Person:William Rives (7)

Records in Virginia

September 19, 1711, William Rives was granted, for the transportation of five persons, Thomas Potts, Richard Flahoven, John Brocke, Edward Ladd, and Mary Wobb, into the Colony, and upon the payment of 20 shillings, 422 acres of land in Prince George county on Blackwater Swamp, beginning at a corner shrub * * * of John Butler on the east side of Unity's Branch * * * to Benjamin Foster's line.

1715 - William Rives served as a juryman in Prince George County, Virginia

July 15, 1717, William Rives was granted for the transportation of another five persons, Isabel Barrough, Ruth Ives, Anne Brookwell, Arthur Tramp, and John Howard, 206 acres in Prince George on the southside of the Nottoway River, (a patent which was not recorded until 1722).

August 13, 1723, "William Rives, of Prince George County, Planter," deeded the above 206 acres to Thomas Jones, and "at a court held at Fitzgerald for the County of Prince George," September 12, 1727, "Elizabeth, wife of William Rives, came into court ___ and voluntarily relinquished to William Thomas Jones her right of dower."

February 22, 1724, as "William Rives of Prince George County," he received for the transportation of an additional five persons and upon payment of 40 shillings, 400 acres on the southside of the Meherrin River on the east side of the Great Swamp in that part of Isle of Wight county which was incorporated in Brunswick county in 1732

1734 - Daniel Hicks, of Brunswick county, mentioned in his will "land in the Great Swamp of Col. Rives where John Hicks lived." In a lease made April 18, 1735, by Jas. Douglas to Timothy Rives [12. Timothy4] of 100 acres in Brunswick on the southside of the Meherrin River, "beginning at a Red Oak on the east side of the Great Swamp, a line tree of William Rives land," (reference is obviously made to that tract of 400 acres patented by Col. William Rives in 1724).

March 1, 1746, Benjamin Rives "of Prince George County," and "George Rives of Brunswick County," and Thomas and Mary Jeffries of Brunswick deeded to "Timothy Rives of Brunswick County" two tracts of land in the Parish of St. Andrews in Brunswick county on the southside of the Meherrin River, comprising one tract of 400 acres and the other of 50 acres, "being part of a parcel or tract of land surveyed by William Rives of Prince George County and given by will by the said William Rives dec'd to Thomas Jeffries and is the upper end of the land and beginning where George Rives did live and Thomas Jeffries plantation."

Deed made March 1, 1746, by Benjamin Rives [10. Benjamin4] of Prince George, George Rives [16. George4] of Brunswick, and Thomas and Mary Jeffries, of Brunswick, to Timothy Rives [12. Timothy4] of Brunswick, of 450 acres in Brunswick, the land conveyed is described as "being part of a parcel or tract of land surveyed by William Rives of Prince George County and given by will by the said William Rives dec'd to Thomas Jeffries.

Col. William Rives married Elizabeth (Foster?), possibly a daughter of that Benjamin Foster whose land adjoined that of William Rives in 1711, and who appears as the owner of 923 acres of land in Prince George in 1704. She survived her husband and died before June 1, 1759, on which date the following inventory of her personal estate was presented into court by Benjamin Rives, her administrator:

A TRUE AND PERFECT INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH RIVES, DECEASED

To her wareing apparel

To Cash five shillings and two pence

To three negroes

To one Feather Bed and Furniture

To one Hatchet

To one Table and one Chest

To one Womans Saddle and one frying pan

To a parcel of Puter and one wheel

To a parcel of Lumber

In obedience to an Order of this Court we the Subscribers have appraised the Estate of Elizabeth Rives deceased being first sworn before Benjamin Rives Admitro.

Roger Daniel

Wm. Bonner

John Daniel

At a Court held for Prince George County at the Court House on Tuesday the 1st day of June 1759.

Benjamin Rives Administrator of Elizabeth Rives decd returned the within written Inventory and Appraisement of the said Deceadent's Estate which is by Order of the Court truely recorded.

Test Theo. Bland C. Clerk.

Citations

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1. ↑ Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives (Ryves): being historical and genealogical notes of the ancient family of Ryves of County Dorset and of the Rives of Virginia, an essay: sociological and historical, of a family's contribution to making of a nation. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986)
   pp. 79-83.