Reeves, Biddle

Summary

Father: Biddle Reeves
Mother: Ann Clement

Birth: 4 Oct 1766
Birth Source: Quaker Records

Death: 2 Jun 1828
Death Source: Quaker Records

Spouse1: Elizabeth Haines, m. 7 Jun 1792, Old Springfield, Burlington County, New Jersey
Spouse2: Elizabeth Ellis

Narrative

Children of Biddle Reeves and Elizabeth Haines:

1. Joshua Hains Reeves, b. 24 Jan 1794
2. Biddle Reeves, b. 9 Nov 1796, d. 12 Jun 1799

Children of Biddle Reeves and Elizabeth Ellis:

1. Biddle Reeves, b. 13 Sep 1807, d. 4 Mar 1808
2. Elizabeth Reeves, b. 6 Jul 1809
3. Ellis Reeves, b. 20 Jul 1812
4. Biddle Reeves, b. 14 May 1814, d. 10 Jun 1852

Woodbury Monthly Meeting Records include the following:
10 Day of 4th Mo 1792
Biddle Reeves, by John Jessup, requests a certificate for Marriage with a friend of Burlington monthly meeting. - Paul Cooper, and James Cooper are appointed to make the necessary equiry, and to produce one to next meeting.

15 May of 5th Mo 1792
A Certificate for Biddle Reeves being produc'd by the friends appointed, it was read, approv'd and sign'd by the clerk.

Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings Records of Births and Burials includes the following:
Biddle Reeves son of Biddle Reeves was born ye 4th of ye 10th Mo 1766
Deceased 6th Mo 2nd 1828 in his 62 year
Elizabeth Reeves wife of Biddle Reeves & Daughter of Joseph & Mary Haines was born ye 13 of ye 3d mo 1767
Departed this Life ye 4th day of ye 9th Mo 1800
Their Children
Joshua Reeves born 1st Mo 24th 1794
Biddle Reeves born 9th of 11th Mo 1796, Deceased ye 12th of ye 6th Mo 1799
Elizabeth Reeves, daughter of Peter and Miriam Ellis & Second Wife of Biddle Reeves was born the 27th of 2nd mo 1774
Deceased 2mo 9th 1826 in her 52 year
Their Children
Biddle Reeves born 13th of 9th mo 1807 Deceased the 4th of 3rd mo 1808
Elizabeth Reeves born 6th of 7th mo 1809
Elllis Reeves born 7th mo 20th 1812
Biddle Reeves born 5th mo 14th 1814 Deceased 6th Mo 10th 1852

The following entries for his first wife Elizabeth is from the Haines-Pancoast Bible in the GSNJ Bible Collection:

ELIZABETH HAINS was born March the 14th on the 7th day of the week about 6 oclock in the afternoon Anno Domini 1767.
...
Elizabeth Reeves departed this life the 4th Day of the 9th Month about 7 o'clock on the Morning 1800. Aged 33 years 5 months and 20 days.

Biddle made his will 20 Mar 1828 and it was proven 26 Jun 1828. He names the following children in the will: Joshua, Elizabeth, Ellis, and Biddle Reeves.

Research Notes

Sources

Marriage1:  New Jersey, Burlington, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriage Certificates, 1768-1897, p69

1828 Will - Biddle Reeves - Gloucester County, New Jersey Will Records 3856H
New Jersey, Union, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings, Records of Births and Burials, 1702-1887, p7 (Ancestry)
Woodbury Monthly Meeting, A Record of the Minutes 1785-1819 (Ancestry)
Genealogical Society of New Jersey Bible and Family Records Collection - Item 2.301