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Reeve, Erastus (1778 MA - 1839)

Reeve, Erastus

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Reeve, Erastus


Summary

Father: Benjamin Reeve
Mother: Huldah Hill

Birth: 7 Jan 1778, Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Birth Source: MA Vital Records

Death: 20 May 1839
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1:

Narrative

Children of Erastus Reeve:
  1. Sylvia Reeve, b. 26 Feb 1805
  2. Benjamin Reeve, b. 2 Sep 1807
  3. Champion J. Reeve, b. 22 May 1810
  4. Stephen D. Reeve, b. Jan 1811
  5. Tapping Reeve, b. 7 Jan 1816
  6. Charles J. F. Reeve, b. 19 Aug 1818
  7. Sheldon P. Reeve, b. 1821

The above children are from Early history of the town of Hopkinton and need verification.

In 1810, he was listed next to his father Benjamin in Cornwall, Vermont.

From Early history of the town of Hopkinton:
Erastus Reeve lived on the north side and in a house which stood where the Baptist parsonage now stands, and died there. He had quite a family of boys, Benjamin, Champion J., Stephen, Tapping, Charles J. and Sheldon, all of whom after a time went west, except Benjamin, who settled near Beechertown in Stockholm.


This book also contains excerpts of the diary of Elisha Risdon which included the following items of interest:
  • 1832. December 1. Champin J. Reeve begins work for me for one year at $11 per month. He is to have $32 out of the store and such things as we have to spare out of the house; $47 in grain in the month of June, 1833. Paid him $53 in a pair of three-year-old steers.
  • 1833. June 1. Benjamin Reeve here to-day.
  • 1839. March 30th. Esq. Reeve has the rheumatism.
  • 1839. April 20th. Esq. Reeve is no better.
  • 1839. May 15th. Esq. Reeve is failing.
  • 1839. May 20th. Esq. Reeve died to-day.
  • 1839. May 22d. At the funeral Erastus Reeve, sermon by Elder Green, Sr.
  • 1839. Juen 4th. Champin Reeve and his wife here, brought their babe, a son of eleven months, as fine a boy as I ever saw. His name is Elisha Risdon, after myself

Research Notes


Sources

Birth:          Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Ancestry)
Burial:       Findagrave and Rootsweb - Fort Jackson Hopkinton Cemetery, Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, New York

1810 Census:  Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont
1820 Census:  Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont
1830 Census:  Lawrence, Saint Lawrence County, New York

Sanford, Carlton E. (1903). Early history of the town of Hopkinton, pp. 179, 351, 536-540