Mary Reeve

Not the same as Mary Reeve

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reeves-7232

The children of Thomas and Mary Reeve:[4]

1. Thomas born about 1646; married Annis Ryder; died 1 December 1682
2. John born about 1652; married 1st Hannah Brown; married 2nd Martha _______; died 15 December 1712
3. Joseph born about 1656; married 1st Abigail _______; married 2nd Deliverance (Homan) Whitehair; died 1736 age 80
4. Hannah born about 1657, no further record found
5. Jonathan born about 1658 or 1659 (of age in 1680); married Martha _______; died 16 February 1707

Thomas Reeve died about 1665.[5] There are 21 references to Thomas Reeve in the existing Town land records, the latest in 1665 in which year he apparently died and "Widow Reeve" appears. She is shown 7 times, the latest in 1677, and her name seems to have been Mary (first record 1666 Plum Island deed).[6]

Disputed identity

Thomas Reeves or James Reeve?

"For a hundred years Suffolk County, N.Y. historians and genealogists have studied the Reeve family of Southold and disagreed whether Mary Purrier... was the wife of the settler Thomas Reeve or of James Reeve."[2]

Her father' William Purrier's will mentions

• "eldest daughter" Mary Reeve
• Isaak Reeve (relationship not stated)
• granddaughter Mary Reeve (husband Thomas Terrill)
• grandson James Reeve

Anderson names Thomas Reeves as the husband and writes they were married "by about 1646."

Baker refers to Thomas Osman's deposition as the deciding piece of evidence that Mary's husband was James Reeve. Osman stated that

"he with his now father-in-law, William Purrier, and his brother in ye law, James Reeve did go adventuringe in ye Chowan country for sperrits resin in ye yeare 1636 and there did meet William Salmon, Thomas Reeve, Thomas Terrill, Thomas Benedict, Henery Whiteney and others who had come hither from ye Summer Islaes". [3]

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References

• FamilySearch source viewer: Study of the Reeve family of Southold, Long Island, N. Y., and Southold descendants of the Southampton, L. I. Reeves family at < FamilySearch>