Margery REEVES

Abt 1608 - Bef 1692  (< 83 years)

• Name	Margery REEVES
  Birth	Abt 1608	England
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	2534511
  Reference Number	2568898
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Reeves-581
  Death	Bef 1692	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I263	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family	Francis WEST,   b. Abt 1606, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 2 Jan 1692, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	27 Feb 1639	Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
  Children	1. Mary WEST,   b. 1640, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 30 Dec 1673 (Age 33 years)   2. Samuel WEST,   b. Abt 1643, Duxbury, Plymouth Colony d. 8 May 1689, Duxbury, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Age 46 years)   3. Dr. Thomas WEST, Sr.,   b. 1646, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 7 Sep 1706, Homes Hole, Dukes, Massachusetts (Age 60 years) + 4. Peter WEST,   b. 1648, Duxbury, Plymouth d. 20 Feb 1721, Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 73 years)   5. Ruth WEST,   b. 1651, Duxbury, Massachusetts d. 3 Dec 1741, Windham, Connecticut (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F67	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

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  Note** Margery Reeves must have been born in England. There was no colony in Massachusetts in 1608. That error slipped in! Richard Draper

  
  

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  [[Category:Puritan Great Migration Project Candidate]] {{Global Family Reunion|steps=20}} == Biography == === Birth === :: Date: 1608 :: Place: Unknown, but probably England Carlton Prince West, in his 1987 manuscript "[http://history.vineyard.net//franwest.htm A Survey of the Descendants of Francis West of Duxbury]" discusses the possible origins of Margery Reeves West: : Until now all attempts to identify Margery Reeves and to determine her parentage have failed. No Reeves family, including the possible variants of Reaves and Rives, has been found in the area of southeastern Massachusetts. Since it is somewhat unthinkable that an unattached female could have been living in the Plymouth Colony, it may be that she had come as a servant to some family whose name is not known. According to a letter of W. H. Way to a member of the Maglathlin (McLauthlen) family of Kingston, Mass., Margery Reeves was born on the Isle of Wight ca. 1608 and died in 1694 at the age of 86. No source for these assertions was supplied, and it has not been identified.West, Carlton Prince. ''A Survey of the Descendants of Francis West of Duxbury''. Winston-Salem, NC: 1987. [http://history.vineyard.net//franwest.htm Vineyard.net] === Marriage === : Husband: [[West-1685|Francis West]] : Wife: [[Reeves-581|Margery Reeves]] :: Date: 27 FEB 1639Source: [[#S625]] Page: p. 7: Child: [[West-1689|Mary West]] c. 1640 d 1763 m. Nathaniel Skiffe''George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. "Mayflower Families in Progress"'' Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 2006.: Child: [[West-1687|Samuel West]] b. 1643; d 1689; m. Tryphena Partridge: Child: [[West-1684|Thomas D. West]] b 1646; d 1706; m. 1661 Elizabeth Jackson.: Child: [[West-1688|Peter West]] possible child; b 1648; d 1726; m. 1675 Patience.: Child: [[West-1690|Ruth West]] b 1651; d. Conn. 1741; m. (1) 1688 William Haskell and m. (2) 1692 Nathaniel Skiffe. === Death ===*Before 1692. There was no mention of her in the settlement of her husband's estate in 1692. His inventory heading records his death date as 2 January 1692 and was taken on 14 February 1692 in Duxbury and recorded in Plymouth."Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-JDQV : 20 March 2023), Probate records 1686-1702 and 1849-1867 vol 1-1F > image 88 of 490; State Archives, Boston. Other death dates that have been given for her include:*January 2, 1672. This a mis-read from [https://books.google.com/books?id=QZZYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR6&lpg=PR6&dq=Francis+West+margery+reeves&source=bl&ots=8K-ZrLYwoD&sig=JNlF2sg-uTegAcbaRom2rLLrZUg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ScOzVKTlE8_isASf5IC4AQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Francis%20West%20margery%20reeves&f=false "Francis West of Duxbury, Mass., and Some of his Ancestors and Descendants ..."] By Joseph A. West (1911) which states "He married February 27, 1639, Margerie Reeves and died January 2, 1672." [Also, this death date is off by 20 years.]* 16 FEB 1723. (Source unknown). This date is clearly wrong - she would be 115. ==Research Notes==Great Migration Directory, p 280: Reeves, Margery: Unknown; 1639; Plymouth [PCR 1:139]. (She married Francis West [NEHGR 60:142].) == Sources == * Mack, Stanley L. ''Edward Cartwright (1640-1705) of Nantucket, Mass.: some of his descendants and their families; compiled from data furnished from the notes of genealogists of the Cartwright family, old family records & other reliable sources'' Publication: Duluth, MN, 1936