Reeve, Samuel

Summary

Father: Joseph Reeve
Mother: Millicent Wade

Birth: 22 Jun 1751
Birth Source: Quaker Records

Death: c1815, probably Fairfield, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Death Source: Will/Probate

Spouse1: Ruth Skull, m. c26 Dec 1791, Atlantic, New Jersey

Narrative

Children of Samuel Reeve and Ruth Skull:

1. Joseph Reeve, b. 3 May 1793, d. 5 Nov 1795
2. Rachel Reeve, b. 24 Dec 1794
3. Ruth Reeve, b. 23 Feb 1797
4. Martha Reeve, b. 28 Dec 1798
5. Mary Reeve, b. 16 Aug 1802
6. Samuel Reeve, b. 7 Mar 1805
7. Benjamin Reeve, b. 28 May 1807
8. Martha Reeve, b. 17 Jun 1810

Green Street Monthly Meeting records list the above children and birth dates. It also states they were residence of Fairfield.

Administration of Samuel's estate was granted to Ruth Reeve(s) and John Reeve(s) Jr. on 13 Mar 1815. On 19 Feb 1816, Ruth was made guardian of Samuel and Martha Reeve.

Information from the probate included in New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817:
1815, Mar. 15. Reeve, Samuel, of Fairfield Twsp., Cumberland Co. Int. Inventory, $3,454.10 1/2; made by Joseph Miller, John Sheppard. Sworn to by Ruth Reeve, John Reeve, Jr., Mar. 30, 1815. File 1752 F.

Research Notes

Sources

Birth:          Union, New Jersey, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings Births and Deaths, 1686-1798 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
Death:        New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Volume XLII, Abstracts of Wills, 1814-1817, p349 (Ancestry)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Green Street Monthly Meeting (Friends), Births 1728-1884, Deaths, 1798-1885 (Ancestry)
Cumberland County, New Jersey Administrations & Guardianship A-A, pp. 375, 392
Cumberland County, New Jersey Will Records 1752F