Roger Reese 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Abt 1635 - Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
    Christening: 
          Death: Charles City Co., Virginia
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
       Children:
                1. Roger Reese (Abt 1660-      )
Notes
General:
Charles City County, Virginia Court Records at FamilySearch, "Order books, 1655-1665", film #008182557:

Roger Reese is in a list of 49 tithables on page 252 (image 164/379). The list is undated, but dates associated with nearby entries are in 1660. The tithables in the list appear to be receiving payment for some service. Several men appear to be receiving a bounty for killing wolves. The payment is not in pounds, shillings, and pence. The handwriting is very difficult to read.

Morgan Jones for 5 wolves -- 0500
Sam: Harwell for 1 wolf -- 0100
Samuell Phillips 4 days -- 0040
Wm Bayly 15 days -- 0150
Roger Reese 9 days -- 0090
Mr Aut__ Wyatt for getting timber -- 00500
Mr Bland for boats 15 days -- 00225

This reference to Roger Reese in 1660 appears to be the earliest in Virginia. He appears again in the following list of headrights.

"Patents, 1623-1774", "Patents, v.6, 1666-1679" at FamilySearch.org, film #008189121, page 227, image 232/697:
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-PSL8-Z?cat=584564&i=231)

On July 15, 1669 a tract of 1050 acres in Charles City Co. on the south side of the James River is granted unto Mr Tho. Newhouse. Roger Reese is second in a list of 21 headrights.

An excellent article in "Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet" (https://genfiles.com/articles/headrights/) explains the headright system in Virginia. A headright was the right to receive 50 acres of land for having paid the transportation costs of an indentured laborer. The term 'headright' might also refer to the person transported. The right to receive land was negotiable; headrights were bought and sold. The use of one or more headrights to support a patent for land might be several years after the headright was issued to the person who paid the passage (about £6 in the mid-17th century) for an indentured servant. "There were no restrictions on age or gender. Headrights could be, and often were, children. Indeed, many if not most imported indentured servants were teenagers."

So, someone (maybe Thomas Newhouse and maybe someone else) paid the passage to Virginia for Roger Reese sometime before 1669.

Roger is probably the person on page 275 of The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660 by Peter Wilson Coldham (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), Volume 1:

14 October 1654 -- William Jones of Llanvair, Monmouth bound to Christopher Churchill, merchant, to serve 5 years in Virginia. Roger Reece of Kidwelly, Carmarthan, bound to the same to serve 5 years in Virginia (City of Bristol Record Office from manuscript volumes entitled "Servants to Foreign Plantations")

Kidwelly is a town in Carmarthenshire in Wales.

CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VIRGINIA:

Charles City County, Virginia Court Records at FamilySearch, "Order books, 1685-1696", film #7897749:

April 3, 1673, page 516, image 17/480:

Roger Reese is a member of a jury in a case involving defamation.

June 4, 1677, page 174, image 47/480:

James Wallis, Jno Poythris, and Roger Reese appraise the value of a certain horse belonging to the estate of Wm Jenkings, dec'd, at 1000 pounds of tobacco and cask in a lawsuit brought by Peter Field, plaintiff, against the estate. At a court held June 4, 1677, it appears that the estate is justly indebted to Field in the sum of 1368 pounds of tobacco and cask, and a judgement is granted to Field for the horse and the remaining amount of 368 pounds of tobacco and cask.

December 1678, page 346-47, images 139 & 140/480:

In a dispute between Tho: Goodgame, plaintiff, and Roger Reese, defendant, about taking away the plaintiff's boat, the plaintiff requests a jury. The jury awards a non-suit to Reese against Goodgame, not finding that the boat was Goodgame's when it was taken. In the next entry, the jury awards a non-suit to Daniell Higdon versus Tho: Goodgame, plaintiff, not finding a cause of action, and in the entry after that the jury awards a non-suit to Tho Anderson versus Tho Goodgame, plaintiff, not finding a cause of action. It is reasonable to assume that Roger Reese, Daniell Higdon, and Thomas Anderson jointly took the boat.
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