Reeve, Benjamin

Summary

Father: Joseph Reeve
Mother: Eleanor Bagnall

Birth: 2 Jul 1737
Birth Source: Quaker Records

Death: 25 May 1801
Death Source: Quaker Records

Spouse1: Ruth Brick, m. 28 Oct 1761
Spouse2: Rachel Tyler, m. 26 Apr 1769

Narrative

Children of Benjamin Reeve and Ruth Brick:

1. Hannah Reeve, b. 24 Nov 176(6?), d. 16 Mar 1767

Children of Benjamin Reeve and Rachel Tyler:

1. Benjamin Reeve, b. 6 Apr 1770
2. James Reeve, b. 1 Apr 1772
3. Richard Reeve, b. 14 May 1774
4. Joshua Reeve, b. 21 Nov 1775
5. George Reeve, b. 14 Sep 1780

Drawing from a couple different sources, Benjamin's craftperson file states the following:
Son of Joseph and Ellinor (Bagnall) Reeve, and grandson of Mark Reeve who came with John Fenwick on the GRIFFIN in 1675. About 1751 Reeve was apprenticed to Thomas Stretch of Philadelphia, and later established on Front Street. About 1768 he settled on Greenwich, N. J. Died 1801.

The 1779 minutes of the Quaker meeting house at Cane Creek in Guilford (later Alamance) County, North Carolina record a religious visit by Benjamin Reeves of Salem, New Jersey and a George Dillison of Burlington, New Jersey. Benjamin Reeves visited the meeting house on the 26th of October in 1778.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1799-1827, p59:

Salem
Benjamin Reeve a minister member of Greenwich Monthly Meeting deceased the 24th of the 5th mo 1801 in the 64th year of his age.

Ruth died 25 Feb 1767.

Quaker records include the above births of Benjamin, James, Richard, Joshua, and George, children of Benjamin and Rachel Reeve. An 1802 deed specifies the heirs at law of Benjamin as James Reeve & Elizabeth his wife of Greenwich, Joshua Reeve & Milicent his wife of Philadelphia, Richard Reeve of Philadelphia and George Reeve of Philadelphia.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Union County, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Births and Deaths, 1686-1798 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  Union, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings Index to Marriages, p87 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  Union, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings Index to Marriages, p133 (Ancestry)
Death:        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes, 1799-1827, p59 (Ancestry)

U.S., Craftperson Files, 1600-1995, Benjamin Reeve (Ancestry)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Green Street Monthly Meeting Births and Burials, 1677-1806, p73 (Ancestry)
Cane Creek Meeting House 1779 Minutes, Alamance NC (Ancestry)
New Jersey, Union, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Births and Deaths, 1686-1798 (Ancestry)
1802 Deed - James Reeve et al to John Sheppard Jr - Cumberland County, New Jersey Deed Book 3, p507