Reginald Fernald; Fernall;Furnald;Furnell or Renald, chirurgion, physician, Portsmouth, before 1642; his son Thomas had a deed of land from Richard Vines, steward general of Gorges, 3 May, 1645. He was one of the commissioners for trial of minor cases in 1649. He signed-- "Renald Fernald" --the petition of Portsmouth people for full rights, 20 Oct. 1651. [Mass. Arch. 112, 38.] Clerk of courts in 1654. He deposed in 1659 as to occurrences 17 years before. [Pisc. rec.]

His widow Joanna made will, 23 April, 1660; it was brought into court 28 June, by Elias Stileman and Anthony Ellens, with inventory attested by Elizabeth Fernald. She beq. to daus. Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary, sons Samuel, John, William and Thomas; to John all the surgery books that were his father's; Thomas, shipwright, with wife Temperance, sold land in Kittery 4 March, 1689, to his bro. William, shipwright. Elizabeth sold land near Hinckson's Pool, 29 Oct. 1660.