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Family of John Durdan Reeves of Halifax Co., NC

Family of John Durdan Reeves

Family of John Durdan Reeves of Halifax Co., NC

Image According to his Revolutionary War pension statement, John Durdan/Durden Reeves was born in Halifax County, North Carolina (location 10 on the adjacent map) in 1759. He volunteered in 1780 from Halifax County, served several tours and had been commissioned as a Lieutenant by the end of the war.

After the Revolution he lived for several years in Cumberland County where he married around 1788. By the census of 1800, he had migrated westward to Surry County where he died in 1841. Some of his descendants remained in the Surry County NC area while others migrated to Tennessee and Kentucky.

The descendants of John Durdan Reeves who have participated in the Reeves DNA Project are represented in DNA Group 6B.
The map and above text both first appeared in May 2017 as part of post entitled "Early Reeves' Families in Colonial America" researched and written by Beverly for the blog Reeves, Reaves, and More Rives she co-authors and is included here with her permission.

Person Pages have been created within TRP for the following descendants of this individual. Please see footnote [F1] below.


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