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Reeves, Thomas (c1801 NJ - ?)

Reeves, Thomas

Reeves, Thomas


Summary

Father: Thomas Reeves
Mother: Ruth

Birth: c1801, New Jersey
Birth Source: Census

Death:
Death Source:

Spouse1: Rebecca Rocap, m. 19 Jul 1827, Cumberland County, New Jersey

Narrative

Children of Thomas Reeves and Rebecca Rocap:
  1. Thomas H. Reeves, b. c1832
  2. Ann H. Reeves, b. c1835
  3. James M. Reeves, b. c1837
  4. Rebecca Reeves, b. c1842, m. Cartin/Carstein
  5. Sarah F. Reeves, b. c1844
  6. Benjamin F. Reeves, b. c1849

The wife of this Thomas is named as Rebecca in a deed in which they sold land with Thomas's widowed mother Ruth. In a later deed, Thomas and Rebecca sold land she had inherited from her father Henry Rocap.

In 1849, Thomas & Rebecca Reeves of Bridgeton sold land which "tract of land the said Thomas Reeve became seized of by virtue of the last will and testament of his grandfather Thomas Reeves dec dated October 9th 1812."

Research Notes


Sources

Marriage1:  New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWR7-KZJ

1850 Census:  Hopewell, Cumberland County, New Jersey
1870 Census:  Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey
1880 Census:  Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey

1832 Deed - Thomas & Rebecca Reeves & Ruth Reeves to William Brown - Cumberland County, New Jersey Deed Book 56, p436
1849 Deed - Thomas & Rebecca Reeves to Ebenezer Westcott Sr. & Ebenezer Westcott Jr. - Cumberland County, New Jersey Deed Book 79, p628