Reeves, Joseph

Summary

Father: John Reeve
Mother: Mabel Johnson

Birth: 25 Jun 1755, Cumberland County, New Jersey
Birth Source: pension record

Death: c1847
Death Source: Probate

Spouse1:
Spouse2: Elizabeth Fithian, m. 6 Mar 1798, Cumberland County, New Jersey

Narrative

Children of Joseph Reeves:

1. Joseph Reeves
2. Enos Reeves, d. by 1836
3. Nathan Leake Reeves
4. Abigail Reeves, m. James Gordon, 7 May 1817
5. John Reeves, b. 1796
6. Isaac Fithian Reeves

"Nathan Leake, Enos & Joseph, three children of Joseph Reeves" were baptized 10 Jun 1786 at Greenwich Presbyterian church, Greenwich, New Jersey.

Joseph was in the revolutionary war. He pension record lists him as a private and sergeant in Company commanded by Capt. Pearson of the Reg. commanded by Col. Holmes in New Jersey with two years service. He entered service in 1776 in Cumberland County, New Jersey under Capt. Asahel Pearson. He states he was born in Cumberland County, New Jersey 25 Jun 1755 and stated that he had this record in his Bible. He was living in Hopewell township in Cumberland County when he was called to service. He lived in the same place about twenty years, then moved to Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

In 1806, Joseph and his wife Elizabeth of Hopewell in Cumberland County sold land in Hopewell which had inherited through his father John Reeves's will.

That Joseph moved to Warren, Ohio about that year is confirmed by a letter written from Silas Harris to his son Jones Harris about various updates of people in the community:

Old Mr. John Reeves departed this life on Sunday, May 4th *** at 10 o'clock. Mr. David Elwell died the same day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Two good men, honest both, ascended to glory in one day. His widow, Mrs. Mabel Reeves, lives at her son's Jonathan Reeves' (sic). Mr. Reeves has five children living, namely, Johnson, Joseph, Abraham, Mabel and Eunice. Johnson lives near Sho***; has three sons married, namely, John, Stephen and Lemuel. Moved last spring to Warren in the Ohio state. Joseph Reeves has sold off his possessions here in order to go to the same place and has employed a man (Mark Westcott that married Polly Perry) to go out this fall to build him a house. Abraham Reeves lives by me where his father did. Abraham has with a number of others been out this spring to Warren, but he does not like the country.

There are two men listed 70-80 in the 1830 census household of Joseph.

The 1835 pension roll lists him in Trumbull County as sergeant and private from the New Jersey militia, placed on the roll 6 Jul 1833. He was 78 in 1835.

Joseph made his will in September of 1835, naming all the above children. It was proven 15 Jun 1847.

From probate docket records:
Joseph Reeves, late of Warren Deceased.
Will proved by Isaac F Reeves, bond filed 26 Jun 1847

His wife is buried in the Old Mahoning Pioneer cemetery. Headstone appears to be very broken up with at least this inscribed: "Elizabeth Fithian wife of Joseph Reeves"

Research Notes

Sources

Marriage1:  FamilySearch - New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956

1820 Census:  Trumbull County, Ohio - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLS-4VP
1830 Census:  Trumbull County, Ohio - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGV-T5M
1840 Census:  Trumbull County, Ohio (Rev War Vet) - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRJ-CHG

1806 Letter - Silas Harris to Jones Harris
1835 Will - Joseph Reeves - Trumbull County, Ohio Will Book 1, p300
Trumbull County, Ohio Probate Docket Book 1, p324
1835 Pension Roll - Trumbull County, Ohio
Revolutionary War Pension Record, Joseph Reeves, S18565
U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970 (Ancestry)
Old Mahoning Pioneer cemetery survey : inventory of the cemetery taken by the Trumbull County Genealogical Society in 2003, ca. 1804-1897, p165