Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about Robert Rives
Robert Rives (b. 1750, d. 1807)
Notes for Robert Rives:
Robert Rives, the owner of extensive estates in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, reisded there throughout his life.The destruction of almost all the early Dinwiddie county records makes it impossible to recite much concerning him.In 1782, the first year for which there are extant Dinwiddie county tax lists, Robert Rives appears as the owner of 440 acres of land, a holding which was increased to 1,000 acres in 1787 (with the distribution, no doubt, of the landed estate of his father), to 1,331 acres in the years 1794-98, . . . to 1,950 acres in 1807.In 1809 taxes were assessed against his landed holdings in the name of "Robert Rives' Estate."In 1807 he held 13 slaves.
The home of Robert Rives was in Bath Parish, and comprised an estate now known as "Cedar Green," where five generations of the family have uninterruptedly resided.
More About Robert Rives and Martha Peterson Hardaway:
Marriage: 1777
Children of Robert Rives and Martha Peterson Hardaway are:
- Robert Rives, b. Abt. 1778, d. date unknown.
- +Richard Augustus Rives, b. Abt. 1780, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, d. 1819, Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
- Thomas Rives, b. November 03, 1782, d. date unknown.
- Benjamin Rives, b. Abt. 1785, d. date unknown.
- T. Hardaway Rives, b. Abt. 1788, d. date unknown.
- Mary Rives, b. Abt. 1791, d. date unknown.
- Clara Rives, b. Abt. 1793, d. date unknown.
- Martha Peterson Rives, b. April 02, 1795, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, d. June 01, 1845, Tipton County, Tennessee.