene Co, IL.

He was married to Dora HARRELL.

He was married to Charlotte (Hinton) MILLER on Jun 3 1827 in , Greene Co, IL. Children were: Marcus Albert RENO .

He was married to Zula NICHOLS.

She was married to Francis NASH.

Children were: Jesse Lee RENO.

Parents: Lewis RENO and [BTB] Ann WATERS.

He was married to Mary Susannah THORNE on Nov 17 1737 in Greenbrier, Vale, VA. 

Children were: Reverend William RENEAU, Benjamin RENEAU, Margaret RENEAU, Sarah RENEAU, John David RENEAU, Mary RENEAU, George RENEAU, Charles RENEAU, Lewis RENEAU, Reverand Francis RENEAU, Thomas RENEAU, Margaret RENEAU.

John Reno was born on the Patent of 1710 obtained by Lewis Reno from Clermont Chevalle, at the confluence of theOccoquain River with Broad Run in Prince William Co., VA. He was living there in 1749 when Faquier Co. was formed out of Prince William Co. There are records of him living in Frederick Co. in 1758 and 1760. On Mar. 5, 1764, he and wife Susannah "of Frederick County" sold land in Prince William Co. to William French, except 1/2 acre for the graveyard described as land left him by his father Lewis Reno (Prince William Co. Deed Book Q, pp. 147, 165). The witnesses to this land sale were Lewis, Francis, Elizabeth, and Laurence Reno. (Nothing is known about this Laurence or Lauroner Reno [writing difficult to read]). Also in 1764, John and Susannah purchased 293 acres on Patterson Creek from Christian and Elizabeth Long. In 1764, John Reno also transferred 600 acres on Patterson Creek, Hampshire Co., VA (formerly part of Frederick Co.) with other transfers listed in 1769, 1770, and 1771. John Reno and his wife appear in land records of Hampshire County in 1761, 1762, 1764, 1765, 1769, 1770, and 1771. About 1772 after the death of Susannah he apparently moved with all of his children except George and Thomas, who remained in Hampshire County, to Chartier's Creek valley in Washington County, PA (later became Allegheny County). Between 1784 and 1787, John Reno and nine of his children (all except Benjamin, who died about 1782, and Francis who remained in PA) moved to Washington Co., North Carolina, which later became Carter Co., TN, and where he died about 1808.

John and his family were among the first settlers of Sinking Creek in Carter Co., TN. Prior to 1776, due to strained relations between the Americans and the British, the British provided the Indians with arms, ammunition and merchandise and in return the Indians harassed the frontier settlements. The Indians were constantly burning, pillaging, and massacring pioneers near the Watauga Settlement where the Renos first lived.

During the State of Franklin controversy in Tennessee between Colonel John Tipton and Colonel John Sevier, we find the following: "I hereby give Publick Notice, that there will be an election held the third Friday in August next, at John Rennoe's, near the Sickamore Sholes where Charles Robertson formerly lived, to choose members to represent Washington county in the General Assembly of North Carolina, agreeable to an Act of Assembly, in that case made and provided, where due attendance will given per me." Colonel Tipton was, by his oath as representative of the North Carolina law in the Washington District of North Carolina, opposed to the treasonable act of establishing the State of Franklin which was being organized under Colonel John Sevier. As John Reno had both Sevier and Tipton daughter-in-laws and this conflict had broken out into an armed one, John's situation must have been acute. However, as we see by the advertisement dated July 19, 1786, quoted above from Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee", page 338, John Reno must have sided with Colonel John Tipton, whose sister (or niece) was married to Reno's son Charles.

"Sicamore Scholes" was on the Watauga River, near the site where the first cabin built by white men in Tennessee Country was erected in 1768. From 1787, John and Charles Reno are found in the tax lists for Washington County, Tennessee (North Carolina). (East Tennessee Genealogical Magazine, Vols. 34, p. 126, and 35, p. 108, et seq.)

