George Rives

George Rives

• Born about 1660
• Deceased in September, 1719 - Prince George Co., VA, aged about 59 years old
• Parents: William Rives 1636-1695 and Elizabeth Pegram 1640..1645-
• Married in 1683, Virginia, to Frances Tatum, born about 1665, deceased with

Children

1. William Rives 1683-1746 Married to Elizabeth Foster 1683-1759
2. Timothy Rives 1690-1758 Married in 1713 to Hannah Bishop 1695-1757
3. Mary Rives 1695-1759 Married to William Marble Eaton 1690-1759

Source: < Geneanet > Tim DOWLING's Family Tree

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He did not marry Hannah Bishop, his son Thomas was the husband of Hannah. He did not marry Ursula. His first wife was Sarah Gee, second wife Frances Tatum named in his will.

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Rives_George_RR77ID2 TOC Previous page Parent page Next page Structure DNA Group 08 Root Page » Line 131620 of E B Reeves » Ryves_Robert_RR1ID1 » Ryves_John_RR2ID2 » Ryves_Richard_RR2ID10 » Rives_Timothy_RR49ID204 » Rives_Timothy_RR51ID206 » Rives_George_RR77ID2 Rives, George

Summary Father: Rives, Timothy Mother: Maidenname, Mary? -->

Birth: 1660, Surry, Virginia Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives

Death: after Sep 1719, Surry. Virginia Death Source: Reliques of the Rives and deposition of Sep 1719.

Spouse1: Maidename, Unknown?

Narrative

P 77, person #2 in Reliques of the Rives.

George Rives first appears in the records of Prince George County VA in 1711. Two references are abstracted in Prince George County, Virginia, Wills & Deeds 1710-1713 compiled by Benjamin D Weisinger III 1992. In both of these records, there is a wife named Ursula but her surname is not known, nor is it known whether she was the mother of his children.

George and Ursula Rives lease land on Blackwater Swamp from John and Elizabeth Moore.

P 88 Deed, 7 Oct 1711, John Moor & Elizabeth his wife, of Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., to George Reives & Ursula his wife of same for L 16, lets and leases 100 acres in same parish, bounded by main Blackwater Swamp and Edward Birchett, for three years.

Jno (x) Moore, Eliz (x)Moore

Wit: Jno Hamlin, Jno(x) Golightly, E Goodrich

Recorded 11 Jan 11

George and Ursula Rives witness the will of Randolph Birchehead in 1711

P 71. Will of Randolph Birchenhead of Prince George Co. To daughter Eliza Pool, 1 shilling. Rest of estate to be divided between Mrs. Bartholomew and my wife, Eliza Birchenhead. 19 July 1711.

Signed Randol (mark) Birchenhead

Wit: Geo (x) Reives, Ursula (x) Reives, Wm Stainbacke [CGM Note: William Stainbacke served as security for Mary the widow of Timothy Rives in 1792 in Charles City County] On 3 Sept 1711, will presented by witnesses & recorded

George appears in 14 August 1714 as a landholder in a deed between John Womack Sr, of Prince George County granted to John Womack Jr. of 200 acres on the north side of Blackwater Swamp next to "George Reve" (Prince George County Records 1713-1728, p 22). He was also a witness to the inventory of the estate of John Davis on 10 February 1714 (Prince George County Records 1713-1728, page 55).

On 12 March 1715, "George Reves" was listed as one of the 12 jurors summoned by the Sheriff to make equal division between Stith Bolling, plaintiff and Robert and Thomas Bolling of 100 acres of land.

[CGM Note: The deed that follows is a very important record. The Henry Batte referenced is likely the Capt Henry Batte who appraised the estate of Timothy Rives in Charles City Co in 1692. This helps tie George b 1660 to his father Timothy. The William Eaton who is grantor in the deed is likely the William Eaton who married George's daughter Mary ]

In a deed recorded on 11 November 1717, James Thweatt of Prince George County granted to William Eaton, 200 acres on the north side of Blackwater Swamp, south side of Reedy Branch, next to John Cureton, Mr. Henry Batte, Robert Burchitt, John Womack and "George Reives" (Prince George County Records 1713-1728, page 197).

Note that Charles City County VA was the parent county of Prince George County. From Wikipedia: Beginning in 1703, all of the original area of Charles City County south of the James River was severed to form Prince George and several other counties.

