FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: REYNOLDS, Sergeant Reuben (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume 1, page 249
                SERGEANT REUBEN REYNOLDS - EXPERIENCES AS SPY
        Sergeant Reuben Reynolds of Connecticut reported his experiences as
a spy among the Northwestern Indians to Mr. Lear, secretary to President
Washington, on October 19, 1792. He stated that he was sent out by General
Wilkinson as a spy and was to present that he had deserted from the
Americans. He set out from Fort St. Clair on the 12th of May, 1791. Three
days afterward he reached the Miami towns, a distance of about eighty miles
from the fort -  assuredly rather rapid traveling in this difficult region.
Here he remained for a time and then in three days proceeded a distance of
about fifty miles and fell in with the hunting party of Indians consisting
of fourteen families; these at first threatened to kill him, but afterwards
laid aside that intention and treated him well. He was afterward sold to a
family of Wyandots and then again to the Miamis. He descended the St.
Joseph's River and was taken to "a town of the Pottawottomies." He finally
reached Fort Michilimackinac, where he lived for a time as kitchen servant
in the family of a Mr. Champion. From this point he went on one of Mr.
Champion's boats to Montreal and finally proceeded through Vermont to the
City of Philadelphia. Here he made the report of his observations.


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