Reeve, William Foster

Summary

Father: Peter Reeve
Mother: Lydia Foster

Birth: c1789, New Jersey
Birth Source: Census

Death: 2 Jan 1870, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Source: Philadelphia Death Certificate

Spouse1: Martha Bacon, m. 3 Apr 1811, Greenwich Monthly Meeting, Gloucester County, New Jersey

Narrative

There is a Quaker marriage certificate for William Foster Reeve of Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey to Martha Bacon. William's parents were stated to be Peter and Lydia Reeve of Fairfield in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

In an 1822 deed, William F. Reeve and his wife Martha of Fairfield in Cumberland County sold some land which had belonged to William Foster who devised the lands "unto his daughter Lydia who intermarried with Peter Reeves from who the above said lands together with other lands descended to the grantor." In a later deed from 1836, William F. and Martha, then of Greenwich in Cumberland County more inherited Foster land and states that Lydia Foster died intestate and "the lands so devised to her, descended to her three children, Elizabeth, Lydia F. and the said Wm F. Reeve."

Research Notes

Sources

Marriage1:  Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Green Street Monthly Meeting Marriages, 1784-1792 Births and Deaths, 1777-1794, p106
Death:        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Death Certificate

1830 Census:  Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey
1840 Census:  Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey
1850 Census:  Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey
1860 Census:  Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey

1822 Deed - William F. & Martha Reeve to Thomas Coles - Gloucester County, New Jersey Deed Book JJ, p484
1836 Deed - William F. & Martha Reeve to Stacy French - Gloucester County, New Jersey Deed Book P3, p231