NINTH GENERATION

384. Edward D. REAVIS ⁽²⁶⁹⁾ was born in 1680 in England. Reavis is a new name dating from about 1700. Edward apparently left his old name behind in England when he came to America about 1695 to 1700 with Hannah Alley and her brother, Thomas. The name is always pronounced in two syllables, Reavice, Reavise, Revvis. It is also spelled Reves, Revis, Rivis, Reaves or other ways along these lines. Their is a strong family oral history that Edward Reavis was from the Ashley-Cooper family, one of the eight Lord propriotors of the Carolinas.
The family was literate for the first two generations, until they went to the frontier where educational opportunities were limited.
He was an a planter in 1721 in Henico Co., VA. His land was near the James River and was by royal patent. In 1723, Reavis and Thomas Alley jointly signed a royal patent for 400 acres on the James River in Henrico Co., on the Tuckahoe Creek and Stoney Run. (Henrico Records by Moore, pg 33) After his second marriage between 1737 and 1744, he bought land in Northampton Co., NC, and lived there at the end of his life.
Edward doesn't appear to have belonged to any church but his children are active in the Dutchman Creek Baptist Church. He died in 1751 in Northampton Co., NC. He immigrated abt. 1698 to 1710 to VA. On Reel 10, Patent Book 11, 1719 -1724, p. 244 shows an account signed by Hugh Drysdale of Edward Reves (Reavis) and Thomas Alley importing 2 orphans, Sarah Mullinax and James Gregg. Alley and Reavis received 30 shillings and 400 acres on the south side of the James River in Henrico Co., VA. He was married to Hannah ALLEY in 1714 in Henrico Co., VA. His sister, Francis, married his wife Hannah Alley's brother, Thomas A. Alley.

385. Hannah ALLEY ⁽²⁷⁰⁾ was born in 1696 in Westmorland Co., England. She died after 1735 in Henrico Co., VA. Children were:

192 i. Edward REAVIS.
ii. Agnes REAVIS was born about 1717.
iii. James REAVIS was born in 1719 in Henrico Co., VA. He died in 1804 in Rutherford Co., NC. They had four sons and seven daughters.
iv. Samuel REAVIS was born about 1721 in Henrico Co., VA. He died in 1789.
v. Thomas REAVIS was born about 1723 in Henrico Co., VA. He died about 1758.
vi. William REAVIS was born about 1725 in Henrico Co., VA. He died in 1785.
vii. Jesse REAVIS was born about 1735 in Henrico Co., VA. He died in 1830.