Reeves, James Wilson

Summary

Father: Leonard Reeves
Mother: Susannah MNU

Birth: c1790, Charles County, Maryland
Birth Source: 1790 Census and 1813 Will of Susannah Reeves

Death: before 1825, Charles County, Maryland
Death Source: 1825 Will of Thomas Courtney Reeves

Spouse1: Susannah MNU, probably Wheeler

Narrative

James Wilson Reeves is probably the individual transcribed as William Reeves in the Charles County marriage records who married Susannah Wheeler on 20 Jan 1808.

He was listed as "Wilson Reeves" in the 1820 Census of Charles County with a household that included 4 Males under 10 years old, 1 Male 26-44 and 1 Female 16-25.

From Session Laws 1823, Volume 628, Page 157 Laws of Maryland An act for the relief of sundry poor persons in the several counties thereinmentioned. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Levy Courts of Saint Mary's, Charles, Montgomery, Anne-Arundel, Prince George's, Worcester, Caroline, Kent, Queen Ann's, Calvert, and Cecil Counties, be, and they are hereby severally authorised and empowered at their annual meeting, so long as they shall see cause so to do, to assess and levy on the assessable property of said counties for the use of the several persons hereinafter mentioned the sums of money annexed to their respective names, viz...In Charles County, for Nancy Cox, thirty dollars; for James W. Reeves, thirty dollars; for James Hill, thirty dollars; for Mary Goodrick Martin, thirty dollars, payable to themselves or their orders respectively.

The 1825 Will of Thomas Courtney Reeves included a legacy to Susannah, the widow of Wilson Reeves.