Reeve, Peter

Summary

Father: John Reeve
Mother: Elizabeth Bricks

Birth: 1 Feb 1759
Birth Source: Quaker Records

Death: c1809
Death Source: Inventory

Spouse1:Lydia Foster, m. 9 Mar 1784
Spouse2: Hannah Ward

Narrative

Children of Peter Reeve and Lydia Foster:

1. William Foster Reeve, b. c1789
2. Elizabeth Reeve
3. Lydia Reeve, b. c1800

Children of Peter Reeve and Hannah Ward:

1. John Reeve, b. 25 Jan 1803
2. Beulah W. Reeve, b. 28 Jan 1805, d. 15 May 1857
3. James Reeves, b. cJan 1808. d. 23 Sep 1812
4. Sarah Reeve

Marriage record for Peter and Lydia state Peter's parents were John and Elizabeth Reeve.

"Hannah Reeve, widow of Peter Reeve, dcd & daughter of James & Margaret Ward decd was born 2 mo 21st 1769."

Administration of Peter's estate was granted to Hannah Reeve on 2 Dec 1809.

1809, Dec. 5. Reeve, Peter, of Cumberland Co. Int. Inventory, $1,261.63; made by John Elkinton, John Young. Sworn to by Hannah Reeve, and Isaac Lowery, Adm'rs, Dec. 27, 1809. Affirmed by appraisers, Feb. 21, 1810. File 1509 F.

The following relevant items are from the Samuel Mickle Diary:
21 Jan 1804 - Sarah Ward went in stage to see her sister Hannah Reeve at Maurice River.
25 Nov 1809 - Heard of decease of Peter Reeve son of John.
23 Sep 1812 - Funeral of James, son of Peter Reeve aged about 4 years & 9 mo.
27 Jul 1821 - This evening at Hannah Reeves where I met with Deborah Lee widow of James Lee and daughter of Chas West late of Woodbury dec'd.
15 Jan 1826 - Hannah Reeve widow of Peter dec'd last night. She lived with Aunt Hannah Ladds family and we in our early life were house mates.
25 Nov 1827 - Elizabeth and Lydia Reeve daughters of Peter Reeve dec'd and Sarah Stephens daughter of Isaac Stephens tutoress in ye dwelling house of Josiah Tatum and Mary and Ann Cooper daughters of Cous. Wm. Cooper in Co. at John Tatums.

Research Notes

There is a death record for daughter Beulah in Pennsylvania with the same death date as the Quaker records record which confirms she was the same one in Pennsylvania. She and John were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1850. John was either married to a Lydia or their cousin sister Lydia Reeve was living with them.

Eliza, Lydia, Sarah, and William were listed as grandchildren in the will of Peter's father John Reeve. Since the children of Peter Reeve were specifically named, these were at first assumed to be children of Peter's brother John. However, the diary of Samuel Mickle states that Elizabeth and Lydia were daughters of Peter.

Sources

Birth:          Union, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Births and Deaths, 1686-1798 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  Atlantic, New Jersey, Great Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Second Book of Marriage Certificate 1774-1794, p32 (Ancestry)
Death:        New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Volume XXXXI, Abstracts of Wills, 1810-1813, p308 (Ancestry)

Union, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings Records of Births and Burials, 1702-1887 (Ancestry)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Northern District Deaths of Members, 1807-1885, p105 (Ancestry)
Samuel Mickle Diary
Cumberland County, New Jersey Administrations & Guardianship A-A, p277
Cumberland County, New Jersey Will Record 1509F