Deposition establishing year of birth and lower limit on year of death was given on 8 Sept. 1719 in the County of Prince George, as follows:

George Rives, age 59 years or thereabouts deposeth that in the month of April last while he was trading in the Province of South Carolina, he did both see and oftentimes did converse with a runaway malatta (sic) man slave named Jack, belonging to Samuel Harwood, the younger, of Charles City County, VA. The said slave came into that Province in the company of Mr. Robert Hix, and other traders, as the traders informed this deponant that the said malatta slave man there goes by the name of John Bunch, and would have returned home to his master, but was forcibly detained in the Province by one, Capt. How, and other traders there. This deponent further saith that he very well knows that said runaway slave to belong to the said Harwood and for some years past did live upon the plantation on the poplar swamp under him, and further saith not. This 8th day of Sept. 1719. Signed with his mark X.

This deposition further establishes that George Rives was once living in Charles City County.

Additional details about George Rives are in Reliques of the Rives.

Children:

Five members of DNA Group 8 descend from George Rives, four through his son Thomas and one through his son William.

1. William Rives b: 1683 in , Prince George, Virginia, USA 2. Thomas Rives b: 1690 in ,Prince George Virginia, USA 3. Mary Rives b: 1695 in , Prince George, Virginia, USA 4. Joseph Rives? b: 1698 in Prince George, Prince George, Virginia, United States

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Residence: Deposition taken In Prince George Co. He saw John Bunch (runaway slave) while trading in SC in April of same year. Sep 1719 Prince George, Virginia, USA PROP: John Moor & Elizabeth his wife, of Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., to George Reives & Ursula his wife of same for L 16, lets and leases 100 acres in same parish, bounded by main Blackwater Swamp and Edward Birchett, for three year years... 7 Oct 1711 Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia, USA Residence: USA _APID: 1,14192::112 1 Name: George Rives #2 _APID: 1,14192::112 1 Death: Last records found of him were in Prince George VA in 1719. Aft. 1719 in Prince George, Virginia, USA Birth: See web link lower right to p 77 Reliques of the Rives. 1660 in Surry, Virginia, USA Sex: M 2

Father: Timothy Rives #1 b: 1625 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Mother: Mary LNU

Marriage 1 Ursula Unknown

Children

1. Has Children Col. William Rives #6 b: 1683 in Prince George, Virginia, USA
2. Has Children Thomas Rives #7 b: 1690 in Prince George, Virginia, USA
3. Has No Children Mary Rives #8 b: 1695 in Prince George, Virginia, USA
4. Has Children Joseph Rives # 9 b: 1698 in Prince George, Prince George, Virginia, USA

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George Rives Print Family Tree

   Born about 1660

   Deceased in September 1719 - Prince George Co., VA , age at death: possibly 59 years old

Parents

   William Rives 1636-1695/

Elizabeth Pegram 1640..1645-
Spouses, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren
Married in 1683, Virginia, to Frances Tatum, born about 1665, Deceased with

       M Timothy Rives 1690-1758  married in 1713 to Hannah Bishop 1695-1757 with

           M George Reeves 1714..1716-1803 married in 1746, North Carolina, to Mary Charlotte Jordan ca 1726-1813 with :

               M William S. Reaves 1755-

Siblings
M John Rives 1665-1720 Married about 1688, Surry Co., VA, to Grace x ca 1665-

   M Timothy Rives 1670-ca 1716 Married about 1697, Prince George Co., VA, to Judith Chambliss ca 1676-

   M William Rives 1680- Married to ? ?

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Frances Tatum (~1715 – 6 November 1769 Albemarle Parish) was the wife of George Rives (Reives, Rieves) who died 1 June 1746 in Albemarle Parish. This was the second marriage for George Rives (Rieves, Reeves). His first marriage was to Sarah Gee.

A sample of locations and events for George Rives is:

1720 April 5 - Surry County: Will of John Hawthorne names George Rieves, John Hicks, Francis Mayberry, and John Weaver to lay land to his children. George Rives was a witness to the will. Will entered 19 October 1720.

1725 August 17 - Surrey County: Virginia Land Patent to George Rives, 225 acres in Prince George County on the forks of Cherry Orchard Branch of Jones Hole.

1734 August 1 – Surry County: Virginia Land Patent to George Rives: 300 acres in Prince George County on branches of Cherry Orchard Branch adjoining the County Line.

1742 January 12: Baptism of son Timothy Rives, parents being George and Frances Rives, sponsors being Peter Rives, Joshua Tatum, Bethia Tatum.

