FamilyName, GivenNames
Summary
Father:Mother:
Birth: c 1757
Birth Source:
Death: c 1838
Death Source:
Spouse1: Temperance Carter
Narrative
Private James Reeves served in the revolutionary militia. His service ended in May-June 1780. Then Loyalist militia (1780 June) Camden District. Unddr Colonel Robert English - 1st Regiment Camden Militia. Captain Jasper Rogers Company (1 Auguts to 12 September 1781 - Charleston SC (pay abstract Camden District) Attested by Alexander Stweart Lt Col Commanding the Army. James is registered as a Patriot serving in the militia before the fall of Charleston.He is listed as unaccompained during the excavation of Charleston in October 1782. Evacuates to St. Augustine East Florida. After Florida became part of US James was evacuated with other loyalists to Nova Scotia, Canada on the ship ARGO which landed in NS in the autumn of 1784.
On the passenger list he is a single male (bachelor) with a land grant of 100 acres (the minimum).They were landed at Red Head on the space now know as Cape Argo.. The ship's compnay was granted land that originally been assigned to Capt. Brownrigg. There is a Reeves Lake. The land grants are long and thim. Some are still in the Reeves family too this day (2025) He Likely settled near Melford as the burials of his family and wfie happen at the Melford church.
There was a Reeves family bible - James entered all the information (dated it 1808) about Temperance and the children - with all dates except his own. He added three more children as there were born the last one in 1818. He likely died before 1858 (his wife died in 1858, we have her burial records, not his. He is not in the later cenus.
Sometime between 1819 and 1858 near Melford, Nova Scotia.
Temperance was born Oct 13, 1773. ( i have information about her parents who were also Loyalist on the ARGO) James and Temperance were married between 1785 and 1790 (likely 1790)
They had 13 Children
1. John (2 May 1791)
2. Mary (1793)
3. Elizabeth (24 June 1794)
4. Lydia (1795)
5. Nancy (13 August 1796)
6. Rodah (27 Sept 1798)
7. James (11 April 1801)
8. Susanna (14 May 1803)
9. Temperance (18 October 1805)
10. Richard (27 Sept 1807)
11. Sarah (Sally) (17 May 1811)
12. William (6 Nov 1813)
13. George (9 April 1818)
James listed his occupation as farmer and his origin as St. Augustine Florida religion Church of England