Benjamin Furniss Reeves

He married Rachel Godfrey on March 15, 1815.

In Bowen's History of Port Elizabeth we find Benjamin F. Reeves as one of a company of six who formed the Port Elizabeth Manufacturing Company- perhaps the greatest business enterprise ever undertaken in Port Elizabeth. They secured the charter from the Legislature on March 13, 1837. The first section states that "Isaac Townsend, Thomas Lee, Joshua Brick, Benjamin F. Reeves, John Getsinger and Owen Jones, and their associates and successors- shall be incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, wool, silk, and iron, and also for the purpose of dyeing, printing and bleaching cotton fabrics." It seems that receiving the charter was all the company ever did.