Reeve, Lewis

Summary

Father: Ambrose Reeve
Mother: Ann Barnwell

Birth: 5 Aug 1739
Birth Source: St. Helena Parish Register

Death: c14 Nov 1774
Death Source: St. Helena Parish Register

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Narrative

The Will of Lewis Reeve mentions a number of relatives including his sister Ann Carson and her son James Stuart, and his sister Sarah Gibbs. He also mentions his uncle Nathaniel Barnwell and several Barnwell cousins.

It also mentions another Ambrose Reeve of Kent, England who was his cousin. This Ambrose had a brother who lived in Dover in 1769 (unnamed). They were sons of a Thomas Reeve, apparently Lewis's uncle. Many of these Reeves are mentioned in deeds and were living in St. Helena Parish, Beaufort, Granville Co., SC.

The Parish Register says he was baptized 18 Nov 1739 and buried 14 Nov 1774.

DEATH NOTICES FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA AND AMERICAN GENERAL GAZETTE, AND ITS CONTINUATION THE ROYAL GAZETT
At Port Royal, Lewis Reeve, Esq., a Gentleman of Singular Worth, possessed of every Quality of Head and Heart to Merit that general Esteem, in which he lived, and render his Death universally lamented. - November 18, 1774.

Sources

Death:      St. Helena Parish Register (The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volumes 22-23, p171)
                   DEATH NOTICES FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA..., The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 2 pp. 87-93
History:   Will of Lewis Reeve