Albemarle Parish Registry.

1743 October 10 - Surry County: Albemarle Parish Process of land between Joseph's Creek and Jones Hole, the Governours road, and the county line: (includes) John Hawthorn, George Rieves, Christopher Tatum.

1745 April 2: Baptism of Frances Rives, parents being George and Frances Rives with sponsors being William Rives, Prisilla Rives, Ussle Leigh. Albemarle Parish Registry.

1746 May 14 - Surry County: Will of George Rives, Albemarle Parish, names wife Frances Rives, son John Rives to be given land on north side of Jones Hole Swamp and Cherry Orchard Branch; George Rives - the plantation where I now live containing 200 acres. Christopher Rives 400 acres land on south side of Nottoway River in Brunswick County; Timothy Rives 400....(incomplete, missing next page from Descendants of Cheney Boyce, Ancient Planter). Proved 20 August 1746.

Frances had her will in Sussex County, dated 14 October 1769 and proved 19 April 1770.* Children of George and Frances Rieves include:

(1) Timothy Rives (Rieves) 21 January 1742 (Albemarle Parish Register Baptism)^

(2) Frances Rives (Rieves) 2 April 1745. (Albemarle Parish Register Baptism) ^

RELIQUES OF THE RIVES (RYVES) Volume 1, by James Rives Childs, J. P. Bell Company, Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia, 1929. Facsimile Reprint Published 1994 by Heritage Books, Inc., 1540E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, Md. 20716, ISBN 0-7884-0091-6. Page 73.

   Part II, The Virginia Family of Rives, Chapter I, William Rives, the Emigrant, is Children, and Descendents Through the Eldest Male Line.

I. William-1 Reeves (No. 208 and of the fifth generation in the English pedigree of the family) was born about 1636, presumably at Oxfordshire, England, the son of Timothy-4 Ryves (Richard-3, John-2, Robert-1), of Oxford City, Gentleman, by the latter's second wife, Elizabeth.
Although the descent of the emigrant, William Rives, unfortunately is not susceptible of record proof -- despite the fact that no pains have been spared in the effort to establish the fact beyond cavil -- inferential evidence thereof is by no means lacking.
Comparison of the baptismal names used by the first and later generations of the family in Virginia with those of the Oxfordshire branch of the Dorsetshire family reveals a striking similarity and gives strong support to the assumption that the emigrant ancestor of the Virginia family was the youngest son of Timothy Ryves. As a genealogist has remarked: "In old families, baptismal names were religiously adhered to, and it is almost a certinty that any line of descendants may be placed upon the main stem by attention to the baptismal names." (William and Mary Quaterly, zv, 23).
In the first five generations of the family in England there are fifty-six male members represented and, of these, the baptismal name recurs in all but three instances. In the Virginia family there are one hundred and eight male members recorded during the first five generations, of which the baptismal name reoccurs in all but twenty instances.
As noted by Anthony Wood in Antiquities of Oxford, Timothy Ryves was a member of St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Oxford. Upon a first application for a review of it from 1605 to 1645 did not reveal the name Reeves, Rives, Ryves, Rive "or anything like it at all." My informant added that it was not to be taken that "it is not there, but the parchment is so perished, and the ink so faded, that some parts are quite illegible."
A third and last search revealed an entry which, according to the examiner, "may refer to Mr. T. Rives. If correct it reads: William son of Timothie Rives was * * * 1644." It is possible that this refers to the date of bapism of William Rives; it could not have been the date of his birth.
Of this William Rives, the founder of the Virginia family, the only trace which remains in the records is recorded in Surry county, Virginia, where he is listed, in 1684 and 1695, among the tithables or taxpayers from Southwarke Parish, one of the two parishes into which Surry was divided at the time.

William was 16 when his father died in 1643, the year the English Civil War broke out and for a time Oxford was the storm center. of the revolt. He was imported by Littleton Scarburg into Surrey County, Virginia (1652). by 1684 he had paid his indunture and began to appear in county records as a freeman.

He is listed as having land on Blackwater swamp and Nottoway Creek in Virginia in 1711.

William Cabel Ryves father, William Ryves Speculator of Oxford. 1636 Woodstock England - 1695 Surry VA wife Elizabeth Pegram 1645-1702

The Virginia Family of Rives

CHAPTER I

William Rives, the Emigrant, His Children, and Descendants Through the Eldest Male Line.