On 14 June 1806, John Reno made his will: "In the name of God amen - I, John Reno, being weake in body but of perfect mind and memory Blessed God, and Calling to Mind the Mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die - doe Make Constitute and ordain this to be My Last Will and testament - in Maner and form following - that is to say after all just debts being paid at the discretion of my Executors - I first will and bequeath unto my beloved son William Reno twenty five cents - to my Beloved Benjamin Reno I also Will and Bequeath twenty five cents - to my beloved daughter Sarah Rodgers I also will and bequeath twenty five cents - to my son John Reno I will and bequeath twenty five cents - to my beloved daughter Mary Calvin twenty five cents - to my beloved son George Reno twenty five cents - to my beloved son Lewis Reno twenty five cents - to my beloved son Francis Reno twenty five cents - to my beloved daughter Margaret Vance twenty five cents - and to my beloved son Charles Reno I will and bequeath all and everything belonging to me of every kind, or spacious of property whatsoever of any kind belonging to me. I and doe make constitute and appoint the aforesaid Charles Reno sole Executor to the same, in witness whereof I have this fourteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and six and in the presence of these witnesses acknowledge this to be My Last Will and testament Together with my Hand and Seal annexed to the same." Witnesses were John Dunlap, William Lacey, and Samuel Tipton (Original Wills, File No. 2, p. 679, Office of County Court Clerk, Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee; Virginia Magazine of History, vol. 9, p. 12; Tyler's Quarterly, vol. 4.)

He was married to Elizabeth THURMAN on Oct 30 1804. Children were: Isaac Tipton RENEAU , Joseph Wright RENEAU, John Pleasant RENEAU, Nathan Washington RENEAU , Nathaniel Smith RENEAU, Elizabeth Wakefield RENEAU, Sarah S. RENEAU , Jonathan Mulkey RENEAU, William T. RENEAU, Berry Jordan RENEAU.

He was married to Elizabeth THURMAN on Oct 30 1804. Children were: Isaac Tipton RENEAU, Berry Jordan RENEAU.

He was married to Jemima MILLER on Dec 31 1835 in , Greene Co, IL.

He was married to Elizabeth BARRIS in 1865 in Agency, Wapello, Iowa. Children were: Sampson Willis RENO, Francis Marion RENO, Clara Clydena RENO, Catherine RENO, Milo RENO, Mary RENO.

Children were: Francis Marion RENO, Sampson Willis RENO, Catherine RENO, Clara RENO, Milo RENO, Mary RENO.

Children were: Jesse L RENO.

He was married to Sarah ROGERS on Dec 30 1800. Children were: Jonathan RENO, Sarah Elizabeth RENO, Andrew Jackson RENO, Francis RENO, William C. RENO.

He was married to Sarah MORALITY on Dec 30 1800.

She was married to Henry HALLEY JR. about 1730 in Prince William, VA. Children were: Francis HALLEY, Thomas HALLEY, Mary HALLEY, Sarah HALLEY, Henry HALLEY JR..

She was married to Isaac LITTLE on Dec 10 1810 in , Carter, TN. Children were: Elvira LITTLE, Ellenora LITTLE, Eliza Jane LITTLE, Greenbury Jackson LITTLE .

Parents: Louis DE REYNAUD and Anne DE LA CROIX.

It is believed he was married to Ann WATERS in 1702 in Of Stafford Co., VA.   Children were: Thomas RENO, Major Lewis RENO, Judith RENO, Francis RENO, John RENO.

May have been married to Margaret Faut.

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. He was still in London with his family in early April 1688, but was in Stafford County, Virginia by October 2, 1688, based on the documents described above for his father. The voyage to Virginia from London took about 13 weeks, so he probably arrived in the Northern Neck of Virginia between July and October, 1688 with his family and his uncle Benjamin and his family.

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.
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...".  (Book Z p.372). James C. Reneau, in his 1989 article in the Virginia Genealogist, interpreted this document as saying that Ursula Allen was the widow of Lewis Renoe, who must have died between 1705 and 1707, but I believe that Ursula left out the word "to" and was actually referring to the tract of land granted by my said husband TO Lewis Renoe in March 1705.

On August 24, 1711 Lewis Renoe and Clement Chevalle were granted 968 acres in Overwharton Parish of Stafford County on the upper side of Broad Run just east of Bristow (Northern Neck Grant Bk. 4, p. 28), and four days later, on August 28, 1711, Lewis Reno and Lewis Tacquett acquired a grant of 486 acres on Cedar Run, presently located east of Brentsville and south of Manassas in the northern neck of Virginia. Lewis Reno was living on this land in 1715 (Northern Neck Grant Bk. 5, p. 67). The title to this Reno-Tackett grant was the subject of a lengthy suit between Thomas Stamps and Thomas Reno in 1752 wherein the Court held that Lewis Reno in 1711 had been "duly naturalized and capable of taking and holding lands as by a Copy of Record in the office of Prince William County dated the second day of October 1688". The Court held that Lewis Tackett was not then naturalized and that this grant was invalid as to him. In 1712, Lewis Reno and Lewis Tackett divided the original grant equally between themselves, and this division was confirmed by the Court on June 16, 1779 (Prince Wm. Co. Bk. U, p.49). On June 30, 1712, Lewis Reno and Philomen Waters acquired a proprietary grant of 466 acres on the east side of Cedar Run, adjoining the Reno-Tackett Grant (Bk. M, p. 176). Thus, Lewis Reno acquired numerous lands, most of which were planted in tobacco.

