REEVE FAMILY TREE - Salem County NJ Information located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~njsalem/ On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in 2007 Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- Copyright 2007 Janice Brown The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF FENWICK'S COLONY; Bridgeton, N.J., by Thomas Shourds; pub. by George F. Nixon, 1876 page 179 REEVE FAMILY Mark Reeve was another of those early pioneers of America who calculated by his mental endowments and high moral character to give a moral force to the neighborhood wherein he dwelt. He turned his attention more to the religious associations than his itimate friend, William Hall, although the latter is frequently mentioned in the early records of Salem Monthly Meeting, showing that he was a consistent member of the Society of Friends. Mark Reeve, in 1684, married Ann Hunt, of Salem, and on the following year the executors of John Fenwick directed John Woodledge, the deputy surveyor, to lay off sixteen acres of land which Mark Reeve had purchased of them in the town of Cohansey. It is most probable that Mark made that place his home for a short time, but a few years later he purchased a large tract of land on the south side of Cohansey creek, opposite COhansey (known at the present time as Greenwich). In the year 1705, a four rod road was surveyed from Salem to Maurice river, which, after crossing the Cohansey, passed between James Pierce's and Mark Reeve's land. The Reeve family held large tracts of land in that section for more than a century and a half, but at this time the family have disposed nearly or quite the whole of it. As early as 1698 James Duncan and Mark Reeve made application to Salem Friends for assistance to build a meeting house. There was one erected, having been built of logs, enar the banks of the Cohansey, on the main street, where the present brick meeting housenow stands. The exact time of Mark Reeve's death does not appear in the records, but circumstances go to show that it was about 1716 or 1717. He [Mark Reeve] left one son, Joseph Reeve, who married Ellinor Bagnall, in 1772; they had five children--Mark, Joseph, John, Mary and Benjamin. Mark, the son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, born 28th of 12th month 1723, became a highly esteemed minister in the Society of Friends in early life. He married about the year 1761 when he was past middle age. The following are the names of his children--Josiah, Ann, Mark, William and George Reeve. Josiah, his eldest son, was born 23d of 9th month 1762. His father purchased a tract of land in Alloways Creek township, situated on the north side of the creek, and built a substantial brick building on the property. (It is now owned and occupied by Luke S. Fogg). At that place Josiah went to reside,, and soon afterwards married. At the death of his father the said property was devised to him, but he sold it soon afterwards to John Pancoast, and removed to Burlington with his family to reside with his wife's relatives. She, I think, was a Newbold, and by her he had two or more children. Martha, their daughter, married Clayton, the son of John and Charlotte Wistar, she being his second wife. They had one son--Josiah. John Reeve, the son of Josiah, married Priscilla, the daughter of John and Mary Sheppard, of Greenwich. They had children. The Sheppard family is one of the oldest and most numerous in the county of Cumberland. David Sheppard emigrated from England about the year 1683, and with the Swing family and a few others organized the Cohansey Baptist church, which is considered the mother of the Baptist churches in this section of the State. John and Mark, the grandsons of David Sheppard, having become converted to the principles of the Society of Friends, left the religious society of their father and became members of the Friends' association, but far the largest portion of the Sheppard family still adhere to the Baptist society, while a number of them are members of the Presbyterian church at the present time. William the son of Josiah and Hannah Reeve, was born 11th of 12th month, 1766, and subsequently married Letitia, the daughter of Josiah and Letitia Miller, of Mannington; they had eight children--Josiah Miller, Anna, Elizabeth M., Letitia, William F., Mark M., Priscilla and Emmor Reeve. Josiah M., the eldest son, married a young woman in Pennsylvania, by the name of Garrigues. She died not many years after their marriage, having two daughters--Hannah and Emma. His second wife was Mary, the daughter of Jonathan Dallas, of Port Elizabeth. Josiah and his wife are both deceased at the present time, leaving one son--Dallas Reeve. Few men that have lived in this county