Family of Thomas Reeve(s) of Richmond & Washington Co., GA
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.Thomas Reeve, the son of George Reeve and Ann Doggett of Prince William County, appears to be the individual by that name who settled in Washington County, Georgia (location 17 on the adjacent map). It is very probable that this is the Thomas Reeve who received a bounty land warrant in Washington County, Georgia in 1784 and died there around April 1787.
The British Mercantile Accounts show a Thomas Reeves indebted to a British mercantile company, William Cunningham and Company, of Glasgow, at their Falmouth Store, with a bill for 6 pounds, 5 shillings, and 9 pence due in May of 1774. After the Revolutionary War, the company assigned an agent to determine the status of the company's accounts receivable in Virginia; the agent investigating the claim against Thomas Reeves whose finished report dates from 1803 concluded that the man in question had "moved to Georgia about twenty years ago, then solvent." This would suggest that Thomas Reeves left Prince William prior to 1783.
It is regrettable that no one from this family has participated in the Reeves Y-DNA Project to prove the family connection.
Person Pages have been created within TRP for the following descendants of this individual. Please see footnote [F1] below.
- Reeves, John : Reeves, John (c1750 ? - 1833 GA)
- Reeves, Susannah : Reeves, Susannah (1778 GA - 1854 GA)
- Reeves, Sarah : Reeves, Sarah (c1780 GA - ? AL)
- Reeve, John : Reeve, John (1789 GA - 1867 MS)
- Reeves, Rebecca : Reeves, Rebecca (c1790 GA - ? GA)
- Reeves, Thomas : Reeves, Thomas (c1796 GA - c1867 LA?)
- Reeves, Mary "Polly" : Reeves, Mary "Polly" (1800 GA - 1858 GA)
- Reeves, Spencer : Reeves, Spencer (c1765 ? - c1830 GA)
- Reeves, Lavinia "Viney" : Reeves, Lavinia "Viney" (c1800 GA - ? GA)
- Reeves, Charles : Reeves, Charles (1811 GA - C1860 GA)
- Reeves, Stephen G : Reeves, Stephen G. (1812 GA - 1879 GA)
- Reeve, Randolph : Reeve, Randolph (1820 GA - 1891 TX)
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