Reeves, Moses

Summary

Father: Silas Reeves
Mother: Alice Wilkins

Birth: c1740s
Birth Source: Census, father's marriage, children's births

Death: c1825
Death Source:

Spouse1: Mehitable

Narrative

Children of Moses Reeves:

1. Levi Reeves, b. c1777
2. Stephen Reeves, b. 28 Oct 1780
3. Experience Reeves, b. c1794
4. Marada Reeves, m. Henry Weatherby
5. Mehitabel Reeves
6. William K. Reeves
7. Elias Reeves, b. 1 Jan 1804
8. Patience Reeves
9. Moses Reeves, b. c1810

This Moses appears to be the Moses Reeve living next to Benjamin C. Reeves in the 1820 census. The younger Moses, probably Moses Jr., was living next to Benjamin in 1830.

Letters of Administration for Moses Reeves of Tompkins County, New York were granted to Mehitable Reeves, Thomas Kelsey and Jonah Moore, of Lansing, Tompkins County on 26 Feb 1825.

Given that his wife was named Mehitable and was born in New Jersey, this appears to be the same as Moses son of Silas Reeves of Morris County, New Jersey. He appears in tax records in Roxbury, Morris County, New Jersey through 1797 but was gone by 1802. There is a deed from 1801 in which Moses and Mahitable Reeves of Chester, Morris County, sold some land in Chester.

The following is from Early Partition Deeds, Tompkins County:

REEVES, — Lansing Jan. 28, 1826
Edmund Woolly & wife, Experience, one tenth.
Henry Weatherby & wife, Marada, one tenth.
Mehitabel Reeves, one tenth.
Stephen Reeves, one tenth.
Levi Reeves, one tenth.
William K. Reeves, one tenth.
Elias Reeves, one tenth.
Patience Reeves, one tenth.
Moses Reeves, a minor, one tenth.
Benjamin Wager, Nelson Wager, Mary Ann Water, all minors, to share one tenth between them.
Francis Drake Guardian of all minors.

An 1829 deed from Elias Reeves of Lansing, his wife Mabel and Mehitable Reeves identifies Elias as a son of Moses. It states the land was "allotted to the said Elias as his share of his father Moses Reeves estate by Jonah Moore William Hunter and Jehiel Ludlow commissioners."

In an 1835 deed, a younger Moses, his wife Susan, and Mehitable Reeves, all of Lansing, sell some land. This likely indicates this younger Moses was a son of this Moses.

An 1845 deed from Ebenezer Brown to Charles N. Wager states that Ebenezer's present wife Experience was a daughter of Moses Reeves. A later deed indicates that she was formerly surnamed Woolly and therefore must have remarried.

The widow Mehitable appears to be living in the household of Francis and Patience Woolly. She was age 87, born in New Jersey. She died 27 Aug 1850, age 87, and weas buried in the Ludlowville Pine Grove Cemetery, Tompkins County, where her grandson Nelson was also buried.

Research Notes

Sources

1820 Census:  Lansing, Tompkins County, New York

1801 Deed - Moses & Mehitable Reeves to Aaron Douglas - Morris County, New Jersey Deed Book D, p505
1825 Administration - Moses Reeves - Tomkins County, New York Letters of Administration Vol. 35, p75
1829 Deed - Elias Reeves et al to Lewis Dickerson - Tompkins County, New York Deed Book Q, p480
1835 Deed - Moses Reeves et al to Benjamin Wager - Tompkins County, New York Deed Book AA, p186
1845 Deed - Ebenezer Brown to Charles N. Wager - Tompkins County, New York Deed Book UU, p571
1849 Deed - Diana Woolly to Benjamin Wager - Tompkins County, New York Deed Book 53, p383
NYGenWeb - Ludlowville Pine Grove Cemetery, Tompkins County, New York
Early Partition Deeds, Tompkins County, Compiled by Myrte Rice Haynes