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Reeves, James (c1796 ME - 1860)

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Reeves, James


Summary

Father: probably James Reeves Jr
Mother: probably Lucy Trask

Birth: c1796, Windsor, Kennebec County, Maine
Birth Source: Headstone, Obituary

Death: 3 Dec 1860
Death Source: Headstone

Spouse1: Hannah Rogers

Narrative

Children of James Reeves and Hannah Rogers:
  1. Reuel Reeves, b. 30 Nov 1819
  2. John Reeves, b. 17 Sep 1821

As James Revis of Malta, Kennebec County, he apparently received some land and then mortgaged eighty one acres in Kennebec to the "Proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase" in 1810.

They had a John R Reeves, age 10, living with them in 1860, probably a grandson.

Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette, 15 Dec 1860
In Windsor, Dec. 3d, James Reeves, aged 65 years.

Reuel had administration on the estate of James Reeves in Kennebec County.

Sources

Death:      Headstone, North Windsor Cemetery, Windsor, Kennebec County, Maine
                   Obituary, Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette, 15 Dec 1860
Census:    1820 Census - Kennebec County, Maine
                   1830 Census - Kennebec County, Maine
                   1840 Census - Kennebec County, Maine
                   1850 Census - Kennebec County, Maine
                   1860 Census - Kennebec County, Maine
History:  Maine, Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999 (Ancestry)
                   Kennebec County, Maine, Deed Book 17, p219