possessed a more energetic character than Josiah M. Reeve; his judgment was above that of ordinary men, and he was of pleasant and agreeable temperament. He more than once represented his country in the State legislature. He with his two younger brothers, William F., and Emmor, carried on ship building with success for a number of years at Allowaystown. They did not however, confine their attention exclusively to one particular business, but bought largely of land in that neighborhood, considered not worth farmiing, which through their energy and judicious management has been made to produce more than four-fold. They also enlarged and beautified the town of their adoption, with large and substantial buildings, and no village in this seciton of the State has superior improvements. I will here state that William Reeve and his wife, after marriage, like his brother Josiah, removed to the county of Burlington and made it his permanent home. Their children were born and raised to maturity. Anna, the daughter of William and Letitia Reeve married William Hilliard, who lived near Rancocas. Elizabeth M. Reeve married Jesse Stanger; I believe they had issue. Letitia M. Reeve remains single. William Foster Reeve's wife was Mary, the daughter of William Cooper, of Camden; they have four children living--William Cooper, Augustus, Rebecca and Richard H. Reeve. William, the eldest, married Mary the daughter of Richard M. and Hannah Acton of Salem. Richard, the son of William F. and Mary Reeve married Sarah Ann, the daughter of Samuel P. Carpenter; they reside in the city of Camden. Mary, the mother of the before mentioned children, died suddenly recently, whilst on a visit to her relatives in Camden, her native city. William F. Reeve is the only one of the three brothers, who still remains at Allowaystown, a place they did so much to improve. Josiah M., the eldest brother, died at that place several years ago, and Emmor his younger brother, left with his family a few years since and resides in the city of Camden. Mark M. Reeve, the son of William and Letitia Reeve, died a few years ago, unmarried, in one of the Western states. The first wife of Emmor, the youngest son of William and Letitia Reeves, was Susan the daughter of William Cooper; they had issue--Mark, Benjamin and Sarah Cooper. Emmor's second wife is Sarah, the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Acton. Joseph Reeve, son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, was born 5th of 7th month, 1725, and subsequently married Milicent, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Wade, 29th of 6th month 1729; they had three children--Samuel, martha and Joseph. Samuel, their eldest son, inherited the landed estate of his father, located on the south side of Cohansey, a part of which his great ancestor purchased of the executors of John Fenwick, and there he ended his days. His wife was Ruth, the daughter of Gideon and Judith Scull. The latter were residents of Egg Harbor, and likewise the parents of Gideon Scull, who purchased land near the had waters of Oldman's creek, in Salem county, and carried on merchandising. It was known for many years as Sculltown, but is now called Auburn. Gideon and his wife, Judith Belange Scull, died in the winter of 1780 with the small-pox, which disease they contracted in attending Salem Quarterly meeting, and both died with it a short time after they returned to their homes at Egg Harbor. Samuel Reeve and his wife Ruth had seven children--Joseph, Rachel, Ruth, Martha, Mary, Samuel, and Benjamin. Four of them died in childhood. Samuel died a number of years before his wife, and she subsequently sold the property and removed to Philadelphia with her children. Her daughter Rachel married Henry, son of Thomas P. Cope; they had issue. Henry and his wife are both deceased at this time. Martha Reeve married a man by the name of Pleasant; her second husband was Lloyd; she was several years his senior. Joseph Reeve, the youngest son of Joseph and Milicent Reeves, was born 26th of 9th month 1756, and married Martha, the daughter of Preston and Hannah Carpenter, of Manningotn. Soon afterward he left his native county, Cumberland, and resided for a while in Salem, where he taught the public school on Margaret's Lane, as it was called at that time. The name of this was derived from an old lady who lived there in a small tenant house belonging to William Parrott. I believe the name of the street has been chagned two or three times within the memory of some of the present generation. At one time it was called South street, but at the present time it is known as Walnut Street. Joseph Reeve subsequently purchased a small farm in Mannington, being part of his father-in-law's (Preston Carpenter) property, a part of James Sherron's great estate.