1. William Rives (No. 208 and of the fifth generation in the English pedigree of the family) was born about 1636, presumably in Oxfordshire, England, the son of Timothy4 Ryves (Richard3, John2, Robert1), of Oxford City, Gentleman, by the latter's second wife, Elizabeth.

Although the descent of the emigrant, William Rives, unfortunately is not susceptible of record proof--despite the fact that no pains have been spared in the effort to establish the fact beyond cavil--inferential evidence thereof is by no means lacking.

Comparison of the baptismal names used by the first and later generations of the family in Virginia with those of the Oxfordshire branch of the Dorsetshire family reveals a striking similarity and gives strong support to the assumption that the emigrant ancestor of the Virginia family was the youngest son of Timothy Ryves. As a genealogist has remarked: "In old families, baptismal names were religiously adhered to, and it is almost a certainty that any line of descendants may be placed upon the main stem by attention to the baptismal names."1

In the first five generations of the family in England there are fifty-six male members represented and, of these, the baptismal name recurs in all but three instances. In the Virginia family there are one hundred and eight male members recorded during the first five generations, of which the baptismal name recurs in all but twenty instances. These baptismal names and their recurrence are presented in the following table; those names occurring only once in the Virginia family, which are unrepresented in the English sept, having been omitted.

1William and Mary Quarterly, xv, 23.

Name English Virginian

John 10 11

Richard 7 4

Robert 5 6

Thomas 5 6

George 5 10

William 4 19

Joseph 3 4

James 3 1

Valentine 3 0

Timothy 2 10

Henry 2 1

Charles 2 2

Brune 2 1

Benjamin 1 4

Mathew 1 0

Gerrard 1 0

Peter 0 3

Burwell 0 3

Nathaniel 0 2

Frederick 0 2

Christopher 0 2

From the foregoing table it will be observed that the six names occurring most frequently in the first five generations of the English family, that is to say, John, Richard, Robert, Thomas, George, and William, represent approximately two-thirds of all the baptismal names.

These same names appear reproduced as the six most common baptismal names in use by members of the first five generations of the family in Virginia with but one exception, the name Richard giving way in popularity to Timothy. Without excluding Richard, the six most common English baptismal names represent no less than half the total number of names appearing in the first five generations of the family in Virginia.

The name Timothy, which occurs with persistent frequency in Virginia, is noted in the English branch only in the family of Timothy Ryves, of Oxford. It is on the strength of this, and other strongly circumstantial evidence hereafter stated, that I have felt it permissible to attribute the Virginia emigrant to the Oxfordshire family.

As noted by Anthony Wood,1 Timothy Ryves was a member of St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Oxford. Upon a first application for a search of the register of that parish the information was conveyed that a review of it from 1605 to 1645 did not reveal the name Reeves, Rives, Ryves, Rive "or anything like it at all." My informant added that it was not to be taken that "it is not there, but the parchment is so perished, and the ink so faded, that some parts are quite illegible."

As a result of further insistence the register was re-examined minutely and this time revealed records of the birth of Timothy Ryves in 1625, and the burial of Mrs. Mary Rives in 1629, the former entry having been unnoted by Anthony Wood.

A third and last search revealed an entry which, according to the examiner, "may refer to Mr. T. Rives. If correct it reads: William Antiquities of Oxford. son of Mr. Timothie Rives was * * * 1644." It is possible that this refers to the date of baptism of William Rives; it could not have been the date of his birth.

Of this William Rives, the founder of the Virginia family, the only trace which remains in the records is recorded in Surry county, Virginia, where he is listed, in 1684 and 1695, among the tithables or taxpayers from Southwarke Parish, one of the two parishes into which Surry was divided at the time.

Alexander Brown stated in The Cabells and their Kin that the emigrant ancestor of the Rives family came to Virginia in the Cavalier emigration of 1649-1659 and settled at or near Blandford in Surry county, but gave no authority for his statement. There is reason to believe that the statement was originally made to Mr. Brown by Mr. Thomas Francis Rives (1591. Thomas Frances8 Rives, 1839-1900), of Dinwiddie county, Virginia, and that the tradition--for it can be nothing more--is probably nearer the facts than family traditions generally prove to be upon close examination.

Timothy Ryves, of Oxford, died in 1643, a year which saw the breaking into full flames of the fire of revolt of the Parliamentary forces against Charles I. The city of Oxford constituted for a time a storm center of the conflict, and it is hardly to be supposed that the family of Timothy Ryves deviated from the unfailing loyalty displayed generally by the family in England to the cause of Charles, and for which more than one member suffered grievously.

