Family of Miles Reeves
A wealth of historical data indicates that Miles Reeves (Reves) is first documented in Lancaster County, South Carolina (location J on the adjacent map) when on 8 Mar 1788 he collected a bounty for killing a wolf, although it is believed that he had originally come from North Carolina. In later census records, several of his children are recorded as having been born in North Carolina. He and his family migrated from South Carolina to Christian County, Kentucky where Miles died after which several of his children migrated further westward into Arkansas.
Several descendants of Miles Reeves have participated in Y-DNA testing but it has not solved the mystery of his origins, instead adding more to the conundrum. Rather than matching any known Reeves' lineages, they match members of the Hatcher-Burton family. The DNA has shown a close relationship to a man who is descended from Reuben Hatcher, born 1770 in South Carolina. Hopefully at some future time, this mystery can be resolved by finding the place these families intersect.
The map and above text both first appeared in November 2020 as part of post entitled "A Few More Colonial Early Reeves' Families" researched and written by Beverly for the blog Reeves, Reaves, and More Rives she co-authors and is included here with her permission. This article was a continuation of the piece she posted in May 2017 entitled "Early Reeves' Families in Colonial America" and which was subsequently replicated with additional detail in TRP. See page Index to Early Reeves' Families in Colonial America
Those members of this family group who have taken a Y-DNA test form DNA Group 16 within the Reeves DNA Project
Person Pages have been created within TRP for the following descendants of this individual. Please see footnote [F1] below.
- Reeves, Miles : Reeves, Miles (c 1765 - 1821 KY)
- Reeves, Joseph : Reeves, Joseph (1788 NC - c1860 AR)
- Reeves, Sally : Reeves, Sally (c1790 ? - c1850 KY)
- Reeves, John : Reeves, John (c1792 NC - ?)
- Reeves, Elizabeth : Reeves, Elizabeth (1798 SC - 1860 MS)
- Reeves, Miles P : Reeves, Miles P (c1800 SC? - 1838 AR)
- Reeves, Chapman M : Reeves, Chapman M. (1820 KY - ?)
- Reeves, Robert : Reeves, Robert E. (c1801 SC - 1846 KY)
- Reeves, Ruth : Reeves, Ruth (1804 SC - c1880 MO)
- Reeves, Milberry : Reeves, Milberry (c1806 ? - bef 1845 KY)
- Reeves, William : Reeves, William E. (1813 KY - 1861 AR)
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