-- He removed there and established a fruit nursery, and continued in that business whilst he lived. His son Samuel carried it on a number of years after his father's death. Joseph and his wife had five children--Samuel, Milicent, Thomas (who died several years before his father), Mary and Joseph Reeve. Joseph, their father, was a religious man, and possessed a large share of the milk of human kindness. His death was a great loss to his immediate family, and to the religious society of hwich he was a useful member. His eldest son Samuel in time purchased his brother's and sister's share of the farm, and carried on farming and the nursery business until within a short period of his death. He died not many years ago, being over four score years. He married, when he was far advanced in life, Achsa Stratton of Burlington county; they had no issue. Milicent, the eldest daughter of Joseph and Martha Reeve, married Joseph Owen of Gloucester. She has been deceased some years, leaving no children. Martha, the daughter of Joseph and Milicent Reeve, was born 29th of the 9th month 1754, married Joseph, the son of John and Ann Nicholson Brick; she was the second wife of Joseph Brick. They had two sons--Joseph and John R. Brick. Joseph, the eldest, born 13th of 8th month, 1785, married Elizabeth, the daughter of David Smith. Joseph and his wife had several children--Samuel, Martha, John E., Edward K. and Hannah Reeve. John Reeve Brick married Elizabeth Kinsey; they had one daughter who married Clinton, son of Samuel and Eliza Clement of Salem. She died young, leaving no issue. John Reeve, the son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, born 5th of 1st month 1730, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann N. Brick, in 1753. They had three children--John, who was born 3d of 11th month 1754, Ellinor and Peter Reeve. John and his wife lived on and owned a large landed estate in Cohanswy Neck, not far from what is now known as Sheppard's mill. He and his elder brother Mark, and his younger brother Benjamin, were recommended ministers, members of Greenwich Monthly Meeting of Friends, as was also the celebrated James Daniels Jr., who belonged to Alloways Creek Particular Meeting--James Daniels Jr. traveled extensively in this country, as also in England and Ireland, in the ministry. He died in Alloways Creek township in 1776, and was considered one of the greatest ministers the society ever had in West Jersey. All four of these men were eloquent in their discourses, and their lives corresponded with their precepts, hence the Greenwich meeting was denominated the "school of the prophets." John Reeve's second wife was Jane West, of Woodbury, Gloucester county. After that event he left his native place and went to reside with his wife, and at that place ended his days at a very advanced age. He was naturally an energetic business man, and those habits of industry continued during his life. There are many persons so contracted in their views of the duties of this life, that they expect those who make a high profession of religion, must necessarily abstain from the business concerns of life, and put on sackcloth and go mourning on their way to the grave. Such was not the opnion of John Reeve, as the following well authenticated anecdote that has been handed down by tradition proves. It took place in an aged counsellor's office in Woodbury, not long before John's death. One of the members of his own meeting remarked to the lawyer that he thought friend Reeve attended too much to the things of this world for his age and wealth. The attorney promptly replied that "during his long acquaintance with mankind he never knew 'a person so well adapted for this world and the world to come as Mr. Reeve.'" His son, John Reeve, born 3d of 11th month, 1754 inherited a large estate, both real and personal, from his father. He married and had one or more children. John Reeve, the eldest son, married Sarah, the daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth Freedland, of Mannington. They subsequently removed to one of the Western states. I think Ellinor, daughter of John and Elizabeth Reeve, was born 15th of 6th month, 1757 and died unmarried. Peter Reeve, John's youngest son, born 1st of 2nd month 1759, married and had issue--William, who married Martha Bacon; they left no children. Benjamin, the youngest son of Joseph and Ellinor Reeve, was born 2d of 7th month 1737. He was a clock and watch maker, and followed his trade in the city of Philadelphia. In 1761 he married Ruth, the daughter of John and Ann N. Brick. I have been informed they have a number of descendants living in the city of Philadelphia at the present day. (end)