The years after Marston Moor were bitter ones for all adherents to the Cavalier cause and a notable emigration took place of individuals and families from England to Virginia. John Fiske has pointed out how many of the families, who later gave distinction to Virginia, came to the colony during the Civil War in England. 1

Included within the number were such outstanding members of the English gentry as General Mainwaring Hammond, Sir Philip Honeywood, Majors Philip Stevens, John Brodnax, and Richard Fox, Colonels Guy Molesworth, Joseph Bridger and Henry Norwood, Alexander Culpepper, Henry Bishop, Sir Thomas Lunsford, Sir Gray Skipwith, Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., William Bassett, Thomas Batte, Lancelot Bathurst, William Randolph, and John and Lawrence Washington. 2

1Fiske, Virginia and Her Neighbors, ii. Cf., also Channing, History of the United States, ii, 527-8.

2Bruce, Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, and Tyler's Quarterly, viii, 1.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, William Rives was only some six years of age, and a year later was to be left a full orphan. As a member of a family identified in all its branches with the loyalist cause, his rearing in those troublous times as an orphan must have been attended with unusual vicissitudes.

As an orphan and a younger son it was not unnatural that Virginia should have held out to him, as it did to so many others of high and low station alike at this time, the opportunity of escape from disturbed conditions and the improvement of his prospects in life. Such have been the motives animating the movement of those who, throughout the past, have found their faces turned towards the west.

The flood tide of emigration to Virginia during the Commonwealth probably took place about 1653. In 1642 the population of the Colony did not exceed 10,000; in 1665, the population had increased to 38,000.1 It appears probable that William Rives went out from England at the age of seventeen or eighteen, that is to say, about 1653 or 1654, or at a time when the emigration to Virginia provoked by the wars in England had reached its maximum proportions.

Apart from the appearance of William Rives in the Surry county records in Virginia for the years 1684 and 1695, there are no further references to him to be found from a diligent examination of such of the early colonial records of Virginia as remain. There is neither record of his will nor the administration of this estate. However, it would seem apparent, from the concurrence of names and dates, and the provenance of the respective individuals, that four children at least may be attributed to William Rives, as follows:

2. i. George2, b. 1660; d. after 1719. 3. ii. Robert2, b. about 1662; living in 1734 in Surry co. Va., but apparently died without male issue. His earliest appearance in the records is as a taxpayer from Southwarke Parish in Surry county in 1700. In 1710 his wife, Sarah, joined with him in a deed to Tho. Calleyham. On Dec. 17, 1714, he was issued a patent for 219 acres of land in Prince George co. Va., on the southside of the Nottoway River adjoining Wm. Jones' land for the transportation into the Colony of five persons, viz., Wm. Singleton, Charles Tannard, Wm. Sherward,

1Tyler's Quarterly, viii, 3.

Wm. Greefon, and John Hopkins.1 In 1716 he appears as one of the two sureties of Judith Rives [his sister-in-law] when her inventory of the estate of her deceased husband, Timothy Rives, was recorded in Surry co. In 1730 he is found deeding land to Edward and John Petway in Surry. His final appearance in the records occurs in Dec. 1734, when, as "Robert Rives of the County of Surry, Planter," he made over to his "grandson Robert Rives Jones son of William Jones * * * one negro girl called Judy and one feather bed and bolster which I usually lie on and all the furniture to the same." At the same time he made over to William Jones "all and singular his goods and chattels and Personal estate whatsoever * * * in consideration whereof the said Wm Jones * * * doth covenant * * * to * * * provide the said Robert Rives during his natural life sufficient meat, drink, lodging and apparrel and * * * one sober horse to ride on with Saddle and bridle at all times when the said Robert Rives shall think fit to require the same." It was presumably Robert Rives' son-in-law, William Jones, who owned as "Wm Jones, Jr.," 230 acres in Prince George co. Va., in 1704. Robert Rives4 Jones and his wife, Anna, were the parents of Ephraim5 Jones, b. Jan. 2, 1741, according to the Albemarle Parish Register of Surry co. 4. iii. John2, b. about 1667; d. 1720. 5. iv. Timothy2, b. about 1670; d. 1716.

Reliques of the Rives (Ryves) by James Rives Childs Member of the Virginia Historical Society1929, J.P. Bell Company, Inc. Lunchburg, Virginia