Roger Reese and Mary Anderson

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Husband Roger Reese

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Wife Mary Anderson

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Children

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1 M Thomas Reese

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           Born: Bef 1707 - Virginia
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           Died: Abt 1775 - Dinwiddie Co., Virginia
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         Spouse: Mary (      -      )

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2 M Hugh Reese

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           Born: Bef 1709 - Virginia
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3 M Roger Reese Jr.

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           Born: Bef 1710 - Virginia
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4 M John Reese

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           Born: Bef 1719 - Virginia
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General Notes: Husband - Roger Reese

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LAND PATENTS:

Between November 1721 and September 1730 Roger Reece received 3 patents on a total of 800 acres in Prince George Co., Virginia. The details can be seen at the website of the Library of Virginia (https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants as of March 2022). Highlight "Virginia Land Office patent and grants volumes" below the search box and search for a name.

Prince George Co., Roger Reece, 13 Nov 1721 --- 100 acres adjoining Col. Edwd. Hills Burley Tract

Prince George Co., Roger Reece, 16 Jun 1727 --- 300 acres on the north side of White Oak Swamp beginning on the upper side of the mouth of Beaverpond Branch

Prince George Co., Roger Reece, 28 Sep 1730 --- 400 acres on the south side of White Oak Swamp adjoining Robert Wests, and William's lines

The following patent in Amelia Co. may correspond to this Roger Reece or it may correspond to his son Roger, Jr.

Amelia Co., Roger Reece, 16 Jun 1738 --- 326 acres on the upper side of Nummissen Creek; to grantees Roger and Wm. Reece

Since this Roger Reese married in Charles City Co., it seems likely that the following patent corresponds to him. Prince George Co. was formed in 1703 from all of Charles City Co. south of the James River.

Charles City Co., Roger Reese, 16 Apr 1683 --- 265a.1r.13p acres; to grantees Daniel Higdon and Roger Reese

For a description of the process of obtaining a patent see

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Land_and_Property

SONS:

Between November 1721 and September 1730 Roger Reece received 3 patents on a total of 800 acres in Prince George Co., Virginia. Between 1720 and 1727 no children with surname Reese were born or christened in Bristol Parish; then between 1727 and 1746 the following 4 men with surname Reese had children born or christened there:

Thomas Reese, 5 between 1727 and 1740
Hugh Reese, 6 between 1729 and 1746
Roger Reese, 2 between 1730 and 1733
John Reese, 1 in 1739

It is plausible to conjecture that these 4 men were sons of the Roger Reese who patented land in the 1720s and that the older Roger Reese did not have any children born after 1720.

In 1740 and in 1756 Roger Reese, Jr. received 2 patents on a total of 715 acres. In 1734 and in 1745 Thomas received 2 patents on a total of 400 acres. All of above-mentioned patents with the exception of the one in 1721 state explicitly that the land is adjacent to White Oak Swamp. All of them are in Prince George Co. In 1743 Hugh Reese patented 323 acres in Prince George Co. on Cooks Branch. This land was probably close to White Oak Swamp and Roger Reese because in 1739 William J. Featherstone patented 321 acres adjoining Hugh Reese and Robert West, and in 1740 Robert West patented 179 acres adjoining Roger Reese and land that he already owned.

Thomas died in about 1775 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia, which was formed in 1752 from a part of Prince George Co. His sons Thomas, John, and Henry left Virginia; his son Francis is probably the Francis Reese in the Dinwiddie Co. personal property tax lists from 1782 until 1815. 1782 is the first year in which the list is available.

In 1782 there are 13 Reese entries in the Dinwiddie personal property tax list. The 5 Reese brothers (Edwin, Isham, William, Benjamin, Hugh) who were in South Carolina in the late 1700s probably came from Dinwiddie Co. It seems to me unlikely that this many Reeses in the late 1700s were descendants of just the 4 men conjectured above to be brothers and sons of the elder Roger Reese. It might be that Roger had a brother (or other relative) in Prince George Co. who did not patent any land and about whom we therefore have no information.

On 30 Oct 1686 a Francis Ree patented 326 acres on the northwest side of upper Chipoakes Creek. Today Chippokes Creek is said to be in Surry Co. Surry Co. is adjacent to Prince George Co., and it might be that Francis Ree is really Francis Rees and that he is related to Roger. Or they may be totally unrelated.

WIFE:

See http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/va/trees/thomas.html.

The 1711 will of Thomas Anderson refers to his daughter Mary Rees.

"Fifthly I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Rees forty HHD in cask for her one particular use after my decease If she lives and one cow and calf and one to year ould hefer to my grandson Thos Rees and one mare filly the first that be fallen of any of my mares after me decease. To my said daughter Mary Rees."