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.
[Side Note: William L. Reno's 1975 manuscript and his published articles incorrectly showed this Lewis Reno as the son of Pierre Reynaud. Dr. Reno was unaware of the Stafford County records for Lewis and Benjamin Reynaud at the time, but court documents from the Thomas Stamps lawsuit in 1752 indicated that Lewis Reno was a naturalized citizen based on documents dated October 2, 1688, and Dr. Reno assumed that this Lewis Reno was Pierre Reynaud's son based on the following argument: "This date closely coincides with the Date (October 10, 1688) on which the Letter of Denization issued to his father, Peter Reynaud, was inscribed on the Patent Roll which was, of course, its effective date. The slight difference in dates was probably due to a clerical error in the many transcriptions which this court record has undergone; it probably said October 20, 1688, instead of October 2, 1688. If this be true, then October 20, 1688 would, under the New Style Calendar adopted in 1751, have been the equivalent of October 10, 1688 under the Old Style Calendar and would have precisely coincided with the date of the Letter of Denization."]

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). 

Parents: Lewis RENO and [BTB] Ann WATERS.

He was married to Elizabeth WHITLEDGE in 1737 in Prince William, Virginia. Children were: Lewis RENO JR, David RENO, Zeley RENO, John RENO, Eleender RENO, Thomas RENO.

Known as "Major" or "Gent", probably because of his association with the county militia. He served as sheriff of Prince Willliam Co. in 1753, and was a corporal in the PW Co. militia in 1756 for which he was paid 2,046 pounds of tobacco (Henings, Virginia Statutes, v.7, p.24). From 1761 until his death he was Justice of the Peace and served in the County Court. He dealt extensively in real estate throughout his life. In a deposition entered in a dispute over the will of William Spiller, he stated that he was born in Stafford County 'about 1710' and that he was then [1762] 'about 51 years of age' (PW Co. Deed Book P, p.232). His estate was settled Sept. 3, 1778 (PW Co. Will Bk. G, p.15, where he is referred to as Major Lewis Reno Jr.), but Will Book G was destroyed during the Civil War and no copy of his will exists. His sons Lewis and David Reno, and his brother Thomas Reno were appointed executors of his estate and gave a bond of 2,000 pounds on October 3, 1774 (PW Co. Bond Book 1753-1786, p.110). He made his home on part of the original Reno-Chevalle Grant of 1710 along Broad Run which was left to him by his father Lewis Reno (PW Co. Deed Bk. U, p.467). He left land to at least four of his sons: David (Deed Bk. U, p.263), Zeley (Deed Bk. U p.467), Eli (Deed Bk. X p.89) and Lewis (Kincheloe Families, p. 55, 360).
The Fairfax Co. library and the RELIC library in Prince William Co. contain certain records of the Dettingen Parish of the Church of England in Prince Wm. County, where Lewis was Church Warden. He is first mentioned in an entry Oct. 30, 1769 and is last mentioned in records on Apr. 19, 1774. An entry for Dec. 5, 1774 says that Major Lewis Reno had died. Church Wardens, or vestrymen, had both religious and civic duties in the church parishes, which governed most of the local affairs in Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. The vestry conducted the business of the church, built new churches, and looked after the poor. The were responsible for the building and repair of local roads, and they checked land boundaries and kept parish registers containing the names and ages of all births, deaths, and marriages. Those not married in the church were required to post bonds. To carry out these duties, the church levied tithes (usually so many pounds of tobacco) on all males and negro females over 16 years old. Prince William Co. was originally in Hamilton Parish, but in 1744 that parish was divided and Prince William was put in Dettingen Parish. Most of the records of Hamilton and Dettinger parish were lost or destroyed, and many county records were lost or destroyed during the Civil War. Several of the families whose names appear in the early records of Prince William County and Dettingen Parish, including the Renos, Kincheloes, Wickliffes, Randolphs, and Doziers, moved by 1800 to what is now Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky along the Green River near Cypress Creek where they were allowed land claims for their service in the Revolutionary War (from The Randolphs of Prince William County, Virginia; Blanche Randolph 1979).

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