Reeve, Joshua

Summary

Father: Benjamin Reeve
Mother: Rachel Tyler

Birth: 21 Nov 1775
Birth Source: Quaker Records

Death: 22 Jul 1812
Death Source: Encyclopedia of American Qauker Genealogy

Spouse1: Hannah Ware, m. 29 Jun 1796
Spouse2: Millicent Carr, m. 17 Apr 1800

Narrative

Children of Joshua Reeve and Hannah Ware:

1. Hannah Reeve, b. 16 Sep 1797

Children of Joshua Reeve and Millicent Carr:

1. Benjamin Reeve, b. 9 Apr 1801, d. 10 Apr 1801
2. Samuel Carr Reeve, b. 6 Apr 1803
3. Ellen Reeve, b. 31 Mar 1805
4. Catharine Reeve, b. 5 Jul 1807
5. Joshua Reeve, b. 13 Aug 1809
6. Job Reeve, b. 7 Jun 1811, d. 1 Jul 1811

Joshua is described as of Greenwich on his Quaker marriage Certificate.

By 1802, he had moved to Philadelphia, at which time, he and his siblings executed an heirs deed from their father Benjamin's land. They were back in Burlington by 1805 when he and Amelia executed some deeds as heirs of her father Caleb Carr. In one of the deeds she is named both Amelia and Millicent.

Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Men's Minutes include a removal notice from meeting dated 9 May 1805:

A certificate of removal was granted in favour of Joshua Reeve and Milicent his wife with their three infant children Hannah Reeve Samuel Carr Reeve and Elen Reeve to Concord Monthly Meeting in the State of Ohio; Signed by the Meeting at Large

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          New Jersey, Union, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Births and Deaths, 1686-1798, p92 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  New Jersey, Union, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Marriages, p295 (Ancestry)
Marriage2:  New Jersey, Camden, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, Marriage Certificates, 1737-1886, p177

1802 Deed - James Reeve et al to John Sheppard Jr - Cumberland County, New Jersey Deed Book 3, p507
1805 Deed - Joshua & Millicent Reeves to Samuel Deacon - Burlington County, New Jersey Deed Book P, 267
1805 Deed - Joshua & Amelia Reeves to Jeremiah Mathis Jun - Burlington County, New Jersey Deed Book Q, p408 (signed as Millicent)
New Jersey, Burlington, Mount Holly Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1793-1818, p261
U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943 (Ancestry), Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. IV, p753