Henry Reese and Sally Smith

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Husband Henry Reese

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1817 - Dinwiddie Co., Virginia
         Buried: 

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         Father: Thomas Reese (Bef 1707-Abt 1775)
         Mother: Mary (      -      )

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       Marriage: 3 Dec 1773 - Chesterfield Co., Virginia 1

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Wife Sally Smith

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1820 - (Dinwiddie Co., Virginia)
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Reese

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DINWIDDIE CO., VIRGINIA PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LIST:

Henry Reese is in the Dinwiddie Co., Virginia personal property tax list in 1782, the first year in which it is available, and he is continuously in the list until 1817. In 1782 he is a free male title, and he owns 17 slaves, 4 horses, and 19 cattle. The number of slaves that he owns rises steadily to 30 in 1817. The number of horses also increases and is about 15 in the last decade of his life. After 1789 he often owns a chair (2-wheeled vehicle like a gig), and after 1807 he often owns a 4-wheeled coche/coach. In 1809 and in 1813 he owns a stud horse. The tax list indicates that although he was not the richest man in the county, Henry Reese was considerably more prosperous than the vast majority of his neighbors as indicated by the amount of tax that he paid and by the number of slaves and horses that he owned.

Henry is in the list for the last time in 1817. His widow Sally is in the list in 1818, 1819, and 1820. Henry's estate is in the list in 1822 and later.

Henry Reese is almost always the only white male over 16 years of age in his household. On one notable occasion, in 1787, another male over 21 with surname Reese is in the household. His name is Herod Reese. The normal assumption would be that Herod is Henry's son, but other evidence shows that he is Henry's nephew.

SLAVERY:

Henry Reese had a brother named Thomas, who had a son named Henry. That son had a son named Thomas Matthew Reese. A woman named Nancy Clanfield wrote a short chapter about Thomas M. Reese in a book about the life of one of Thomas M. Reese's great-nephews. Her story about Henry and his uncle Henry follows. It is probably accurate although the personal property tax lists indicate that the part about 100 slaves is an exaggeration. Also 'John Andross' is 'John Andrews'.

"Thomas Matthew Reese was the son of Henry Reese whose father, Thomas, placed his son with his brother, Henry, after young Henry's mother died. This uncle was a Methodist minister in Dinwiddie, Virginia, who had no children and would educate young Henry to be a minister and make him his heir. However, young Henry eventually quarreled with his uncle on the question of slavery, refused the 100 slaves offered him by his uncle and apprenticed himself to John Andross a wood turner and carriage maker. He stayed with Andross until his marriage to Annie Archer around 1800. In the year 1804, he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Clermont County near Milford."

1 "Familysearch.org," Chesterfield Co., Virginia Marriage Records, Film # 30869, image 7/794.