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The Current Story for Group 05
The matching participants in DNA Group 05 are descendants of Thomas and James Reeve who were apparently brothers who settled in Southold, Long Island. Thomas Reeve, age 24, sailed from London for St. Christopher, West Indies in 1635 according to English emigration records.A deposition sworn to by Thomas Osman on March 18, 1658, in the presence of witnesses, gives a brief review of the patriarchs of this lineage. The purpose of the deposition was to establish ownership of land in an area called Hashamomock, east of Hashamomock Pond and west of what is now Greenport. In 1636 Osman was living in Antigua, an island in a Caribbean archipelago then called the Summer Isles. He said he and William Purrier, his future father-in-law, and James Reeve, who became his brother-in-law, 'did go adventuring' that year to the 'Chowan country' of North Carolina in quest of turpentine, a valuable commodity then known as spirits of resin. The trio ran into a Thomas Reeve who was with "others who had come hither from ye Summer Isles". Because of the intense competition in North Carolina, the party sailed up the eastern coast to Hashamomock in Southold, Long Island, New York where one of the party owned a tract of land. Thomas and James Reeve both married, settling on Long Island and raising their families there.
DNA Group 05 includes descendants of both Thomas and James Reeve and the matching Y-DNA establishes that they were probably brothers or very closely related in some way.
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FamilyOf_Reeve_James_4207 - Family of James Reeve of Long Island, New YorkFamilyOf_Reeve_Thomas_4206 - Family of Thomas Reeve of Long Island, New York